what the heck does this mean, why wont computer get on internet?

[Bam Bam]

I tried to get on my desktop computer today and it opened my homepage, but wouldn't do anything else, then this error message popped up. I logged every computer off , rebooted modem, router and desktop, computer worked normally for a minute till this popped up. The desktop is on a wireless connection, but has been workingng ok till today. I'm scanning it with AVG free edition now, with 95% done no viruses. What gives, any ideas?

***scan complete, no viruses!

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[chad]

What's the error message?

 

[Bam Bam]

What's the error message?

Sorry, fixed it, that's a PITA on dumb phone.

 

[Cochise]

"there is an IP address conflict with another system on the network"

That means that two of your computers or xbox/bluray/netflixbox/whatevers are trying to use the same IP address spot in your network, or you have used all the IP addresses your router can assign. If unplugging the router and restarting it and all your devices doesn't work, you may have to push the little reset button on the back of the router and set it up again, just make sure you have the CD that came with the router for the re-setup.

 

[Dustin-R]

Try manually entering IPCONFIG /RELEASE and IPCONFIG /RENEW from a command prompt

 

[Bam Bam]

So far so good after resetting the router and modem for the second time. Funny thing was thats the first thing I did when this happened, it worked for a second then the error message popped up and bingo, screwed again. Weird..........just weird!

Thanks, panicked there for a minute.



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[Robbie]

Virus

Run ur anti-virus

 

[chad]

Virus

Run ur anti-virus

Not a virus, Chochise stated what I would do!

 

[Jack]

Not a virus, Chochise stated what I would do!

x2

 

[chad]

So I used my google fu and looks like the problem is worse than I thought. No new router or windows PC can fix this issue. If you ever want to surf the web again you need a Macbook Pro.

 

[nickatnite]

So I used my google fu and looks like the problem is worse than I thought. No new router or windows PC can fix this issue. If you ever want to surf the web again you need a Macbook Pro.

Funny you say that. I've got a MB Pro and works like a charm.

Wife has a windows pc on Win 7, she has troubles daily

 

[chad]

Funny you say that. I've got a MB Pro and works like a charm.

Wife has a windows pc on Win 7, she has troubles daily

I've got a few of each and the Mac's always work!

 

[Bam Bam]

As of now it's still working. No viruses found during scan, just a modem freaking out. Thanks for the help guy's.





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[Leonidas]

I dumped AVG for malwarebytes. Its done really well for me. AVG was a resource hog. Ran something like 8 or 9 processes continuously.

 

[Bosco]

So I used my google fu and looks like the problem is worse than I thought. No new router or windows PC can fix this issue. If you ever want to surf the web again you need a Macbook Pro.

You think macs are immune to IP conflicts?

and what is up with this smiley

Weird that wasn't the smilie that was showing up yesterday it was something from star trek

 

[Bosco]

As of now it's still working. No viruses found during scan, just a modem freaking out. Thanks for the help guy's.





Bam Bam

it's not a virus, it's an IP conflict

two devices on your network are on the same IP address

while your computer may work, it's probably going to be slow as the router has to work harder to figure out which device is requesting what information from the internet

get someone who knows about computers to come check out your network. chances are you can go to http://192.168.0.1 or http://192.168.1.1 and see a list of all devices on your network and what IP addresses they are using. then you can figure out what's causing the conflict.

or you can just ignore the problem, hope it goes away on its own, and put your head in the sand

 

[I_FLY_LOW]

Nice desktop background...

 

[Unspecified]

You need to make sure all of your devices are using DHCP

 

[drumz2129]

Bosco is right. You need to figure out what is causing the conflict or you will most likely continue to have issues. You currently have two devices at the same address.

 

[TomW]

Also, u can d/l Avast (A free anti-virus program), get Malware bytes (A free malware/spamware scanner), and CCleaner (an internet browser cache cleaner, among other useful things). Those 3 should keep the critters at bay...