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Support => Technical support => Topic started by: Sylarzen on April 21, 2012, 09:33 pm
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I've been running tor on my home pc with no problems for a while now, but decided to buy a new laptop for visiting sr that can be kept separate from the address i'm having stuff delivered to and used on a different network.
I installed the tor bundle exactly the same as on my home pc, and all settings appear to be identical, but although it connects to the tor network it wont access any .onion sites at all. It just times out and says firefox cant connect.
The only real difference is that the new laptop is running windows 7. I've re-installed tor multiple times which achieved precisely nothing.
Can anyone shed any light on this for me please?
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Make sure the system clock has been synchronized against an Internet time server, and try again.
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i had the same problem once when i first found SR. i had just placed my first order and sat on my fucking laptop screen and that shit looked liked a trippy spider web of a broken screen. i panicked and went to walmart and bought a new laptop to take care of my order. i get home and downloaded the tor bundle and try to access the road and the shit kept saying sumthing along the lines of web site dont exist and it could be down for sum reason or my firewall doing sumthing. i tried everything i could think of to make it work givin im pretty much a jackass when it comes to anything technological. i got it to work by going to the firefox page and downloading sum kinda tor accesory and another thing called sumthing like anomizer and maybe even one more option all at the same time and then it let me access the .onion sites. after i took care of my order i noticed that the forums wernt able to load up for me. this shit was super frustrating and i couldnt figure out for anything how to resolve it. anyway i ended up changing so much shit on the computers settings tring to make that shit work that the computer went crazy and had cascading windows ( like when you win at the end of solitare) and went blank. i pressed the power button and when it powered back it it said sumthing like no operating system found and i get in an awful mood cuz i just fucked off all this money on a new laptop that is more fried than me. i check my recipt out of desperation and see that they accept returns with in the first fifteen days and i bought it 13 days prior. i package that mother fucker back up best i could and put my game face on ready to deal with my neighborhood walmart. they took it back no questions asked i was really expecting them to try and screw me over it but it went pretty smooth. i go to another walmart and buy a cheaper laptop that was like the most basic one you can get. i go home repeat the same process of loading the tor bundle and try to get on the road. the new laptop goes right to the logon page for me. i was amazed that one computer worked so easy while the other seemed to be cursed. they were both toshibas. sorry for the rambling just wanted to fully explain the story. also to add to my frustration even with all the spiderweb of cracks on the broken laptop screen i could still see just enough of a page to still get to the log on page but not see the shit good enough to type in my access stuff. so that computer was getting to that point and the new one was giving me all that trouble. is your old one working fine too and your new one just not getting on the road? maybe you could switch your new computer for doing your regular activities and keep your old one for your sr activities since thats what you were going for.