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It could be that the surge damaged the motherboard. Get a surge-protected
plug-strip with a phone-scoket protector.

Mark Andrich <Macabre@toast.net> wrote in message
news:38b5958f@news.toast.net...
>
> 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
>
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