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  • February 8, 2006 at 8:08 am #2192922

    IE / firefox stopped working while network is on

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    by baowei_t · about 17 years, 3 months ago

    hi,guys:
    here is my situation.
    I am using xp os. several days ago, my IE/firefox stopped working. However, I can still use my outlook and bittorrent to download movie. I checked my network setting nothing wrong to me at least. another pc using the same router works fine.
    another interesting thing is that after reboot my pc, IE/Firefox works for a few minutes and then error message popup. IE: check your lan setting,etc. firefox: the server was reset while firefox was trying to connect something like that.
    any idea?
    by the way, I even tried to repair install xp which did not help either.

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    • February 8, 2006 at 8:24 am #3132821

      Advice

      by bfilmfan · about 17 years, 3 months ago

      In reply to IE / firefox stopped working while network is on

      Scan for viri and malware.

      • February 8, 2006 at 11:00 am #3092485

        more advice needed

        by baowei_t · about 17 years, 3 months ago

        In reply to Advice

        I did scan it with norton and no virus/spyware was found.

    • September 21, 2006 at 5:57 am #3205275

      same issue happened here could anyone help me out?

      by davegsun · about 16 years, 8 months ago

      In reply to IE / firefox stopped working while network is on

      same issue happened here, IE/firefox worked for only few minutes then went “page cannot be displayed” or “check connection”. Iv done virus scanning by Kaspersky Lab. and spyware/malware scanning by Search&Destroy but neither helped. Was just wondering is there any other way the problem can be solved?

      • September 21, 2006 at 1:26 pm #3204259

        I’ve had that happen to me as well..it’s a bug in Firefox

        by why me worry? · about 16 years, 8 months ago

        In reply to same issue happened here could anyone help me out?

        At first, I was inclined to to have you guys check if you are pointing at a proxy instead of going directly out to the internet, but since I have this same problem, it is not a proxy setting. I recently downloaded the latest version of firefox and that is when I started to see this occur. I think Mozilla screwed up this time, and it’s not your PC that’s at fault. If you can downgrade your version of Firefox, do it, because the latest version is crappy.

    • December 14, 2006 at 12:55 am #2502137

      Only have the problem with Firefox

      by ja.jerkchicken · about 16 years, 5 months ago

      In reply to IE / firefox stopped working while network is on

      Temporary workaround is to kill the firefox process in the task manager and restart firefox.

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