Are you sure about 1-5 GIGA-bytes (not MEGA-bytes)? If so, that is a huge amount of data and FTP is probably a weak solution. Burning CD's is definitely preferred I think.

If it is Mega-bytes,...

Most any FTP program should be able to solve your problem. You are right about email on size limits. However, your bigest limit is the dial-up.
The smallest limits on email is usually 2 Mb. I...

Yup. At the DOS prompt I can ping an IP address (216.238.39.99 for example - Google) but when I ping a domain name (www.google.com) it cannot find anything.

The other computers have the DNS set to...

I had to replace a motherboard in my home machine and now cannot get DNS to function correctly. I have installed all the current drivers for the new motherboard.

Everything is working great...

Thanks again Cat. I had muddled through before I read your post. Basically, I went into safe mode and removed every hardware driver I could find.

Everything is working great except the LAN. ...

Thanks for the feedback Cat. My system has W2k so I am not really concerned about authentication issues as with XP.

It just seems to me that there are some drivers specific to the olf MB that...

I am replacing a Gigabyte mb with one by MSI. Seems like the last time I did this I had to boot in safe mode and edit the registry to remove some lines related to hardware drivers. Such a long time...

I like mwave.com. Let them assemble it ($9.00) and you get a longer warranty.

You probably have an add-on (like real.com) that is having trouble responding. Uninstall/reinstall of that program might help.

Check your screen color resolution first. Make sure it is set to at least 256 colors. If no success, I suggest you remove and reinstall your video driver.

You may want to reset the view options...

Has anyone ever encounterd this before?

One of my computers will not power up. The CPU fan will "wiggle" when the power comes on but nothing else.

It seemed like it was definitely a power...