The error “Ethernet does not have a valid IP configuration” occurs when your Ethernet connection is not receiving a valid IP address (private) from the DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) server which is a network protocol that enables serves to assign an IP address automatically to your computer for a specific network. Here, the system not able to connect to the internet, it couldn’t get a valid IP address.
It can cause this error because of different reasons, The major reason is because of the faulty network adapter drivers to incorrect network configuration.
How does the message occur?
When you turn on the computer when your system does not have a valid IP because of some internet issues, you can see an unidentified network issue. When you run the troubleshooter and the error message Ethernet doesn't have a valid IP configuration will display. The article here shows some steps that will take you to resolve this problem.
The first thing you need to do is to Go to the command prompt and run as administrator, or you can also just type CMD in the search box
In the command prompt, type the below command
netsh winsock reset
And press Enter and you can see it's successfully reset the Winsock catalog. Now run the below command.
netsh int ip reset
There we go!! You will need to restart your computer just to get those to take effect.
Once you've restarted your computer. Click on your network icon to open Network and internet settings, click on change connection properties.
Click on change adapter options you can see here unidentified Network click on go properties and just make sure in the Internet Protocol version 4 says it gets an IP address automatically and gets DNS automatically by checking at the advanced option.
Now to go through your brief checks, just make sure you open the device manager go to your network adapter, and uninstall them also scan for if any hardware changes
In the search box, type in CMD and run this as administrator and open a command prompt again and type a couple of commands.
ipconfig /release
Press Enter.
ipconfig /renew
Press Enter.
ipconfig /flushdns
Press Enter.
This may take a bit of time, so be patient.
Now you have to install the network driver (killer performance suite) on the particular board of the x99 motherboard and disable your antivirus program and then again restart your computer. When you restart the computer you see to install a bunch of boxes will pop up don't worry about that, let those install and once they've installed, we'll need to shut down the computer.
You need to unplug both the router and the modem and wait about thirty seconds after 30 seconds plug in the modem and then let it power on wait till the lights are solid on the modem, and it's fully loaded, normally this takes about 60 seconds. Now plug back the router and then wait about two minutes until it's fully loaded up once that's fully loaded, and it's stable, we have to power the PC back on and see if the problem if has been resolved.
Now you have to boot the PC back up, you should have internet access back up. Now start updating all your drivers for your chipset and all your motherboard with the CD-ROM drive.
Here how your issue will resolve.
Conclusion:
The article gives you a brief on how to troubleshoot Ethernet does not have a valid IP configuration error in a better way. Hope this may fix your problem.
