My windows box is coughing up blood

Undertoad · 08-27-2002, 10:39 AM

Sorry if I haven't gotten back to some folks... my windows box decided to start its death march.

It started a few days ago when suddenly it would scandisk every reboot. No matter that it had been shut down normally.

Yesterday night I installed Mozilla 1.1 and suddenly the system quit communicating via TCP/IP with the outside world. The system can talk netbios to other MS machines on the network. The system can ping its own network address and localhost. It can't ping other systems, and other systems can't ping it.

Deinstalling and reinstalling the protocol does nothing. All the properties are correct. Deinstalling Mozilla does nothing. I really doubt that it's Mozilla that created the problem; what could it have done? I think it exposed a problem of some sort, but where to go at this point?

This beast has been a win98 upgraded to WinME (sorry), and had remained such for the purposes of gaming, but I think I may have to bite the bullet here and install Win2K fresh on a fresh disk and move stuff over. I remain somewhat ignorant of Win issues, do you think I'll be able to run most of my old applications if I do this?

08-27-2002, 10:39 AM	#1
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	My windows box is coughing up blood Sorry if I haven't gotten back to some folks... my windows box decided to start its death march. It started a few days ago when suddenly it would scandisk every reboot. No matter that it had been shut down normally. Yesterday night I installed Mozilla 1.1 and suddenly the system quit communicating via TCP/IP with the outside world. The system can talk netbios to other MS machines on the network. The system can ping its own network address and localhost. It can't ping other systems, and other systems can't ping it. Deinstalling and reinstalling the protocol does nothing. All the properties are correct. Deinstalling Mozilla does nothing. I really doubt that it's Mozilla that created the problem; what could it have done? I think it exposed a problem of some sort, but where to go at this point? This beast has been a win98 upgraded to WinME (sorry), and had remained such for the purposes of gaming, but I think I may have to bite the bullet here and install Win2K fresh on a fresh disk and move stuff over. I remain somewhat ignorant of Win issues, do you think I'll be able to run most of my old applications if I do this?

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