ok, so about 4 days ago i was cleaning up in my attic (where my computer labratory is setup) and i had to move my router (a dlink 713p) to the other side of the room.
So i went about unplugging it and moving it to its new home and then after i had everything setup i came back to my main computer to find it wasn't on the internet.
Thinking it might be the router, i went over to it and it looked fine, all lit up, my connection to it was green. so i went over to another computer and tried a website.. worked fine. coming back to mine, i go into console and check ipconfig, and its giving me a 169.* address. i tried release and renew and wasn't my IP from the router, so i just reset my computer hoping it would fix itself. when i turned it back on however, i was still getting the same bad IP. Next guess as always was to unhook everything from everything, powercycle the modem, router, and reset the computers, plug everything back in. strangely enough, the other computers were working fine, but mine still wouldn't work.
Next i tried directly pinging the router (192.168.0.1) and it was just getting destination host unreachable. next i tried pinging anything possible, and using the other computers to try and ping me, but nothing still, then i tried switching around the array on the router for which patch cable got which port, still, mines the only one not working. quite aggravated, i moved another computer to where mine sat and plugged it in to my cabling, and it worked fine. thinking of things i could try, i plugged in 2 other network cards and also tried the 2nd onboard network card to no avail. i was now ready to reset my tcp/ip stack or however it works from console with "netsh int ip reset reset.txt" and found it also useless. Then, i tried running the winsockfix and resetting everything possible related to my network proving useless.
Now what i did next might shock some of you, but i just installed XP about a week or so earlier so there wasn't much valuable on it and i just reformatted thinking the more i tinker with it the more time thats wasted. After bringing up my clean(er) install of XP, i go right to installing my platform drivers and hooked it right into the network, only to find that IT STILL COULDN'T PING MY ROUTER. verrrry angry, i broke a crappy keyboard at my feet and mumbled some obsceneties to M$, but that didn't fix it either. After giving myself a static IP the first time, i attempted to ping the router, got a timed out, GOT A RESPONSE, but then timed out twice more. giving me hope to tinker with it for hours more, i never was able to get another ping back from the router, mean time the other computers were in jolly shape surfing away.
At this point, thinking it couldn't get any worse and my computer was in the crapper for no reason, I dug up my old dlink 704 router, plugged it in, everything worked fine. got a perfect connection, IP, hooked it up to the modem, was on the internet automatically. I was shocked at the stupidity of the situation, but decided to make the best of it and try to work with it. since i wanted to keep wireless, i was going to try and put the 713p router behind the other one.
So i plugged the 713p into my 704 (from 713p's wan spot to an open port on the 704), and of course it wouldn't work with it. So i isolated it again and logged onto it through the http interface, and changed its IP from 192.168.0.1 (because they both were using that IP) to 192.168.2.2, in which it told me the settings would not be saved until i rebooted like normal, so i hit the reboot button (via the http interface) and i got a weird message telling me i would have to reset it. thinking i just did, i tried to log on to it and got a 404, so i went over to the router and looked at it. blinking like normal. so i unplugged its power (it doesn't have a power button, geez) and plugged it back in, and the 2 m1 and m2 orange lights were just stuck lit, usually meaning its being retarded. So i went through the procedure to power cycle it turning it off, holding the reset button down while i turn it back on for 5 secs then letting go, and it just stays the same with these lights.
As of now, the router just sits there with its lights on, not working, and i cant seem to get it to reset right for the life of me. Now this must just seem kinda like a rant so far, but what im looking for, is if you guys think this thing was dying, just died, was always dead, is repairable etc etc.. Please help me out, not sure what to do about the whole thing. Thanx
edit: is that good for formatting? im semi new to using forums and everything
So i went about unplugging it and moving it to its new home and then after i had everything setup i came back to my main computer to find it wasn't on the internet.
Thinking it might be the router, i went over to it and it looked fine, all lit up, my connection to it was green. so i went over to another computer and tried a website.. worked fine. coming back to mine, i go into console and check ipconfig, and its giving me a 169.* address. i tried release and renew and wasn't my IP from the router, so i just reset my computer hoping it would fix itself. when i turned it back on however, i was still getting the same bad IP. Next guess as always was to unhook everything from everything, powercycle the modem, router, and reset the computers, plug everything back in. strangely enough, the other computers were working fine, but mine still wouldn't work.
Next i tried directly pinging the router (192.168.0.1) and it was just getting destination host unreachable. next i tried pinging anything possible, and using the other computers to try and ping me, but nothing still, then i tried switching around the array on the router for which patch cable got which port, still, mines the only one not working. quite aggravated, i moved another computer to where mine sat and plugged it in to my cabling, and it worked fine. thinking of things i could try, i plugged in 2 other network cards and also tried the 2nd onboard network card to no avail. i was now ready to reset my tcp/ip stack or however it works from console with "netsh int ip reset reset.txt" and found it also useless. Then, i tried running the winsockfix and resetting everything possible related to my network proving useless.
Now what i did next might shock some of you, but i just installed XP about a week or so earlier so there wasn't much valuable on it and i just reformatted thinking the more i tinker with it the more time thats wasted. After bringing up my clean(er) install of XP, i go right to installing my platform drivers and hooked it right into the network, only to find that IT STILL COULDN'T PING MY ROUTER. verrrry angry, i broke a crappy keyboard at my feet and mumbled some obsceneties to M$, but that didn't fix it either. After giving myself a static IP the first time, i attempted to ping the router, got a timed out, GOT A RESPONSE, but then timed out twice more. giving me hope to tinker with it for hours more, i never was able to get another ping back from the router, mean time the other computers were in jolly shape surfing away.
At this point, thinking it couldn't get any worse and my computer was in the crapper for no reason, I dug up my old dlink 704 router, plugged it in, everything worked fine. got a perfect connection, IP, hooked it up to the modem, was on the internet automatically. I was shocked at the stupidity of the situation, but decided to make the best of it and try to work with it. since i wanted to keep wireless, i was going to try and put the 713p router behind the other one.
So i plugged the 713p into my 704 (from 713p's wan spot to an open port on the 704), and of course it wouldn't work with it. So i isolated it again and logged onto it through the http interface, and changed its IP from 192.168.0.1 (because they both were using that IP) to 192.168.2.2, in which it told me the settings would not be saved until i rebooted like normal, so i hit the reboot button (via the http interface) and i got a weird message telling me i would have to reset it. thinking i just did, i tried to log on to it and got a 404, so i went over to the router and looked at it. blinking like normal. so i unplugged its power (it doesn't have a power button, geez) and plugged it back in, and the 2 m1 and m2 orange lights were just stuck lit, usually meaning its being retarded. So i went through the procedure to power cycle it turning it off, holding the reset button down while i turn it back on for 5 secs then letting go, and it just stays the same with these lights.
As of now, the router just sits there with its lights on, not working, and i cant seem to get it to reset right for the life of me. Now this must just seem kinda like a rant so far, but what im looking for, is if you guys think this thing was dying, just died, was always dead, is repairable etc etc.. Please help me out, not sure what to do about the whole thing. Thanx
edit: is that good for formatting? im semi new to using forums and everything
