no board at games.com

Last night i tried installing zonealarm on my laptop. it went to the net all over no problem but when I went to games.com and tried to go to a room, there was no board but just a square with a broken link icon in the top of the square. i removed zonealarm, didn't help, set registry back a day then 2- no help. updated internet explorer5.01 SP2 - no luck. to 5.5 no luck..yahoo games no luck...updated to directx8 no luck.. Any ideas what could be causing this? All other computers I have tried work fine...laptopis P3 XE3 HP, 128 MB ram, 17GB HD only a couple of weeks old...just looking for ideas..thanks

[This message has been edited by coops (edited 06-21-2001).]

Under 'tools'....'advanced', there are 3 settings involving 'Virtual machine enabling'....make sure they are checked. Also, you can try this download: http://support.ati.com/drivers/win98...7_directx.html
Can't hurt, may help.

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Nothing is 'idiot-proof'.....they always come out with better idiots.

thanks non boxer..tried it no luck.
My video card is an S3 savage so updated those drivers and no luck. this is wierd. My wife did say she loaded Yahtzee on it and it asked her to do something and she said yes. can't remember what it was though. uninstalled and still no go....hhhhmmmm

used recovery disk and now it works.
still know what happened but maybe one day...the truth is out there or at least inside the cpu