Cable router?

[Fr0dders]

Remember the Cable modem will only assign an IP address to one mac address. You need to unplug the cable modem every time you swap it from a router to your pc. It sounds like you haven't reset the cable modem. I may be teaching you to suck eggs but if you don't reset the modem every single time it will refuse to communicate with anything other than the network card with the specific mac address it wants.

excellent point

however, it doesnt explain why the PC is not obtaining an IP from his router as well as the new one in the box. The PC is clearly not obtaining an IP automatically for some reason as the PC wont get an IP from a known working router.

 

[mattyfez]

Thanks for the tip, it the little things that trip us up sometimes.

I have been resetting sometimes not all......

MrLOL beat me to it, I cant even get the pc to communicate with any of 2 routers.

Oh well, I cant get back to the PC till tuesday, but will give the manual IP set up a try...if that fails then, well....god knows