• Quick note - the problem with Youtube videos not embedding on the forum appears to have been fixed, thanks to ZiprHead. If you do still see problems let me know.

No pictures!

Boooo! The problem just came back for me. I was fine up until around 11 am today. Then suddenly, every web page I visit will not show any pictures. All I see is the placeholder box/text.

I didn't do anything to fix it last time. It just fixed itself a couple days later. Oh well.
 
I'm sticking with bandwidth/dns issues. Something is causing the d/l of the pictures to time out. *shrug* It's hard to say over a forum. I mean it's hard over the phone, but at least there the communication is real-time. :)

Good luck
 
The only thing keeping me from jumping on the bandwidth/dns bandwagon is that the other 8 computers in the office are fine. They all go through the same router and isp.

For example, the view of this thread shows the following at the bottom of the browser:

[66 items remaining] Downloading picture http://www.randi.org/images/header/grey_background.gif...


And off to the right a progress bar is crawling along, but it never finishes (on any web page) and eventualy just stays at one fixed point of 3/4 progress or so.
 
Both my computers are OK now, and it seems that powering down did the trick. I have no idea why they both did it simultaneously - the one with Win98 usually gets powered down (often involuntarily!) quite often, while I tend to leave the newer XP machine on standby.

Funny, when I first rebooted the XP machine I had another odd bug, forum pages going blank or freezing for a litte, a minute or so after loading, but I powered down again overnight and today all is well.

It's a judgement for not being carbon-friendly.

Rolfe.
 
It is a sign that gremlins are taking over your machines, muhahahah!

Hans
 
You may be right, this one is doing it again! And it was only switched on this morning. And I'm trying to book airline tickets on that graphics-heavy BA site, which is a damn nuisance.

Rolfe.
 
Check your Ethernet port's settings. Make sure if you're set for DHCP you're getting an address in your network range, and not an APIPA address "169.254.0.0 - 169.255.255.254" Becuase it REALLY sounds like a TCP/IP issue. If you can download an alternative browser, do so. Then you can really tell. Also try a tracert to yahoo.com and see what kinda times and packetloss you're getting.

Windows 98 had really buggy TCP/IP drivers. I used to recommend wiping them and re-installing them monthly, but you need either the Win98 disk or the Cab files to do it.

Good luck
SSR
 
Rolfe said:
You may be right, this one is doing it again! And it was only switched on this morning. And I'm trying to book airline tickets on that graphics-heavy BA site, which is a damn nuisance.

Rolfe.
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Well seriously, have you had a good virus scan, recently? Since it is two systems, some technical problem is unlikely, but since you may visit the same sites with both, and perhaps exchange data between them, you might have a virus on both (excuse me if this has already been covered, it is a long time since I read the early posts here).

Did you empty your internet cache (temporary internet files)?

Hans
 
Stainless_Steel_Rat said:
Check your Ethernet port's settings. Make sure if you're set for DHCP you're getting an address in your network range, and not an APIPA address "169.254.0.0 - 169.255.255.254" Becuase it REALLY sounds like a TCP/IP issue. If you can download an alternative browser, do so. Then you can really tell. Also try a tracert to yahoo.com and see what kinda times and packetloss you're getting.

Windows 98 had really buggy TCP/IP drivers. I used to recommend wiping them and re-installing them monthly, but you need either the Win98 disk or the Cab files to do it.

Good luck
SSR
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I dunno. I have a win98 machine right here with 6 years on it, and it has never had a glitch.

Hans
 
MRC_Hans said:
Mmm, is you cache full? Try to right-click on your explorer icon, and select properties. Under the general tab, there should be a botton to delete temporary internet files.

Normally, windows purges old files by itself, but ......

Hans
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The computer guru wandered by and said to do that, so since he was real and not a Calvin cartoon, I thought I'd do it. Seems to have worked. Just odd that both machines started to do it at about the same time.

He said if the cache was full, there was nowhere for the new pics to go. Maybe that was just baby-talk for the lab-vet person though.

Rolfe.
 
I used to get a similar problem occasionally. Since getting broadband I changed my browser settings to empty the cache when exiting the program and the problem has not recurred.
 
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