thank you so much for the great responses that all of you nice folks have given me.
First of all, I've been having this problem off on for the last month or so. I finally gave up on using Second Life because I have this problem all the time. However, I turned off the power couple weeks ago to work on a project at the house and when I turn on the power everything restarted and I was able to get on to Second Life for the first time in quite some time.
however, about a week or so ago when Windows wanted to do an update and was going to automatically loaded into my computer anyway and it did a restart and when it did that Second Life viewer itself will not work anymore. Second Life viewer always says that it has crashed and even if I reloaded it doesn't work. So, that has been a new development.
but off and on I have always had this problem with these textures not coming on at all and I thought maybe it was a bottom problem but then I plugged the Internet directly into the computer from the bottom by wire rather than wireless and it still is producing the same results. So, I am not exactly sure what this is all about, it is frustrating because this is a computer that my son told me he is a professional in the Air Force and he works with computers all the time. He wanted to make sure I had the latest and greatest computer so I can do all the school graphic stuff and now Second Life won't work.
Well, I really don't understand why that is so.tonight I rebate my avatar but as per some of the instructions of some of the people on here they said to take off all of the stuff I have on, but the viewer (Phoenix viewer is the only one that works now) moves so slow and at the same time it will not let me remove everything that is on my character. I have been using a character skin that I bought but it is not coming off.
Anyway, thank you all so much for the help you have been very nice to me.
Elmo