re: [NOT a] DNS error
Saturday, May 2, 2009 at 7:42 am
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by jack hall
(291 messages posted)
Ed, can't help wondering what happens to these people who just seem to disappear.
On Friday, May 1, 2009 at 9:51 pm, Ed wrote:
>If you have an exclamation mark in Device Manager
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>Look carefully at Device Manager! You will see all your system devices listed there.
>To open the Device Manager -
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> START > SETTINGS > CONTROL PANEL > SYSTEM > DEVICE MANAGER
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>If the modem has an exclamation mark against it, delete the modem entry. Then reboot.
>If that device is already broken (as indicated by the Exclamation Mark) this can
>do no harm. If the correct device driver is actually present on your system, Windows
>will reinstall it on the reboot.
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>At reboot, you may have to point the install wizard to one of these locations in
>order for it to find the correct driver:
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> C:\WINDOWS
> C:\WINDOWS\INF
> C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM
> C:\WINDOWS\IOSUBSYS
> C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS
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>Or you may need to download the driver file for Windows 98 from the modem manufacturer's
>website, put it on a floppy disk, put that disk in the computer's floppy drive,
and
>point the install wizard to A:\
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>Ed
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