TCP/IP network transport is not installed

I'm getting the following message on bootup:

TCP/IP network transport is not installed

Obviously, I now have no internet connection on that
machine now and since it is my main email computer, I'm in
serious trouble. How can fix this? I have tried
reinstalling Win98SE but it crashes too on the reboot. I
thought I had deactivated Norton before but it pops up
that something is writing to the boot record as the update
is ready to reboot.

If I have to reformat, how can retrieve my messages etc
from Outlook Express? What files are they stored in, etc?
I don't think I can start it to export them and IE
certainly will not start.
David


David G

I would remove the nic and/or modem and network stuff...reboot

you should get no networking errors..... then reinstall

your EO files are *.dbx


"David G" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I'm getting the following message on bootup:
>
> TCP/IP network transport is not installed
>
> Obviously, I now have no internet connection on that
> machine now and since it is my main email computer, I'm in
> serious trouble. How can fix this? I have tried
> reinstalling Win98SE but it crashes too on the reboot. I
> thought I had deactivated Norton before but it pops up
> that something is writing to the boot record as the update
> is ready to reboot.
>
> If I have to reformat, how can retrieve my messages etc
> from Outlook Express? What files are they stored in, etc?
> I don't think I can start it to export them and IE
> certainly will not start.
> David

Thanks for the help but I have given up on fixing it and will just reformat
and reinstall, ok but you are saying remove the cards first . . . ok, will
do which should stop WIN from trying to install them before I get the
drivers in. Other aspects of the OS seem to have become unstable so I think
now is the time to reinstall. Haven't ever done that on this machine and it
is 4 years old.

"Haggis" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I would remove the nic and/or modem and network stuff...reboot
>
> you should get no networking errors..... then reinstall
>
> your EO files are *.dbx
>
>
> "David G" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:085f01c39cae$9cde4200$(E-Mail Removed)...
> > I'm getting the following message on bootup:
> >
> > TCP/IP network transport is not installed
> >
> > Obviously, I now have no internet connection on that
> > machine now and since it is my main email computer, I'm in
> > serious trouble. How can fix this? I have tried
> > reinstalling Win98SE but it crashes too on the reboot. I
> > thought I had deactivated Norton before but it pops up
> > that something is writing to the boot record as the update
> > is ready to reboot.
> >
> > If I have to reformat, how can retrieve my messages etc
> > from Outlook Express? What files are they stored in, etc?
> > I don't think I can start it to export them and IE
> > certainly will not start.
> > David
>
>