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by dmiles 1 view

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I have run into an issue when clicking on the browser icon I receive the following Local Area Connection does not have valid IP Configuration this is after running diagnostics
I have checked the DSL router by rebooting,I am using the onboard NIC,this was not an issue until Windows Udate was run.

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by robo_dev

The best bet would be to do a system restore to a time before the Windows update ran.

by dmiles

The issue was resolved by taking out the CMOS battery for a while,I did try restore and that didn't work
Thanks

by nexs

That is one long, disgusting and frustrating sentence. I am going to try and decipher it -- perhaps next time you could add a few periods and line breaks. Maybe even some quotation marks to specify your error (I cannot tell where the error message stops and the question resumes...)

Try, from a command prompt, typing 'ipconfig /all' to see whether you have an IP address, or a valid one.

Possibly, 'ipconfig /release' then 'ipconfig /renew' may fix your problem, but without knowing how your infrastructure is setup, or what infrastructure is, I can't be sure.

by dmiles

I take it that you are an English teacher,well I beg the difference,I posted it in a way it could be understood,but that may not apply to you,an by the grammar what tye of grammar is taught in your country

by cg it

If this is Windows 7 I get this sometimes with DHCP addressing because of the Network and Sharing center. Sorta a bloop if it can't communicate with a DNS server, or if it sees an addressing problem like a default gateway that's on a different subnet, llike for Vlans on a stub network.

by nexs

We use periods, commas, quotation marks. Actually, we can use most of the keys on the keyboard.
I'm not an English teacher, just someone who finds it easier to take interest in others' computer issues when the question is written in a way that is easy to follow.

by pesk, mbcs, mcse, mcitp, sts

...does not necessarily mean that you have a problem. It just means that you have an IP configuration, just not valid for your network. You may have no IP configuration at all, such as when WLAN Config has failed and you have 0.0.0.0 as an IP address or you may have an APIPA address (auto configured). In any case, as NexS has suggested, more and concise details regarding the hostory of your 'issue' would go a long way towards getting it resolved.

Windows Update will most likey not be the cause of your woes, however. The culprit will probably be the fact that your computer rebooted after the update and hosed the WLAN connection (common Windows issue), and all this means is that you may have to enter the WLAN details manually.

As in, create the connection afresh. Delete the WLAN network and "Set up a new connection" then "Manually connect to a woreless network" and see how this grabs ya...

by ansugisalas

Do what I did... enter a set of valid, but not necessarily correct IP data; subnet mask, default gateway.
Let it chew on that for a while, then click the automatically obtain option, apply, reboot.

Somewhere there was a bit of data getting in the way, but this cleared it out. Mysteriously.

by dmiles

I reset the CMOS by taking out the battery and it is now working

by dmiles

No the issue was not resolved,A suggestion was to give history and here it is,I am using the onboard nic,in hte morning I was surfing the net,when logging off automatic updates started to run,so that evening I started the machine and when clicking on IE the issue was there
Diagnostics was started to looking at the Router and the cable connection,it is hardwired,rebooted router and disconnected the cable and no network tried using the IP in address bar to no avail,tried the lookback process from command prompt and all packets were sent and received with no error.I am now using a PCI card

by nexs

I might have meant, in my original post, that I will try AND succeed in deciphering the puzzle/OP?
Because that's what I've decided I meant.
:p

by dmiles

There is no need for you to try and decipher,it's in code
The time that it would take you to decipher,I will have resolved my issue,I will post just to get others thoughts.
By the way the code has been broken.

by dmiles

I resoved the issue by powering the system off and taking out the CMOS battery for twenty minutes,then re-installing,the connection was cleared and now woring again,so it was not a bad nic,so resetting cleared the issue up
Thanks for your help

by dmiles

Thanks for the post,even to those who helped correct my grammar the problem has been resolved by clearing the CMOS

by nexs

But if it works, praise be to Fonzy. Ayy.

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