How do i fix the "acquiring IP address" issue?

i have 5 computers hooked up to my cable internet and 1 of them quit on me this morning. it says acquiring IP address and the status wont change. i tried reseting the modem, router, hub and it still wont work. i clicked on repair and it says, it cant do it when its in the process of acquiring the IP address.

does anyone know how to fix this?

How do i fix the "acquiring IP address" issue?suzuki

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How do i fix the "acquiring IP address" issue?virus

Have you restarted the PC, power it completly off, just a reboot often doesn't reset network hardware. You can also try disabling the network card and re-enabling. Or go to control panel , system, hardware, device manager and check it's status. If it looks OK delete the network card and then reboot, the PC should rediscover it, this usually fixes this issue if the card isn't faulty.
Try this:

Click Start

Click Run

Type "cmd" (without quotes and press enter)

Type "ipconfig /flushdns" (without quotes and press enter)

This basically resets your Local Area Connection.
What I would suggest to do would be to set a static IP for that machine, assuming you are using XP you will need to do the following, first find out what IP range your router or modem or what ever is acting as the DHCP server is using, this is easy to find out as it will be the IP you would use to log in to the web interface for your router, lets assume it is 192.168.0.1 what you would next would be to go to start %26gt;%26gt; Control panel %26gt;%26gt; Network connections %26gt;%26gt; then right click on your network that you see appearing there and select properties, next double click Internet protocol in the list you see in the middle of the properties window, in there it will have a box saying automatically detect or assign your own (something to that effect) select assign now in the top box you will need to add the ip address you want to use now the ip address for the router is (for this example) 192.168.0.1 so we know thats taken and seeing as there is 5 computers I would say all the lower end of the range would be to, so in the IP address box input something like 192.168.0.20 then below that you will see subnet THIS SHOULD AUTOMATICALLY FILL IN, then it will ask for the default gateway this is just the address of your router modem or DHCP server (which ever thing is assigning the IP address's) so for this example it is 192.168.0.1 below that it will have DNS server for primary DNS server put the same thing as what you added for the default gateway and dont worry about setting a secondary DNS server, then click OK and restart your PC when you log back in you should be all sorted.