2 IP addresses, static and APIPA on the single NIC

[locrieth]

Hi all,

Quick question, my media centre pc died the other day and I had a static IP set on the NIC. I had a spare motherboard and CPU lying around, so I threw the HDD in that and everything came back up and was working fine except SABnzbd. After some looking around I noticed the static IP was missing and had gone back to DHCP, so I set the static IP again and after some messing around on my router, I managed to get the IP set again. The issue I have now is the NIC has 2 IP addresses. The static IP I set and an APIPA, it doesn't seem to be causing any issues with connectivity, but both IP can be pinged and respond and when I reboot the PC, it takes a minute to get the APIPA. Does anyone know how to get rid of the APIPA? I assume it's something to do with fact that the old mother board had a different branded NIC and it has a hidden device set somewhere holding some config...

Any suggestions would be much appreciated.

Cheers,

Locrieth

 

[mrkev]

Is there anything in the event log to indicate a problem?

 

[the-evaluator]

Can you post the output of 'ipconfig /all' please.

 

[bledd]

It's not advisable to just put a hard drive in another machine like that. You can get all sorts of errors from mismatched chipset drivers etc.

 

[Orcvader]

It's not advisable to just put a hard drive in another machine like that. You can get all sorts of errors from mismatched chipset drivers etc.

This, I'm pretty sure there's a lot of driver conflicts happening on your media PC right now.

 

[APM]

There's a registry hack to disable Apipa.

http://www.davidlprowse.com/article-registry-apipa.php

http://www.windowstechinfo.com/2013/07/disabling-apipa-automatic-private-ip.html

be careful messing around in there though.