IE and hardware use

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Hi-- I'm running the latest IE on a Win 98/SP2 machine and usually it runs
fine. However, recently it's been giving me more and more trouble, as follows.

When I ask IE to load a page, either off the local machine or from the
Internet, it gets the page mostly on the screen and then enters a hard loop,
with the progress bar fully drawn in, and no progress being made (the System
Monitor shows 100% cpu use). While this is going on, Netscape can access the
pages successfully. I have to kill the IE process. Recently IE goes into this
state more often than not, and a simple reboot has been less successful.

I'm reasonably sure this is a hardware problem, so my question is this: does
anyone know what IE is doing with hardware at the end of its page load cycle
that other browsers aren't doing (and that might lead to such a loop)? Any
good suggestions on how I could identify the errant hardware?

Thanks for any suggestions.

Dave Shaw
 
daveshawco said:
Hi-- I'm running the latest IE on a Win 98/SP2 machine and usually it runs
fine. However, recently it's been giving me more and more trouble, as
follows.

When I ask IE to load a page, either off the local machine or from the
Internet, it gets the page mostly on the screen and then enters a hard
loop,
with the progress bar fully drawn in, and no progress being made (the
System
Monitor shows 100% cpu use). While this is going on, Netscape can access
the
pages successfully. I have to kill the IE process. Recently IE goes into
this
state more often than not, and a simple reboot has been less successful.

I'm reasonably sure this is a hardware problem, so my question is this:
does
anyone know what IE is doing with hardware at the end of its page load
cycle
that other browsers aren't doing (and that might lead to such a loop)? Any
good suggestions on how I could identify the errant hardware?

Thanks for any suggestions.

Dave Shaw
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How do suspect hardware that manages to pick one program to cause problems
with rather than all/most of them?

You haven't mentioned virus or spyware scans- the first obvious steps.
 
Alan said:
How do suspect hardware that manages to pick one program to cause problems
with rather than all/most of them?

You haven't mentioned virus or spyware scans- the first obvious steps.
Click to expand...

Virus and spyware scans are clean. I'm suspecting hardware because the
problem comes and goes seemingly randomly. If you have a good idea of
something specific to look for, please let me know. FWIW-- I've used the
add/remove programs option to back up to the previous version of IE, which
worked fine. I then used it to reinstall IE6, and the same problem reappeared.

I have no difficulty believing different programs exercise different parts
of the hardware. My first thought was a memory problem in some address range
only IE used, but that scan also proved negative. The box is an HP Pavilion,
for which I don't know of any good hardware diagnostics tools, hence my
original question.
 
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