I've come across this issue before with Packard Bells, especially the newer
ones. We ended up reformatting the hard drive and reinstalling Windows 95.
It worked in both cases. It appears that there was a bad load or
something. I've seen this in another case where a customer had reloaded a
Windows 95 full version over top of an upgrade version and ended up having
some files getting corrupted. A reinstallation of Win 95 and over writing
all files during installation fixed this problem also.
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Dan Haughton
System Admin
Connections Plus
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> From: Kendrick Myatt <myattk@datatek.com>
> To: portmaster-users@livingston.com
> Subject: Win95 DNS problem on new PC
> Date: Monday, November 04, 1996 6:38 PM
>
> Here is something that is a little off topic, so feel free to
reply
> to me directly. I have one win95 machine that works great with one
> exception. When logged in to the PM getting PPP and TCP/IP just fine
(good
> address, good netmask, pings ok both ways, etc...) I can only ftp,
telnet,
> or web browse to an IP address. _NO_ DNS resolving works at all for some
> strange reason. I have removed all networking components and
re-installed
> them, checked the DNS and all other TCP/IP configs many times and it is
ok,
> winipcfg reports everything right, but there is no resolving. It's set
up
> EXACTLY like another machine (which works), the only difference is that
the
> screwy one is a brand new Packard Bell. I'm stumped... anybody ever seen
> this behavior?
>
> TIA,
>
> Kendrick