Internet apps crash immediately

[DumTech]

I've been holding off on posting about this as long as possible, but I suspect my Linux-fearing wife won't put up with a non-working Windoze machine much longer. As of a few days ago, everything internet-related quit working with invalid page fault errors. IE, for instance, will open without a connection, but if I connect with DUN and attempt to go anywhere, IPF crash. RealPlayer bombs as soon as Windows opens.

This began after installing a Linksys NIC (a-ok according to device manager; same behavior even if I disable it) and changing ISPs from NetZero to a worthy local ISP.

With the connection up, I can ping from a command line ok, and Outlook Express doesn't outright crash, but fails to connect to the pop server and eventually crashes, if I'm remembering correctly.

Any thoughts?

 

[paulwood]

First off check the tcp/ip settings. Then I think I would try reinstalling DUN, see

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q181/5/99.ASP

You mention DUN and a network card, I assume you are networked but access the Internet via modem. It would also be worth reinstalling the modem if DUN install doesn't help.

If this doesn't help, let us know.

 

[DumTech]

Thanks for the suggestion! Hopefully I can give it a try this evening when I get home. Hadn't occurred to me to reinstall DUN...d'oh!

The irony is that this is a dual boot Win98/Linux machine and I *expected* to have some trouble and/or confusion on the Linux side... Instead, something has gone wrong on the Windows side, and Linux was a breeze!

I'll let you know what happens.

 

[DumTech]

No luck with that. Followed the MS Kbase instructions and all was normal. Same behavior upon rebooting and connecting to ISP.

This, after finding that an allegedly compatible toner cartridge is refused by my old laser. One of those days...

Though I did get a monitor for my Amiga...

Any other ideas? I'm considering backing the few altered important documents up to floppy and restoring from a CD backup that's about a month old.

 

[paulwood]

This may sound implausible, but it is true...

I signed up to a new ISP one time and I got blue screens and forced reboots every time. Turned out the modem drivers didn't work with the ISP modems although they worked with every other one I tried, and yes it was a harware modem not a winmodem. I downloaded the latest drivers, via an ISP that the modem worked with, installed them, and presto no more reboots. Weird but true, maybe it will help.

 

[somekid]

That's weird, I've only had that happen to me once. I work at a computer store as a tech, and one of the systems we got back as a return was doing that. Everything, all hardware seemed to be working perfectly. I put in a different modem, same thing happend, took off DUP, took off all network protocols, reinstalled them, nothing. Finally I tried Norton Internet Security for the anti-virus part, it didn't find any viruses(live update wouldn't work of course, it uses the internet :-( ) but when the computer restarted it worked right. Weird. I took off Norton's and it still worked, I have no idea what caused it, even when I tried to re-install windows over itself it didnt' fix anything. Anyway if you figure out what caused it I would sure like to know!

 

[DumTech]

Well, uninstalling and reinstalling the modem had no effect. I restored just the system registry from that month-old backup and that seemed to take care of the immediate crashing problems. Now I'm getting what appear to be DNS problems. DNS works to ping, but I must have some other option set wrong.

Progress made though! Rebooted to Linux after that to work on letting the Mac share Internet access...Typing this on the Mac, so it's been a day of progress all around. Yay.

Thanks for the suggestions y'all...