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by don_c

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One of my xp pro boxes nic will not recieve it will send that the stats says it does the dievce manager says its working properly the cable is good the router says its connected when i plug the cable in the Icon in system tray i just plug in like normal but only lower compter is flashing on the upper one nothing. I unplug from router an plug into the modem an nothing happens. I looked in the event viewer an is said that the DHCP assign an IP 169.254.138.4 to the nic event ID 1007 an microsoft is clueless i have ran out of options need help

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by cg it

ignor lights as they really don't tell you much.
what does say something is the default IP address 169.254.138.4 which Windows assigns if no DHCP service is available on the LAN.

If you have a known good NIC laying around, take out the suspected bad one and put in the known good one and see what happens.

I would venture that DHCP service on your router is disabled which would account for windows assigning the default 169.xxx.xxx.xxx IP address to the NIC card.

by condoryoung

Have you tried statically assigning IP address, to check if NIC OK. Then start looking at DHCP device

by don_c

No i don't have a spare nic lying i have to wait for them to order one for me but the router is brand new DI 604 I have tried static IP but still nothing and thanks for the help

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