Good thought, and it may be related (see my last post about javascript
and localhost access). One thing I upgraded after developing the problem
was my NIC drivers. It didn't affect the problem.
Jim Gribbin
Graham Siebe wrote:
> 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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