Hello all. I am having problems with room in house. The fan light, fan, and closet light do not come on. The wall plug ins do work. I plug a light into them and the light comes on. I have a mutlimeter that i purchased a while back for car purposes. From reading posts with similar problems, I plan on testing the light switches; the wires connecting to the switches. These are two wires coming from the wall from the attic. I just some what lost, cant say im doing somethng right. What setting do i need to have multimeter? Do i test wires/switch disconnected from each other. What is multimeter indication that any of these are working properly or not? I know i;m suppposed to check the breakers too. I found the breaker that controls the wall plug ins and if i turn it off, none of the wall plug ins work so i guess that is fine. I suppose that the breaker controlling the light switches though is probably different one? Also, i reset the breaker swithces several times already, but not helping. This started when i was working on fan fixture in other room adjacent I undid the wiring to replace fan box. Since then i have problms with this other room. BUt that fan and lights are fine. One last thing, one of the receptacles, a gfci, has red reset and black test button in the room. The small light on it indicates green. But the outlet does not work, it really never has but lights and fan were fine. Not sure if this matters. Thanks for any assistance i can get.

So here's where I'm at. I have installed a new ceiling fan where an existing light was. There is one wall switch that controls the ceiling fan and light at the same time. I want to separate them and have either 2 switches for light and fan or do one that has those two in one. Either way, there is only 2 wires coming down into the current switch, because there was just a light there before. So my question is how do I go about getting the fan and light on separate switches when there isn't separate wires in the wall.