Help needed

I'm not really sure what category this topic falls under, so what the hell.

I'm wondering if anybody else has experienced something like this.

After 1-2 minutes connected to any interactive feature on the net, be it getting downloads off a site, or on a messanger, or in any kind of board games room where you engage others, I am booted/the connection is terminated.

I've run all the various scans/virus checks/updated patches for my format blah blah and still it persists. I've given my ISP a call and they've said it may be a line problem and if it persists to call them back. Other than that, I'm out of ideas. Anyone experienced anything similar?

 

Not many. Are you one dial-up?

 

sorry, i just read site rules, sems i need to give you more.

ADSL broadband, thru a USB port. My ethernet connection doesnt work for some reason

running windows 98, 20 gig HD, 128 ram
Dell OptiPlex GX110

 

I should add, the only problem I encounter with 'static' net pages is that sometimes when i either refresh, or click onto a link in a page, I get the "this page cannot be displayed" error page come up. An immediate subsequent refresh of that takes me to the page I was initially after. Since this has only just started happening, I'm assuming its connected to the connective problem.

 

ok, I was downloading something off the net and happened to click a link on a static page I had up at the same time and at that precise point the download got disrupted, and the incidence I have quoted above occured at the same time. So rather than this merely being an "interactive' problem, I can describe this now as almost like a hiccup that goes through anything I have going and disrupts it.

 

EXPLORER caused an invalid page fault in
module KERNEL32.DLL at 016f:bff9dfff.
Registers:
EAX=00000000 CS=016f EIP=bff9dfff EFLGS=00000246
EBX=81729198 SS=0177 ESP=0162f888 EBP=00000000
ECX=00000177 DS=0177 ESI=00000001 FS=2807
EDX=0162fa28 ES=0177 EDI=bffca060 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
cc a1 e0 9c fc bf 8b 00 66 64 f7 05 1c 00 00 00
Stack dump:
02050000 817291dc 7ffce5a4 00000000 8174efa0 cf8f4c40 cf8f4c40 0162f8c8 bff7a10e 81c124d4 81707000 bfc05bd6 00000082 7fb910a1 000005c8 00000082


Ive gotten that description from a programme dysfunction box, if it sheds any light for anyone. Just another thing thats appeared concurrent with everything else.