AEN007 Posted April 29, 2008 Share Posted April 29, 2008 29Apr2008Greetings.Maybe joining/posting here at MSFNwill find the/a solution to this issue.At this time I can no longer bind IPX/SPXto any adapters. I can bind/remove/rebindTCP/IP & other Protocols but not IPX/SPX ... not at all.Two & half years ago I decided to reformatthe 4gb HDD in the Toshiba & cleanly reinstall WinME.I have a WinME upgrade CD & the Win98 CDthat came with the Toshiba. At first I had no troublebinding IPX/SPX after the clean reinstall.Unfortunately I did not have Drive Image XMLlike I do now; otherwise I could have restoreda fully-functioning back up image of the c:\ partition.Until this IPX/SPX binding problem WinMEon the Toshiba was functioning better then ever.I have a Toshiba 4005cds with two PCMCIA slots.WinME shows a separate adapter for the bottom &the top slot for the WLAN & the Surecom ethernet card.WinME shows only one adapter for the Netgearehternet card whether I use the top or bottom slot.I cannot now bind IPX/SPX to the WLAN cardtop slot but previously did for the WLAN bottom slot.Because I can use both an ethernet & the WLAN cardwhen the WLAN card is in the bottom slot,this gives me operability. Adapters alreadywith IPX/SPX function fine. I cannot bind IPX/SPXto the Surecom ethernet card in the bottom slot.I cannot bind IPX/SPX to my new USB»Ethernetadapter under WinME but have on my XP laptops.I cannot bind IPX/SPX to my new USB»USBadapter/cable under WinME but have on my XP laptops.It seems I cannot use WinME TCP/IP alonewithout IPX/SPX for my LAN. I have three laptops. I started using IPX/SPX for my LAN(after acquiring my 2nd laptop) becauseTCP/IP for LAN conflicted with the TCP/IPfor internet through WLAN. I do not need IPX/SPXfor internet connections. I now use IPX/SPXfor LAN - either ethernet or WLAN.This is not a new problem for me.About a year after the WinME reinstallI could no longer (re)bind IPX/SPX to my threePCMCIA cards (2 ethernet & 1 WLAN).Now (as then) after I double click IPX/SPX,WinME returns me to the ADD/CANCEL popupwithout binding IPX/SPX. Somehow, I reallyhave no idea now how, I did something & was able to bind IPX/SPX to the PCMCIA cards.I remember choosing HAVE DISK and tryingdifferent .inf files. That has not worked for me now.In any case, what is going on here?More importantly, what can I do to restorethe functionality to WinME to bind IPX/SPX to adapters?I tried a WinME repair install by running setupin c:\win\options\install, but that did not restorethe IPX/SPX functionality. I suppose/hope a cleanreinstall would restore IPX/SPX binding functionality,but I hope to find some other, less destructive solution.The problem is NOT that IPX/SPX is not availableas an option under Protocols. I tried the Microsoftfix of extracting/restoring inf files to c:\win\inf to no avail.Somewhere along the line something has happened.I don't know what & I don't know what I need to do(other than maybe another clean WinME reinstall)to restore IPX/SPX binding functionality.Any insights appreciated.Thank you.Regards,AENÆ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glocK_94 Posted April 29, 2008 Share Posted April 29, 2008 Actually, binding IPX/SPX to local network and TCP/IP to internet is a good idea in term of security so you should keep this configuration.Be sure you installed NETBIOS support for IPX/SPX and unlink NETBIOS from all TCP/IP protocols and devices.About your problem... - maybe deleting and reinstalling IPX/SPX? And remember, binding can be done from both card properties and protocol properties.- maybe before reinstalling Windows, you could try to update to SP2 (if not done yet) and then desinstall / reinstall completely your network devices?These are only simple suggestions that will only be usefull if you haven't tried them yet. Otherwise, I'm out of ideas right now.good luck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AEN007 Posted May 11, 2008 Author Share Posted May 11, 2008 11May2008Greetings.I'm still hoping for the miracleof successfully resolving this issue.Being able to once again bind IPX/SPX to adapters(without having to cleanly reinstall WinME)would successfully resolve this issue.I do not even know yet if cleanly reinstalling WinMEwould restore this functionality.I presume it would. It should.The 4gb HDD that came with the Toshibathat has WinME is now superfluousbecause I now have WinME runningin the Toshiba on the 40gb HDDthat was originally in my ThinkPad with XP.The ThinkPad now has a 250gb HDD ...4gb HDD ... 10 years ago that was HUGE ...My WinME has all MS updates ...of which there are no more ...I certainly cannot un/re installany adapters that now have IPX/SPX ...not unless I'm ready with a newimage file of the WinME c:\ partitionto reinstall afterwards ...In any case any insights appreciated.Thank you.Regards,AENÆ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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