I have been having major issues with internet browsing. I get very high numbers of failure to load errors on both Internet Explorer 8 and Firefox 3.0.13. These occur with no discernable pattern (ie. I cannot identify any issue with my network connection) and on websites I frequent such as my homepage msn.com. I have experienced a strange phenemona where the network status icon on the taskbar will periodically switch to "local only" for brief periods but it doesn't seem to have any correlation with when I have the page display problem.
I first started noticing the unreliability issue after I rolled back a BIOS update. Could that have something to do with it? (I went down from F.26 to F.25 on an HP Dv7-1175nr)
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It might be related. Have you done the standard virus/trojan scans, and checked for missing or old drivers, etc? If you upgrade the BIOS, does the problem stop?
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I'm in the process of packing for a trip but I'll try that as soon as I get to my destination.
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Well I flashed the BIOS and after more than a week of observation I'm not sure there that much of a difference in browsing reliability. My drivers appear to all be in over and the Device Manager is not complaining about anything so I really don't know any other remedies to try.
Now, I realize that I am overstepping the bounds of this subforum here and moving onto "Windows OS and Software" territory, but would having multiple internet browsers on the same computer cause these kinds of problems? -
Issue with Internet Unreliability
Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by reagan42, Sep 4, 2009.