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I have an old 166Mhz Gateway tower. Recently a storm gave us a power surge
strong enough to knock out some rheostats,  a garage door opener, and the
modem on the computer. After the storm the modem would pick up the line to
dial out but would not acknowledge the tone and hang up. Since then I have
replaced the dead one with two others which have presented me with a new
problem. The modem dials out and connects and everything seems fine.
However, Internet Explorer can't download any pages. Any pages I try to
access immediately give me an error as if it can't see the connection. I
have checked my connection settings under Internet options, I have also
re-installed Explorer from scratch. The original modem was in an ISA slot.
The new one(s) are PCI. Is it possible that the surge killed something on
the board? Everything else works fine. Any suggestion?

Thanks in advance,

Mark Andrich