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guys someone has to figure this out, im open to all suggestions, listen to this out of nowhere i cant dl anything i cleared cache cookies temp internet files, still nothing will download. so i finally got fed up with things and said what the hell ill reformat so i did that and to my surprise guess what i still cant download, so then i thought it was my nic, i went through two nics, 3 differnt cat 5 cables nothing is working, i am behind a linksys router with 2 other computers on it they can download fine i cant help me out please i need to be able to download!!!!!!!!! help please
Hi...I assume you are saying that when you click on 'download' nothing happens, except maybe a blank screen with an icon in the middle. I have the problem on my ME desktop and have not been able to eliminate it. Something to do with my OS. What I did find out that works is to RIGHT click on 'download' and chose the SAVE option. This has always worked for me. Now, my notebook with XP works fine the normal way.
Hope this helps.
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Hey sorry i didnt explain myself correctly i can click links to download fine i set my dl destination and the the little window that shows the the transfer rate with the time remaining it just hangs there and if it does start to move my speed is horrible like 578 bytes a sec, its just really bugging me
if any other questions reply to my post help me out!!!
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no the problem is when i set my destination folder and click the save button, the windows that shows the transfer rate and the time remaining. it just hangs there and doesnt move
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Try connecting without using the router, That way you'll know if it's an Xp problem or a network problem.
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That is a classic symptom of miss matched ram or ram thats on its way out. Also I've seen the same thing happen when a dimm slot goes bad. Regards
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Are you serious Ram would cause a download to hang? i just took ram out of my brothers computer and popped it in another 128 chip i have 3 slots Ram could be causing this??? Jeez
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Disconnect this computer from the router and connect it directly to the modem. Does this make a difference?
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Hi Darren, the same thing happened to me six months ago. I had gone out and bought a memory chip that was, 256mb sdram pc133 and installed it. I noticed my downloads slowed down to a crawl. Then I bought a new monitor and it took XP 25min. to install my new hardware. So I took it to compUSA and they fixed it for 55.00 by taking out my old memory chip that was 128mb sdram PC100. Its worked great since. I don't know if this is your problem but it was mine. Jimmy
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i tried putting my cable modem straigt to my nic i took the router out of the equation still i cant download i tried the ram thing and nothing is working still im really about to freak out!!!!!
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Lets start all over from the beginning.
Was this third computer just newly introduced into the network? Was it ever able to download before? Is this a new computer? If it is not new, where did this computer come from? If it was previously able to download, have you recently made any changes to the computers configuration?
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theres 3 computers on my network mine has always been on it problem started 2 days ago i didnt change anything, so even if i did i said hey ill reformat the thing to wipe it all out, i reformatted put win xp back on nothing will dl still, yes is was able to dl before problem started 2 days ago i built the computer about 2 yrs old
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Try this,
1-go to tools in IE
2-select internet options
3-select the connections tab
4-click then LAN settings button
5-make sure the "automatically detect settings" is unchecked along with the "use automatic configuration script"Once both of those boxes are unchecked, restart IE and go ahead and try to download something. If you're going to jump down my throat if it doesn't work don't even try it.
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hey sorry dude its starting to give me one of those twictches you get, i tried what you said nothing still cant dl
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Shut everything off. Go to the local bar and get soaking drunk. Start on it again tomorrow. It is always good to start off with a clean slate.
Good luck. I am out of ideas.
Sorry.
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I'm out of ideas but since you reloaded XP I would have to lean towards a hardware issue. Have you tried hooking it up where one of your other computers is now?
Sometimes is hard to try to troubleshoot a computer thats not sitting in front of you. Stick with it I'm sure you will find your problem. Post back and let us know what it was. And remember this, "we are only trying to help you". Good luck. Regards
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look at this http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q307094 this sounds like my problem but i dont think it is
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Darren,
I just had a thought. When you download a file IE asks you where do you want to save the file to and remembers where it saved the last file to. The last time you downloaded a file, did you choose to save the file to a floppy?
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