Hi ya'll, I'm Billy and I've encountered a problem with IE. I'm a student at Texas Tech University, and I really need to access their website (www.ttu.edu). Unfortunately, I can't. Here are the three ways I've tried to access their site:
1. Type in the URL into the address bar (in both IE and Navigator [I downloaded Navigator thinking the problem was an IE one, but that didn't help either]) and click enter. I am routed to a Yahoo! search results page as if I had inputted www.ttu.edu into the search box at Yahoo!. If I watch the space at the bottom that says things such as "Opening page www.ttu.edu", etc., it first says it's opening www.ttu.edu, then changes and says "auto.search.msn.com" ANY IDEA HOW TO GET RID OF THAT?
2. Once at said search page, it of course returns my search with the first possible link being "www.ttu.edu". So I click the link and I receive a "Page Cannot be Displayed" error. Hopefully you are all familiar with this error page. If not, type in www."a random jumble of words".com and you'll probably be able to find my error page.
3. I then decided that maybe the Tech site was down. So I called my friend (who proceeded to access the page with ease and grace on his PC). So I tried linking from another page to another page on the Tech server (eraider.ttu.edu). Again, no dice, 1st the Yahoo! search thing, then the error message.
Being the curious type, I tried testing this situation with some other sites. "www.tamu.edu" (Texas A&M's homepage), "www.ou.edu" (University of Oklahoma's homepage), and a couple others cause the same type of problem.
I've arrived at the conclusion that my computer is just not in favor of higher education. But it does access Ohio State's, Oklahoma State's, and Alabama's websites without pause. This problem started while in my hometown near Ft. Worth, TX on one ISP, and now has continued on another ISP, so I don't believe it's a problem with the ISPs. Also, this very PC, with no changes, used to access all of these sites without hesitation, the problem just started when it traveled home with me at the start of last summer. I've also stumped the techie guys here at Tech that I've asked, and so far 21 people online who thought they would be able to fix the prob, so I appreciate any help I can get. Thanks a lot ya'll.
1. Type in the URL into the address bar (in both IE and Navigator [I downloaded Navigator thinking the problem was an IE one, but that didn't help either]) and click enter. I am routed to a Yahoo! search results page as if I had inputted www.ttu.edu into the search box at Yahoo!. If I watch the space at the bottom that says things such as "Opening page www.ttu.edu", etc., it first says it's opening www.ttu.edu, then changes and says "auto.search.msn.com" ANY IDEA HOW TO GET RID OF THAT?
2. Once at said search page, it of course returns my search with the first possible link being "www.ttu.edu". So I click the link and I receive a "Page Cannot be Displayed" error. Hopefully you are all familiar with this error page. If not, type in www."a random jumble of words".com and you'll probably be able to find my error page.
3. I then decided that maybe the Tech site was down. So I called my friend (who proceeded to access the page with ease and grace on his PC). So I tried linking from another page to another page on the Tech server (eraider.ttu.edu). Again, no dice, 1st the Yahoo! search thing, then the error message.
Being the curious type, I tried testing this situation with some other sites. "www.tamu.edu" (Texas A&M's homepage), "www.ou.edu" (University of Oklahoma's homepage), and a couple others cause the same type of problem.
I've arrived at the conclusion that my computer is just not in favor of higher education. But it does access Ohio State's, Oklahoma State's, and Alabama's websites without pause. This problem started while in my hometown near Ft. Worth, TX on one ISP, and now has continued on another ISP, so I don't believe it's a problem with the ISPs. Also, this very PC, with no changes, used to access all of these sites without hesitation, the problem just started when it traveled home with me at the start of last summer. I've also stumped the techie guys here at Tech that I've asked, and so far 21 people online who thought they would be able to fix the prob, so I appreciate any help I can get. Thanks a lot ya'll.