Help! hi, ive recently purchased a a20 thinkpad, ive upgraged it to windows xp with no problems, but im trying to connect it to virgin broadband, but it comes up with an error saying: broadbamd setup cd could not renew the IP address for your network adapter (DHCP. does anyone know how to solve this? thanks, Laura

SETUP YOUR COMPUTER THE THE FACTORY DEFUALT SETTINGS

t43-nnnnn what is nnnnnn?????
it came with options
1;NONE
2: BLUETOOTH AND DIAL UP MODEM
3: OR INTEL PRO CARD. WIFI Wireless: Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG

DOES ETHERNET CABLE WORK DIRECT (1ST ACT ALWAYS)
THIS 1ST ACT MAKES PNP WORK DO THE WIFI CARDS CAN WORK NEXT. the jack is left side RJ45 !
OR Go to lenovo.com get your wifi driver or all of them and back them up.
if you run this.
https://www.hwinfo.com/download/

see left side if page that app,see see all LAN network things
what you see is what you got. (its more fancy device manager)

learn to get ethernet working first and WIN
PnP is useless with internet dead.
xp is worse yet. run lunix on old trash boxes

Hi,

Go to "My Network Places" and then click on "View Network connections". You should see an icon for your internet service provider. If you do not see an icon to your ISP, then click on "Create a new Connection" and follow the wizard which will guide you through the setup process.

You will probably need to download the virgin mobile drivers and software to use the mifi.
Good luck!

You may have a compatability problem. Try this link or
run help and support and search 'compatability', then look
for your product in the catalog.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/catalog/default.aspx?
subid=22&xslt=experiencecategory&pgn=e16026b4-03c5-42e5-
bd63-a79b829f7968&groupid=603cda5f-d381-4e04-8966-
167eea110173

Hi,

you can download the manuals for the NB from the following link

www.hp.com/support

enter the product number of your NB, then in the search bar type manuals. It will take you to the manuals page.

You will have everything you want..pictures.. initial setup screens, specifications etc..

For wireless internet there is a switch in the NB that need to be turned on. It looks like a tower and sound waves coming out. After you do that you need to have a router and a dsl / cable broadband internet connection to be able to connect to the wireless internet

Regards,
Anup

im sorry to say this laptop is just not fast enuf to run windows XP you best bet for this would be to run windows 98 or a distro of linux that fits your needs  there are no bios updates at this time that will allow you to install XP on this system. sorry

virgin media is dsl not adsl which is the router you had

Try reseating te broadband connection to the router.

It soundslike your router works if it connects to your laptop with a great signal. But its not sending any information through.

Try reseating. if it does not work. you might need to do a fresh reinstall of the router. Usually the broadband connections attach itself to a mac address of a network card. If you recently put a new router the network cards MAC address is different and it might not send signals through. like for me for cable i have the same issue.

Try this let me know how it does. If any problems please let me know.

I hope this helps
Please Rate.

That's fantastic, but other than blaming either Virgin or your new house for the PC problem, not terribly instructive.  What's this about a modem...you mean you connected your PC to Virgin's cablemodem using cat5 ethernet, which is pretty normal?

  Give exacting circumstances (e.g. timing after the BIOS and Windows screens came up) and descriptions of the error messages, and people can help out, especially if you go create a new problem under your exact PC model, and try to suss out the problem by googling for 'Port 00 error' and your model.  

As it is it sounds like Windows found bits of itself missing (as moving vans can cause sectors to go bad on HDs) and vainly hoped you would have the Windows 98 or XP install CD handy to fix things.  It is probably time to install a new hard drive and appropriate OS of your choice, and copy info over from the old drive before labeling and packing that thing for spare use.