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      CommentAuthorBregt
    • CommentTimeNov 5th 2009
    That might be, but if it worked before, why not anymore (yeah, that's naive). I didn't change anything that could remotely have to d with posting comments, so I really can't see what could go wrong.

    Is it only in Opera?
    Kazoo
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      CommentAuthorFalkirkBairn
    • CommentTimeNov 5th 2009 edited
    Nope. Because I'm using Chrome tonight. dizzy
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      CommentAuthorBregt
    • CommentTimeNov 5th 2009
    Oh. slant

    Must be something computer related then indeed. I hope. I wish I could somehow help or see something.

    Or is it the Merlot? wink
    Kazoo
  4. Bregt wrote
    Must be something computer related then indeed. I hope.

    crazy
    That's right, deny that it could possibly be YOUR fault!

    I need a new PC. Christmas is just round the corner...
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      CommentAuthorMartijn
    • CommentTimeNov 5th 2009
    That it's browser-independent is exactly what I was thinking, and actually I'm leaning towards your firewall or your virusscanner to be the culprit.

    It would be an interesting test to simply stop all your monitoring/protection tools for a bit and see what that does for access.
    'no passion nor excitement here, despite all the notes and musicians' ~ Falkirkbairn
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      CommentAuthorsdtom
    • CommentTimeNov 5th 2009
    I'm working on a 2009 model PC with Firefox and it hangs up here too! I just quit and come back in a few minutes.
    Thomas
    listen to more classical music!
  7. Martijn wrote
    That it's browser-independent is exactly what I was thinking, and actually I'm leaning towards your firewall or your virusscanner to be the culprit.

    As you may remember I have AVG 9.0 and ZoneAlarm running (Windows firewall disabled) and looking at these two programs there's a lot going on:

    AVG 9.0

    LinkScanner (active) - AVG Active Surf-Shield prevents you from accidentally becoming infected by drive-by downloads and other exploits, ensuring that the web pages you visit are safe - when you are about to click the link. AVG Search-Shield works with search engines to deliver a real-time safety verdict on all search results.
    Resident Shield - scans files as they are copied, opened and saved and if a threat is found, it prevents its activation.

    ZoneAlarm

    Firewall - Internet Zone Security set to medium & Trusted Zone Security set to medium

    There's so much going on that perhaps this is affecting loading? But if it is then why is it just happening here and not with other sites I visit?
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      CommentAuthorDemetris
    • CommentTimeNov 5th 2009
    ALAN,

    Try to download the following:

    LATEST DRIVERS FOR YOUR PC PARTS (motherboard, sound card, tv-video card, cpu, etc). guru3d.com, nvidia.com etc etc. A FREE PROGRAM CALLED CPU-Z (which you can download from filehippo.com) can tell you exactly what parts your pc has.
    JAVA RUNTIME ENVIRONMENT from filehippo.com
    LATEST DIRECTX from microsoft.com
    Love Maintitles. It's full of Wanders.
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      CommentAuthorMartijn
    • CommentTimeNov 5th 2009
    FalkirkBairn wrote
    There's so much going on that perhaps this is affecting loading? But if it is then why is it just happening here and not with other sites I visit?


    Honestly?
    I don't know.

    But I do remember having this exact same problem with this very site...and it disappeared as soon as I got my "PC defense" cleaned up and weeded out.
    It may be something to do with the forum template Bregt is using?
    It's definitely worth a try, in my opinion, if only to rule that out.

    D.'s suggestions above are also well-known solutions to problems like these, so very worthwhile to have a look into!
    'no passion nor excitement here, despite all the notes and musicians' ~ Falkirkbairn
  10. Thanks everyone for the help. Unless driver updates can be searched for by pressing one button within the System Properties window then this is all a bit too technical. Currently the location of the searches for drivers is set to look at installation discs.

    I've used CPU-Z but I am completely thrown by the wealth of information. This and the information from the Device Manager just confuses me: what information is relevant, which website would I need to go to for the driver updates, where would I save the updated drivers to, etc.

    dizzy
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      CommentAuthorDemetris
    • CommentTimeNov 6th 2009
    Ok, what motherboard do you have?

    make and model

    For example, mine is NVIDIA NFORCE 680i sli. Nvidia is the maker, the rest is the model. Search for yours...maybe ASUS something?

    Then, what's the video card?

    For example

    NVIDIA geforce something....
    or
    ATI something..
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  12. Mainboard - Microstar MS-6579

    Bios - Phoenix Technologies v3.06

    Graphics - NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 420

    Sound card - Avance AC97 Audio
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      CommentAuthorDemetris
    • CommentTimeNov 6th 2009
    Don't touch the bios for now.

    For your mainboard theck out http://gr.msi.com/ and this topic here, http://www.adventsupport.com/viewtopic. … amp;t=3346

    For your graphics card, go to nvidia.com and download the latest drivers for your model, and operating systems.

    A quick search on your sound card returned this although if you have the time you can find exactly what you have smile

    http://drivers.softpedia.com/get/MOTHER … R349.shtml
    http://drivers.softpedia.com/get/SOUND- … R343.shtml
    http://www.driverfiles.net/Sound-Cards/ … 85,7,.html
    http://download.cnet.com/Avance-AC-97-D … 49480.html
    http://www.liutilities.com/device-drive … ontroller/

    Here are the latest directx drivers:
    http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/deta … laylang=en

    (web installer)

    If you find any troubles, please report!
    Love Maintitles. It's full of Wanders.
  14. Christodoulides wrote
    Don't touch the bios for now.

    For your mainboard theck out http://gr.msi.com/ and this topic here, http://www.adventsupport.com/viewtopic. … amp;t=3346

    For your graphics card, go to nvidia.com and download the latest drivers for your model, and operating systems.

    A quick search on your sound card returned this although if you have the time you can find exactly what you have smile

    http://drivers.softpedia.com/get/MOTHER … R349.shtml
    http://drivers.softpedia.com/get/SOUND- … R343.shtml
    http://www.driverfiles.net/Sound-Cards/ … 85,7,.html
    http://download.cnet.com/Avance-AC-97-D … 49480.html
    http://www.liutilities.com/device-drive … ontroller/

    Here are the latest directx drivers:
    http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/deta … laylang=en

    (web installer)

    If you find any troubles, please report!

    shocked

    Goodness!

    Isn't there just a big red button on the back of the PC I can press that updates everything?

    Oh, and thanks! rolleyes
    The views expressed in this post are entirely my own and do not reflect the opinions of maintitles.net, or for that matter, anyone else. http://www.racksandtags.com/falkirkbairn
  15. FalkirkBairn wrote

    Graphics - NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 420



    Wow! I remember that card... that's an antique mate. I've had so many gfx cards, I think I had one once.

    I guess you're not into games then? dizzy beer
    "considering I've seen an enormous debate here about The Amazing Spider-Man and the ones who love it, and the ones who hate it, I feel myself obliged to say: TASTE DIFFERS, DEAL WITH IT" - Thomas G.
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      CommentAuthorMartijn
    • CommentTimeNov 6th 2009
    I don't think there are many games any more for WIndows 3.11... wink
    'no passion nor excitement here, despite all the notes and musicians' ~ Falkirkbairn
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      CommentAuthorBregt
    • CommentTimeNov 6th 2009
    You had those problems as well Martijn?

    Wow. I'll have a look into it this weekend.
    Kazoo
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      CommentAuthorMartijn
    • CommentTimeNov 6th 2009
    Long time ago, at the foum's beginnings.
    It's all good for me now.
    'no passion nor excitement here, despite all the notes and musicians' ~ Falkirkbairn
  19. DreamTheater wrote
    FalkirkBairn wrote

    Graphics - NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 420



    Wow! I remember that card... that's an antique mate. I've had so many gfx cards, I think I had one once.

    I guess you're not into games then? dizzy beer

    biggrin

    You can tell then?!

    If I want to play games I'll go to a dedicated games console - and then it's "only" a Wii! I don't think I have ever played a video game on a PC.
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      CommentAuthorsdtom
    • CommentTimeNov 6th 2009
    From the older generation, one of the things we became accustomed to, was purchasing a product and it would last a long time. Such is not the case with computers because of the constant improvement. Speaking for myself, I went through a tremendous learning curve to adapt to Windows XP and I paid a lot of money for my computer ($1500). As I get older it is harder for me to learn new things as the brain just doesn't function as well as it use to. Couple that with the stroke and it is even harder. You can tease me about Norton being a virus but after some initial effort I've not had a problem and never a virus. I've always found Photoshop to be to my liking because I learned (read 3 books) and it does what I need it to. In fact this notepad has Picasso which I don't like, likely because I'm not comfortable with it.
    Thomas
    listen to more classical music!
  21. Bregt, I'm using IE8 here at the moment (add-ons switched off for the time being) and I seem to be having no problem posting comments.

    Are you sure that there couldn't be something in the bowels of this site that isn't quite optimized for Opera/Chrome?
    The views expressed in this post are entirely my own and do not reflect the opinions of maintitles.net, or for that matter, anyone else. http://www.racksandtags.com/falkirkbairn
  22. FalkirkBairn wrote
    Bregt, I'm using IE8 here at the moment (add-ons switched off for the time being) and I seem to be having no problem posting comments.

    I knew it was too good to last...I'm getting sick of this. crazy
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  23. crazy crazy
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      CommentAuthorMartijn
    • CommentTimeNov 7th 2009
    Alan, did you try my suggestions?
    That would *really* offer a good baseline!
    'no passion nor excitement here, despite all the notes and musicians' ~ Falkirkbairn
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      CommentAuthorsdtom
    • CommentTimeNov 7th 2009
    today this computer i'm using is fine
    thomas
    listen to more classical music!
  26. Martijn wrote
    Alan, did you try my suggestions?
    That would *really* offer a good baseline!

    I've not tried anything as drastic as the suggestions you've made (at least I consider drastic).

    I'm just getting pissed off with the whole thing at the moment.

    Now my Amazon account seems to be f**ked up at the moment as well. I can log into my account to view my order history, etc but when I try and order something and have to log in again I get the message...

    "We're sorry. The address you selected is no longer valid. Please choose a different address or return to the Amazon.co.uk Welcome page."

    Obviously my e-mail address/password is fine because I can log in to view my order history, modify details, etc but I can't purchase downloads, orders CDs etc.
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      CommentAuthorMartijn
    • CommentTimeNov 8th 2009
    Nothing too radical about it: stopping any virusscanner/firewall *should* be as easy as a push on the button...
    'no passion nor excitement here, despite all the notes and musicians' ~ Falkirkbairn
  28. FalkirkBairn wrote
    Now my Amazon account seems to be f**ked up at the moment as well. I can log into my account to view my order history, etc but when I try and order something and have to log in again I get the message...

    "We're sorry. The address you selected is no longer valid. Please choose a different address or return to the Amazon.co.uk Welcome page."

    Obviously my e-mail address/password is fine because I can log in to view my order history, modify details, etc but I can't purchase downloads, orders CDs etc.

    I think that Amazon's site is b*ggered at the moment. I created a new e-mail address, new account and tried to order something but I got the same error message...
    The views expressed in this post are entirely my own and do not reflect the opinions of maintitles.net, or for that matter, anyone else. http://www.racksandtags.com/falkirkbairn
  29. Martijn wrote
    Nothing too radical about it: stopping any virusscanner/firewall *should* be as easy as a push on the button...

    Things seem to be working okay at the moment.

    I do value your advice, Martijn. It's just I've always had it hammered home to me about security. If the problem crops up again (which I'm sure it will) I'll certainly try your course of action.
    The views expressed in this post are entirely my own and do not reflect the opinions of maintitles.net, or for that matter, anyone else. http://www.racksandtags.com/falkirkbairn
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      CommentAuthorMartijn
    • CommentTimeNov 8th 2009 edited
    It's always better to be overcautious than not cautious at all...but there's an overemphasis on security for people who simpy aren't at risk.

    The biggest risk in contracting security breaches are
    1) surfing for porn
    2) downloading illegal applications and games (installable materials)
    3) opening suspicious mails.

    If you refrain from those activities the chances of getting infected or breached are quite low indeed.

    Running "without shields up" for the limited amount of time a test would take carries a negligible risk factor (and even in the utterly unlikely event that coincidentally at that exact time someone would indeed happen to try and do harm to your system -which is the only way you'd really be at risk: from a hack event, as long as you stick to not doing any of the three High Risk actions outlined above- , the effect would quickly be mitigated or annulled by getting all your firewalls and scanners back up agan after the test.
    'no passion nor excitement here, despite all the notes and musicians' ~ Falkirkbairn

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