Just recently I started receiving that message whenever I try to sign onto the internet..I've never ran into this kind of problem with my cpu before...I have dial up of course and I only use my phone line for the internet
Well let me see I have not had dial up for years. You might be able to change the dial number. I am not sure if that is the root cause of your problem though. But just try a different dial number.
I'm a little slow so bare with me..now when you say dial number are referring to the access numbers? If not can you please explain to me what a dial number is?
Well if you want to try then you'll need to obtain another number from your ISP so you'll need to contact them.
And if i remember rightly, in dial-up, you get a small window in which you press 'Connect' or 'Dial' and the number should be listed there. So just change the number but also note down the current number just in-case .
Now I forgot to mention that sometimes I can actually sign in after a few tries but that's on a lucky day...now if the dial number isn't the problem what else could be the issue?