"DJH" wrote in message

I have a similar problem and went to a tech rep at Micro Center here and
was
told that this is caused by the HOSTS file (not the HOST SAM
file) . His suggestion was to find another ME user who was not having
this
problem and copy their HOSTS
file to a floppy and then copy it over to your C:\Windows directory. I
have
not done this yet because I don't know anyone with ME loaded on their
machine. If you try this and it is successful please send me a copy of the
HOSTS file that you copied. Please attach it to an email sent to
Thank you.

"Galen" wrote in message
...
In ,
Ken Wood had this to say:

ATTEMPTED RESOLUTION
I have re-installed modem drivers, dun and TCP/IP half a dozen and
have scoured the MS knowledge base. my feeling on this issue is that
DUN is not re-installing new files OR telephony files are corrupted
OR something in the registry is wreaking havoc. It's a Lucent
winmodem brand new.

Seeing as you don't mind getting into your case you could try this and
see
what happens... Open up the device manager and remove all modems. Turn
the
computer off and physically remove the modem. Restart. Turn off the PC
again
and this time put the modem back in and let Windows ME find/install the
drivers for it. Unless, of course, you have a CD. In that case when you
reboot without the modem in the case you should install the drivers from
the
CD if it's has that as an option, then turn off the PC, and then boot.
Don't
ask me why it seems to work (I've had to do this before) it just has in
the
past and might be what you're needing to do.

Galen

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mental exaltation." -- Sherlock Holmes

Just delete it. You don't need the file.

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