[MelodyL]

Oh my goodness, OVER 3 WEEKS WITHOUT THIS COMPUTER.

We just got it tonight. I am posting this in the hopes that it still comes alive tomorow. But I had to share what happened.

It seems that we needed a new mother board (whatever the heck a mother board is). And this comes from China!! I don't know why I thought this would take 3 days but now I know better).

We got more ram also.

Oh, and this is funny. It worked just fine in the computer place. He let us go online, every thing worked fine. We leave the place, I tell Alan: "Wait until I get home, STUFF HAPPENS WHEN YOU BRING THINGS HOME!!"

I re-hook everything up, I bring up the firefox browser and it won't let me go anywhere. I can't connect to the internet.

I then bring up the Internet Explorer Browser and I get the same thing.Then a little window pops up asking me if I want to run a diagnostic on connectivity. I look at Alan and I said "go for it, what do we have to lose"

So I press continue, and it does it's thing, and all of a sudden I get the message

"WE HAVE RESTORED YOUR CONNECTIVITY".

And I was connected.

???????????????????????lol lol lol lol

And I connected my printer, but the screen brought me to the "Connect a printer" thingee, and I inserted the printer cd when it prompted me to do so, but it took so long and it was "searching" or something like that. So I just clicked on Cancel.

Now this is the same printer I had before.

What did I do wrong?

I'll figure it out but if I missed a step I'd like to know it.

Anyway, I really missed all of you.

BUT I GOT MORE RAM SO NOW I'M ZOOMING!!! lol lol

Meloldy

[Bobbi]

What platform or operating system is your computer? (examples: XP, VISTA, Windows 7?)

I mean the one with the browser "issues," Melody?

I'm having some myself, and mine are related to the diff. between using a shortcut to open up the browser and also whether the browser is 64- or 32-bit, user privileges, etc., and... Windows 7.

Took me a bit of time to "negotiate" the error on mine, and it's still a bit annoying, only I'd rather the error appear briefly and having a fully functional printer.

Are you using a shortcut or the actual app. to open the browser(s)?

P.S.: My printer was a bear to get working again (new computer); I had to download a new driver for Windows 7; still, after that, it depends on the browser's bit whether I can print from the Net. It was trial and error to get the "good" version of MS IE 8 to recognize and work with the printer (from the HD and (x86) instead of the reg. programs folder.

[MelodyL]

Originally Posted by Bobbi

What platform or operating system is your computer? (examples: XP, VISTA, Windows 7?)

I mean the one with the browser "issues," Melody?

I'm having some myself, and mine are related to the diff. between using a shortcut to open up the browser and also whether the browser is 64- or 32-bit, user privileges, etc., and... Windows 7.

Took me a bit of time to "negotiate" the error on mine, and it's still a bit annoying, only I'd rather the error appear briefly and having a fully functional printer.

Are you using a shortcut or the actual app. to open the browser(s)?

P.S.: My printer was a bear to get working again (new computer); I had to download a new driver for Windows 7; still, after that, it depends on the browser's bit whether I can print from the Net. It was trial and error to get the "good" version of MS IE 8 to recognize and work with the printer (from the HD and (x86) instead of the reg. programs folder.

I have a 64 bit, and it has Windows XP. Everything works just fine now. I had Verizon install my Internet Security Suite, and the guy even installed my printer software. He told me to print a test page, and the back of my printer fell off. I never laughed so hard. I popped it back in and told the guy, "never mind", the printer is connected, I'll worry about it later.

Then I went to watch 24 with my husband.

So I am again, back in COMPUTER LAND.

lol

Melody
P.S. to go online, I go to my desktop and click on the Mozilla icon

[Bobbi]

Sounds to me, and I could be wrong, that you may be encountering probs. similar to mine, Melody: compatibility between computer (its "brain" or capabilities) and applications.

I'm glad everything's working for you now; I know how frustrating it was for me, especially knowing all is installed and connected properly. (I did the "test" print, too, and still, darn printer would not do a thing until I opted for a diff. bit browser).

Whatta pain, huh?

[mrsD]

We had a old Lexmark printer (that worked just fine) but it won't work with Win 7. And there is no driver for it on the net anymore. So it is being retired. ( I won't let hubby get rid of it yet since it will work with our XP refurbished laptop I think. Our old HP scanner/printer that we retired is compatible so it is now working with the new Win7 laptop.

I know how you are feeling, as getting our laptop fixed and running the new one has been a huge hassle for us! Hubby just ran his restore discs. We had to use DVD's for the extra space.

You might want to run system restore discs if you don't have them. If your harddrive goes, you'll need them for the system restore.
(I thought back up harddrives saved everything..and that was a huge mistake for us).

Welcome back!

[MelodyL]

Originally Posted by mrsD

We had a old Lexmark printer (that worked just fine) but it won't work with Win 7. And there is no driver for it on the net anymore. So it is being retired. ( I won't let hubby get rid of it yet since it will work with our XP refurbished laptop I think. Our old HP scanner/printer that we retired is compatible so it is now working with the new Win7 laptop.

I know how you are feeling, as getting our laptop fixed and running the new one has been a huge hassle for us! Hubby just ran his restore discs. We had to use DVD's for the extra space.

You might want to run system restore discs if you don't have them. If your harddrive goes, you'll need them for the system restore.
(I thought back up harddrives saved everything..and that was a huge mistake for us).

Welcome back!

Everything works FINE!!! I had no ink in the black printer cartridge
lol
It accepted a command print. I just turned on and then off (the printer I mean). I typed something in wordpad, and I clicked on the print option, and the printer came on, but just started shooting out plain paper. (so I know the printer is connected properly). Then I re-set it one more time, I typed something, I printed it out, The machine acted correctly, but the page came out blank. that's when I checked the printer cardridge.
Okay, one problem solved.

And I really hope I get to come back for the next problem because it's a doozy.

This morning, I get up, walk over to the computer, look down at the modem and the last light (which should be green), is RED. The internet light I mean.

Now I have to tell you that for the last 22 or so days (while the computer was in the shop), I never unplugged or turned off the modem. It still did the 3 green light thing. I simply thought that when I got the computer back, I'd simply plug in the ethernet cable in the back of the computer and it would be connected once again to the modem.

Last night, when I first tried to go online, (read my first post), I got the "error" message using Internet Explorer, so I did the diagnostic thing as I was prompted to do and everything was just fine.

I went to all my favorite sites, I downloaded my anti-spyware thing (which I have been using for 2 years) and I have a lifetime thing. I just had to put in my registration codes. That worked fine. The whole thing worked fine. I shut the computer off and went to bed.

This morning, as I just said, I walked over and saw the red light. I said "hmm, let's do the diagnostic thing once again.

this time I got a notification that it's my modem/router (I don't have a router, just a dsl modem). It prompted me to turn it off for 3 minutes, check everything and turn it back on.

I did as prompted to do, and it took a while but as you can see, I am obviously connected to the internet, I have 4 green lights on my modem, and I'm here on neurotalks.

so what the heck is going on? Is it the fact that I had the modem still going for over 3 weeks, even though it had no computer attached to it?

Do I need to get a new modem? I mean, it's working fine now, (and I don't understand exactly why), but it's getting a signal, and the green lights are there so how come this is happening?

Good Lord, if I have to tell Alan that one more thing is wrong, the guy is going to go nuts. 21 days and no computer, and no email??? He was in withdrawal.

lol

Melody

UPDATE, PLEASE READ!!!! As I was hitting the option to send this message, I lost the connection again. No green light. I reduced this browser, opened up Internet Explorer again, and did the diagnostic thing. It restored my connectivity and I knew I could just bring up this page and hit send. It worked.

So what is essentially happening is that there is a glitch in my modem, that it works when it feels like working, and in a blink of an eye, it loses the connection.

Any ideas? Has this ever happened to anyone? If I call Verizon, will they replace the modem or can I go to the store, and buy one myself? I am clueless about modems.

Is there a special one I have to get because I have a HP Pavillion Media center? I really don't know anything about modems.

Thanks much
I just hope I get to post again.

lol, Melody