Hello,
not sure if this is an operating system problem. I found the other day that when I connected to the internet my modem was freezing up after verifying username and password with my ISP. It would attempt to load my homepage and then timeout, checking the modem log showed all normal right up to verification and then nothing. The modem would sit there with a few hundred bytes sent and a few hundred received and that was it.
It is a stock intel 593 56k v92 modem in a pci slot, I have tried re-installing in a different slot, re-installing in the same slot, reseating. Its not the ISP as I can get on with a laptop through the same cable to the same socket.
I cannot believe its the modem, its a few years old but I thought these things just never break!
Maybe its a windows thing. Hope someone can help.
My setup:
nf7-s rev.2
xp1800 o/c to 2.2 Ghz (Zalman flower cooling, though does run hot at mid to late 50's cent.)
crucial pc3200 512Mb ram
30Gb maxtor hdd
400w no name PSU (promise will get it changed!!!)
radeon 9800 aiw se 128Mb
os is win 98se
I also ran a sophos virus checker which turned up nothing at all.