Minnie's Melodyland Toon
 Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2007 7:51 pm Post subject: |
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| Thanks, all, for the kind and helpful encouragements and suggestions. As you have seen from my wife's post, things are up and running. At this point, I can only fill in details I left out (for sanity's sake). Here goes:
I did a drive clean-up, but not a defrag, as I do that on a regular basis anyway, so i knew it was not a factor this time. Excellent suggestion though, as it has caused me some trouble in the past. No, didn't update drivers (two cards), the graphics cards are too different, and the problem too much the same, for me to think it was the typical Disney fix-all recommendation LOL. Firewalls were set correctly on both machines, and the Filter function was set to "Always Permit" on the toontown programs. Direct-X? Well, I was ready to "X" everything, but the break calmed me down enough to be calm and collective, thanks. We are running a wireless router, a D-Link model god to 54Mbps, with three of the four ports connected, the other running to an X-box 360 that's hard-wire connected. This has never been a problem. Setting port triggers is a bit outa my neck-O-the-woods, rally. Last time I tried messin with it, was a major problem because the router we have is a "special", serviced by a diff division from D'Link's typical customer service div. Thanks. I really need to learn how to do this though. Great suggestion. Finally, the curious thing... Each time I would uninstall before reattempting an installation. The "old" folder would go to the Recycle Bin. Now at some point, I got particularly curious, and checked them. There were four or five of these, and each contained a different amount of Data, ranging from 20K to as much as 130M. The download screen that plays the TT song and slide show... it would install to a certain point and then reset to a No Download Indicated status. You know, the yellow bar that indicates how much has been set to the machine. Conclusion: Our ISP is DSL through Earthlink. I think their server was having disconnect problems, timing out or some similar problem. They have had that happen before, I know from first-hand experience. Anyway, today my wife tried a reinstall today before sending me your great helps, and it worked, nothing was different from before except the passing of time. The real conclusion: Thanks all. Perhaps this will assist someone else with difficulties. Bottom line, I think the only thing I really could do to solve this was to wait it out, and perhaps call Earthlink to get a server status report. As my momma used to say, "Some things just have to endure." Happy Toonin, Yall,, and THANKS A MILLION! Doctor Goopy and Dizzy BB (I'm gonna get it for that)... _________________ Doctor Goopy Megamush 112 Blessed are the cracked, for it is they who let in the light! |
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