the problem is one side of the room light and out lets work and on other half none of the outlets are working. this house is an old house,has same breaker from 30 yrs ago, could the breaker allow this to happen ??? dont know myself please help me out

 

Could be the breaker, but not likely.

Are you sure that both sides of the room are on the same breaker? Try turning off and back on all the breakers in the panel.

Have you looked for a tripped GFCI?

 

have reset all breakers in box with no action now explain what
the gfci is and maybe I'll try that but could be breaker right??

 

A GFCI is a receptacle with "T" and "R" (or "TEST" and "RESET") buttons on it. It could be located a long ways from the dead outlets, and could be in a strange place anywhere inside or outside of your house.

Are both sides of the room on the same breaker? Answering this question requires prior knowledge, since there is no way to figure it out while the outlets are dead.

I suggest you spend $8 on a plug-in outlet tester at Home Depot. When you do, plug it into a dead receptacle and tell us what happens.

As I said before, it could be the breaker, but still not likely.

 

 

as far as i know boths side are on the asme breaker thanks on the gfci I know exactely what it looks like and how to reset it but like you said it could be anywhere(probably in the attic somewhere)

 

Almost certainly a bad receptacle or receptacle connection. Have any receptacles been replaced? If they were are they "backstabbed", meaning the wire stuck into the holes in the back?
You'll need to check several receptacles. Start with the first one that is dead in the loop, if that is pretty obvious. Then go to the last live one in the loop. Even though it is live, the feed out connections may be bad. This is a common oversight. People think because the receptacle is live it must not be the problem.

 

If both sides of the room are on the same circuit, then it is impossible that the breaker could be faulty.

If you search this forum, you will see countless people who have posted here with open neutrals. It's tedius work to find and correct this problem, but it's not rocket science. Many suggestions are offered in other threads.

The $8 receptacle tester could greatly narrow the hunt for the fault. Go get one now.