Donovan,
I had a similar problem about 6-7 months ago...not being able to access
certain sites, but others worked fine. After reformatting I still had the
problem. Is the computer connected to the internet through cable? In my
situation it turned out to be a problem with my connection. The tech support
had me go to the command prompt and do a trace route on the web pages that
were not working in order to troubleshoot the problem. I cut and pasted some
directions to do this:
What is a traceroute?
A traceroute is an Internet application that details the path from a client
machine (your computer) to a specific host computer. It displays the time it
takes to travel to the destination computer as well as a description of the
"hops," or the jumps to a network router or gateway, along the path.
Traceroutes are useful tools to help diagnosis network problems.
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How do I run traceroute?
The Windows operating system also includes a traceroute application called
tracert (used from the MS-DOS command line). For Mac OS X users, you can use
the traceroute application in the Network Utility (which can be found in the
Utilities directory). You can run a traceroute on a UNIX computer with the
"traceroute" command. There are graphical traceroute tools available as well.
To run a traceroute using Windows XP, please do the following:
Click Start
Click Accessories
Click C:// Command Prompt (MS-DOS Prompt)
Type tracert and the IP address or Web site address (when the C:// prompt
appears)
Please be sure to leave a space between the tracert command and the IP
address or Web site address.
Hope this helps...
