FabSwingers.com forum: Anyone good at fixing laptops?

By *ove Bunnies2019 OP Couple
over a year ago

basingstoke

Can anyone help us with this please?.... it was working fine Thursday then when we tried to use it yesterday, it wouldn’t connect to WiFi, keeps saying Invalid IP address! Any help would be great. Thanks. X

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By *chooloffilthWoman
over a year ago

Manchester

Have you tried turning it off and on again?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Could be a few things but first try the following

Open your start menu and search and open command prompt.

Type in the following then hit enter after each

netsh winsock reset

netsh int tcp reset

netsh int ip reset

Restart your pc and see if it connects

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By *HaRiFMan
over a year ago

Beyond the shadows.

Is the a limit set on your router on the number of devices you can connect to it ?

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By *ove Bunnies2019 OP Couple
over a year ago

basingstoke

"Have you tried turning it off and on again?

Yep x

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By *ove Bunnies2019 OP Couple
over a year ago

basingstoke

"Could be a few things but first try the following

Open your start menu and search and open command prompt.

Type in the following then hit enter after each

netsh winsock reset

netsh int tcp reset

netsh int ip reset

Restart your pc and see if it connects "

Ok thanks, I’ll try that. X

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By *ove Bunnies2019 OP Couple
over a year ago

basingstoke

"Is the a limit set on your router on the number of devices you can connect to it ?"

Nope x

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By *edonist79Man
over a year ago

Trowbridge

What's the ip address it currently has?

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By *azpiz1Man
over a year ago

Camberley

Chances are your laptop just picks up an IP address from the router (dhcp), unless you have hard coded one, but you would know about that, so it's odd that you are getting that message.

Try rebooting your router.

If you have one, consider connecting using a LAN cable.

No idea how techie you are, but you can also try disabling and re-enabling the wi-fi adapter on the laptop.

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By *pagafocsMan
over a year ago

Madrid

"Could be a few things but first try the following

Open your start menu and search and open command prompt.

Type in the following then hit enter after each

netsh winsock reset

netsh int tcp reset

netsh int ip reset

Restart your pc and see if it connects

Ok thanks, I’ll try that. X"

In command line type

Ipconfig /release

Then type

Ipconfig /renew

Ian's finally

Ipconfig /flushdns

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

What operating system is it running?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Try wiping your knob on the screen

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Can anyone help us with this please?.... it was working fine Thursday then when we tried to use it yesterday, it wouldn’t connect to WiFi, keeps saying Invalid IP address! Any help would be great. Thanks. X"

Your laptop is not getting an IP address. In simple terms an IP address is a unique number that gives you Internet access.

You get the IP address from your Internet provider. It is given to your laptop via your router.

From what you have said I would

Switch laptop and router off. Put router back and wait 5 minutes. the put laptop back on.

If that doesn't fix things

Check you wireless dongle is installed ok and working on the laptop.

Check all the relevant lights are on in your router.

If you are on virgin media cable internet check with them that there are no outages/problems in the area.

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By *asmeenTV/TS
over a year ago

STOKE ON TRENT

Jim

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