Recent content by Ali_mi6

hmm it might be, I installed a prog that was supposed to be a super duper firewall thing that never really worked, maybe that b0rked the settings somewhere. I'll remove that and see if that has any bearing on the situation. Actually the timings of that being installed may well coincide with...

This problem still isnt resolved. I spoke briefly to a Mac Technician who came into my work and he suggested it was the motherboard that was failing. He told me I could phoneup and describe the symptoms of the iBooks graphics problem and get a free new motherboard. good/bad/(ir)relevant...

I'm running 10.2.8 and I think there's DHCP lease problems here, I cant get mine talking to my router other than at startup, but for the time (an hour I think) that the computer has its IP it connects fine then after the lease expires it can't renew it and just assigns that stupid private IP. I...

to further my problem I now know whats wrong but can't fix it. I tried logging into my web based interface in my router but it wouldnt work, then I realised that I think what's hapening is that when the dhcp lease runs out it can't renew it therefore thats why it makes up its own IP. Any ideas...

My mac is behaving strangely, when I boot it gets assigned an IP from my router's DHCP server but after a short period of time it swaps it's ip to one which the network prefs window says "(self assigned)", why and how is it doing this? This happens under Airport and Built-in-ethernet. Until...

How could the mac be setting it's own IP? I have a problem where when I boot it gets assigned a local IP from my routers DHCP server, but after a shortperiod of time it just assigns itself a different ip, using a different subnet and everything. Until recently it was all fine, then the wireless...