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Randomly experiencing garbled / missing Internet content
I have been having this problem for about a year now and I don't know what else I can do, so I am hoping someone can help me.
I have an Inspiron 7000 notebook running Win2K connected to a Linksys cable router via a wireless card. The connection itself is fine -- I get an IP, no dropping, good signal, etc. What happens is that periodically anything internet related (I use mostly IE & Trillian) starts blanking out on parts of its content. For example, in IE, a web page will load about half of its content, but will indicate that it's done. Or Trillian will pop up a message window, but the text will be blank. Again, the connection itself does not drop nor do I get any sort or error messages.
Sometime this problem happens after a few hours of the laptop being on, sometimes after a few minutes, sometimes not at all. A reboot usually fixes the issue temporarily. I know it's particular to this machine, because I have a Latitude with the same OS and I've never had it happen on that one. I have tried switching cards, I have updated the router's firmware several times, and I have upgraded both IE and Trillian. I have done umpteen virus scans. Nothing I do seems to make this totally go away.
Any ideas would be most appreciated!
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anthony26
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Posted July 8th, 2004 13:00