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Billforce
10-13-2003, 08:35 PM
A customer brought me one of three PC's he has in his office on a lan, cable modem. They are all running Win98se and are all running satisfactorily. Only one of the three will not open a web page from the NY Board of Trade. All three will open any other page on the web...two of them open it O.K. I formatted the HD, reloaded Win98SE fresh, updated to IE6 and loaded Java. The PC still will not open the page...I get a message telling me I need a certificate. I reset all of the security settings, no change. There are links to the main web page and it opens them O.K.?????
The cust. tells me it opened at one time before a new Realtek nic was installed a few weeks ago, since then it won't work. I have queried the ISP, the web page owners but no help. Reconfigured all of the network settings, TCIP etc. Any ideas???

I've done everything but whistle Dixie.
Rob R.
10-13-2003, 09:32 PM
I would try whistling dixie then ;)

Seriously have you gone to IE and tools/internet options/content/certificates/ and from there you can clear SSL cache and then head into advanced and see if anything doesn't look right.
NDD
10-13-2003, 09:37 PM
Maybe page allows only two sessions from same IP ?
Billforce
10-13-2003, 11:01 PM
Originally posted by ND
Maybe page allows only two sessions from same IP ?

Good thought there O'Yellow one but I can shut off the other PC's and it still won't open.
BipolarBill
10-14-2003, 12:11 AM
Have you looked at the HOSTS file on the suspect PC?
Billforce
10-14-2003, 01:42 AM
Originally posted by Rob R.
I would try whistling dixie then ;)

Seriously have you gone to IE and tools/internet options/content/certificates/ and from there you can clear SSL cache and then head into advanced and see if anything doesn't look right.


SSL?????? elaborate, I don't see SSL.
NDD
10-14-2003, 06:01 AM
Originally posted by Billforce
... reloaded Win98SE fresh, updated to IE6 ...
... tells me it opened at one time before a new Realtek nic was installed a few weeks ago...
IE6 might cause similar problems with any 9x OS. Haven't paid attention to this last night :)
Something to do with MAC adress and drivers ? Tried another NIC/different drivers ?
Billforce
10-14-2003, 07:30 PM
I hear ya ND but it wouldn't open the page right after a clean install of Win98SE BEFORE I installed IE6...I'm going to change the nic tomorrow, hope that's it.
NDD
10-14-2003, 09:31 PM
Yeah, kinda hoped you tried it before updating to IE6 :)
NIC seems to be the only thing that changed, you've got no place to go from here :confused:
Benssax
10-14-2003, 10:23 PM
Originally posted by Billforce



SSL?????? elaborate, I don't see SSL.

Win98 may not have that option. Windows Xp has it thogh
Rob R.
10-15-2003, 08:46 AM
Secure Socket Layer cache, for some reason I thought you were on XP with IE6 :confused:
Baddog
10-15-2003, 09:52 AM
Originally posted by BipolarBill
Have you looked at the HOSTS file on the suspect PC?
Yeh, the host file blocked me from Yahoo one time, took me awhile to figure that one out.:eek:
Billforce
10-15-2003, 11:41 AM
Be more specific, DLLHost or what HOST file?

Common, I feel like the Cubs in the 8th inning)-|
BipolarBill
10-15-2003, 11:51 AM
The file is simply called HOSTS. You can open it with any text editor. Copy the contents and paste here.
Ammok
10-15-2003, 03:28 PM
It must be the unique serial number/address contained in the NIC. Swop one from any of the two good machines and see if they will work the website from the "suspect" one.

Swapping for a new NIC may not do any good as it will have another "new" NIC # and may not be recognised either.

If I swap NIC's my cable co can automatically block me out until Ire-register with the new nic, swap back and the same thing happens. Only prob you have is figuring out to get the web site to accept the new card.?