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Well, having cogitated, and first disclaiming any in-depth knowledge of
networking issues, I would uninstall MSN, then use the "wipe ENUM key"
method for rebuilding the hardware profile (though you might get away
with selective cleansing of Device Manager in Safe Mode.) And pray.
I hate MSN and everything it does to a system, but that also goes for
AOL, Earthlink Total Access and all installations of that ilk. I've seen
too many situations similar to yours where such installations mucked up
things but good, and only rather drastic measures would cure the
problem--up to and including flattening the system altogether. If a full
rebuild was avoided, it usually included detailed cleansing of the
program at fault from the system (hours of searching and deleting files
and Registry entries) and quite often required the DEL-ENUM method.
Cleansing Device Manager in Safe Mode is a standard procedure in my
book, but it isn't always enough.
Or you could let the client off cheap and use Jure Sah's batch file,
<s>.
--
Gary S. Terhune
MS MVP Shell/User
http://www.grystmill.com/articles/cleanboot.htm
http://www.grystmill.com/articles/security.htm
"Nocturnal" <nocturnal@anonymous.com> wrote in message
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> Yes, the thing is when I first reinstalled Windows I installed some
> other driver for this NIC card as I used Everest instead of looking at
> the card itself and using that as a guide. So, it may very well be a
> driver conflict. However, the card specifically says Netgear on it so
> I opted and used the right driver.
> "Jure Sah" <jure.sah@guest.arnes.si> wrote in message
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>> Nocturnal wrote:
>>> I have a computer that I'm trying to fix, it has Win98SE installed
>>> on to it. Basically I can't connect to the internet. What fixes it
>>> temporarily is if I release all and then renew all through WINIPCFG.
>>> After I do this I can get onto the net. However, once I reboot, I
>>> can no longer get on and I have to do the WINIPCFG release/renew
>>> again if I want to connect.
>>>
>>> I've tried all the winsock fixes there are. I've scanned with
>>> multiple anti-virus scanners as well as anti-spyware programs. I've
>>> come up with no spyware or viruses on the computer. I've
>>> uninstalled all network programs such as tcp/ip and windows
>>> networking and reinstalled them to no avail.
>>>
>>> I really need to figure this out without formatting.
>>>
>>> If anyone can help, please let me know what worked for you.
>>
>> Looks like a NIC driver / power managment related problem. Okay,
>> probably not power managment related in Windows 98SE, but may still
>> be bad driver configuration (e.g. wrong Media Type setting).
>>
>> Right click that network neighbourhood thing and see properties. Then
>> the dialog for NIC configuration (click a NIC, properties, advanced).
>>
>> What also pops to mind is that a firewall might have been installed
>> and then inapropriately uninstalled (or plain deleted). That usually
>> screws up the connection.
>>
>> If nothing else, you can still put in an invisibble start-up batch
>> that does release all and renew all. I have made the program that
>> starts the batch invisibly for other reasons and I can send you a
>> copy if you wish.
>>
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