I had a very similar problem using a phoneline NIC. The
PC could surf the net, read email etc., but would not see
any of the other PCs on the network. The final straw was
it could ping the other PCs but not recognize their domain
names or addresses. I tried different NICs, different
drivers, uninstalled drivers and reinstalled them to zero
progress. I friend suggested reloading W98SE. I even
tried that and it didn't fix it. I then reformated the
hard drive, litterally starting from scratch, then
reinstalled a clean copy of 98SE, then the NICs and
drivers. Everything now works fine.
-----Original Message-----
Hi,

I have a Win98SE machine that has been working fine for
years. Yesterday,
it couldn't print to IP printers, couldn't access the
Internet from a
browser (not even by IP address), but could ping and
resolve IP addresses
from a command prompt, and could still copy files to
mapped drives.

I first tried to uninstall and reinstall TCPIP and the
NIC driver, but that
didn't work. I even disabled the onboard NIC, and then
added a PCI NIC, but
I'm getting the same thing.

I ran file system checker, and all versions seemed OK. I
ran Symantec
Antivirus, but nothing was found.

I've never seen anything like this! Normally a NIC works
or doesn't.

Can you think of anything else I can try before I resort
to formatting and
reloading everything?

Thanks.

-- Kent Iler
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