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New network card in a Dell causes I.E. to stop working
I don't know if this is unique to a Dell XPS T500 but I have had this problem
on two different systems running 98SE. The system has an Ethernet card (Dell) and connects to the internet through a Linksys DSL router and DSL modem. I am adding a a wireless router and changing the Dell to a wireless connection. I installed the new card with a 98SE driver and removed the Ethernet card. Here is my problem: - the system gets a DHCP address (WINIPCFG and IPCONFIG/ALL - says everything is configured properly) but when I run Internet Explorer it fails to find the internet connection (can't access anything on the internet). - Cannot access the web interface on the router using the IP Address - ping works to anything on the internet by address but not by host name. - added DNS servers manually and can ping to host name but Explorer still does not work, and still cannot access the router web interface. - replaced my complete registry with a backup copy (that does not know about the wireless card) and everything works fine. - replaced the old ethernet card and removed the wireless card and the same symptoms occure. - replaced the registry again and everything works. I have tried just replacing the Ethernet card with another one (DE450) and the same thing happens. In all cases it is fixed with a restore of the registry. The other Dell does not have a registry backup - help. |
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