Thank you for being a valued part of the CNET community. As of December 1, 2020, the forums are in read-only format. In early 2021, CNET Forums will no longer be available. We are grateful for the participation and advice you have provided to one another over the years.

Thanks,

CNET Support

General discussion

Cannot access site on one computer but can on others

Apr 5, 2005 4:56AM PDT

I have a Dell 4550 on which my hard drive crashed and I had to replace/reinstall hooked up to a linksys befw11s4 router(firmware upgraded. I have site which when you get to it requires password etc. On other computers hooked to same router I can access site but the Dell with Win Xp reinstall/updated/sp2 will not load page. I keep getting a"page cannot be foud" hhtp 404.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks
Wayne

Discussion is locked

- Collapse -
Tell more.
Apr 13, 2005 8:00AM PDT

Such as the url of the logon page, if you can access other pages on that site, and if you can logon to cnet (for example) on that computer. It really depends on how the site asks it password. Could need javascript, java, https/ssl, activex, cookie support to name things that could be wrong in principle. But 'page not found' message is rather strange with all these things.

Then there could be site blocking by a hosts file, an ad blocker, a pop up blocker, parental control, spybot immunization, real-time spyware blocking (like MS anti-spyware beta). That most likely would explain the error message.

Did you already try another browser like Firefox. If that works, it's a very useful workaround, and it somewhat restricts the area to look for the solution.

Can you ping the site?

I don't expect it's the router. But it's free to switch connections, of course.

Kees

- Collapse -
have fix sort of
Apr 19, 2005 10:07AM PDT

have tried all of the above finally just cut and pasted disclaimer page from another computer and sent to myself and I use it to get into the site but but I have to accept terms twice but it works.

Thanks
Wayne