Posted on 09/06/2008 3:23:44 PM PDT by valkyry1
Some sites get slower than others.
Sometimes the FR servers start to choke a little, and sometimes the entire internet will hang up some.
I think in some cases it is denial of service attacks from abroad.
Compare the FR account settings under the manage blocks pages between your 2 machines.
In our case there are two speeds: slow and glacial. It doesn’t bear thinking about, else I’d cry into my beer!
There is method in The Poison Elf’s madness, when you think it thru. He’s a lazy bugger at the best of times, and he’s starting with the easiest component to swap (the screen), then moving to the video card — that isolates-or-otherwise the hardware, which is the Easy Answer. Then moving to the drivers (first screen, then video card) as they are the next easiest to isolate.
Failing that, it’s a bug-hunt for some obscure setting or another...
I only have on monitor here (LCD flat screen) so thats not the problem.
I have never used the screen drivers on either machine. I might as well load them up on this machine.
I will check that out, thanks.
> I have never used the screen drivers on either machine. I might as well load them up on this machine.
Could be something bizarre like that.
Obvious question: Same OS level on both machines? As this is a new build, did you go get all of the Updates thru to SP 3? Your old machine will probably have them all if it has Automatic Update enabled...
This machine is on Win XP Pro at fixpak3.
The other Machine is a 2002 HP Pavilion with WIn XP Home at Fixpak2.
The FixPaks have been known to break ‘stuff’ and I always ran with minimum updates until on this machine.
The screen drivers added nothing for me.
So one thing that we have in common is that our machines are both running Fixpack 3.
It isn’t beyond the realms of possibility that I failed to notice that the look-and-feel of the FRee Republic had changed between 2 and 3...
Hmmmm... curiouser and curiouser.
Have you exchanged the video cards between machines?
//Have you exchanged the video cards between machines?//
No I wont go that far for this problem.
To fix this I think we would have to go into the registry somewhere.
> To fix this I think we would have to go into the registry somewhere.
It goes without saying to back up your registry unless you want to do a re-install if things go bung...
...best of luck with that: I’ll confer with The Poison Elf again to see if he has any suggestions on where in the Registry to look. If he isn’t too far into his cups he might know (Crikey! It’s only 13h11 Sunday afternoon — so three sheets to the wind would be an accomplishment even for The Poison Elf. Still, it’s not impossible...)
I’d rather claw out my eyes than meddle with the Registry — swapping the video card is about as technical as I’d want to go for this problem. As I’m running a laptop with the video built-in to the motherboard, I don’t have that option so probably I’ll have to live with it the way it is...
...unless The Poison Elf has something brilliant to offer. I’ll ask him now.
Well, as I thought, he was well into his cups. Promised he’d look into the registry thing for me later.
I’ll check with him Monday Evening (Auckland time)
Meanwhile, good luck, and sorry I could’t be of more help.
*DieHard*
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