Error with XP Pro

Hi everybody. This is the first time I've posted on this forum, so I'll give
it my best.

Just to lay down some background, I recently brought my laptop home from
school and am trying to set it up on the home network. To do this I had to
unplug one of the pc's and put mine in it's place(my sister probably isn't
happy, but...oh well). Anyway, the computers on the home network here are
all set to automatically obtain ip addresses and DNS servers, which works
just fine for them. When I try to do this, I get the "limited or no
connectivity" error message. Now, I found that the IP address that my PC was
automatically picking up was absolutely wrong. All the pc's on the network
are 192.168.1.x , while mine decides it likes 169.254.212.156 . The mask on
the network is 255.255.255.0 while mine likes a mask of 255.255.0.0 . Now,
I've tried to manually set the IP address to what it should be as well as
entering the DNS servers that work on the other pc's, but to no avail.
According to my computer it's hooked up to the LAN, but i'm not recieving any
packets. The only thing that seems to be different, in this case, between my
laptop and the others is that the others had DHCP enabled, while mine does
not. So, as you can see, I'm at a loss. If any of you could help, it would
be greatly appreciated. And before you start asking if the hardware's fine,
it is. My laptop was working at school not 3 days ago, and the router and
modem here are working just fine. Thanks again.
.

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