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Yellow warning triangle
Tasi
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When I switched on my laptop yesterday, a little yellow triangle with an exclamation mark came up in front of the icon for connection to BT. I switched off and left it for half an hour then tried again. Everything was OK. Does anyone know why this triangle appeared? I had a strong signal. I have Avast virus protection, Spybot and also use CCleaner
Apologies in advance if this is something everyone knows about, but they didn't have pocket calculators when I was in school, let alone computers
Apologies in advance if this is something everyone knows about, but they didn't have pocket calculators when I was in school, let alone computers
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If you have left the computer on for a few mins, I am sure it would have corrected itself.
Not always, in fact hardly ever.
I have known it to happen when settings have become corrupted on the computer, in fact most of the time that have been the problem.
some computers that have loads of stuff to start up at boot up, can be a bit slow setting up the DNs and Ip addresses and that can give you the problem for a few mins. My desktop did it a lot on boot up when I was running wireless, don't now with home plugs.
It usually means your computer can't get an IP address from the router. If it's connected wireless it's usually an issue with security; either the security type, or more commonly the security key is wrong.
If you restarted and put it back on what happened is that the IP address was renewed and connected fine. Sometimes routers (or even Windows networking) go funny and need a simple restart to correct it.
that the one, I had a mind blank and could not think of the name.
Mine did it most of the time when I had wireless, and then it sorted out after a few seconds.
i did start having a fixed IP address on my computer and that solved the problem, but when I reinstalled windows I did not bother.
No problem now with Homeplugs, far better than Wireless.
A static IP address (from the computer's end, not the ISPs) will help a lot with wireless. I do it all the time because it makes things quicker, especially port forwarding if required.