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Internet Explorer Problems. Please Help!!

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memnoch411

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Here's the deal. I can dial-up and get a good connection, I can ping out to I.P. addresses and domain names, mail works fine, icq works fine but internet explorer will not pull up any pages (it pulls up the start page usually (msn.com) but when I try to go to a different page it just gives me the good old "page can't be displayed" message. It doesn't even try to find it, its like I don't even have a connection (I do, btw.))

Here's the things I have tried:

- Recreated the dialer
- Un/Reinstalled Dial-up networking
- cleaned up the network settings
- made sure I.E. wasn't trying to use a proxy
- Re-installed I.E. 5.5sp1
- Re-installed Win98(Original)
- Scandisk
- Defrag
- Shut down all background progams via ctrl-alt-del except for explorer and systray
- Full virus-scan from within windows (Norton Antivirus)
- ran I.E. repair tool
- ran system file checker
- ran windows registry checker
- checked for multiple instances of wsock32.dll, winsock.dll and wsock32.vxd(?)
- Restored IE default settings

Needless to say, I am at a loss as to what the problem is. I should also note that this is a hit or miss problem. About 75% I run into this problem, either way I can always ping out and everything works except for I.E. Maybe some of you guru's can get me in the right direction. *crosses fingers*

Daris
 
It wouldn't be a DNS problem. I can ping I.P.'s and Domain names just fine but I cant pull anything up in Internet Explorer (i.p or domain names). Netscape works fine also. Sigh

Daris
 
Have you had more than one dial up connection at a time? A problem I ran into yesterday was that IE was looking for another dial up connection that I was currently not using. Erego, it wouldn't pull up anything. You can check this under Tools\Internet Options\Connections tab.
 
I had this same problem awhile ago, although I could connect to some sites and not others...I never did find out what the issue was, and I tried everything. Ultimately I did a fresh install and the problem disappeared. What was funny was that microsoft.com was one of the sites I couldn't connect to. Talk about irony.
 
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