NIC can ping, but Win 98 can't access Internet and other TCPIP apps?!?!

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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