- Need Help With IP address conflict error message

Hello Everybody,

I just want to thank everyone in the group for always being so
helpful.

I'm running Windows '98 second edition and just added a Linksys 4 port
router for my cable modem. I'm getting intermittant error messages
stating:

System has detected a conflict for IP address XXX with system having
hardware address YYY. The YYY address seems to change each time as
does the IP address for my router.

How do I resolve the conflict?

I've looked through System Information at IRQ's & DMA's but don't even
see the Router listed in any of the hardware profiles. If I close the
error message box the computer still works fine, but it sometimes pops
up again. I just keep closing it and nothing seems to crash. I'd just
like to make it go away for good.

Thanks so much for your help!

mary wei

mary wei <> wrote in
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> Hello Everybody,
>
> I just want to thank everyone in the group for always being so
> helpful.
>
> I'm running Windows '98 second edition and just added a Linksys 4 port
> router for my cable modem. I'm getting intermittant error messages
> stating:
>
> System has detected a conflict for IP address XXX with system having
> hardware address YYY. The YYY address seems to change each time as
> does the IP address for my router.
>
> How do I resolve the conflict?
>
> I've looked through System Information at IRQ's & DMA's but don't even
> see the Router listed in any of the hardware profiles. If I close the
> error message box the computer still works fine, but it sometimes pops
> up again. I just keep closing it and nothing seems to crash. I'd just
> like to make it go away for good.

You need to be more specific with the private side IP(s) of the router
that no one can get to, other than XXX and YYY. It's like 192.168.1.100
for a DHCP IP that can be issued and 192.168.1.1 for the device IP. It
seems by your post, that one of the machines is some how using the
router's device IP and is a conflict. Did you change the Device IP
setting it into the range of one of the DHCP IP(s) that can be issued to
a machine by the router?

Duane

Duane Arnold

"mary wei" <> wrote in message
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> Hello Everybody,
>
> I just want to thank everyone in the group for always being so
> helpful.
>
> I'm running Windows '98 second edition and just added a Linksys 4 port
> router for my cable modem. I'm getting intermittant error messages
> stating:
>
> System has detected a conflict for IP address XXX with system having
> hardware address YYY. The YYY address seems to change each time as
> does the IP address for my router.
>
> How do I resolve the conflict?
>
> I've looked through System Information at IRQ's & DMA's but don't even
> see the Router listed in any of the hardware profiles. If I close the
> error message box the computer still works fine, but it sometimes pops
> up again. I just keep closing it and nothing seems to crash. I'd just
> like to make it go away for good.

get the IP addies of all your NIC's...
run CMD
ipconfig /all
log into your router and check it's IP addy
the conflict will reveal itself

all your NIC's should be set to default DHCP (automatic IP addressing).
unless you once had ICS enabled on your primary machine (disable it).

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