Anyone with a technical frame of mind who can help me would be appreciated!!
I have been unable to access
www.ironworksforum.com and all the forums from my home PC since late Saturday night. I was able to access it previously, right when it came back online but somehow, without me doing ANYTHING, I now cannot access.
I initially thought it was a problem with my ADSL provider so I called them. They asked me to do a ping and a tracert on
www.ironworksforum.com which did not work. They then gave me the IP address for
www.ironworksforum.com and asked me to ping and tracert that and it worked. Apparently there was some problem with my browser recognizing the domain name
www.ironworksforum.com. They have now asked me to speak to Microsoft.
HOW this happened I have no idea, but I have the following suspicion that Windows XP has somehow @#$% something up. I upgraded my WinME to WinXP last Wednesday and I have had problems with various peripherals since. Having said that, I was able to access
www.ironworksforum.com on Friday night when it came back on so I don't know why it has all of a sudden stopped working.
The funny thing is, if I type in the IP address for
www.ironworksforum.com into my IE browser it brings up the page, but if I type in the URL it doesn't. Somehow it's not recognizing the URL/domain name. The ADSL helpdesk person asked me to tweak a couple of the settings in Control Panel/Network but I got the impression that she didn't know what she was doing.
She then asked me to reinstall my TCP/IP stack and when I did that I came up with a missing file error (framedll.dll). THAT was when she put me on hold for a few minutes (probably to speak to her boss) and then came back and told me it was a Microsoft problem and to speak to them. [img]graemlins/madhell.gif[/img]
I have tried using System Restore to no avail. Anyone can help by replying to this thread or by emailing me at memnoch.tgeweb.com would be greatly appreciated. I'm suffering here!!
[ 01-06-2002: Message edited by: Memnoch ]