I have a mate who has an old windows 98se machine, and the ISP is orange. On a fresh install of windows 98, with the usb adsl modem drivers installed for the modem he can get a connection to the net ok and ping a few sites. However when he loads the browser, after getting google and later search results, he can go no further. The browser reports "webstie found, waiting for reply" but thats all that happens. The same occurs in firefox as well. He cant type urls into the browser and get any further either. Strangely when on google, a hard refresh still brings up the page. He had this exact problem prior to a clean install. He has used another pc with the modem and it worked. Does anyone know whats going on?
Wierd Internet Connection Issue
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Cheers for the reply.
The same modem had worked previously on this machine. Its the only USB device. My initial thoughts were issues relating to usb and Win98, as u mention it was still a little new back then.
Turns out he tried another machine (XP) and its the same issue so seems its an ISP thing. Will have to clarify his statement about the laptop he tried.
Why would IE6 or greater be needed when Firefox is on there? Also, does windows update still cater for 98 as microsoft dropped support for it?
The same modem had worked previously on this machine. Its the only USB device. My initial thoughts were issues relating to usb and Win98, as u mention it was still a little new back then.
Turns out he tried another machine (XP) and its the same issue so seems its an ISP thing. Will have to clarify his statement about the laptop he tried.
Why would IE6 or greater be needed when Firefox is on there? Also, does windows update still cater for 98 as microsoft dropped support for it?
TBH, all i did was reinstall windows and due to the box having no nic i didnt put it on my network and hence no updates. Will go visit the guy to finish it off once orange have been (un)helpful. One guy actually told him the problem was due to having more than one browser.
I appreciate the upgrade advice re IE but the standard version on the 98SE install should still get him online though. My bad thinking MS had completely stopped providing updates as that would be stupid. It was also my bad for just thinking the guy had a really bad install of 98 (files missing etc) and that a fresh install would solve it.
I just find it strange that it will display google and its search results, and ping sites but nothing more than that.
Cheers though MAllen, at least i have realised about win98SE update support.
I appreciate the upgrade advice re IE but the standard version on the 98SE install should still get him online though. My bad thinking MS had completely stopped providing updates as that would be stupid. It was also my bad for just thinking the guy had a really bad install of 98 (files missing etc) and that a fresh install would solve it.
I just find it strange that it will display google and its search results, and ping sites but nothing more than that.
Cheers though MAllen, at least i have realised about win98SE update support.