Can anyone help me?

Hi,
After being on SL for several weeks with no problems, all of a sudden as soon as I log in, second life disappears/crashes within seconds. I have an ATI Radeon X300 PCI Express graphics card which is supposed to be ok???? I don't know why it was fine, and then for no reason I can no longer access SL?? Any advice much appreciated Thanx

I have the same graphics card. Friday second life did the same to me. I had to go to Second life and redownload the program. Its working now.

Hi,
Thanks, I tried that too, but it's still crashing - any other ideas? This is so frustrating!!

Try rebooting your router and modem. Unplug them and leave them unplugged for about a minute then plug them back in. Best to shut down your computer while you do that. It sometimes helps.

Just a shot but it won't hurt.

Thanks, I'll try that too. I just reinstalled SL and it crashed again, this time the graphics went weird before it crashed as well...I miss my SL friends!!

another cupple shots in the dark...

spyware .. they cause random crashes on themselves and other programs sometimes, might wanna scan for them using both adaware and spybot

drivers ... common windows problem, some reason the pc gets shut down or windows just plain ol decides its going to start eating itself it can randomly corrupt files, now it doesnt know or care if its a driver or your masters thesis, specially scandisk fixing things can put the nail in the coffin, try reinstalling ALL your drivers starting with ATI and then direct X if it continues move on to sound network and motherboard drivers

uninstall and reinstall SL dunno if you tried but ... it is different than just downloading and installing over top of the old install

Thanks Osgeld, I'll give it all a try! Jaida

Clear cache (or manually delete cache folder from c:\documents and settings\<your username>\application data\secondlife)

...well, I've tried all of the above and still no luck...any other ideas????

this may sound silly, but can u open the PC casing and check if your graphic card's fan is still spinning?

Hi,
I am using a laptop, so I'm not even sure how to do that???!! Would I still be able to see the screen if the graphics card wasn't working...obviously I am not a technical person!!
Jaida