This system has been online and working properly for approximately 2 years, problem started Thursday 2 December 1999 for no apparent reason. Not aware of any changes to the system. System: Pentium 233 w/128mg, 6g HD, CD, no sound, NIC; running Windows 95b. Peer on Windows 9x network w/6 other PC's and 2 network printers as well as being connected to ISP server on LAN (this PC is at the ISP location.) Problem: Originally appeared to be a hard drive problem as the system would hang when trying to run a particular application or trying to view certain folders with explorer. Problem would get worse if you did not wait for recovery by pressing Ctrl+Alt+Del and ending task. Also, Start button would hang. In safe mode all would run fine. I disabled network functions, reloaded Windows. All appeared to be working good, added Microsoft client back, still fine. Added TCP/IP and system started responding in the same manner as before. Replaced NIC (twice), system worked fine without TCP/IP but dies when loaded. After deleting all network files manually and removing references from the registry and reloading, it seemed that all was well even with TCP/IP loaded but was unable to browse the WEB. DNS nor the Gateway was not set in the TCP/IP properties, when these were added I could then surf but the machine started responding the same as before. If I remove the DNS settings I have access to the local network and the machine responds properly, but if I add the DNS settings back in order to access the WEB I am back to square one. What am I missing here?

can you ping the dns server?

sounds like alot of shit...the easy way would be to reinstall windows...make sure u delete the windows directory and program files directory ...but first check for a virus...get a clean updated virus scan boot disk and boot u're puter with the disk in u're disk drive and let it scan u're computer...if u're box is clean i recommend reinstalling