Hi
I have been at this for over 10 hours. I am building a new PC with a MSI DDR board and Athlon 1.2 ghz processor and a new IBM ata 100 hard drive. All was going well until I tried to connect to the internet. I have already processed 5 other PC's from this bench this week. I am attached to a 100 mps network with a Linksys DSL/Cable router/switch.
The new PC is on the network and has no problem seeing the other PC's on the network or exchanging data. They all see it. They all connect to the internet. The new PC is stripped. The wsock32.dll is not corrupt and there are no other copies. I have tried everything suggested on the MS site. This makes no sense! The system was Win 98SE with IE 5.51. I backed down to Win 98/IE 5.0 with the same result. I then stripped the cards down to video only, reformatted the hard drive and installed Win 98/IE 4.0 from scratch. I added the NIC. All went in without a hitch. I was on the LAN and fully functional. I opened IE and "A connection to the server could not be established." The SOS.
So, the only variable is the new PC. Anyone have any ideas?
VERY Frustrated.
Thank you for any help.

I have been at this for over 10 hours. I am building a new PC with a MSI DDR board and Athlon 1.2 ghz processor and a new IBM ata 100 hard drive. All was going well until I tried to connect to the internet. I have already processed 5 other PC's from this bench this week. I am attached to a 100 mps network with a Linksys DSL/Cable router/switch.
The new PC is on the network and has no problem seeing the other PC's on the network or exchanging data. They all see it. They all connect to the internet. The new PC is stripped. The wsock32.dll is not corrupt and there are no other copies. I have tried everything suggested on the MS site. This makes no sense! The system was Win 98SE with IE 5.51. I backed down to Win 98/IE 5.0 with the same result. I then stripped the cards down to video only, reformatted the hard drive and installed Win 98/IE 4.0 from scratch. I added the NIC. All went in without a hitch. I was on the LAN and fully functional. I opened IE and "A connection to the server could not be established." The SOS.
So, the only variable is the new PC. Anyone have any ideas?
VERY Frustrated.
Thank you for any help.