Comments on: How to fix “Cannot renew IP address” in Windows

By: Goodspeed4u

Goodspeed4u — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 17:24:26 +0000

Thank you so much for the Limited or no connectivity section. The problem was my Obtain DNS server address automatically was not selected.

Thank you again.

By: mohamed shawki

mohamed shawki — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 10:18:00 +0000

exactly. I have the problem like jason…plz help

By: Mohsen

Mohsen — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 23:18:17 +0000

I am getting the same exact error message on my desktop after I type ipconfig/renew “unable to contact your DHCP server. Request has timed out.”

Would you mind telling me how you fixed yours. I will realy appreciate it.

By: Lynn

Lynn — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 04:35:37 +0000

I successfully deleted my IP address by following these instructions. Now I have no idea was it was set to and still can not access the internet via my wireless router.

By: Volleyer

Volleyer — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 05:00:00 +0000

Thanks for the above info but…

I still have a very similar problem that has just started on my Dell lattitude laptop running Windows XP, SP 3. All have been running fine until it seems I did an upgrade to AVG 12 and a windows update.

I am trying to connect through a router that still works fine with another desktop PC and was working fine earlier this week. I’ve tried going back to a previous install but that did not solve it.

I cannot access the internet and get a “Data Exceution Prevention” error and have to close internet Explorer 8 down each time. If I boot up the laptop with either (or both) the wireless and wired LAN connection the machine freezes. If I run Ipconfig /renew etc from the CMD prompt without LAN conection I get the expected “media is not connected ” message from but as soon as I connect up (either wireless or wired) the laptop hangs again jsut with IPconfig/renew.

I have tried both “netsh int ip reset reset.txt” and “netsh winsock reset catalog” with no success. I’ve spent 24 hours on this so far .. any help pleeeease?.