Another Limited Connectivity Issue

Hello everyone,

I am currently at my Father's house and am giving him this laptop. <edited by Administrator> The problem is that this laptop (Dell Latitude D820) has the limited connectivity problem when I try to hardwire it into the router. I am using Roadrunner internet and a D-Link DES-1105 router. The laptop is sending packets, but is not being assigned a IP address. It was originally a 169 IP, or whatever Windows assigns by default. Here's a cheap diagram of the current setup...

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Yes it's one of these again. I've been to multiple places and tried multiple solutions to this problem, but to little avail. Gonna go ahead and go through what I've tried and see where we can go from here. I've done these, in no particular order.

• Tried a System Restore from the last date that I used a hardwire connection.
• Tried assigning it an IP manually by inputting a gateway, ip address, etc from the other computer that's connected to the router.
• Tried resetting winsock.
• Tried using the network in Safe Mode, so that suggests none of my virus programs or firewalls is at fault.
• Tried turning off the wireless card, in case that was interfering
• Tried ipconfig /renew and /release.
• Tried netsh winsock reset catalog.

I may find it interesting to note that after I manually assigned the laptop an IP and gateway, the limited connection alert went away, but I still was not receiving packets.

I dunno what else to try. Here's my HijackThis Log just to skip that step of having you guys have to ask for it. Thanks in advance, guys.

 

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