Question : Limited or No Connectivity error

I have a HP Computer running Win XP Home SP2 that refuses to aquire an ip address. The Icon for the connection. Has a yellow exclamation symbol and says Limited or No connectivity.
Shows Ip Address: 169.254.183.84 Subnet Mask: 255.255.0.0 It does not obtain an address if I force it to release and renew. Prior to having the problem we were removing a slew of Adware in safe mode. System restore had been turned off prior to going to safe mode. I have
replace the network card and reloaded drivers ect. New card and driver yeid same results.
Anyone have any Ideas? Oh! I also manual assigned An IP and that did not work either, however the error message (Limited or no Connectivity) did diappear.

Answer : Limited or No Connectivity error

Hi
Some suggestions:
Check that the internet connection firewall is off - then try the following as spyware and its removal often causes damage such as corruption to registry settings etc.,
Winsock Fix
http://www.softpedia.com/public/cat/13/9/13-9-161.shtml
How to reset Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;299357
see How to troubleshoot TCP/IP connectivity with Windows XP and How to determine and recover from Winsock2 corruption

Hope that helps, if not post back,

Deb :))