A friend of mine has a laptop that runs Vista.

Recently, they have become unable to get web pages to load on their
machine. They get a "connectivity error." I had them test a few other
things. They are not able to get pages via IE or Firefox, and are not able
to telnet anywhere.

However, they can PING other "foreign" systems fine, and they are able to
get updates via Windows update and (I think) Jave update.

They've tried the previous restore point, and it didn't help.

Any ideas??

Mike

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Re: Vista Internet Problems
By: MIKE POWELL to ALL on Wed Mar 31 2010 05:15 pm

A friend of mine has a laptop that runs Vista.

Recently, they have become unable to get web pages to load on their
machine. They get a "connectivity error." I had them test a few other things. They are not able to get pages via IE or Firefox, and are not able to telnet anywhere.

However, they can PING other "foreign" systems fine, and they are able to get updates via Windows update and (I think) Jave update.

They've tried the previous restore point, and it didn't help.

Any ideas??

Mike

Vista? on a laptop? thats just cruel. I have win 7 on my minilap.

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Re: Vista Internet Problems
By: Corey to MIKE POWELL on Thu Apr 01 2010 08:10 am

They've tried the previous restore point, and it didn't help.

Any ideas??

Switch to Linux?

-Rassilon...



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Re: Vista Internet Problems
By: Rassilon to Corey on Thu Apr 01 2010 10:56 pm

Re: Vista Internet Problems
By: Corey to MIKE POWELL on Thu Apr 01 2010 08:10 am

They've tried the previous restore point, and it didn't help.

Any ideas??

Switch to Linux?

-Rassilon...

The Citadel BBS - telnet://citadel.synchro.net (PORT 4000) - Sci-Fi / Fanta / Role Playing...

I did.
on my desktop. netbook runs win 7

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Re: Vista Internet Problems
By: MIKE POWELL to ALL on Wed Mar 31 2010 05:15 pm


If I understand your problem, they can't pull up websites by URL but can ping IP's on the internet? If that's the case, it very much sounds like a problem with DNS resolution.

Check to make sure it has DNS servers assigned from whatever is handling DHCP, or if it's set statically, manually enter either the ISP supplied DNS or use a public service like Google's DNS. Just don't use OpenDNS... but that's a seperate discussion ;).

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Re: Vista Internet Problems
By: Corey to Rassilon on Thu Apr 01 2010 06:13 pm

Any ideas??

Switch to Linux?

-Rassilon...

I did.
on my desktop. netbook runs win 7

Well, it sounds to me that you're doing everything right... :) Can't you install a new OS on your netbook?

-Rassilon...

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Re: Vista Internet Problems
By: Rassilon to Corey on Fri Apr 02 2010 12:43 am

Re: Vista Internet Problems
By: Corey to Rassilon on Thu Apr 01 2010 06:13 pm

Any ideas??

Switch to Linux?

-Rassilon...

I did.
on my desktop. netbook runs win 7

Well, it sounds to me that you're doing everything right... :) Can't you install a new OS on your netbook?

-Rassilon...

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sure, anything that supports the nvidia ion chipset.

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Re: Vista Internet Problems
By: MIKE POWELL to ALL on Wed Mar 31 2010 17:15:00

machine. They get a "connectivity error." I had them test a few other things. They are not able to get pages via IE or Firefox, and are not able

What is the exact error message on the page that they are getting? Any error codes?

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│If I understand your problem, they can't pull up websites by URL but can ping │IP's on the internet? If that's the case, it very much sounds like a problem │with DNS resolution.
└─[D=>MP]

Actually, they can PING "URL addresses," example: google.com. Not it's IP address, but the "in English" address. I would assume they'd need a proper
DNS to do that.

They can't pull up websites, though.

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│ Vista? on a laptop? thats just cruel. I have win 7 on my minilap.
└─[C=>MP]

It came with it installed, before 7 was released.

Mike

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Re: Vista Internet Problems
By: MIKE POWELL to COREY on Mon Apr 26 2010 06:45 pm

│ Vista? on a laptop? thats just cruel. I have win 7 on my minilap. └─[C=>MP]

It came with it installed, before 7 was released.

Mike

##MMR 2.61ß. !link C 4-01-10 8:10

and one day, they will fix it.

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