Wont Let Me Login

IT WONT LET ME LONGIN IT IS IRGHT NOW 10 PM EST TIME WITCH IS IN THE DAM 4 PM TO 10PM PST TIME THINGY AND IT OWNT LET ME LONGIN I TPYE MY USER NAME AND HTNE THE LAST NAME AND HTNE I TYPE IN MY PASS WORD WIHT CAPS OFF LIKE IT SHOULD BE AND IT SAYS LONGIN FIALED AND THEN IT SAYUS MAYBE U SHOULD TRY TURNING UR CAPS OFF BUT IT IS OFF EVERY THING IS RIGHT Y WONT IT LET ME LOGIN

With what little info your giving us, it could be a number of things. Here are some hints that have worked for others in the past.

Turn off all software firewalls and antivirues. If you can log in after doing that, then open the firewall.

Reinstall the software.

make sure you have latest drivers.


I know there are more and i'm sure others will provide them. This should get you started.


-TK

what other info od u need i mean i login exa how my pw and login should be and i t wont let me in

how would i birng down my firewall i dont tihnk i have one

special if your password was over 8 characters long, it was truncated to be 8 characters, so put in the first 8 characters and see if that works.

no my pw is 7 letters

my pw is my real name and i tpye it iin wiht no caps just like how i would login in to the web site it it wont let me IN! also when i type my 7 letter pw after i try to conntion all off the sudden the hole pw thing is full of *'s not just 7

ok i ma getting kindaq pissed i cnat change my pw beocuse i dont no how and it wont let me login it lets me login on hte web site i ahave the lastest drivbers and i dont have a fire wall this game it just arg i am jsut really really really mad right now and i mq not like SL at all

How old are you Special Z?

i am 18 but i have a horrable spelling disorder that i have had snice i was a kid

HOW ABOUT YOU DON'T YELL!!!!! AND MAYBE I WILL ANSWER YOUR QUESTION! .... doink.. btw read my SIG.

ok then cna u help tell me what i need to do

k. By step
1. check if you are in the right hours.. what is your time zone?
2. check if you have the right version
2.a IF 2. == TRUE did you do a fresh install? if not.. uninstall.. delete the folder and reinntall fresh.
2.b IF 2 == FALSE uninstall your current and install fresh (good version)
3. Check your caps.
5. Check if you are connected to the internet.
6. check your firewall (some of them are a bitch)
7. Double check your password in the e-mail they sent you.
8. If all else fails.. e-mail the Lindens (peter linden) fromt he SAME account you registered and give him your SL name and "old" password. ask him (without yelling) to give you the correct password because your is not working. Also, to check your account status.
9. You should be on your way.

Have fun, next time try not to burst out.

Also, some other useful information would be, what type of internet connection do you have, what is your ISP, and what OS are you running? (Win98? Win2000? WinME? WinXP?)

i am useing bellsouth south fast acceses i use win xp and i got a geforce 4 2.2 ghz with 1 gb of ram i am running the lastest version of 2nd life

hmmmm... xp home or corporate? i'm not sure which, but i know at least one of them comes with a built-in firewall package of sorts, and i believe it's on by default... you may wanna look in yer manual and figure out how to turn it off, or at least change its settings...

personally, i have a hardware firewall (Linksys BEFSR41 router), and by forwarding ports 12020-12050 and 13000-13050 to my computer, SL works great. i have no clue how the XP firewall thingy works, but if you can just forward those ports, that would be ideal -- leaving most of the protection of a firewall intact, while opening it just enough to not interfere with SL.

ok cna u put that in enisgh beocuse i have no clue what u jsut said i have a decated server running win 98 on my netwrok and that sneds out my internet ot my other pc on the netwrok incduing mine i dont have a routor iu use that aas my router bascily i dont think it hads a firewall but i would love ot find out if it dose buti odnt no how i useing xp home withc i ithnk dose not have the built in firewall i think that is xp pro

well there's your problem. that win98 box most likely doesn't understand that your computer needs to have bidirectional access on the ports i mentioned above. i'm not exactly sure how SL connects to the servers initially, but i'd wager that this is definitely a large part of your problem. can you connect your SL computer directly to the internet briefly, and see if you can log in then?

cant the 98 box is a p2 and bascily a 8mb video card

then i guess you can't play

nonono. i'm not saying to install SL on the 98 box. i'm saying to DISCONNECT the 98 box from the internet connection, and plug your main SL machine DIRECTLY into the connection (make sure to configure it appropriately too ) and see if you still can't connect to SL*. if you can't, then the problem may be an issue with your ISP. if you can connect when directly plugged in, then the problem lies in the way the 98 box redirects packets.

*see pict-o-matic(tm) diagram below:

cant do that it well bring down my network

such is the cost of troubleshooting

personally, i wouldn't have a network that hinges on an ancient win98 box in the first place, but i'm a perfectionist when it comes to my computers, so hey