I suspect a damaged registry. You may be forced to live with this problem
until you can do a clean install of your operating system. You could try a
registry cleaner, but it might make things worse.
- Brian
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From: "Mike Sloane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <COMPUTERGUYS-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM>
Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2008 5:54 PM
Subject: Re: [CGUYS] A windows 98 question
I had a similar problem just today - I couldn't get an older 3Comm PCMCIA
card to work in an HP laptop I picked up cheap. The system said everything
was working, but it wouldn't connect. I was using Windows default
installation and the Win98SE CD. Then I downloaded the drivers from the
3Comm Website, used them for the install, and the network came right up. So
I guess the lesson is not to trust the MS install script, and use the
manufacturer's drivers.
Now I have another related question: when I go to shut this machine down,
the default "radio" button on the shutdown screen is always "restart", I
click on "shutdown" but it restarts anyway. This is something that is
probably easy to fix, but I have never encountered this before. Any
suggestions?
Mike
Stephen Brownfield wrote:
Today, I finally got back to his house, so I was able to try out
everyone's advice. I used winipcfg to see that he had DNS address. I
then tried using the IP address that Tom gave me for Google. It didn't
work. I asked him if he had the drivers for his wireless card. He said
"Yes." We got the CD out, uninstalled the drivers and then re-installed
them. Rebooted the computer and *he finally had an internet!*
Thanks to everyone for all your help!
Steve
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