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by puckett Sep 18, 2001 last reply Dec 18, 2001

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I have a Win98 Se machine currently with a netgear FA310TX NIC. Everytime i try to transfer files to or from the computer my machine locks up. And to make things stranger, i have a proxy server running on this computer and it will still pass packets with no problem. I've reloaded windows, reloaded nic drivers, tried disabling every program possible, tried 5 different brands of NICs (3 PCI, and 2 ISA), and different slots on my motherboard with no change. Any suggestions are helpful.

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by puckett Sep 18, 2001

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by vh_s Sep 18, 2001

The machine locks up
a. at the beginning
b. in the middle
c. approximately at the end

of file transfer ?

Do you transfer using mapped network drive ?

The functioning of the proxy server points out that NIC should be ok. Try ping to loopback address.

by puckett Sep 18, 2001

It locks during file tranfer and loopback ping works fine.

by curacao_dejavu Sep 18, 2001

Win9x sometimes have problems with networking, I sent you a list of steps to follow.
If it doesn't help (it should) pls explain what you mean with the machine locks up.
Does the filetransfer stop or does the whole pc hangs. Let me know what happens if you transfer a smaller file too.

regards,

Leopold

by puckett Dec 18, 2001

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by Member 35772270 Sep 19, 2001

I have had simular problems like this in the pass, I tried everything. Found out in the end it was the destination drive. Reformated the drive cleared up the problem.

by puckett Dec 18, 2001

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by Member 35772270 Sep 19, 2001

I have had simular problems like this in the pass, I tried everything. Found out in the end it was the destination drive. Reformated the drive cleared up my problem.

by puckett Dec 18, 2001

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by jrw738 Sep 21, 2001

Go through the steps in this MS knowledge base article Q192534 at: http://support.microsoft.com/directory/article.asp?ID=KB;EN-US;Q192534
It has helped me to solve network problems. Good luck!

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by borg7of9 Oct 13, 2001

This may not help,and you may have already done it, but disable or de-install your proxy software first and see if you can copy. I am almost 100% sure this is not hardware related, however, when I get weird problems I always swap out memory, just tobe sure, many times I found that switching memory solved the unexplainable) How many systems on the network? make sure it is truly a problem of this machine. If so, run msconfig and disable all start up programs you can, review any dos configs you can disable. Then try to copy a single file, using explorer network neighbourhood, and then try doing so with a mapped drive. Another thing I would look at is the bios, disable power sharing, make sure PNP is turned on if you have the option, and all PCI slots for your network cards are set to primary. (This of course depends on Bios, you may not have these options) Make sure to write down settings before you change them.
If you know how, also try to do a copy of files by command line from the dos prompt, just to see if you freeze there.
Let me know if any of this helps

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