I hate dial-up

[rynne]

Yay for Christmas with the family! I’ll tell you all more about it (ahahaha assuming you care :p) once my internet connection is…less uncertain.

It’s the oddest thing. I go online, and then five to ten minutes later, I get this error thing from NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM, whatever that is (I couldn’t find it, searching my computer) and after a minute, it shuts my computer down. Consistently. I have not been able to go on the internet for more than five or ten minutes without this happening.

I am thinking maybe it is the connection. I’m currently at our house in Santa Cruz, and am therefore using dial-up. Plus it’s been raining all day, and I think I heard my mom say flood warning (though I really hope not—this house is right on the beach). Though I’m not sure—it’s stormed while I’ve been on dial-up before, and this has never happened. *sigh* And since it’s dial-up, it’s slow as all hell—I haven’t been able to check more than a tenth of my email, and I had over a hundred messages when I checked.

So anyway, I don’t know what’s going on with my internet connection, and I may not have a consistent one until I get back home, whenever that is. Tomorrow we’re going to call and see what SBC Tech Support says.

Now to figure out what we can do in Santa Cruz in the winter, so we don’t all turn into lazy couch potatoes…*g*

Comments

[shopfront.livejournal.com]

Have a look at this (http://www.mcse.ms/message1265595.html) if you can stay online long enough.

[rynne.livejournal.com]

THANK YOU! That's been so incredibly helpful, and I think I've gotten rid of it. :D:D:D

[shopfront.livejournal.com]

No problem, I'm glad it helped. It sounded suspicious so I googled the error message and grabbed the first helpful looking one. It's a good habit to get into if you encounter random and unexplainable error messages, you'll often be able to figure out the problem quite quickly whether it is a virus or just some random computer quirk. :)

[tinitinytina.livejournal.com]

This sounds more like a virus than dial-up issues. Internet doesn't try to shut down your computer, but a virus would, and storm or no, it's not the internet. The only thing the storm would do is cut out your power which would turn off your computer but not consistently at regular intervals after warning messages. (Now, if hard drives would give a nice friendly warning message a week before dying, that would be nice.)

Is this your own computer? I know my computer would do funky things when I replaced the memory, but if this is your own computer, and you haven't done that, then the best thing you can do is to update your virus protection, start in safe mode, and run a virus scan.

[rynne.livejournal.com]

It was a virus, but darkillusion very nicely linked me to specific instructions to get rid of it, so I think it's gone now.

[prettyveela.livejournal.com]

I called you for Christmas! Check your messages.

[rynne.livejournal.com]

I heard it! I was with my family then, and I always leave my cell phone off when with my family (seems rude to answer a cell phone at a time like that), but I got your message! :D Thank you!

[puchuupoet.livejournal.com]

Someone else from Santa Cruz? XD It sounds temporary though... And yeah, not much to do here in winter >.

[rynne.livejournal.com]

My family has a vacation home there; we go several times a year. Our longest stay is in the summer, when we can go to the boardwalk and stuff...:D I love Santa Cruz.