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by thorpe322

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Here's the deal. I have a system which i put a fresh install of Win98SE on, then ran an XP Pro upgrade. Everything seems tip-top... at first. But now ive noticed that if i run trace route from DOS (tracert), it times out after the first line, freezes and then gives me a BSOD! Im on a DSL connection and had not had this problem before. The time outs happen when running tracert on any site, at any time of the day and whether its by IP or URL. Any ideas?

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by stillatit

Try uninstalling the tcp/ip protocol then rebooting then reinstalling it from the CD. This replaces all the components, including the tracert program.

Good luck.

by thorpe322

Although this wasnt exactly the fix, it did lead me in the direction to discovering it. For future reference, when you upgrade from WIN98SE to XP Pro, it doesnt install everything by default! I went back onto the XP CD and chose "Perform Optional Tasks" or something like that. From there I was able to install a bunch of TCP/IP tools and utilities. One of them being the correct TRACERT program. After a quick reboot everything was working like a charm. Thanks for everyones input!

by estebandelatorre

I'm thinking about an incorrect upgraded file, tracert.exe itself may be not properly upgraded (or one of the tcp/ip componets)
Currently my tracert.exe is 11.696 bytes (win98se)
You will need to unload all the protocol stack and reinstall all them again from cd rom

Hope it helps!!!

by mphoffar

I'm assuming things like pinging work fine, so I would first try to expand a copy of tracert from the i386 directory on your XP CD to make sure this isn't some sort of version mismatch.

Expand tracert.ex_ c:\windows\system32 should do that foryou. Of coarse if you don't rename the one that's there already you'll get a overwrite confirmation.

After that, I'd be looking at the firewall settings. There are ICMP settings for things like echo requests and maybe it's getting hung there. From there I'm with a couple of the previous answers and I'd be reinstalling my TCP stack

Good luck to you

Mark

by thorpe322

Yes, Ping works fine. I took a look at things and XP does not make it as easy to remove the TCP/IP protocal. Perhaps im looking in the wrong place.

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