Solved...hardware.
The Mac is on a seperate cable line. The new modem is using a new standard and only one outlet in the house is capable of providing the required signal. Will have to buy new cable wiring.
Thanks, Peter.
New modem (Motorola SB5100) supplied by Rogers (provider) and can't get any speed (15 minutes for a 3MB data file). Works fine on the other PC (Windows 98). We're not networked, but have always justed physically moved the cable modem from one Computer to the other and had no problem (One Windows...
That was easy! Thanks for the info. I really should have known this, figured it could be done using scanreg, but didn't know the /switch to use to access the exact date that I wanted.
Thanks again.
Later.
PB
I wish to restore the registry using the one that Win98 automatically saves daily. Regchechecker does not detect a problem with the current, but the current is a backup from March, which I restored using my PB master recovery disk. The PB utility won't help me access the Windows back up that I...
A friends computer had a problem that on start up Windows was set to run "precopy.exe" hundreds of times. So I took the (literally) hundreds of instances of the run command out of the registry. Starts and "seems" ok now, but I don't know what the root cause is, or if this problem will re occur...
Thanks for your help all. Re-installed Windows 98, helped me start Windows without "mprexe" error. This was obviously something I caused with Version Conflict Manager (in haste). I'll leave that alone in future unless I have a definite reason to change a file. I was still getting...
ski: The exact text is: "mprexe" and the standard "This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down" message. If I click on "details" the dialogue box disappears and the machine hangs with the empty desktop (Windows default green).
mattjurado...
I am troubleshooting a desktop computer that was worked on before I got it. I don't know what was done before I started. Apparently programs were uninstalled (printer, etc). It looks like a reinstall may have been performed as well. System tools version conflict manager reported a vast amount of...
Running Win 98 on a Pentium 2, Cable internet. Almost every web page request returns "Page not Available"...but repeated tries will eventually get the page. MSN Messenger will no longer connect to Internet on this machine. I have verified all settings for Internet Explorer and Network...
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