computer problems
 

ok, I sold my old celeron 566 mhz computer and got a new celeron 1.8ghz one, and its been giving me nothing but problems.

I have Windows XP PRO (as did my last computer) but I'm having really bad problems loading webpages and pictures and stuff on the webpages, a lot of the time I will go to a page (lets say ebay) and it takes forever to load a picture' (s) and most of the time it loads half the picture and stops, or it tries for soooo long and then it has a "red x" where the pic is supposed to be. I have Rogers hispeed and never had problems like this before this computer, and it usually only happens on sites with pics. I can reload the page over and over again and it will sometimes make the picture load up normally (after it was half, or a red x). i have a router sending the hispeed to another computer and tried that computer and it loads pictures up normally so it isn't the connection.

What part of my computer could be bad for this to happen? (processor, ram, ??) I have a 512 and 128 stick of pc 2100 ddr ram (recently bought the 512, but had these problems since day one)

I have my cookies and temp files set to the lowest limit and even when I clear the history it will still happen.

I heard that there is some kind of website (free) that scans your whole computer and tunes it up or tests parts of the computer to see if they are bad (processor, ram, cache, etc) does anybody know a link???? Any help is really appreciated, I don't know any other way to diagnose this problem.

It might possibly be the build in firewall in windows.. it might be enabled causing those problems. Or a NAT firewall in your router which is blocking port 80 or 81? (doubtful)

That is really strange.

Is this a new installation of the Windows XP Operating System?

Did you install service pack 1(IE 6) from Microsoft, pretty sure it will solve the problem if you haven't installed it yet.

It could be your MTU settings...go to www.dslreports.com and then go to the tools section and do a 'tweak test' and it will tell you if any of your settings are too high or low, etc.

It is a new installation and service pack 1.
I tried that tweak test but it says "test server maybe offline" "try again a little later" end.

I'm not sure how to check about that built in firewall or if the router is blocking anything, but I was using this same router with that old computer and there weren't any problems.

I forgot to mention (if it makes any difference) I am running 2 video cards, the shared one and an invidia, so i can extend the desktop to another monitor (again, I had the same thing in the last computer with the same Nvidia card)

That tweak site looks really good (when it eventually works) does anybody else have links to websites that can test my hardware?

Thanks, I appreciate all of your help.

sounds like a firewall settings problem, or you have your browser set to block certain files..i'm leaning towards your firewall restrictions being set too high..

definitely NOT hardware..
definitely software..

I never set up a firewall, and can't find settings for one in the control panel. This problem is intermittent (should have mentioned that)

The reason I think its hardware is because I have the same set-up as my last computer and it wasn't giving me any problems, but who knows.

oh and the privacy settings are only set to medium

IS your privacy setting were too high within the IE? or you have installed some privacy info. blocking software (e.g. AdSubtract)?

If not..., is your NIC setup as Autodetect?
Try to flip that to 10 Full and see it bring back all the speed, in case some the NIC doesn't behave too well with autodetect/sense.

another thing...

1st Go to command prompt,

ping 127.0.0.1

and see if you have 0ms average from the response.

note: 127.0.0.1 is the loopback that I normally used for basic NIC testing.


2nd. ping your ISP's gateway, then your DNS address to
see if you get decent response time and to see if you have
any lost packets.

If you get poor response at this point...sorry, it's your problem.
You either need to switch cable around, or NIC to see if they are causing the problems.

3rd if all of the above looks fine, try to ping an external site. (e.g. www.symantec.com)

you should see something like this:

Pinging a568.x.akamai.net [209.249.123.210] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 209.249.123.210: bytes=32 time=50ms TTL=53
Reply from 209.249.123.210: bytes=32 time=40ms TTL=53
Reply from 209.249.123.210: bytes=32 time=40ms TTL=53
Reply from 209.249.123.210: bytes=32 time=40ms TTL=53

Ping statistics for 209.249.123.210:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 40ms, Maximum = 50ms, Average = 42ms


If that takes forever to get response from the external site, but you ping your ISP just fine, then it means something wrong between your ISP and the destination sites.

also, make use of the tracert command and find out where the signal get dropped.


regards,
Mugen C

Forgot to asked...you don't happened to have the XP Built-in Firewall enabled right? If so, disable it, otherwise ignore this post.

Mugen C