I broke Minecraft =l

Squippit, Sun Apr 28 2013, 08:11PM

I tried to get on earlier today, and my world would kind of load, chat would kind of work, and then about a minute later I would crash without actually being able to do/interact with anything or go anywhere. I then was met with a Java.net Socket Exception Connection Error.

Looked it up and found I needed to update Java. But first, I had to get rid of my old Java to do this. I went under add/remove programs and got rid of it. After attempting to reinstall 3 times and failing, I finally got the most recent version of Java back on my computer.

Overjoyed, I attempted to return to Minecraft. I launched FTB and waited for the launcher to get up, logged in... and got a black screen, accompanied with an error noise but no error message. Confused, I tried this again with regular Minecraft launcher and after logging in, same result. Black screen, error noise, no error message.

So, onto the question: Any techy people have this problem before and know the fix for it? Do I need to provide any information before I can get help? Is this the proper place to ask or is there a more appropriate place where I can get help? (wasn't really sure, but the Forums link is now a Forums & Support link so thought I'd give it a go)

Thanks for any info anyone can provide. -Squippit