Webpage Cannot Be Displayed, Fresh XP 32-Bit Install

[SALEEN961]

Hello, I'm having an issue with a new WinXP SP3 32-bit install. While I can connect to a select few websites most will never load and I instead get a "webpage cannot be displayed" message. I tried to find a solution online but after trying several of them I was unsuccessful in finding one that worked for me. Many of the solutions seemed to involve changing the TCP/IPv4 settings but my machine only lists TCP/IPv6 and TCP/IP with no option to install TCP/IPv4.

 

I'm not really sure what to do at this point and I'm hoping someone can offer me some good advice, any help is greatly appreciated.

[SALEEN961]

Just now, Alexsolo said:

Is it connected to the internet? Are there drivers installed? Wifi or ethernet?

Yes all the appropriate drivers are installed, the Asus PCE-N13 wireless network adapter is connected to the network, and it is connected to the internet.

[Enderman]

Maybe it's an issue with the fact that your ISP is only providing you ipv6 and windows xp is too old for that?

Why are you using an obsolete OS?

 

[Enderman]

3 minutes ago, WikiForce said:

IPv6 can be installed on XP.
https://www.ghacks.net/2011/02/06/how-to-enable-ipv6-on-windows-xp/

If I understood correctly, his issue is that there is ipv6 but no ipv4 on the computer.

[-rascal-]

I actually ran into a similar issue with one of my old PCs that is running Windows Vista.

Re-installed the OS, and web pages wouldn't load properly.

Web browser was too old, and unsupported.

[SALEEN961]

8 minutes ago, Enderman said:

Maybe it's an issue with the fact that your ISP is only providing you ipv6 and windows xp is too old for that?

Why are you using an obsolete OS?

I running XP on a retro box for old games that will not run on my main PC.

5 minutes ago, WikiForce said:

IPv6 can be installed on XP.
https://www.ghacks.net/2011/02/06/how-to-enable-ipv6-on-windows-xp/

I was able to get IPv6 installed but it didn't solve my issue.

[SALEEN961]

11 minutes ago, -rascal- said:

I actually ran into a similar issue with one of my old PCs that is running Windows Vista.

Re-installed the OS, and web pages wouldn't load properly.

Web browser was too old, and unsupported.

Since this retro PC exists for the sole purpose of running old software smoothly I didn't really consider the internet browser being too old to get along with the modern internet. It took me a while to find an actual download for an old version of firefox, but sure enough that seems to have worked, thank you for pointing me in the right direction.

 

Can you tell this is my first retro box lol

[-rascal-]

12 minutes ago, SALEEN961 said:

Since this retro PC exists for the sole purpose of running old software smoothly I didn't really consider the internet browser being too old to get along with the modern internet. It took me a while to find an actual download for an old version of firefox, but sure enough that seems to have worked, thank you for pointing me in the right direction.

 

Can you tell this is my first retro box lol

 

Happy to hear you got things working!

 

After I found out what the cause of the issue was, I never resolved it ... computer still sitting at the corner of the room...

I was literally not able to use the outdated Internet Explorer to download FireFox or Google Chrome.

 

What version of FireFox did you end up downloading...and how did you get it onto your XP machine?

[SALEEN961]

7 minutes ago, -rascal- said:

 

Happy to hear you got things working!

 

After I found out what the cause of the issue was, I never resolved it ... computer still sitting at the corner of the room...

I was literally not able to use the outdated Internet Explorer to download FireFox or Google Chrome.

 

What version of FireFox did you end up downloading...and how did you get it onto your XP machine?

https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/43.0.1/win32/en-US/

I downloaded the full FireFox 43.0.1 setup file from the link above and moved it onto the XP machine with a flash drive.

 

The IE6 on my machine was also too outdated to download any new browser using that machine, even google.com wouldn't load, but I could get current news from MSN.com for some reason.