Internet stopped suddenly, can't renew IP

[twowaz2fal]

Help! I have a Gateway desktop that was connected through a Belkin router with a wired connection. I was on the internet and had AIM open and lost my connection. I have since not been able to reconnect on that computer. I now have it wired directly to the modem. Gateway gave me these steps and I have tried them all, Gateway Support - Windows Vista - Internet/Network Connectivity, to no avail.

When I run ipconfig/renew I get an error message that says "An error occurred while renewing interface Local Area Connection: unable to contact your DHCP server. Request has timed out"

Any help is appreciated, I am out of ideas and I have searched the net and find others with similar problems but not a fix for it. I have also done a total system recovery and restored it to factory settings.

[katy]

Hi,

Firstly you disable your internet connection then after some time you will enable that, this will happened when IP address conflicts.

Hope this will help you out.

[Heather-James]

If you are still unable to access iPASS open a web browser page (click on the internet browser icon blue E) Click on Tools Internet Options Connection tab Settings button and remove the check from the proxy server box to use a proxy server. This will disable the proxy settings. Click ok until you exit the internet options dialog box. Try to logon to iPASS once more.