Re: aklug Digest V4 #156

If it's affecting both IE and Firefox, I would be looking at your
networking drivers. I don't know exactly how windows breaks them, but
it seems to happen every once and a while. I've seen a couple other
cases of really strange symptoms where this seemed to fix it. Just go
to the device manager, remove your NIC and reboot. It should detect it
on reboot and reinstall the drivers automatically.

If that doesn't work, try going to the manufacturer and getting some
updated (or even older) drivers. Hopefully changing them will overwrite
whatever got damaged.

I once installed a USB NIC on a windows box with a driver problem. The
driver installation for the new NIC fixed what was wrong with the old
one. Just a thought.

>Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 23:58:57 -0800
>From: Jim Gribbin <Jim@JimGribbin.com>
>Subject: windows problem
>
>I know this is a Linux group, but I am forced to use windows part time
>and I know I'm not the only one here who does. Besides, I'm desperate.
>My laptop dual-boots w2k and has been working well for a while. The
>other day I let it download some large, cumulative security update from
>Microsoft.
>
>Now when I go to www.acs-pcug.org with either Firefox or IE on windows,
>the page continuously refreshes. I mean the instant the little "done"
>shows up on the status bar flashes on, it refreshes ... continuously.
>
>It doesn't happen with Firefox under Linux (other side of same laptop).
>It happens when I'm logged on through GCI or ACS. I haven't AS YET found
>any other sites this happens on. I've watched people access the site
>between the time I was logged in through GCI and when I logged in
>through ACS and the site worked normally (the other CPUs were running XP).
>
>

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Received on Sat Aug 13 15:58:50 2005