Computer only letting me use wireless!!

hemophobic

About a week ago I installed Windows 7 everything went fine then a few days later all of a sudden I can't use my wired connection and I have to use wireless which is useless for playing games. When I diagnose the wired connection it tells me that Local Area Connection doesn't have valid IP configuration.

I have the LAN settings to obtain IP and DNS automatically.

Not sure what else to tell you but I heard this is pretty common I just can't figure out what to do...

debitcardmayhem

Have you tried setting the wired adapter to static, there is not much point using DHCP for a fixed connection. I set my wired conntections as 192.168.2.10-19 and my router to use DHCP and the range 192.168.2.40/32 just in case I may have 32 guests with wireless lappys and phones

exup

with both connections active can you try this
click the windows (START) button bottom left of the screen,
In the text box at the bottom type in cmd
When the command prompt box pops up type in ipconfig/all then post the results on here - (dont worry about the IP addresses, you are behind a router so posting them on here wont affect your security)
just wondering if the two connections are conflicting in some way

sho_me_da_money

Things to try:

- Plug in your cable and check the LEDs on the card - green/orange blinking?
- Try a new cable.
- Check your device manager and see if there is a problem with the Network Card. Try Googling and download the latest driver for Win7.

hemophobic

I just uninstalled old drivers and installed the new ones but no change. This is what my ip config says:

debitcardmayhem

Hi,

ok go to control panel/network and sharing/adapter settings
right click on the wired local area network adapter and select properties
then highlight internet protocol (TCP /IP v4) select properties
select use follong ip address
type in 192 168 001 020
then subnet mask 255 255 255 000
default gateway 192 168 001 001
select ok
it should work

hemophobic

what dns do i use?

elvch01

hemophobic wrote: »

what dns do i use?

192.168.1.1

hemophobic

Hmm, didn't work

debitcardmayhem

Just an aside, do you run virtualbox ? I had a similar problem a while ago, I cant remember exactly what I did , it was on the another PC which I can't get at until tomorrow/wedsnesday, but I seem to remember I had to do a bridged connection to sort it. If not using virtualbox please post back, we can still try to sort this anyway.

hemophobic

Nope i am not using virtual box