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98SE hates my NIC-- HELP!

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azkiwi

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Heres the deal;
I had a perfectly functioning network (2K on my own machine and 98SE on the wife's through a D-Link router)
my wireless connection was on the fritz and the wife let the wireless tech into the computers - for 3 hours!

end result - her computer refuses to accept the NIC a Netgear 310TX - thus no network!

I have removed it physically and gone through the registry to delete any entries I could find there - repeatedly. Reinstalled from the OEM floppy - but it stalls and goes into a Msgsrv32 error. Device manager says it is operating fine - a video card is the only other card installed - but on boot it says it isn't working properly and needs to be reconfigured.

Its not the card, as I swapped out with another and got the same results. I just can't for the life of me think of a reason it won't work now when it did fine for months....


HELP.
 
Simplest approach..

Did you try another PCI slot??

I have an old Wireless one made by Raylink, it was an ISA, and constantly had problems until I went to a wireless PCI adapter..

Is it an ISA...? Is it a USB adapter?

 
I removed the NIC from device manager, took the card out, restored a registry backup from a month ago.
Reinstalled the NIC, elected to shut down myself and not have 98 try it - same thing - hangs on a Msgsrv32 not responding error.

from everything I can find this is caused by a driver conflict - but WTF - conflicting with what. And from a month old registry? This system just sits - runs email and Quickbooks and Word, and nothing else. It doesn't have a CD drive (its been sharing mine over the network) or I would reinstall 98 - since, as usual, you can spend a week fixing this POC or an afternoon replacing it. I'm going to build a new system soon and move my 2K box to her desk - but in the meantime....

When I put 98 on it originally I put all the CAB files on the drive - can I re-install from there?
 
Tried moving the NIC around in the PCI slots (there are only 3 - its an old TX board),and reset the PnP scheme at bootup in the BIOS, reset the registry to an even older backup, scrwewed up the video because I moved that card and...

still crashes on installing the NIC drivers - Msgsrv32 not responding...


/rant While I'm sure the big lesson here is never let some jack-off communications tech touch your system (BTW the problem was that I lost service every day around 4AM and it came back about 9AM without me touching anything in the computers - so OBVIOUSLY it HAD to be a problem in my computers not their hardware!!) /end rant

Unless anyone has any bright last ditch ideas, how to I restore 98SE from the C: drive CABs?

Edit: The odd side effect of the NIC not working is that some kind of polling keeps going on that feeezes the mouse for 5 seconds about every 10 seconds - pretty irritating.. (APM is turned off)
 
I've had some hell out of Msgrv32 as well. I think it has something to do with sound.... I did find a way to fix my problem though.... Using the extract command, I'd extract it from the Windows 98 cab files, back up the old one and copy the new one on, and it would fix my problems. You may want to try it.

To extract it from cab files go into the directory they are located in (It would be the Win98 directory on the Windows 98 CD if you don't have the cab files on your hard disk)
and type "extract /A /L c:\ base4.cab msgsrv32.exe" This will copy the file to C:\. From there use it to copy over the bad one. This fixed all my problems with the file, hopefully it will fix yours too.
 
According to the M$ knowledge base Msgsrv32 errors are due to driver conflicts - msgsrv is just the messenger. That said, I'll try anything at this point...

Edit: I tried the syntax you offered but get the error : cannot open file msgsrv32.exe Are you sure the syntax is correct?
 
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