Computer Issues

[sereneone4u]

As the title states, I am having computer issues.

My computer will stop allowing me online, a big ole X over my internet connection in the lower right corner of my computer.

It will then have where I can click on "diagnose" problem and it says something about my drivers???

I updated them like they said and I am still having issues.

Is it something serious? I use my computer my online classes so it is important I have one.

 

[operaBaritone]

If you could do the following it'd be easier for us to diagnose the problem

Push the print screen button on your computer when you have the problem and can see all the problematic elements. Then push control-V in something like MS Paint, then attach the picture so we can see what the problem is.

Off hand there are two possible issues.
1) if it's a laptop:
Look for a switch on the computer or a button that looks like a radio tower, you may have accidentally switched off your wireless.
2) Are you in Windows or Mac?
In any event, try clicking on the X'd out wireless icon, it should give you a set of connections you can connect to. It may just not be automatically using one of them.

Other issues will be harder to diagnose, but still possible perhaps...

 

[TheRealFATANG]

Sounds like a PC and broadband (based on the icon and the constant connection).


This is not intended to be condescending, but years in tech support taught me to ask: "Is everything plugged in correctly?"

Try a right click on the x-ed out icon. Go to properties. Make sure you are using the correct network adapter.

Under network connections in control panel (Start>Setting>Control Panel), you can right click your Internet connection, there is an option to "repair," sometime this works, sometimes windows miffs it up even more.

Reset your broadband modem. Turn it off, then turn it back on a few minutes later.

 

[sereneone4u]

Thank you both for your responses.

The cable guy is coming out tomorrow, or I guess I should say today to switch out my modem because they say it is the problem...

 

[modbus]

Thank you both for your responses.

The cable guy is coming out tomorrow, or I guess I should say today to switch out my modem because they say it is the problem...

Not that it really matters but it is actually a router that they are switiching out. Modems are legacy devices (analog) while your cable "modem" is actually digital.... they just keep calling them modems cause we are creatures of habit....

 

[mythtrav16]

Not that it really matters but it is actually a router that they are switiching out. Modems are legacy devices (analog) while your cable "modem" is actually digital.... they just keep calling them modems cause we are creatures of habit....

Really? I didn't know that...
Learn something new every day...

 

[tortuou5]

my mom's laptop just had a similar problem. the wireless connection had been working fine but one day it just decided to stop working anymore.

so i re-installed vista on the laptop, and threw a linux (fedora) on it while i'm at it (dual booting). everything works like a charm on fedora as i predicted, which means there's no problem with the hardware. i didn't even bother with setting things up on vista again.

my conclusion is that the driver on vista just decided to stop working anymore for no reason at all. she's new to computers anyway so i'm just gonna teach her using linux.

 

[TheRealFATANG]

Not that it really matters but it is actually a router that they are switiching out. Modems are legacy devices (analog) while your cable "modem" is actually digital.... they just keep calling them modems cause we are creatures of habit....

Just to split hairs:

Not really. A modem is short for modulator-demodulator, digital or not, whereas a router is for splitting a single connection, like a backwards funnel.

i.e. = a cell phone is still a telephone

So a modem, cable, dsl, or dial-up, is still modulating and demodulating a form of information, even if it is a modem/router combo, like most cable and dsl.

 

[timothy1238]

Push the print screen button on your computer when you have the problem and can see all the problematic elements. Then push control-V in something like MS Paint, then attach the picture so we can see what the problem is.
1) if it's a laptop:
Look for a switch on the computer or a button that looks like a radio tower, you may have accidentally switched off your wireless.
2) Are you in Windows or Mac?
In any event, try clicking on the X'd out wireless icon, it should give you a set of connections you can connect to. It may just not be automatically using one of them.
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