IE & Win 98 connection problem

[fabchat]

Hi to all. I've a curious problem with my IE installed on my win 98 system. When I try to open some link, from my favorites o from the menu "open in a new window", IE tell me that the page doesn't exist (or it open it without the images), but it is false!! Because when I retry to access the page, from the go button, IE open it!! So if I wont navigate I must try to access two times to the same page. I think is a system problem because I've installed IE 4, IE 5.0, IE 5.5 and IE 6.0, I've used ieradicator to erase IE from my system, I've used the autorepair of IE and finally I've reinstalled win 98 over teh old system, but the problem remain. Moreover I've the same problem with Netscape. SOMEONE CAN HELP ME!!! I don't know if it's important: the win 98 is installed on an AMD 1Ghz and my connection is an ADSL with the alchatel speed touch usb modem. Sorry for my bad english & thanks all in advance
Fab

 

[paulwood]

Curious, have you tried using ping from the command prompt? To do that type ping

http://www.tek-tips.com

at the command prompt and hit return, and it should give you something like

Pinging

http://www.tek-tips.com

[204.137.168.66] with 32 bytes of data:

and hopefully will then tell you that all four pings have been successful. If you don't get the reply above, then try typing ping 204.137.168.66 and see whether that is successful. If the first works, then it is not a DNS problem, if the second works but the first doesn't, then it may be a DNS problem. If neither work then there is a connectivity issue with the modem.

Post back with your findings and we will see what we can do.