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Costacat
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07-15-2000

Thursday, April 03, 2008 - 11:06 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Costacat a private message Print Post    
Some people also don't agree with the advice posted here, and therefore won't respond either.

Escapee, did the issue just start happening? I just checked my Yahoo email, and it worked fine. Can you get to the Yahoo main page? Are all other sites working fine?

Escapee
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06-15-2004

Thursday, April 03, 2008 - 1:32 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Escapee a private message Print Post    
Well, it will take me to the page, but it won't let me view my mail.

I've never had this problem before. I cleaned out my cache, deleted cookies.....any other ideas that might help?

Costacat
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07-15-2000

Thursday, April 03, 2008 - 2:36 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Costacat a private message Print Post    
OK when you go to the main yahoo.com web site, you can sign in, right? Under your signed in name, is there a "Mail" link? (There are several there, including Messenger.) When you rollover the link, what happens?

And are you using Yahoo Classic or Yahoo Mail?

You might have to search their Help or figure out how to get support. Sounds like your account may be wonky.

Herckleperckle
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11-20-2003

Thursday, April 03, 2008 - 3:00 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Herckleperckle a private message Print Post    
Escapee, I just got an email from Urgrace saying that Yahoo, Hotmail and AOL have a virus-ridden message in email entitled, "Mail Server Report." She cautioned me not to open it, if I was using those programs. I think you should be cautious in all other email programs, too, if you see a message with that same title.

Escapee
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06-15-2004

Thursday, April 03, 2008 - 3:19 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Escapee a private message Print Post    
I fixed it. I upgraded my IE and it fixed it :-)

Costacat
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07-15-2000

Thursday, April 03, 2008 - 6:12 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Costacat a private message Print Post    
I'm glad it's fixed, but I think the upgrade is coincidental. I tested Yahoo mail using IE 6 and it worked just fine for me. Unless you had a really old version of IE 6.

Colordeagua
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10-25-2003

Sunday, April 06, 2008 - 2:24 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Colordeagua a private message Print Post    
Not a techie computer question -- computer-related though. ("La machine" now continues to boot up FAAAAAST!) Yahoo groups -- I don't get how they work exactly. Specifically...a few weeks ago I joined the Lombard Freecycle Yahoo group. I e-mailed my first offer. It worked. It went out to the group. Got replies. Now for the past few days I have tried and tried and tried to e-mail another offer to the group. Nothing?! I guess it's not going out? Though it's in my "Sent" box. If I'm supposed to get e-mail I send out to the group, I'm not. I get no replies so I take it that it's not going out. Tried e-mailing group owner and get no reply from there either. What's going on? What am I doing wrong?

Bonbonlover
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07-13-2000

Sunday, April 06, 2008 - 2:57 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Bonbonlover a private message Print Post    
I have a couple of old computers...they have been sitting in my garage...It's time for Spring Cleaning... what can I do with them?? I wouldn't even know how to start them up, but I hate to give them to goodwill or someplace where someone might be able to get my personal info off them... What would you do???

Colordeagua
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10-25-2003

Sunday, April 06, 2008 - 3:08 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Colordeagua a private message Print Post    
Do you know how or know someone who can get the hard drives out? Get 'em out, smash 'em, and give the rest to wherever.

I didn't know what to do with my monitor that was giving me problems. Happened to look at neighboring village web site. There's a Macspecialist very near me. Later this month they're having a "Reboot". Take all your old electronics you want to get rid of there.

Bonbonlover
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07-13-2000

Sunday, April 06, 2008 - 3:22 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Bonbonlover a private message Print Post    
Thanks Color looks like that Macspecialist is a Chicago thing...you would think I could find something like that in Calif ... anyhow, I will try to remove the harddrives... what is the worst that can happen? LOL famous last words...

Costacat
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07-15-2000

Sunday, April 06, 2008 - 4:10 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Costacat a private message Print Post    
Color, go to the Yahoo groups' site (I don't know the address for your group, but in San Diego it's groups.yahoo.com/groups/sdfreecyle). See if you can post directly from their Web site.

Bonbon, if the computers are really old, Goodwill may not take them (especially if they don't have hard drives). So be prepared for a negative when you try to donate. You may want to check to see if there are any electronics recycling places near you.

Colordeagua
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10-25-2003

Sunday, April 06, 2008 - 4:23 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Colordeagua a private message Print Post    
Costa, I've e-mailed from there and e-mailed directly. Nothing works? I just tried asking Yahoo technical. Beats me? I get group e-mails from others.

Colordeagua
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10-25-2003

Wednesday, April 09, 2008 - 7:18 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Colordeagua a private message Print Post    
Still not able to post to Lombard Freecycle group?

Something else now. I suppose most out there have high speed cable internet connection? No cable here, so don't do it that way. I had Earthllink dial-up for years until I got AT&T DSL in January '07. (I tried getting Earthlink dial-up, but their customer service for that was HORRIBLE. EL DSL never worked.) For all the years I had Earthlink dial-up, the monthly charge never increased. Now after only 15 months, AT&T has upped my monthly charge from $19.99 to $25. Anyone else have AT&T DSL? What's your experience them? Any other DSL supplier?

Nightcrawler
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02-12-2002

Thursday, April 10, 2008 - 7:07 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Nightcrawler a private message Print Post    
ok
are computer has had a little problem the last week
it keeps freezing up
when it set for a little bit
like when some thing is loading(we have dial up still)
the mouse and the key bord freezes up and will not do any thing
and we have to restart the computer
this happens 5-7 times a day
are anti virus soft wear has found nothing in are computer

any idea what this is
or do i just need to take it to the doctor?

Naja
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06-28-2003

Friday, April 11, 2008 - 2:12 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Naja a private message Print Post    
In case anybody is curious how I am doing with my new pc I had been talking about...OMG!

I haven't done a lot yet but:

It took me 11 minutes to convert a 94 minute xvid avi movie that downloaded from usenet to a WMV.

It just took 31 seconds from the time I hit "restart" for my computer to be back on the desktop.

When I play a video I download, the cpu usage shows 0% with an occasional blip to 1 or 2%...LOL!

I never knew it could be this fast and wonderful.

Mameblanche
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08-24-2002

Friday, April 11, 2008 - 4:44 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mameblanche a private message Print Post    
Congrats on your new 'puter Naja, enjoy! I TOTALLY remember how wonderful it was when we switched from DialUP to DSL.

Bob2112
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06-12-2002

Friday, April 11, 2008 - 7:45 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Bob2112 a private message Print Post    
Must be that upgraded power supply!

Nyheat
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08-09-2006

Friday, April 11, 2008 - 7:48 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Nyheat a private message Print Post    
I hope your 'puter is better, Nightcrawler. If it's any consolation, my 'puter was sooo slow the other day, and it was very frustrating. It seemed to snap back into acting normal last night.

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Thursday, April 17, 2008 - 9:06 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
I have a monitor problem. I have pink lines running straight down my screen and it just started a few minutes ago. They're very thin lines, but anywhere from 4 to a few dozen. If I refresh the page or bring a new page up, they're gone but as soon as I click, scroll, or move the page, the lines come back. Is this a nasty hint we might be due for a new monitor?

Costacat
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07-15-2000

Thursday, April 17, 2008 - 9:29 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Costacat a private message Print Post    
If you turn your monitor off and turn it back on, is it still there? How old is your monitor? Does it happen only in a browser or does it also happen in other apps (such as Word or Excel)?

Rosie
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11-12-2003

Thursday, April 17, 2008 - 9:42 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Rosie a private message Print Post    
I googled for you War. Suggestions: Connect your monitor to a different computer to make sure that the monitor is the problem; could be your video card or loose plug; dust around the card?

I know nothing about this myself...

Bob2112
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06-12-2002

Thursday, April 17, 2008 - 11:35 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Bob2112 a private message Print Post    
Wargod: It could definitely be the video card getting ready to die or the monitor. I just had this happen to me 2 weeks ago with an old video card. If you can try the monitor on another computer or a different monitor on that computer, then you can see where the problem moves.

Is this a CRT or LCD?

If it is the video card (or on board video), you can probably buy yourself some time by turning off the hardware acceleration on the video card. I had to turn mine down to "none" to keep the screen from messing up while I located a replacement that would work in my old machine.


Wargod
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07-16-2001

Thursday, April 17, 2008 - 12:00 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Hmmm...we've had the monitor a couple of years but got it second hand from Darren's step dad. I know he'd had it a couple years at least before he gave it to Darren.

I tried turning the monitor off and then back on and rebooted the computer but still have the same thing going on. Last week, I hopped online real quick to check where we were supposed to go for one of Dakota's games (so was only on that one site at the time) and noticed the same thing, except the lines were black. At the time I thought it was just that website having problems. Except that now it's on all websites and other programs like Word (I didn't think to check that Costa, thank you!)

Darren has all the wires and cords hidden behind the desk so I'll have to wait til he gets home to try hooking up the monitor to the kids computer. He also replaced some card or other not too long ago though to tell the truth I have no idea which one because I really wasn't paying attention, lol.

We've had a few other weird problems like the screen will suddenly blink on/off for a minute or two or when the computers been off and we turn it back on the monitor doesn't power up like it should and we have to shut everything down and start over. Both of those problems have been happening since we got the monitor though.

I'm not too computer literate with the techie stuff, but when we try the monitor on the kids computer, if the lines are not there, that means the video card is going bad? And if they are there, that would mean its the monitor itself?

Bob2112
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06-12-2002

Thursday, April 17, 2008 - 2:15 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Bob2112 a private message Print Post    
You are correct.

Is the monitor a big heavy CRT or a flat LCD?

It could be the video card, monitor or cable, so you have to try a few different combinations.

Try it on the kids computer with the cable it is using now. If the problem is still their, try it with the kids cable. Then you should have a good clue about where the problem is.

You can also try the kids monitor and cable on your computer to see if the problem is still there. That would test the video card.


Wargod
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07-16-2001

Thursday, April 17, 2008 - 2:42 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Flat lcd. Darren was home a few minutes between work and taking Caleb to his track meet but I did tell him about it and he said he'd check it out when he gets back home. I forgot to ask him what card he replaced though.