Can anyone help me please

Im having a few problems asigning an IP Address to a laptop, if I give it a static IP I can ping the gateway and the outside world, however when I go on the net I get an error message saying problem with DNS. If I try to get an IP Address via DHCP i get a 169.x.x.x address, if I try to ipconfig /renew I get this message. I double checked to make sure I had used the correct IP, Subnet Mask, Default Gateway and DNS address's.

An error occured while renewing interface Local Area Connection: An operation was attempted on something that is not a socket.

I have removed and reinstalled the drivers for the LAN card in the device manager, I have down loaded the latest drivers.

I have never seen this message before and hoped one of you guys could give me some advice as to what I could try.

Thanks for any help or suggestions you may have.

Ogster.
Nottingham
UK

see links:

ms article:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/811259

the easy way:
http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file_desc…,RSS,RSS,00.asp

Thanks for the reply I will use the Winsock XP fix option and hopefully that will fix it. Once again thanks for you help.