guitarman
03-26-2002, 07:45 PM
I hope someone can help me with a very frustrating and strange problem. My system:
Delphi 3b motherboard
AMD K6-2 550 CPU
20G HD, 196MBRAM, CD and CDR/W
2 PCI slots, 2 ISA slots
Running WIN98 SE
Problem: computer came with installed HSP micromodem 56K card in one of the PCI slots. Had internet dial-up connection through local ISP.
I recently purchased and installed a D-Link 10/100 NIC PCI card. Minutes prior to install I checked my internet connection just to verify (had an inkling). Connection was good. After installing NIC (into other PCI slot)and driver using PnP I checked my dial-up connection and here's what I get: The modem dials and connects to the ISP server and validates username/password and network connection but as soon as I try to open Internet Explorer (5.5) I now get a message (IExplorer has caused a fatal error and will be shut down). Trying Outlook Express results in "Cannot connect to Mail server" message. My modem stays connected to ISP server during this. I immediately uninstalled the NIC driver and it's PCI card but I get the same messages. THere are no device conflicts showing up in device manager, I have tried removing and re-installing the dial-up connection, re-checked all dial-up properties for accuracy, removed and re-installed TCP/IP protocol and ensured it is bound to modem(I can ping the ISP server when my modem connects). The modem is on IRQ3 and the NIC on IRQ11. Running the modem diagnostics works fine. I confirmed my ISP by setting my dial-up connection on a different computer with a different modem and it works
fine. I even tried re-installing WIN98SE over itself to no avail. It seems like the NIC permanently set something up in my computer which has caused IE program to malfunction but I thought the WIN98 re-install would have resolved this. I have since re-installed my NIC (which works) but only bound it to NETBeui and am only using this protocol for my peer to peer network to minimize protocol conflicts with my modem. TCP/IP is still installed and bound to my modem. Any help on this problem is appreciated.
Delphi 3b motherboard
AMD K6-2 550 CPU
20G HD, 196MBRAM, CD and CDR/W
2 PCI slots, 2 ISA slots
Running WIN98 SE
Problem: computer came with installed HSP micromodem 56K card in one of the PCI slots. Had internet dial-up connection through local ISP.
I recently purchased and installed a D-Link 10/100 NIC PCI card. Minutes prior to install I checked my internet connection just to verify (had an inkling). Connection was good. After installing NIC (into other PCI slot)and driver using PnP I checked my dial-up connection and here's what I get: The modem dials and connects to the ISP server and validates username/password and network connection but as soon as I try to open Internet Explorer (5.5) I now get a message (IExplorer has caused a fatal error and will be shut down). Trying Outlook Express results in "Cannot connect to Mail server" message. My modem stays connected to ISP server during this. I immediately uninstalled the NIC driver and it's PCI card but I get the same messages. THere are no device conflicts showing up in device manager, I have tried removing and re-installing the dial-up connection, re-checked all dial-up properties for accuracy, removed and re-installed TCP/IP protocol and ensured it is bound to modem(I can ping the ISP server when my modem connects). The modem is on IRQ3 and the NIC on IRQ11. Running the modem diagnostics works fine. I confirmed my ISP by setting my dial-up connection on a different computer with a different modem and it works
fine. I even tried re-installing WIN98SE over itself to no avail. It seems like the NIC permanently set something up in my computer which has caused IE program to malfunction but I thought the WIN98 re-install would have resolved this. I have since re-installed my NIC (which works) but only bound it to NETBeui and am only using this protocol for my peer to peer network to minimize protocol conflicts with my modem. TCP/IP is still installed and bound to my modem. Any help on this problem is appreciated.