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azscary · 12-03-2001, 08:33 PM

You have reinstalled the LAN drivers, switched cards, and every other option I can think of. Is YOUR computer the only one having the problem or are they all misbehaving? Generally the TCP/IP binding occurs when the LAN card and drivers are installed. However, as I said, Win98 is NOT a very stable system. If it is only happening on one machine, then you may have a corrupt TCP/IP stack. If that is the case the only solution is to have the original CD or cab files and uninstall Networking and communications and reinstall them. It is possible with Win98 that BOTH machines have a corrupted TCP/IP stack since they share a connection. This problem occurs more frequently in Dialup however TCP/IP stack corruption does occur regularly with Win98 in all communications.

I MUST STRESS THAT BEFORE YOU ATTEMPT TCP/IP, COMMUNICATIONS, OR NETWORKING REPAIRS YOU MUST HAVE THE ORIGINAL WIN98 CD THAT MATCHES YOUR MACHINE, OR THE CAB FILES STORED SOMEWHERE ON THE LOCAL MACHINE AND BE ABSOLUTELY SURE YOU HAVE THE CORRECT VERSION! If you have visited the Microsoft web site and downloaded security patches,service packs etc. you may no longer have the correct version available on your CD. In that case you would probably need to contact Microsoft. If the machine came with the OS and you do not have the origianl CD then do a search on My Computer for win98_* to see if the cabs are there. They should be under C:/Windows/options/cabs. The names will be something like WIN98_20.cab.

12-03-2001, 08:33 PM	#14
azscary Registered User Join Date: Nov 2001 Posts: 977	Reinstall You have reinstalled the LAN drivers, switched cards, and every other option I can think of. Is YOUR computer the only one having the problem or are they all misbehaving? Generally the TCP/IP binding occurs when the LAN card and drivers are installed. However, as I said, Win98 is NOT a very stable system. If it is only happening on one machine, then you may have a corrupt TCP/IP stack. If that is the case the only solution is to have the original CD or cab files and uninstall Networking and communications and reinstall them. It is possible with Win98 that BOTH machines have a corrupted TCP/IP stack since they share a connection. This problem occurs more frequently in Dialup however TCP/IP stack corruption does occur regularly with Win98 in all communications. I MUST STRESS THAT BEFORE YOU ATTEMPT TCP/IP, COMMUNICATIONS, OR NETWORKING REPAIRS YOU MUST HAVE THE ORIGINAL WIN98 CD THAT MATCHES YOUR MACHINE, OR THE CAB FILES STORED SOMEWHERE ON THE LOCAL MACHINE AND BE ABSOLUTELY SURE YOU HAVE THE CORRECT VERSION! If you have visited the Microsoft web site and downloaded security patches,service packs etc. you may no longer have the correct version available on your CD. In that case you would probably need to contact Microsoft. If the machine came with the OS and you do not have the origianl CD then do a search on My Computer for win98_* to see if the cabs are there. They should be under C:/Windows/options/cabs. The names will be something like WIN98_20.cab.