dinosaur here

Trying to get the Network Add A New Coonection hooked up properly so I can get this Windows 98SE dinosaur dialing up again. Does anybody still know how to do this?

 

Hey I can't wait to get home & try this. I can hardly believe it would be that simple. You should here some of the advice I've been getting. Telling me I have to configure a dial up coonection to the Internet or that I should uninstall Windows 98SE & reinstall all over again. It took me forever to get the modem drivers. I'm hoping you're right but I won't be able to check until most likely Monday morning East Coast time. Will you be around to follow up on this with me?? Please say yes, I'm begging you!!

 

If you mean that stmp stuff maybe I'm not sure where to look for it. Can you be a little more specific please ? What info will I need to know? Should I uninstall my ISP first? Thanks

 

TimW
Followed your instructions "Choose Always Dial" I checked that box & rebooted still my ISP was unable to detect A DIAL TONE. You then mentioned further instructions about a "Connections" Tab. I'm not too sure what Connections tab you're referring to but the only thing that looked strange under the ISP was for a telephone number inside the box was "2222" there was no area code as well. Please explain further about this Connections tab & this strange number 2222, thanks.

 

Under the Dial-Up Networking tab when I highlight Netzero, click filethen properties & changed the "2222" to my ISP local dialup number & area code even though I clicked ok & rebooted the same 2222 reappears all the time.
Also your said to to Right-click "My Network Places" could you be more specific I don't know where that is please.

 

Sir,
We're talking about Windows 98SE. When you right-click on the Desktop you get Display Properties. There is no thing like Add My Network Places anywhere.
My local ISP is Netzero

 

It's not Netzero, I tried with AT&T & had the same results. I'm thinking it's along the lines of the DUNS connectoid which I know nothing about, do you know how that goes for W98SE?

 

nto that you will have to do this....but hara are the instructions for removing and reinstallind DUN, tcp/ip, and winsock
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/181599/en-us
also DUN update if not loaded
http://www.microsoft.com/windows95/...mended/S_WUNetworking/dunwinsky2k/Default.asp

 

I reformatted & Installed Windows 98SE (101 files) so why would you think this needs to be done?

 

sometimes files can be corupted - for what ever reason. if nothing else works uninstall and reinstall.

 

Uninstalling & reinstalling the modem driver files didn't work. Someone else suggested that even though the Resources tab for the Modem says "No Conflicts" there could be a hardware conflict. To disable COM2 in the BIOS might fix the problem. But I'm unfamiliar with BIOS settings. All I see is "Serial Port: Enabled" & "Parallel Portisabled" in the Power Management Setup of the BIOS. Are you or anyone else familiar with this?

 

Serial Port is the com port. there are usually two of them. however it is not unlikely that there is only one. it has been a while since have had to work with that area of the bios. if i am not mistaken, enabled means the serial port on the back of the computer will work when a device is connected via cable. disabled sets the computer to use an internal card in one of the motherboard slots ie. internal modem. if i am wrong someone please correct me, like i said it has been a long time.