98 Can't see any other Operating systems

Welcome to the forum,

I have a couple extra questions for you and I also need a little clarification on some other things:

1)How many computers do you have on your home network all together?

2)Are you running a peer-t-peer? or NT as the server?

3)What type of network connections do you have?(10,10/100,Phone-line,Wireless)

4)What OS is the computer with the problem running, and do the other computers on your network still see each other minus the problem computer? (Note if your running XP on either a working or nonworking computer in your network let me know if its Pro or Home)

Let me know about the things above and we'll see if we can figure this out.

Fist off.. XP is a real bugger when it comes to networking.. Sometimes it is perfect, sometimes it suxxors 0.o It all simply depends on what kind of a hardware setup you have I suppose. Anyways I think this will fix your networking problems just do this.

Remove all protocols from your computers. Restart them. Go into network properties and add TCP/IP, then go to properties for the TCP/IP you just added. In the IP Address tab, click the radio button that says "Specify IP Address" and add this IP Address:
IP Address: 192.168.0.1
Subnet Mask 255.255.255.0
Click ok, now your back to network configuration, now add an additional TCP/IP protocol, you dont need to change the configuration on this one. Ok now your network config should look like this:

Network Card (Whatever brand blah blah)
TCP/IP Protocol
TCP/IP Protocol
File and Print Sharing

Alright good, now you just go to the additional computers and do the same thing, only difference is when you add the IP address to the first TCP/IP you need to change it a little for each computer like so:

CPU#1 - 192.168.0.1
CPU#2 - 192.168.0.2
CPU#3 - 192.168.0.3

Etc...., Etc..., Etc.... Each computer should have its own IP Address now. Restart all computers, for some reason it may take a minute or two for your computer to startup, perhaps we confused it, gbut your network should work great now. You should be able to see all computers with no hitches.