Windows

It doesnt sound likely that dial up networking is causing the problem, but if you already swapped out the modem and if the modem is functioning properly, I would uninstall and reinstall dial up networking and possibly tcp/ip and rename your *.386 files. See if you can run winipcfg, if you cant you know there is a problem

One quick comment on the previous answer: winipcfg is for Win95 - in Win98, the utility is ipconfig.

I don't disagree with the suggestion to uninstall and reinstall the TCP/IP stack and DUN but I wonder what you're connecting to when this happens. If you are connecting to a NT VPN using PPTP, it would seem to me you'd want to look at the VPN client rather than the DUN function itself (I'm assuming that you are connecting to a server and it is the password on that server that is being verified).

One other suggestion - I saw a similar problem recently that turned out to be related to a logon script. It might be worth temporarily disabling any logon scripts and trying it on a user account with no profile.

best wishes...

paul

Paul M. Wright, Jr.
McKay Technologies

I would suggest removing and reinstalling DUN. Obviously, it has become corrupt.

I have seen many cases where corrupt DUN causes reboots, BSOD's and other bad things to happen to good people.

jeff s
spanish callback specialist

PS: Use a CD-ROM. DO NOT USE .CAB FILES!!!