random pictures and pages wont display

[kmike82]

I've been searching in this group and I tried most of the suggestions
for similar problems out there. nothing is working.

pretty frequently I get a "page cannot be displayed" when I'm surfing.
If I refresh the page, the page will load fine. Also, random pictures
will not load when im surfing as well. I get the box with the red X.
If i right click and show picture, the picture will load. This happens
in really random places. When I'm on my xanga site, for instance, 6
out of 10 pictures wont load. If I refresh, it'll be a different
pictures that wont load. I cant isolate it, its just unpredictable.

This happens on all the browsers I try. I've tried IE6 SP1, firefox,
and opera.

 

[kmike82]

I've read some things that lead me to beleive it might be a DNS issue.
My roomates computer seems to have the same problem too. I just have
no idea how to fix it

 

[kmike82]

anyone? any clue?

 

[Don Varnau]

Hi,
If this were only affecting IE, I would start by clearing the cache
(Temporary Internet Files) and setting it's size to 50-60 MB.

Next, McAfee Privacy Service has caused problems with display of images.
Disable it, if running.

Turn on the windows Firewall (Control Panel> Windows Firewall) and disable
(as a test) your third-party firewall.

Disable, as a test, third-party security, privacy, ad-blocking programs. One
of them may be causing this. Once you find the guilty party, try changing
settings.

Do you occasionally do a complete shutdown? Computers, modem, router...
everything? Sometimes a reset helps.

Other possibilities at: Red X- Pictures do not Show:
http://www.fjsmjs.com/IE/redx.htm

Hope this helps,
Don
[MS MVP- IE]

 

[kmike82]

actually I was able to figure it out tonight. I'm not sure if I'm
talking out of my butt here but the problem had to do with my dns
settings on my router. Appearently, the last time my dsl modem reset
it was given a different DNS address and that wasn't set on my router.
Since the requests to the DNS servers were timing out sometimes, the
page not founds and the RED X's were pretty sporadic.

All I had to do was to switch the DNS settings on my router to match
the ones on my DSL modem and now every thing is working fine.

I hope this works for anyone else out there who is having a similar
problem without any luck so far.