Limited or no connectivity

OK, my dad wiped the pc, and I set up my network again and it worked fine. Then he wiped it again cus of bravesentry. But after setting up the network again, on my laptop (client) it says "limited or no connectivity". Why is it doing this? I didn't do anything different than last time I set up the network! And no, its nothing to do with my firewall, or my network card or any hardware conflicts... I CHECKED! Also, the laptop is connected to the host pc via crossover cable.

 

have you tried repairing it, go to yournetwork conetion,local area conection, right click and select repair,

 

Of course, but it gets stuck on renewing IP address.

 

what kind of router are you using?

 

no router, the laptop is just connected into my pc and it worked fine until the pc was wiped twice.

 

check your ethernet cable or try to ping the other PC and see if its getting sometype connection.

 

try to search =)

 

WTF does that mean?

 

OK, i pinged it and there was a 100% loss lol

 

Sometimes when this happens and it happens to me quite often, the way i fix it is actually disconnecting the power cable from the router and then waiting for about 2minutes until the cache gets deleted and then putting the cable back in and then going and try repairing the connection again and it should work again.

 

erm, im not using a router

 

And i might not have made it clear enough that [bold]it only says limited or no connectivity on the laptop[/bold]

 

i have had this very same problem on my gfs laptop.
before wiping the laptop my gf had installed XP home with sp2. and she was ALWAYS getting this problem. i first thought it was the modem she was using but that wasnt it because it done the same thing when connected to my pc.

so what i done to correct it was i got XP pro sp2 installed on it. the problem seemed to have gone. untill i taken out the net cable and put it back in. after about 2 mins it eventually connects.

before the wipe and installation of xp pro. i just turned the laptop of and striped it of power and waited for about 15 mins. usually worked 70% of the time

 

it means you search, you go on the top of the page you type what you wannt to find...

you need me to draw you a picture or what?

 

DanOwens are you running zone alarm?

 

@-josh99-

We are trying to help someone and here you come with your lame comment... "try to search" (how stupid anyways)

If you don't have anything to contribute then don't post!

Why don't you go draw a picture of intelligence.

 

I don't know if this is what's wrong. When you connect two computers together with a cross over cable it does not create an IP adress for your computers, so you have to go to "network connections" window and double click on "local area connections" then double click (TCP/IP) and click the option "use the following IP adress." You are going to have to plug in an ip adress for both computers. Make sure to click tab after your done typing the address and it will automatically configure your subnet. Then click ok and like i said you'll need an ip adress for both computers. Also in the future if you connect your laptop into a router for example you will have to go back to (TCP/IP) and click the option to "obtain an IP Adress automatically" (this is because routers or most of your modems in there default settings give you an IP Adress themselves). Hope this helps bud, if you have ANY questions about what i said, let me know and i'll reply asap!

 

hahaha you know what is lame? is to have a member like you in an excellent forum like afterdawn

when i said try to search thats because there have been
numerous threads on a similar topic "limited or no connectivity"

http://forums.afterdawn.com/search/.../www.afterdawn.com/;FORID:11&hl=en&lr=lang_en

try to think more before you post a childish comment (how stupid anyways) =D

speakin about limited or no connectivity, did you try to reset your ip try winsock xp http://www.snapfiles.com/get/winsockxpfix.html
good luck.