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LoriMpenzi

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April 4th, 2014 22:00

DELL INSPIRON 15 3521

I am experiencing a difficult phenomenon. First this a less than one month old computer bought from BestBuy. Geek Squad can't figure out what is wrong with it.

Okay the computer doesn't pull up web pages even though it is connected to either wifi or ethernet. I thought it was the wifi driver, or webroot antivirus but after removing them and reinstalling the driver from Dell.com no change. safemode with Network but didn't work.

I would appreciate any assistance possible.

FYI. I updated to windows 8.1 from the store.

  • theflash1932

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    Posted April 5th, 2014 09:00

    Does this just affect Internet Explorer?  Does it work in Chrome or Firefox?

    Open a command prompt (go to Start and type in 'CMD') and type 'PING GOOGLE.COM' ... do you get replies?  If not, type in 'IPCONFIG' ... can you ping the gateway address? 

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    Posted April 10th, 2014 05:00

    Thanks for trying. I actually reset the whole computer back to Windows 8 and then did the updates all over again.