Re: Entered data is not retained
ms wrote:
| ms <ms@invalid.com> wrote in news:5r8096F133mraU1@mid.individual.net:
|
|> "PCR" <pcrrcp@netzero.net> wrote in news:OLHZBZiMIHA.5904
|> @TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl:
|>
|>> ms wrote:
|>>| I had a previous recent thread relating to the problem: "Save
|>>| password in DUN".
|>>
|>> I have never set up a DUN, but occasionally have fiddled with the
|>> one NetZero has set up for me. I'm thinking your problem may lie
|>> somewhere else, but check your DUN settings, anyhow, against this
|>> site...
|>>
|>>
http://www.modemsite.com/56k/connectoid.asp
|>>
|>> ..., which, to me, sounds as good as any (but I never set one up).
|>>
|> Thanks, PCR, as always, very helpful. Good data there for modem
|> setup.
|>
|>>| I have used this desktop machine for about 6 months, an AV check
|>>| showed nothing. The machine has been otherwise normal. Data in
|>>| files is edited, saved, retained normally. Scandisk shows a normal
|>>| hard disk.
|>>
|>> That is all very good.
|>>
|>>| I can dial up, but when I run my browser, at every one of my usual
|>>| bookmarked sites, get "Server Not Found".
|>>
|>> I was getting an error similar to that once, & the cure was in the
|>> Properties of the server...
|>>
|>> "OE, R-Clk server (such as msnews.microsoft.com), Properties, Server
|>> tab"
|>>
|>> That is where you need to enter mail.copper.net-- in the Account
|>> Name field. (HOWEVER, if you have avast! virus scanner & have
|>> turned on the Internet Mail Provider, there will be a number sign
|>> (#) preceeding it... #mail.copper.net.)
|>>
|>> To get the account in the first place...
|>> "OE, Tools menu, Accounts, News tab, Add button, News"
|>>
|>> (But I'm not really the expert in these things, & I prefer clicking
|>> an URL, such as...
|>>
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
|>> ..., which does everything except avast's part.)
|>>
|>
|> I will go through that website, redo the steps.
|
| Good news, that site had one item that made the difference. Buried in
| Modem Properties, the comment that normally in Extra there is no INIT
| string. This machine had MD or MU (hard to see), I deleted it, and did
| one other thing. I checked Use this Script, entered the domain address
| there, it persisted, rebooted, dialup, now can hear the modem and now
| can browse normally.
Glad to hear that! I have nothing in the Extra Settings box, myself, of
the Modem Properties. (Once, I did put something in there to see extra
lines in the modem log I think, but that is gone now.) As far as using a
script, there seems to be something like that in my ISP Properties. I
doubt I use one-- but, if it has cured your situation, that's just fine.
| So the INIT string and the domain not persisting were the issues. The
| normal location to put the domain name, it still does not persist,
| but I have a working unit again. Be thankful for small favors.
Yea. I guess you are OK now. I'm glad to see you worked it out from that
site & whatever other fiddling. (I don't know that this NetZero
connectoid of mine involves a domain at all or even what a domain is.
And I'm not sure I want to!)
|>
|> In TCP/IP Properties/Advanced, one item was checked, not seen before:
|> Allow binding to ATM, no value was indicated. Since this problem is
|> unusual to me, and that is an unknown setting, don't know it's
|> effect.
I see that too, just like you report, at...
"Control Panel, Network, Configuration tab, highlight TCP/IP, Properties
button, click OK to dreadful warning, Advanced tab"
It's just as you say there. "Allow binding to ATM" shows up in the
Property window, & "No" is selected in the Value window. Let it be, I
guess, especially as things are working again.
|> BTW, on a different computer about 6 months ago, with dark lines in
|> the display, you advised uninstall/reinstall the video drivers in
|> Safe Mode, will be doing that shortly.
|>
| Maybe I should repost that problem, to take a fresh look at it?
Yes, repost it.
| Thanks again for your help.
You are welcome.
| ms
|
|>>| In Control Panel/Internet Connections, Properties, the DUN
|>>| icon, in domain, I had originally set it correctly, now it shows
|>>| mail.copper.ne :it is supposed to be net. I reentered the correct
|>>| mail.copper.net, closed that screen. Reopened the Properties
|>>| screen, again it reads: mail.copper.ne. Each time this happens,
|>>| the "t" is omitted in "net".
|>>|
|>>| Setting data into a standard window, it is not completely
|>>| retained. I have never before seen this in various W98SE machines.
|>>|
|>>| Advice?
|>>|
|>>| ms
--
Thanks or Good Luck,
There may be humor in this post, and,
Naturally, you will not sue,
Should things get worse after this,
PCR
pcrrcp@netzero.net