WIN98 - Riddle me this

[Leztek]

Ok...

I had call regarding low system resources...


Picked it up and brought it back to the shop. Too much crap on the hard drive.. easy enough... Ran the system through the ringer... spyware, virus, defrag and checkdsk. All as a courtsy...

To get to the chase... I take the system back and hook it up... show them that evertything is working and I go to login to the internet through dialup and IE hangs after downloading the page and throws the old blue screen at me...

I'm like come on... It was running like a champ at my shop on broadband... After messing around with IE and some system setting, I inform the customer, I would like to take it back and retest somethings. They have no issue with it.

Now... I get back to the shop and hook it up to broadband... no issue. I'm like OK let's hook it up to dial up... Freakin A... no problem...

The only thing they have different at the house a Lexeus Printer? I really hate to go back a try to connect again and it not be the printer? But what the else can it be...

Thanks

 

[greggh]

Is it windows 98 se? Have you done most of the updates and unofficial patches thae bring down a lot of fixes from windows me and put them into win98se? How about the unofficail upgrade to Internet Explorer 6.0sp1+patches?

There is a lot to do to make a windows 98 box really a nice system. The best way to get it all up to date, secure as possible, and working a lot better is to use the windows 98 autopatcher. Some people will yell about alpha/beta software and unofficial patches from random internet sites. But this is a great tool. I have not had a problem with the last 2 full releases of it and I have run it on many 98 systems.

http://www.msfn.org/board/Auto-Patcher-Windows-98se-English-t80800.html

By installing that on a windwws98 second edition machine you will get:
1. Security and Hotfix patches completely updated (including some that werent ported back by microsoft from ME, but done by the community.)
2. Support for hard drives bigger than 137gigs.
3. Full usb 2.0 stack. Meaning you can just plug in any flash drive or external hard drive and it will just show up as a drive letter after some basic detection. Just like everything past ME.
4. Most up to date IE supported on windows 98, with the most up to date patches that actually work on windows 98.
5. Tons of stability enhancements.
6. The most up to date Dialup components (mostly brought down from ME)
7. And a ton more.

 

[Leztek]

Greg...

Thanks... I have most of the updates installed...

The only hang up (no pun intended) with the dial up issue at the customers location?

Thanks again...

 

[greggh]

Greg...

Thanks... I have most of the updates installed...

The only hang up (no pun intended) with the dial up issue at the customers location?

Thanks again...

The updates I mentioned completely replace the dial up networking subsystem with the one from windows ME. Which is a much newer version than the patched up one in 98.

 

[Leztek]

Got ya...

Downloads are complete... I am going to start the install in a few...

Thanks for the help...

 

[Leztek]

Greg...

Thurns out it had to do with the monitors...

I had a flat panel at the shop and the driver was throwing the error...

Thanks for the help..

 

[generalj]

That why I love troubleshooting computers, so complex and a lot of problems can be a numerous amount of things. Makes the job fun.

 

[Leztek]

Yeah... but it cranks me up... I sat how long thinking... what the heck it could be... I should know by now to start simple and work my way up... but my brain is programmed like that anymore...

The client was good about it... and it's kind of funny... they called me a genius... In fact... I told them I was going to be running and Spring Cleaning Special (for computer of course). They said sign us up...


Slowly the client list grows....