Local Area Network issues (soz dont know how to put it)

[Mague]

hey,

Im 13 and my family is run of a d-link router which i setup. This has been running alright now for over a year. Now my brothers computer doesnt connect. He is connected through an ethernet cable. These are some things that happens.

It look likes he is connected but then i have a look at the router logs (from my laptop) and it doesnt show the DHCP giving him an ip.

He cant get through the defult gateway in this case 192.168.0.1

When i type IPCONFIG into CMD it comes up with this error:
an internal error occurred: The request is not supported. Please contact mircosoft product support services for further help
Additional information: Unable to query host name.

Alot of services in administative tools are not running such as webclients and things like that but when i try and start them it all screws up aswell

We have tried alot of things such as

Giving him a custom ip (192.168.0.101)

putting services on

rebooting (everything alot, mum and dad get anoyed when trying to do stuff hehe)

and about everything involving winsock

Please help
Thanks heaps
Mague

[sicarie]

That's very interesting. It sounds like there is something wrong with his machine specifically. Have you tried repairing the OS? Maybe running some anti-spyware and anti-virus programs on there?