I have a AMD K6-2 200 computer (32 Mb RAM, 3 Gb HDD with 2 Gb free, no modem, no sound, 1 Intel 10/100 NIC) that I upgraded from Win95 to 98 by reinstalling 98 over 95 (same subdirectory). It sits on a Windows 98 peer-to-peer network and worked just fine under 95 using TCP/IP, but I wanted some of the features of 98. Everything seems to work fine now except networking. I need to run TCP/IP (for internet sharing) but when I do the computer will not see the rest of the LAN, (sees itself) and will hang either when not used for at least a couple of hours or when trying to exit Windows. I get a msgsvr32 and/or rundll error when I try CTRL-ALT-DEL or (usually) the “Windows is now shutting down” screen freezes.
I have rounded up the usual suspects: regclean, remove all networking, including the NIC and reinstalling, tried different NICs, scandisc, msconfig, disable virus scan and running “fdisk /mbr”; checked the Cat 5 cables, hub, disabled any and all power management in both Windows and the BIOS, updated to the latest BIOS, and installed the latest video/NIC drivers. No change.
I would like to think that I could actually delete all files relating to networking and reinstalling them (rather than just “remove” in the networking properties) but I don’t know what files need to be removed. Any other suggestions?
All help would be greatly appreciated as reformatting the drive would be quite painful at this point, as would reinstalling Windows in a new subdirectory.
Thanks.