Getting Internet To Work On A Laptop?

Okay! I am getting SO frustrated! For a few months I have been trying to fix my laptop! It used to work, I had Dial-up and AOL. That was about a year ago. Now I have Bright House High speed broadband and no need for AOL. The computer I am using is having no issue at all, I just plugged it up and it worked great(the desktop)

I plug the connection wire up to the laptop and it says "limited to no activity" ?

Then I went to the restore wizard but it would only let me restore it to February 2007, I wanted to restore it to default. Then I went to control panel and swept off everything, AOL, and everything I used to use because it was making it slow. Still the internet did not work! Then I used the reinstall CD which only seemed to add the stuff I deleted and didn't need.

How the heck do I completely restore my laptop?
It seems I have tried everything...Even the F8 thing..
I have a Compaq Presario V2000 bought in 2005.


Please please! Anything, I am so desperate for help

Answers:
Do you have a recovery disk, try reformatting. Some of the registry programs may have become corrupt. I bought the same V2000 no problems.
Try a different driver for you internal network interface card. Maybe that's your problem.
you might have set a custom IP for your computer, to fix this

1. Go to Control Panel
2. Choose Network Nonnections
3. Right-click 'Local Area Connection', then click properties.
4. At the general tab, search for 'Internet Protocol(TCP/IP)', then click properties.
5. set it to 'obtain an IP address antomatically

it should solve your problem.

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