Can't Chat!! Help!!

[Roofus]

Ok...be gentle & not too much abuse! I can't help being computer illiterate!
I've got windows 98, IE 5.5. All works well on pprune, but when I try to get into a chat room nothing happens!
I've been patient...had a fag & a coffee & still nothing!
What do I do???? Help! http://www.pprune.org/ubb/NonCGI/confused.gif

[and the chap said]

Depends on the symptoms. I get the same problem because I am trying to access the chat room at work.

It just sits there and does nothing but tell me it's trying to connect. It transpires that I can't get into the chat room through our firewall at work.

Downer!

Good luck,
ATCS