Wired connnection not working; wireless is

kempie

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Hi,

I use both wired and wireless internet in my home; the wireless is for my laptop and the wired is for my main desktop pc.

After I had to reboot my desktop pc this morning, the wired internet connection is no longer working, though the wireless is absolutely fine.

I am running windows xp and using the network controller on my desktop's mobo, which is an Nvidia model.

At the moment, the wired connection is just showing a constant status of "Acquiring network address", which isn't changing.

Ipconfig /all shows the following:

Windows IP Configuration:
Host name: adams pc
Primary Dns suffix:
Node Type: Unknown
IP Routing Enabled: No
WINS Proxy Enabled: No

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix:
Description: NVIDIA nForce Networking Controller
Physical Address: 00-04-4B-01-06-81
Dchp Enabled: Yes
Autoconfiguration enabled: Yes
Autoconfiguration IP Address:
Subnet Mask: 255.255.0.0
Default Gateway:
 

kempie

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Also, have plugged the wired connection cable into my laptop and disabled the laptop's wireless connection; can still use internet fine with no issues on my laptop, so it appears to be an issue with the desktop machine.