First post, by kikendo
- Rank
- Member
So my Win 98 SE system is driving me a bit insane right now and I need some help.
I found a network adapter in my pile of crap that works with this system (Intel PRO/100 S), downloaded the drivers, everything seems correct, I can browse the devices in my network and stuff.
Now when I go to Internet Explorer (had 5, now is 6), I get very flaky success on getting to pages.
- Google always seems to work. So does Bing
- I'm posting this from the system so this site works, but some times it doesn' t
- archive.org and many other sites I tried do not work
I thought it was an issue of IE5 having a 40-bit cipher, but now that I have IE6 with a 128-bit cipher it doesn't seem to be making a difference.
The error I always get is " The page cannot be displayed". I thought this was a DNS error but as far as I can tell all settings are correct. I tried everything suggested in the page to no avail.
The computer is connected to my network via a repeater access point which also seems to be working in any way I test (tested with a Win XP machine). If I ping teh sites I cannot see, they reply, so there's connectivity. Writing in the IP for those sites instead of their URI gives the same error.
Is there any component I am missing here or something? I really cannot understand why sites just do not load like that. It's like it doesn't even try to load them, like if it had no DNS. But then it should work via their IP addresses!
Any help appreciated!