Browser Problems

[sevenal]

A cust has a prob .
I added 256 pc100 to an old HP Celeron 700
It booted fine with the old 64meg and the new 256 ram
The HDD was badly fragmented so he spent the day waiting while the defrag ran.
The system runs fine,answers quickly to load apps or programs it was stable for hours while defrag ran.
it has 92% free resources free

When online the IE runs fine for 10 to 15 min.then looses the ip and will not find the next link or new web page.
So I'm thinking try another browser
I d/l and installed FireFox form Mozilla
It did the same thing ,so did Netscape.
I boot the pc and the Browser works again for about 15 min.
I disabled the phone modem so the NIC is it's only option.
What do ya think? Perhaps a bad NIC?

The cable modem is a Motorola Sufrboard and all the lights are on showing activity and otherwise the pc runs fine.

[sevenal]

Anyone?

[osprey4]

Are you losing connection to the modem or does it remain connected to the modem but can't get any futher? The address of the modem should be http://192.168.100.1

[HeddaLora]

For defragging, I'd go with Diskeeper defragmenter over the built-in. Taking all day is ridiculous.

About the problem losing internet connectivity, I'd check hardware -- NIC card, phone line, etc. I don't think it would be software-related (although I suppose anything is possible). But I'd check the hardware.

Hedda Lora

[butch81385]

check cable and nic... you should be able to just toss in a new nic and/or replace the cable... like osprey said, check to see if you are even getting out of your computer first though

[sevenal]

Ya my thoughts too.
I loaned him a real peice O junk Win 98 box of mine and all is well.
It ran for 2 days np
I changed the nic and cat5 in his and it ran 5 min and quit.
I can boot the Cable modem delete the protocol
add the protocol back reboot pc, set ip in winipcfg and it locks to an IP addy ,runs a little while then loses the ip again.
I add 256 of ram could the pc be balking at the new ram.
HE WAS HAVING ALL KINDS OF PROBLEMS BEFORE I MESSED WITH THE PC. "lol"
I did get the defrag to complete .
But am still at an impass!

[Sixpac_XP]

Have you run an anti-spyware remover on the system such as AD-aware or Spybot?

[sevenal]

yep sure did
Think that did something?
I removed it when i saw the ip problem