AlanYork
07-01-2005, 20:45
I've discovered that my pc appears to be "not seeing" pictures sometimes. Just recently I had a problem with images appearing as blank boxes with a little red X inside. That appears to be resolved now. But........
Now, where some pictures should be, there is just whatever colour background the site has. Two examples...I get the New Scientist Newsletter and where some of the pictures are supposed to be, theres just a blank space, no little red cross, just a blank area. MSN.co.uk have a space on their homepage where they have an advert, a whopping great big one. Not on my pc, its a whopping great empty space.
I've been connecting using a proxy server but removing that doesnt seem to make a difference. I've done a virus check and scanned for trojans and it says I'm clean. I'm baffled as it's just occasional sites that it happens on and sites seem to open speedily enough.
If it helps to explain it any, my friend did email me a webpage today and the curse of the empty box with the red cross reoccured but that may have been because she emailed me the page I guess.
It may be a red herring but all this seems to have started when MSN upgraded my mail box to 250mb. I couldnt get into my mail box because of error 404. A long protracted debate followed as MSN and NTL blamed each other. NTL gave me a proxy server, that was no help as everytime I moved mail around my hotmail account I got kicked out back to the e mail log on screen. Then followed a second round of MSN and NTL saying it wasnt their fault, it was the other mobs' and I'm just the poor sap thats paying for it!!!
At last I put on a non NTL proxy and that seemed to have solved it, until that started playing up, took it off and hey presto NTL seem to be ok now (you keeping up with this?) But....after 2 weeks NTL start playing up again, sites dont open, lots of empty boxes with the little red cross etc. Right, OK I put on a second non NTL proxy and that seems to work ok, apart from this "missing image" problem.
Now I realise all that may be of no relevance whatsoever and I admit its quite hard to follow, but I could really use advice here and I wanted to make you aware of the recent history. Any help would be appreciated.
Now, where some pictures should be, there is just whatever colour background the site has. Two examples...I get the New Scientist Newsletter and where some of the pictures are supposed to be, theres just a blank space, no little red cross, just a blank area. MSN.co.uk have a space on their homepage where they have an advert, a whopping great big one. Not on my pc, its a whopping great empty space.
I've been connecting using a proxy server but removing that doesnt seem to make a difference. I've done a virus check and scanned for trojans and it says I'm clean. I'm baffled as it's just occasional sites that it happens on and sites seem to open speedily enough.
If it helps to explain it any, my friend did email me a webpage today and the curse of the empty box with the red cross reoccured but that may have been because she emailed me the page I guess.
It may be a red herring but all this seems to have started when MSN upgraded my mail box to 250mb. I couldnt get into my mail box because of error 404. A long protracted debate followed as MSN and NTL blamed each other. NTL gave me a proxy server, that was no help as everytime I moved mail around my hotmail account I got kicked out back to the e mail log on screen. Then followed a second round of MSN and NTL saying it wasnt their fault, it was the other mobs' and I'm just the poor sap thats paying for it!!!
At last I put on a non NTL proxy and that seemed to have solved it, until that started playing up, took it off and hey presto NTL seem to be ok now (you keeping up with this?) But....after 2 weeks NTL start playing up again, sites dont open, lots of empty boxes with the little red cross etc. Right, OK I put on a second non NTL proxy and that seems to work ok, apart from this "missing image" problem.
Now I realise all that may be of no relevance whatsoever and I admit its quite hard to follow, but I could really use advice here and I wanted to make you aware of the recent history. Any help would be appreciated.