[kratliff09]

Hey everyone. About 3 days ago my Facebook stopped loading. I know this is a dumb reason to write on here but it's the only way I have to talk to some of my family. I have tried getting it to load on IE 9, Google Chrome, and Mozilla Firefox. It's windows 7 - 64 bit. I have messed with everything.. the firewall, cleared everything.. It'll bring up the login page and then when I log in it only brings up the blue bar at the top. It won't let me click on anything. All other websites are working fine. Please help!!!

 

[skatty14]

I just wrote up something similar to your problem (except the user could not access Google/Bing instead of Facebook). I would check that out and see if that fixes the problem and of course would just contact the ISP if you don't know how to do any of the suggested solutions or none of them work.

http://www.techsupportforum.com/forums/f217/google-not-working-please-help-561794.html

Best of luck!

 

[kratliff09]

Okay thank you

 

[reventon]

Also, check your HOSTS file.

Go to My Computer -> Double-click the address bar at the top -> Paste this in: C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts -> Select Notepad when it asks you what program you want to open it with.

A standard HOSTS file looks like the following.

[font=lucida console]
# Copyright (c) 1993-2009 Microsoft Corp.
#
# This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows.
#
# This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each
# entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should
# be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name.
# The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one
# space.
#
# Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual
# lines or following the machine name denoted by a '#' symbol.
#
# For example:
#
#      102.54.94.97     rhino.acme.com          # source server
#       38.25.63.10     x.acme.com              # x client host

# localhost name resolution is handled within DNS itself.
#	127.0.0.1       localhost
#	::1             localhost
[/font]

If yours has any lines mentioning facebook then delete them.

 

[DUTTYMUDD]

Also, check your HOSTS file.

Go to My Computer -> Double-click the address bar at the top -> Paste this in: C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts -> Select Notepad when it asks you what program you want to open it with.

A standard HOSTS file looks like the following.

[font=lucida console]
# Copyright (c) 1993-2009 Microsoft Corp.
#
# This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows.
#
# This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each
# entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should
# be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name.
# The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one
# space.
#
# Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual
# lines or following the machine name denoted by a '#' symbol.
#
# For example:
#
#      102.54.94.97     rhino.acme.com          # source server
#       38.25.63.10     x.acme.com              # x client host

# localhost name resolution is handled within DNS itself.
#	127.0.0.1       localhost
#	::1             localhost
[/font]

If yours has any lines mentioning facebook then delete them.

You might have to right click on the hosts file and change the user/security settings in order to save the edited hosts file

 

[kratliff09]

I tried the first thing.. and it worked for about an hour now back to not working.. so I will check my host files now.

 

[kratliff09]

I didn't see anything that says Facebook

 

[kratliff09]

I didn't see anything that says Facebook.. It works now but I know it will go back to not working. Lol

 

[kratliff09]

It works on Firefox now but not internet explorer or google chrome.