"Page Cannot Be Displayed" What would cause this?

Do you have firewall. If yes temporarily disable it

go to command prompt and try pinging that website ..

Sunray

Do u have any firewall setting which are blocking to u to see this website.

No firewall....using a 56k modem and what would be the correct syntax for pinging the web site?

ping www.ulm.edu

Sunray

Are you absolutely sure that you are not able to view only ulm website and everything else is OK ??

Kind of strange problem.. Have you tried using other browsers ?

Also disable any pop-up blocker

Sunray

Greetings, FixNPuters!

1. I can access the website.  Do you have firewall or ad-blocker interferring with the access?  Diable them and see if you can gain access.

2. Check your IE settings. Go to Tools > Options > Advanced. Scroll down to Search and make sure "Just display the result in the main window"  or "Just go to the most likely site"  is checked.

3. There may be programs running in the background interfering with the operation of Internet Explorer. If you have Norton programs running in the background, temporarily turn them off, including anti-virus, win doctor, recycle bin protect, and clean sweep. Does this fix the problem?

Turn off any firewall or ad-blocker.

4. Perform a repair of Internet Explorer. From Control Panel select Add/Remove Programs. Scroll down to Microsoft Internet Explorer and highlight it. Click on the Add/Remove button. When the IE Tools menu comes up, select Repair. Click OK.

You can also access the IE Toolbar by clicking Start > Run and type

rundll32 setupwbv.dll,IE6Maintenance "C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\Setup\SETUP.EXE" /g "C:\WINDOWS\IE Uninstall Log.Txt"

5. Use IE Eradicator to delete Internet Explorer.

http://www.litepc.com/ieradicator.html

Make sure you have downloaded the IE6 setup files first, but not loaded. Backup your Favorites folder.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/downloads/critical/ie6sp1/default.asp


Best wishes, war1

Check this

Description of the Internet Explorer Repair Tool
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=http://support.microsoft.com:80/support/kb/articles/Q194/1/77.asp&NoWebContent=1

Sunray

does ur ISP uses a proxy server, if yes then u should enter it in IE options, or make sure if it is already entered, it is correctly written.
alos try to open ur college site with any other browser on ur system, if others browsers can open this site, then the problem is not with ur internet connection, problem is only with IE explorer, check for the proxy spelling, go for the repairing of IE, already suggested by many experts :)

if u do not have any firewall then certainly it looks like DNS problem.
try
nslookup www.ulm.edu

also try to flush the DNS.
ipconfig /flushdns    ( not sure about the syntex but type ipconfig -help and it will show u).
then try to connect again.

also this may be the arp curruption too.

If it is an arp cache database corruption, do a arp -d * to refresh your cache and  try to access the website again.

check:
1.  IE Internet Options | Security | Restricted site.
2.  The hosts file..... to see if you have an entry for the college in there.

cheers

my bet is the hosts file
look in c:\windows for a file named hosts (not hosts.sam, no extension, just hosts)
open in notepad
see if there is an entry in there for your college site,, if so, delete the entry and save the file, and then try again

I suspect that your computer was originally set up to access the web site from within the college, and this is why it would not display from outside.
It's probably a DNS or a hosts file problem.

Have you checked proxy as suggested above?

any update on it...

Have you resolved your problem?  Did you check the hosts file as in my first post?
The "At the bottom left of my browser it shows "connecting to" and gives an IP address instead of the www address." is an indication that IP address is resolved locally.

Gnart

FixNPuters,
   We have not heard from you in awhile? Did any comment help you solve your problem? Do you have any more questions? If an Expert help you, please accept his/her answer with an excellent or good grade.

Thanks, war1

Update....sorry all that it took so long to reply.  (Holidays & Car Trouble!)  I brought the above mentioned computer to my house.  Without doing anything, I hooked the computer up to my home network and accessed the college web site using my Cable Internet.  However, I did find that my friend had filled up their hard drive with .wav files.  There was only about 30mb free space on a 20gb hd.  I cleaned out all the music, cleaned out temp files, cookies etc etc.  Updated to I.E 6 and ran scan disk and defrag.  HD now at 15.8gb free space.  My friend took it home, connected to their dial up connection and they are able to access the college web site now.  
I am not sure how to award the points.  All suggestions were appreciated but not actually used.  

u used this one :-)

 Comment from shivsa
Date: 12/09/2003 02:07PM PST
      Your Comment       

also remove all the temp internet files and clean your system so that when u next time visit any website everything is fresh.

You may want to split the ponts.  Click on "Split Points" link at the bottom. The Split Points page will open, showing "Accept" button and Points for Comment for each comment. Select one Accept button as the main answer. Fill in the points. The total points should equal those alloted to question. Fill in the grade at the bottom. Click "Submit".

Dear FixNPuters :-)

We have not heard form u, r u still having the same problem, or any of the comment helped u to solve the problem. If YES then plzz accept an answer and award the expert with a GOOD or EXCELLENT grade.


TIPS ON CLOSING THE QUESTION:
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1) HOW DO I ACCEPT A COMMENT?

If a comment posted by an Expert has answered your question, then you should select the Expert's comment as the answer to your question. In case of duplicate or similar comments, you should select the first comment posted.
Sometimes one EE Expert will post a comment which answers your question but contains a typo or minor error. Another Expert may post a correction. In this case you should usually select the answer of the first Expert. If you would like to reward the second Expert, you can split the points.
To select the Expert's comment, locate the experts comment in the question. The comment block has a header row with the Expert's username on the left, and a button that says "Accept" on the right. Simply click on this link to select the Expert's comment as the answer. This will display a new page titled "Accept Proposed Comment". Here you need to select a grade, and enter any closing comments you may desire. Finally, click on the "Accept" button to submit your grade, comments, and close the question.
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2) MORE THAN ONE EXPERT HELPED SOLVE MY PROBLEM. WHAT DO I DO?

You split the points. Scroll down to the bottom of the question and click the "Split Points" link at the bottom of the page. Select the radio button of the comment who you want to Accept as the answer. Only one button can be selected. Set the point value (a text box above the comment) of how much you want this person to receive of the points. Then set the point values for each of the experts comments to whom you want to allocate points and these will be considered Assisted answers in helping you resolve the issue. Double check your information and then click the Submit button at the bottom of the page. One note: the total points of the splits must equal the amount you asked the question for itself, and no person can receive fewer than 20 points.
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3) I ANSWERED MY QUESTION MYSELF. WHAT DO I DO?

Post a question in the Community Support topic area asking for a refund, and asking the Moderators to close the question. You'll be required to post your solution in your original question. A Moderator will post a notice of your request which will give the participants 72 hours to object to the refund. Note that if it resembles one of the suggested comments, the likelihood is that your request will not be granted, but rather, the points will be awarded to the Expert who makes the suggestion.
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4) NOBODY ANSWERED MY AUESTION. WHAT DO I DO?

Before you ask the Moderators to help you in this circumstance, take the time to post a message in your question stating your intention to have the question deleted or closed, and make sure you have responded to all of the Experts' comments. Then post a question in the Community Support topic area asking the Moderators to delete your question. If there are no comments in the question, one of the Moderators will delete the question. If there are comments, the Moderator will post notice of your request, and will give the participants 72 hours to object. You may be required to post your reason for asking for the deletion, and objections will be taken into account.
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!! Thanx !!