I currently have two computers (both windows XP SP2) connected to cable internet through a Netgear RP614v4 web safe router, which was working perfectly until last week.
It started with a momentary blackout, which left my router not working (I know everyone is going to tell me to get a surge protector, but for what the router is worth, there is not much point.) half a week later, we had some really bad weather (125km/h wind) which gave me multiple blackouts, and, like normal, my router started working again, (don’t ask me why, it just always seems to do it.)
now my real problem is this: my second (newer) computer will no longer connect to the internet. now there are some odd occurrence with this, the light on the router shows up, meaning the computer is connected, but the router does not say that the router is connected when you look at attached devices in the settings. also whenever I turn the computer on, it tells me that the network connection has ‘limited or no connectivity’ due to an nonrenewable IP, and when i look at the values for the connection, it shows up the physical address, an old IP address that is nothing like it should be (it comes up as 169.254.202.29, an old ip address, rather than 192.168.1.3, as it should.
any help would be greatly appreciated, as it is nearly impossible to get on the other computer, (and it is tediously slow).
