Jerry,
Before I moved and had to go back to dialup, I had a dual boot with Win98 and
Win 2000 and was using @Home cable internet service. I never had a problem
at all having it work on both OS's. I actually had the same as you..I had
win98 first, then set up a dual boot with Win2k. I think the only thing I
did was call their tech support and get them to walk me through setting up
the IP address settings since I had never used win2k before. After I
finished with them on that, all worked just fine.
Does your internet connection work with win98? Is it just win2k that isn't
working? If so, check your IP address settings.
Its hard to believe their tech support can't help. There shouldn't be any
complications using a dual boot..you are running one OS at a time...there is
no intertwining of any sort that would be a problem why they can't ever get a
dual boot to work. Their statement is in fact wrong, cause mine worked just
fine. Ask for a supervisor, if that doesn't work, have them send someone out.
Neal Collins
A+
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> Hi all -
>
> I have @home cable Internet service and have been pleased overall. But,
> now they can't help me.
>
> I have been operating with Win 98 and decided to migrate to Windows 2000
> Professional. I partitioned my hard drive and installed 2000 on the second
> partition as a dual boot. All went well until I tried to connect to the
> Internet. I couldn't! A call to @home support and trying different things,
> including being escalated to a Level 2 technician, resulted in a suggestion
> to reinstall 2000. Since I hadn't installed any other programs I figured I
> had nothing, except time, to loose. I cleaned the partition, reinstalled,
> and still no connect. A second call and a second escalation. This time the
> tech said "@home doesn't support dual boot and they have never been able to
> get one to work."
>
> Has anyone out there had any luck with a Win 98/2000 dual boot on a cable
> service? Any tips?
>
> TIA!
>
> Jerry
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> PS - One of the reasons I am trying this is suddenly my fonts in Win 98 are
> blurry. I've tried a new video card, drivers and monitor to no avail. Any
> thoughts?
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