New to forum. I have several computers in my house online with my cable company as ISP, via a Belkin router. No problems getting online with any of the PC's, either hardwired or by wireless connection, except one PC which happens to be via an ethernet cable. Cannot get online at all either via internet explorer or by trying to log onto AOL--I am not sure if this is any internet explorer problem, since aol uses this as their browser, or something more intrinsic to the computer. I did a Norton virus scan, ad ware scan, checked my cable connections, ran a scan on the hard drive, checked the driver for the modem and all appears to be functioning but I cannot get online (needless to say, I am posting this from another PC). The only thing that seemed to work was running a system restore to a date about 10 days earlier; it got me back on line but a day or two later I was back into the same problem all over again. The unit in question is an HP pavilion a250y running Windows Xp. Anyone have any suggestions?
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Jump to PostI think first thing you should do is to check the network connection of the PC to the router.
Do Start->run->enter 'cmd' and hit 'OK'. Now you have the command prompt.
Enter: ping 'ip-adress of your router' and hit 'Enter'.
If you don't know the IP of …
Jump to Post1. Also at the DOS prompt, type the following command to verify that your computer's IP address, the gateway IP, DNS server IP, etc. are configured correctly.
Jump to PostDon't sweat the "newbie" thing; we''l get you sorted out.
Incidentally, I tried to ping google as per the first response and I did get four answers.
4 positive responses would be correct if your ping succeded. Was that when you pinged Google by using "
Jump to PostIt must be an Internet-Explorer problem. Could be a hijacker or something similar. Did you try Spybot aswell, or eScan?
Spybot => http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html
eScan => http://www.mwti.net/antivirus/free_utilities.asp
hijackthis! …
Jump to PostI have a weather bug program...
Um... the free versions of WeatherBug are adware. Depending on exactly which version you have, it may also have installed other programs of more-than-questionable reputation on your computer.
Arikay,
Could you answer a couple of my pervious questions in more detail please?:
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