Stealth870 Posted May 29, 2007 Share Posted May 29, 2007 I've been having some major issues with my recently built PC. For some reason, under Windows XP my browsers have major problems loading websites and such.Many times I end up hitting refresh WAY more than I should. Sometimes, a page won't even load, no matter how many F5's I slam. however, one of the strangest things that happens is (mainly happens in FF, since its my main browser, but I think I've seen it in IE7 as well):I'll open my browser and visit a page, have another tab open or whatever as well. Sometimes, when loading a new page or tab, it will try loading an image from some previous site I visited!! Incredibly annoying. For example, let's say I go to msfn.org right? Then I try visiting digg.com or something, and what I get is an error saying "could not find /images/header/msn_banner.jpg" or something like that, as if I were still on the MSFN page. Sometimes when I try loading blogger for instance, all it will load is the 16x16 favicon, and DISPLAY that as the webpage!I really have no clue what's going on, but I know it's only on this computer (laptop does NOT have this problem), it's not FF specific (IE and Kmeleon also do the hang-on-load, and I'm sure IE has done that screwed up loading thing, in fact, so has Thunderbird when loading RSS feeds) and it's under XP (as my Ubuntu dual-boot also does not have this issue). Any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyeball Posted May 29, 2007 Share Posted May 29, 2007 how are the network settings on this pc configured? specifically dns.is the xp you are using n-lited?how is general network browsing, do packets get dropped if you set off a ping to a host?let us know thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stealth870 Posted May 29, 2007 Author Share Posted May 29, 2007 I have it set to use the DNS from the router, which uses the DNS settings from OpenDNS. Yea, but just SP2 and patches streamlined...Well, I pinged a site 15 times (-n 15) and I had no packet loss... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyeball Posted May 29, 2007 Share Posted May 29, 2007 hmm, how is the computer connected wireless or wired? as compared with the working pc.Also is there anything in your event logs? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stealth870 Posted May 30, 2007 Author Share Posted May 30, 2007 The computer is wired via a very long Ethernet cable. Compared to the working computer? Well, like I said, I dual boot. It's the same computer, it's just under WinXP that I get these problems, not in Ubuntu. That leads me to believe there is some setting in XP that must of been messed with, but I have no clue what it would be... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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