Can not connect

31 Dec 2008 4:35 PM

JohnnieRay

My sons Dell B130 laptop was infected wth Trijans, and worms and all kinds of
stuff. It would lock up. I formatted the hard drive and reinstalled XP. We
have a wireless router in our home and now I can not get on the internet. The
wireless connection icon on the task bar says weare connected to our network
with good signal strength, but when I try to get on MSN I get "Page can not
be Displayed"

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Clueless

31 Dec 2008 6:03 PM

Lem

JohnnieRay wrote:

> My sons Dell B130 laptop was infected wth Trijans, and worms and all kinds of
> stuff. It would lock up. I formatted the hard drive and reinstalled XP. We
> have a wireless router in our home and now I can not get on the internet. The
> wireless connection icon on the task bar says weare connected to our network
> with good signal strength, but when I try to get on MSN I get "Page can not
> be Displayed"

Did you reinstall XP using a Dell "restore" function to get the laptop
to the state it was when it first came out of the box or did you install
XP from a Microsoft Windows XP CD?

When you tried to connect to your router, were you asked for a password,
and did you enter it correctly?

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Lem -- MS-MVP

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31 Dec 2008 8:54 PM

Jack (MS, MVP-Networking)

Hi
This page might help in checking the health of the Computer's Wireless.
http://www.ezlan.net/wireless.html
Disable the Wireless security in the Wireless Router and reconfigure from
scratch.
Enable the security only after you get good connetion.
Wireless Basic Configuration - http://www.ezlan.net/Wireless_Config.html
Wireless Security - http://www.ezlan.net/Wireless_Security.html
Jack (MS, MVP-Networking)

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"JohnnieRay" <bellingt***@MSN.COM> wrote in message
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> My sons Dell B130 laptop was infected wth Trijans, and worms and all kinds
> of
> stuff. It would lock up. I formatted the hard drive and reinstalled XP. We
> have a wireless router in our home and now I can not get on the internet.
> The
> wireless connection icon on the task bar says weare connected to our
> network
> with good signal strength, but when I try to get on MSN I get "Page can
> not
> be Displayed"
> --
> Clueless