Microsoft Windows Error – Event ID: 1003

This error annoyed me to hell during the last week !! i am downloading something… net goes down… ISP says (and so does my other computer) that net is there and working perfectly… I checked the System log in the Event Viewer… and there is a line of "1003" errors !! related to "Dhcp" the error message detail had the following text

Event ID: 1003 Source DHCP Type Warning Description Your computer was not able to renew its address from the network (from the DHCP Server) for the Network Card with network address <MAC address>. The following error occured: The semaphore timeout period has expired. Your computer will continue to try and obtain an address on its own from the network address {DHCP} server.

======== SOLUTION: ======== You can solve this problem by recreating the pagefile. To re-create the pagefile, follow these steps: 1. Click Start. 2. Right-click My Computer. 3. Click Properties. 4. On the Advanced tab, in the Performance section, click Settings. 5. In the Virtual Memory section, click Change. 6. For Paging file size for selected drive, click No Paging File, and then click Set. 7. Click Yes after the following warning appears: If the paging file on volume X: has an initial size of less than xx megabytes, then the system may not be able to create a debugging information file if a STOP error occurs. Continue anyway? (X is the drive letter and xx is the amount of RAM installed on your computer minus 1 megabyte.) 8. Click System Managed Size. 9. Click OK four times, and then restart the computer when you are prompted. PS: you have to do this with all the drive for which pagefile has been set (only on your windows drive by default) ========= Regards, Fadi