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Affilliation
A ‘net-less Labor Day Holiday
It was a holiday yesterday, and it started out well enough, that is until I heard ticking sounds and my internet connection stopped all data transactions. The modem’s indicators implied that it couldn’t connect to the server. It happens on occasion, so I didn’t make much of it. I decided to wait for an hour or so.
After watching “Attack of the Show” and “X-Play” replays, there was still no status change. So, I tried the typical reconnect/reboot cycle. That failing, I tried the secondary checks, network cables, power cables, phone lines… wait! I got no dial-tone! The phone line was dead!
Wonderful.
Thankfully, I had a backup plan. I’d plug-in my Sony Ericsson K608i and use it as a GSM modem so I can at least surf while waiting for the phone line to be fixed. I had a copy of the PC Suite on a USB for situations like this and ran the installer.
“FAILED TO LOAD RESOURCE”
WTF?!!
Even stranger, after this dialog displayed, another “FAILED TO LOAD RESOURCE” dialog showed with a slowly moving progress bad, and a separate instance of the installer ran. I completed installation, but I couldn’t run anything in the suite. I was pretty sure I cleaned everything up prior to installation. I checked again, even removed the old Nokia suite. Every time I reboot I kept getting “FAILED TO LOAD RESOURCE”.
No phone line, no GSM modem, I was pretty much in an internet drought at home. I called my phone company for support, but given that it was the Labor Day holiday, I wasn’t expecting the phone line to be fixed within the day. I didn’t really feel like playing my non-online games. I was planning on checking something outdoors around dinnerish after setting this thing-up. After uninstalling and re-installing several times, checking for registry errors or incomplete un-installations, I still couldn’t get it to work. It pissed me off so much that I forgoe’d dinner Plan1 and Plan2 and just went with the day’s uninviting Plan3 (quick take-out at the nearest fastfood).
This morning, I found that several people had similar problems, hopefully the solution they have on that thread would work.
More importantly, I hope my phone line gets fixed! (I tried calling and my home number and it still doesn’t ring)
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