Re: DHCP


"S Murder" <SMurder@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> When ever I start my computer, before starting Windows it displays a PCI
> listing, my Ethernet card, my MAC address, and then I have to wait for it
to
> look something up with DHCP. After a little bit, it says no DHCP or prxy
> information was recieved and then starts Windows XP. I think it only did
this
> after I installed an Ethernet Adapter (in addition to my on board one). Is
> there any way to avoid this process?

Is the Ethernet card connected to anything? If it's conncted to a router
chances are that the router can be configured to provide an IP address via
DHCP. Otherwise set up the network card to have a manual/static IP address
as Jamie suggested.


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