DNS Stopped working (Not Nortons)

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Greetings,

I have an XP box as part of a home LAN with 4 other XP's and Vista boxes.
This morning the XP in question stopped seeing the Network assets and can't
resolve a website through IE. The NIC lights up on connection and the Local
Connection shows the correct network speed and connect time.

IP is assigned a NIC internal 169.254.xx.xxx and /renew commands receive a
time out response. All other boxes are fine. I've flushed, cleared, rebooted,
reset the Router just in case. I've deleted the Local Connection and NIC
driver to allow reinstall. All to no avail.

We did not allow SP3 to try loading so there's no partial load issue for
that. I tried a restore to last week but that also did not work. This box
doesn't have Nortons (System Suite 7) and I've disabled /re-enabled Firewall
XP and System Suite (no, I don't run two, I was trying one or the other for
effect).

I tried manually setting IP / Subnet and dns addresses, which the machine
seems to accept but won't use. At auto, everything reverts to internal
addresses without acknowledging the network.

A Local Connection repair attempt produces an error that an address could
not be assigned to the computer.

I'm completely stumped. Any ideas? Any input or suggestions is greatly
appreciated.
.

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