- Oct 9, 1999
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Damn Cox RoadRunner totally screwed up my winsock in win98 and now I cant load any web pages.
At a command prompt I can ping only numeric i.p. address's , attempting to ping an alpha i.p. address gives the result of "unknown host"
no web pages will load in internet explorer at all, whether I enter an alpha i.p. or numeric
RoadRunner was having problems in my area this weekend, at least thats what I found out today, every time I called tech supt over the weekend they said there were no outages and that I could have a service call in a week :|
One tech went through a few steps with me, one of which was uninstalling all the network stuff and re-installing it, during the install he told me to answer yes if I was asked to overwrite a newer file, this is where they screwed me, the service was actually down and there was nothing wrong with my win98 install until he had me overwrite the files while reinstalling the network protocols, now I am stuck, reinstalling windows didnt fix it (not fresh, over the old) uninstalling D.U.N. didnt fix it, I went through a couple of articles at M.S.'s site and did what was recomended, but still no go.
So, short of deleting the windows directory and doing a fresh install, how can I fix this, I know that the service is working because I am dual booting win2k and win2k is working fine.
At a command prompt I can ping only numeric i.p. address's , attempting to ping an alpha i.p. address gives the result of "unknown host"
no web pages will load in internet explorer at all, whether I enter an alpha i.p. or numeric
RoadRunner was having problems in my area this weekend, at least thats what I found out today, every time I called tech supt over the weekend they said there were no outages and that I could have a service call in a week :|
One tech went through a few steps with me, one of which was uninstalling all the network stuff and re-installing it, during the install he told me to answer yes if I was asked to overwrite a newer file, this is where they screwed me, the service was actually down and there was nothing wrong with my win98 install until he had me overwrite the files while reinstalling the network protocols, now I am stuck, reinstalling windows didnt fix it (not fresh, over the old) uninstalling D.U.N. didnt fix it, I went through a couple of articles at M.S.'s site and did what was recomended, but still no go.
So, short of deleting the windows directory and doing a fresh install, how can I fix this, I know that the service is working because I am dual booting win2k and win2k is working fine.
Anyone else find that phrase amusing?
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