Installing Ethenet card fails causing VXD tbl and loss of connectivity

Or, try Firefox browser:
http://www.mozilla.com/

If that works, then IE is definitely the problem.

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS MVP -- Shell/User
http://grystmill.com/articles/cleanboot.htm
http://grystmill.com/articles/security.htm

"T. Duprex" tduprexATlandmark.net wrote in message
...
More test results, thought not exactly what you were looking for,....
Maybe.


Uncheck Dicrec Cable Connection and Hyper Terminal. You're not using
either one. As for ICS, as I mentioned, that's for *providing* ICS
services to other computers -- this computer is the one connected to
the internet, the others connect through this computer. And it's not
available in WIn98, I now remember. Only Windows ME, 2000 and above.
Wat *is* availabel is the ICS client, and that should be listed nder
Add/REmo0ve Programs main tab. If it isn't, I'd reinstall it, without
going through any clean boot, then uninstall it. Only I don't know off
the top of my head where to get it. I'll see if I can find it.


Found the following "ICS Troubleshooting " at the following site:

http://www.practicallynetworked.com/...oubleshoot.htm

*

" Make sure you uninstall ICS via the Add/Remove Control Panel. It's
under Windows Setup - Internet Tools. Don't just delete the ICS Network
adapter. (Thnx to Jerry Stewart for this tip.)
*

02/14/00 If you're having trouble getting ICS to install or re-
install after you've uninstalled it, try this hint from Kent England of
SOHOinter.net:

Sometimes after you have un-installed ICS, you cannot get ICS to
re-install from the Add/Remove Programs, Windows setup tab, Internet
Tools,
ICS item. Sometimes the Internet Connection Sharing option does not even
show up.

Find C:\windows\inf\ics.inf, right-click, and select "install".
This should force Windows to re-install ICS. Be sure to have your Win98SE
CD handy, although you may be able to skip installing files because the
uninstaller does not remove any/all files. Then again, this is a stuck
uninstall, so no guarantees!"

-----------------------------------------------------------------
I located the ics.inf file and installed it. I now have under Add /Remove
Programs; Windows Setup Tabs "Internet tools" and under it I now have
"Internet Connection Sharing" entry .

I then proceeded to install ICS and then remove it. So I placed a check on
ICS and progressed to the installation where Windows wants to reboot and
it did, and immediately experienced the problem: no internet but able to
go
intranet.

Checked back to see if ICS was still checked off and it wasn't.


What do you suggest?

Gary:

I sense this is not a networking issue. Something is corrupted somewhere.
I have a few parting thoughts and questions. I'd appreciate your input.
For now, I have to travel this weekend to visit mom in a nursing home.
I'll pick this thing up early next week.

I'd hate to have to reinstall, but may be the only way to save the
patient. Thanks again for jumping in.

Or, try Firefox browser:
http://www.mozilla.com/

If that works, then IE is definitely the problem.

Firefox has been installed all along. One of my first tests after trying
a different card or whatever is to click on Firefox. With the trouble in
I immediately get a Firefox couldn't open message.

Why do you suspect IE and what could it cause? How’s about any of the
Microsoft security updates?

With Firefox IE, Outlook Express, the instant a NIC install fails I
cannot go out to the internet and it creates error messages and results
more severe than when I cannot get out because my cable is unplugged.
This seems to indicate that a setting or something has been changed as a
result of the faulty install. Yet part of the install takes, I see the
card in Device Manager, and can communicate intranet.

Is there some kind of Trap freeware out there that I could trigger on a
particular message or event?

It would be nice to see the flow chart on installation of a NIC.

This one thing that keeps occurring every time I install a NIC or when I
tried to install ICS sticks in my craw and that is a Small window pops up
and says that the version of VIP.386 it is trying to install is older
than the one that is currently on the computer. Do I want to keep the
newer one? It would be nice to know what program is trying to install
VIP.386. I've done a search for vip.386 throughout the entire computer
and it never found that old VIP file. Could that be a clue? Does that
message always appear even on a good Windows98 SE?

Gary:

I sense this is not a networking issue. Something is corrupted somewhere.
I have a few parting thoughts and questions. I'd appreciate your input.
For now, I have to travel this weekend to visit mom in a nursing home.
I'll pick this thing up early next week.

I'd hate to have to reinstall, but may be the only way to save the
patient. Thanks again for jumping in.

Or, try Firefox browser:
http://www.mozilla.com/

If that works, then IE is definitely the problem.

Firefox has been installed all along. One of my first tests after trying
a different card or whatever is to click on Firefox. With the trouble in
I immediately get a Firefox couldn't open message.

Why do you suspect IE and what could it cause? How’s about any of the
Microsoft security updates?

With Firefox IE, Outlook Express, the instant a NIC install fails I
cannot go out to the internet and it creates error messages and results
more severe than when I cannot get out because my cable is unplugged.
This seems to indicate that a setting or something has been changed as a
result of the faulty install. Yet part of the install takes, I see the
card in Device Manager, and can communicate intranet.

Is there some kind of Trap freeware out there that I could trigger on a
particular message or event?

It would be nice to see the flow chart on installation of a NIC.

This one thing that keeps occurring every time I install a NIC or when I
tried to install ICS sticks in my craw and that is a Small window pops up
and says that the version of VIP.386 it is trying to install is older
than the one that is currently on the computer. Do I want to keep the
newer one? It would be nice to know what program is trying to install
VIP.386. I've done a search for vip.386 throughout the entire computer
and it never found that old VIP file. Could that be a clue? Does that
message always appear even on a good Windows98 SE?

IE....IE....IE....IE....

--

Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User

"T. Duprex" tduprexATlandmark.net wrote in message
...
Gary:

I sense this is not a networking issue. Something is corrupted somewhere.
I have a few parting thoughts and questions. I'd appreciate your input.
For now, I have to travel this weekend to visit mom in a nursing home.
I'll pick this thing up early next week.

I'd hate to have to reinstall, but may be the only way to save the
patient. Thanks again for jumping in.

Or, try Firefox browser:
http://www.mozilla.com/

If that works, then IE is definitely the problem.

Firefox has been installed all along. One of my first tests after trying
a different card or whatever is to click on Firefox. With the trouble in
I immediately get a Firefox couldn't open message.

Why do you suspect IE and what could it cause? How’s about any of the
Microsoft security updates?

With Firefox IE, Outlook Express, the instant a NIC install fails I
cannot go out to the internet and it creates error messages and results
more severe than when I cannot get out because my cable is unplugged.
This seems to indicate that a setting or something has been changed as a
result of the faulty install. Yet part of the install takes, I see the
card in Device Manager, and can communicate intranet.

Is there some kind of Trap freeware out there that I could trigger on a
particular message or event?

It would be nice to see the flow chart on installation of a NIC.

This one thing that keeps occurring every time I install a NIC or when I
tried to install ICS sticks in my craw and that is a Small window pops up
and says that the version of VIP.386 it is trying to install is older
than the one that is currently on the computer. Do I want to keep the
newer one? It would be nice to know what program is trying to install
VIP.386. I've done a search for vip.386 throughout the entire computer
and it never found that old VIP file. Could that be a clue? Does that
message always appear even on a good Windows98 SE?

IE....IE....IE....IE....

--

Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User

"T. Duprex" tduprexATlandmark.net wrote in message
...
Gary:

I sense this is not a networking issue. Something is corrupted somewhere.
I have a few parting thoughts and questions. I'd appreciate your input.
For now, I have to travel this weekend to visit mom in a nursing home.
I'll pick this thing up early next week.

I'd hate to have to reinstall, but may be the only way to save the
patient. Thanks again for jumping in.

Or, try Firefox browser:
http://www.mozilla.com/

If that works, then IE is definitely the problem.

Firefox has been installed all along. One of my first tests after trying
a different card or whatever is to click on Firefox. With the trouble in
I immediately get a Firefox couldn't open message.

Why do you suspect IE and what could it cause? How’s about any of the
Microsoft security updates?

With Firefox IE, Outlook Express, the instant a NIC install fails I
cannot go out to the internet and it creates error messages and results
more severe than when I cannot get out because my cable is unplugged.
This seems to indicate that a setting or something has been changed as a
result of the faulty install. Yet part of the install takes, I see the
card in Device Manager, and can communicate intranet.

Is there some kind of Trap freeware out there that I could trigger on a
particular message or event?

It would be nice to see the flow chart on installation of a NIC.

This one thing that keeps occurring every time I install a NIC or when I
tried to install ICS sticks in my craw and that is a Small window pops up
and says that the version of VIP.386 it is trying to install is older
than the one that is currently on the computer. Do I want to keep the
newer one? It would be nice to know what program is trying to install
VIP.386. I've done a search for vip.386 throughout the entire computer
and it never found that old VIP file. Could that be a clue? Does that
message always appear even on a good Windows98 SE?

"Gary S. Terhune" wrote in news:e2X#czuVHHA.4404
@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl:

IE....IE....IE....IE....


Nope...Nope...Nope...Nope.

Restored image, downloaded/installed IE 6. Trouble still in.

I think I can say this is not a network problem. It looks like I may have a
memory conflict. I'm really on unchartered ground here. I'll have to do
some homework on address assignments and ranges. Problem probably belongs
in Setup or General newsgroup.

In addition to the same old trouble manifestations, when the trouble is in,
I've been using NETSCAN.EXE, freeware, to scan the network and it displays
the IPs of what is on my network. Initially I was using Netscan from one of
my other computers. About two days ago I installed and tried it from the
computer with the trouble. Every time I run Netscan on the bad guy, it
successfully displays the IPs; however, in the process it generates three
"Thread Exception - Access violation at address errors". The first write
address is 00000013, read address 1CA6A0CCA that is followed by two more
violations in which both address are the same: 46000000 46000000 and
64655274. 64655274.

"Gary S. Terhune" wrote in news:e2X#czuVHHA.4404
@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl:

IE....IE....IE....IE....


Nope...Nope...Nope...Nope.

Restored image, downloaded/installed IE 6. Trouble still in.

I think I can say this is not a network problem. It looks like I may have a
memory conflict. I'm really on unchartered ground here. I'll have to do
some homework on address assignments and ranges. Problem probably belongs
in Setup or General newsgroup.

In addition to the same old trouble manifestations, when the trouble is in,
I've been using NETSCAN.EXE, freeware, to scan the network and it displays
the IPs of what is on my network. Initially I was using Netscan from one of
my other computers. About two days ago I installed and tried it from the
computer with the trouble. Every time I run Netscan on the bad guy, it
successfully displays the IPs; however, in the process it generates three
"Thread Exception - Access violation at address errors". The first write
address is 00000013, read address 1CA6A0CCA that is followed by two more
violations in which both address are the same: 46000000 46000000 and
64655274. 64655274.

Forgot to include info on Netscan.

http://www.download3k.com/System-Uti...ties/Download-
SoftPerfect-Network-Scanner.html

A free multi-threaded IP, SNMP and NetBIOS scanner with a modern interface
and several advanced features. It is intended for both system
administrators and general users who are interested in computer security.
The program pings computers, scans for listening TCP ports and displays
which types of resources are shared on a network (including system and
hidden). In addition, it allows you to mount shared resources as network
drives, browse them using Windows Explorer, filter the results list and
more. SoftPerfect Network Scanner can also check for a user-defined port
and report back if one is open. It can also resolve host names and auto-
detect your local IP range.

Forgot to include info on Netscan.

http://www.download3k.com/System-Uti...ties/Download-
SoftPerfect-Network-Scanner.html

A free multi-threaded IP, SNMP and NetBIOS scanner with a modern interface
and several advanced features. It is intended for both system
administrators and general users who are interested in computer security.
The program pings computers, scans for listening TCP ports and displays
which types of resources are shared on a network (including system and
hidden). In addition, it allows you to mount shared resources as network
drives, browse them using Windows Explorer, filter the results list and
more. SoftPerfect Network Scanner can also check for a user-defined port
and report back if one is open. It can also resolve host names and auto-
detect your local IP range.

Well, I done run out of ideas... Sorry!

--

Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User

"T. Duprex" tduprexATlandmark.net wrote in message
...
"Gary S. Terhune" wrote in news:e2X#czuVHHA.4404
@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl:

IE....IE....IE....IE....


Nope...Nope...Nope...Nope.

Restored image, downloaded/installed IE 6. Trouble still in.

I think I can say this is not a network problem. It looks like I may have
a
memory conflict. I'm really on unchartered ground here. I'll have to do
some homework on address assignments and ranges. Problem probably belongs
in Setup or General newsgroup.

In addition to the same old trouble manifestations, when the trouble is
in,
I've been using NETSCAN.EXE, freeware, to scan the network and it displays
the IPs of what is on my network. Initially I was using Netscan from one
of
my other computers. About two days ago I installed and tried it from the
computer with the trouble. Every time I run Netscan on the bad guy, it
successfully displays the IPs; however, in the process it generates three
"Thread Exception - Access violation at address errors". The first write
address is 00000013, read address 1CA6A0CCA that is followed by two more
violations in which both address are the same: 46000000 46000000 and
64655274. 64655274.