ISP problem?

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I recently upgraded the memory in my desktop from 512MB to 2GB. Since I did that a new problem has cropped up: if I have multiple tabs open in my browser, gradually each tab stops being able to get to the destination site despite multiple refreshes. After a few minutes of this I lose my connection to the ISP and it has to dial back in all over again.

I can't see how the memory cards could have corrupted the ISP dialer, but that's the only thing that changed at that time.

Has anyone had this or something similar happen? If you did, how'd you fix it?
 
You using IE? If you are, I'd just switch to Firefox.

What if you right click the IE icon on the desktop and choose Start Without Add-ons?

Or go to Start -> All Programs -> Accessories -> System Tools -> Internet Explorer (No Add ons).

You can also try resetting your IE settings, but you will lose your saved passwords if I'm not mistaken.
 
I was trying to reply and the damned thing did it again. Connection speed getting to known sites is also slow as hell.

Sorry I didn't make these clear before: I'm using Firefox 3.5.3 (IE is unsafe as hell; Opera won't use Keyscrambler and I've found it unstable). Browsing history is never saved. Windows don't perform any differently than tabs, just less convenient to use.

Any ideas short of a full reinstall?
 
average gimp said:
I was trying to reply and the damned thing did it again. Connection speed getting to known sites is also slow as hell.

Sorry I didn't make these clear before: I'm using Firefox 3.5.3 (IE is unsafe as hell; Opera won't use Keyscrambler and I've found it unstable). Browsing history is never saved. Windows don't perform any differently than tabs, just less convenient to use.

Any ideas short of a full reinstall?
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Reading your first post , first thing popped in my mind was fresh install.

Used to have a saying back i the early days of XP that it was like a car , every 3000 miles you need to change the oil , in this case the OS.
The more you install , deinstall programs etc the worse your registry becomes, IMO those reg cleaner programs..... Registry Mechanic is pretty cool but I do not trust most of them , too many folks use them like a shotgun.
You could try to clean your registry first , if that doesnt work then....

Fresh install time !!! :D

Look at it this way your pc will run WAY faster afterwards and be good for at least a year providing you remain virus free.

Also , going to get flamed here but IMO Firefox is a buggyass browser , I have seen it cause problems , incompatability issues, crashing... blah blah... work with what you like best though , I just do not think FF is superior by any means.

one last thing , are you positive the new ram you added is 100% compatible with your mainboard ?

good luck !

Tostig
 
Thanks, Tostig. Memory cards are exactly what's specified for the board. I hate reinstalls. Sounds like it's time to start over with some version of Linux.
 
I have somehing similar from time to time: electrical storms and brownouts set it off. Contacted my ISP who should know better than a bunch of internet geeks. :D

They had me shut off my computer, shut off the DSL modem, and turn off my power to the whole setup for ten minutes. When I turned everything back on, it worked fine.
 
Esav's suggestion may work, it's no wonder that electronic equipment often comes with a reset button, and if there's no reset button it can be uinplugged.

In the days when I was using Windows XP, when my PC started acting strange I would do a System Restore (Start>All programs>Accessories>System Tools>System Restore) which takes the registry and some system files to an earlier state where, hopefully, there was no problem.

I also cleaned the registry every once in a while, IIRC I used CCLEANER for that.

It may be a good idea to try Linux, even if only as a diagnostics tool, a Linux live CD will let you boot in Linux and check things out, if there are still problems with your internet connection, then it's a hardware problem, if not, then it's likely the OS.

I started using Ubuntu Linux in 2006 and haven't gone back to Windows, currently working great in my Pentium 4 PC, I have also brought new life in some older machines (Pentium 2, Pentium 3) with Puppy Linux.

You can download the Puppy Linux iso file (about 100MB), burn it to a CD and boot your PC with the CD in the drive. Check your connection, play with Linux and if you don't like it take out the CD and reboot in Windows.

Luis
 
Esav: thanks for the tip, but I'm on dialup and no recent lightning storms here.

Don: Have had several bouts with system restore since I got this thing (2005). It worked in the first year or so, but not after that; had to go to semi-destructive resets. I think a clean reinstall for offline use with a live Linux distro for all online activity will probably be what I end up doing.
 
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