Handyman Posted December 5, 2008 Report Share Posted December 5, 2008 Ok i have one for you.....My wife's computer will not read the internet....It will connect to the wireless router and will connect to the internet but will not read the interent. She has a less than 1yr old HP Pavillion DV6000 laptop the computer was used to connect to the internet a couple times before I went on my 7month deployment and then for the next 7 months never connected to the internet. Once we came back it was used as the main computer in the house. So I know the wireless connectivity of the computer is basically brand new. The operating system is Windows vista...Anyway I have looked at every possible thing I could think of and everything is working properly...I've had 3 other people who have the idenitcal computer look at it and they can't figure anything out. they say the wireless components are working correctly. One guy even hooked it up to his dsl and it would connect but not read any web pages...and his computer was reading the interent just fine. I'm hoping some here can help me out before I dod a system restore back to Oct 30th... My wife said she was on the internet and we were emailng back and forth for a couple hours and she went to bed NOT TURNING OFF the computer...she woke up 6 hours later and the Yahoo page was still showing. When she went to check er email that's when the screen came up saying that it the internet page would not load....I have tried multiple internet sites and nothing....but the computer is connected to the internet.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paddleboy Posted December 5, 2008 Report Share Posted December 5, 2008 not sure man that sounds like a geek squad issue to me.. good luck Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2001Stroker Posted December 5, 2008 Report Share Posted December 5, 2008 My mom is an IT tech for the government, so I called her. Is it saying "Page Not Displayed"? She said disable firewall in McAfee or Norton, whichever one you got, then reboot. See if that will work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Handyman Posted December 6, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 6, 2008 Nope niether of those worked...I just got off the phone with HP and they are clueless...They are saying my internet provider is the problem but my desktop and laptop run just fine with the same internet provider...Anyone know how to change the IP address is Vista Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyhighprerunner Posted December 6, 2008 Report Share Posted December 6, 2008 HM- Are you using Mozilla or IE? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Handyman Posted December 6, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 6, 2008 Internet explorer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fastbanshee8 Posted December 6, 2008 Report Share Posted December 6, 2008 Nope niether of those worked...I just got off the phone with HP and they are clueless...They are saying my internet provider is the problem but my desktop and laptop run just fine with the same internet provider...Anyone know how to change the IP address is Vista See if this helps you out any. Change IP for Vista Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Handyman Posted December 6, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 6, 2008 Nope didn't work.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fastbanshee8 Posted December 6, 2008 Report Share Posted December 6, 2008 Try this then. I've had to do the same thing with XP, once in a while, and it's worked. Vista Winsock Repair Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Handyman Posted December 6, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 6, 2008 nope didn't work either Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fastbanshee8 Posted December 6, 2008 Report Share Posted December 6, 2008 Have you scanned the computer for viruses, spyware, trojans, and so on? Something made it do what it's doing, it just didn't happen out of the blue. If it has been scanned, and nothing is on it, you may be able to use system restore, if it still works, and if not, wipe it out, and start over. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2001Stroker Posted December 6, 2008 Report Share Posted December 6, 2008 Yea, I'm with fastbanshee8. I think you should go with scanning the entire system for viruses. Do a full scan. Quarantine all of them and delete them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fastbanshee8 Posted December 7, 2008 Report Share Posted December 7, 2008 Eset NOD32 has a real good, and free online scanner, that will detect, and remove the bad shit. Here's the link. Free Eset Scan, and remove Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mjv420 Posted December 10, 2008 Report Share Posted December 10, 2008 Take an RJ-45 ethernet cable and wire the laptop up to the router. If it then loads webpages your wireless card is bad. I actually have a PCI wireless card in my desktop right now. It went through a power surge and it fucked it up. It will still connect to the access point and appears to work but it doesnt, does exactly what yours is doing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Handyman Posted December 10, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 10, 2008 Thanks to everyone and their ideas....I learned alot....Since Vista has a D drive that actually has all the stuf to do a complete dump and reload....SO I dumped it and reloaded everything...It now works just like it should. I can get on the internet and runs beautifully....Thanks to everyone for their help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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