Forums mIRC Help accepting send problem?

everytime i try to download...it will say accepting send.....and then 3 to 6 mins. later it will say connection failed? it never downloaded or anything, after that it will tell me i have a dcc pending and i have to set my client to receive the download.....any solution to this? if this is already answered please direct me to that thread..thanx

- see this thread

-look in your status window for any msgs such as file type ignored

-check in options/other/lock to see if you have disabled dcc get

-check your scripts to see if you are putting the sender on ignore