Shii Posted:

Yeh, I’m pretty vulnerable. Suffice to say I won’t be clicking any links, lol.

I dunno though; this whole affair is so above me. I might just go ahead and do a re-format rather than turn one off, wait for my browsers to crash, turn it back on, turn another off, etc.

Nothing personal but I feel bad for anyone who uses dell cd’s to reformat anything. My only reason for this is all the crap that dell installs then sticks you with running in the background.

The list can’t be that many items, and it’s brobably not the microsoft ones (though one can never be totally sure) if you don’t want to hen peck at it, try turning half off and seeing if you guessed the right half or not, then do half of the half, and so on.

Nope, so such luck.

Turned it on this morning, got in the shower, came back out, browsers crashed.

This tells me it’s a hardware issue, if everything I have is still turned off.

How is your modem connected into the wall?

A lot of times lazy ****ty installers will split your Cable at the wall and run one wire to the TV and the other to your modem. This kills the connection like crazy since it’s already being split at the street level, then split again at your house/apt, and THEN if it’s split AGAIN at the wall, that’s a **** ton of signal ****up.

You won’t notice it right away, but the signal degradation slowly builds up over time.

So see if your modem is connecting to the wall via a splitter, or even if it’s being split at all after it comes in through the outside if you live in a house.

If you live in an apt, you’re kinda ****ed, as it’s the only way you can connect since installers generally don’t **** with apts.

elionbel Posted:

How is your modem connected into the wall?

A lot of times lazy ****ty installers will split your Cable at the wall and run one wire to the TV and the other to your modem. This kills the connection like crazy since it’s already being split at the street level, then split again at your house/apt, and THEN if it’s split AGAIN at the wall, that’s a **** ton of signal ****up.

You won’t notice it right away, but the signal degradation slowly builds up over time.

So see if your modem is connecting to the wall via a splitter, or even if it’s being split at all after it comes in through the outside if you live in a house.

If you live in an apt, you’re kinda ****ed, as it’s the only way you can connect since installers generally don’t **** with apts.

I live in an apartment that’s got university internet. I just connect my ethernet into the wall. We have a wireless router but I disconnected from it to see if the problem would still happen and it does.

elionbel Posted:

Have you tried a speedtest on anyone else’s computer to see if it’s not just the Uni’s ****y connection?

http://www.speedtest.ne /

It’s not the University, because I’ve had the same problems even when I took the computer home for break.

Well, it’s at least making the browsers crash LESS often, so I suppose that’s a plus.

Wylin Posted:

Try looking at your task manager when you’re “froze” next time and see if anything strange is hogging your processes. I get there(on my xp) by rigth-clicking my clock then selecting task manager, then I switch to the processes tab and sort by CPU.

Yeh, it’s usually FireFox. I’ll end task and close it or something, but then when I try to re-open, it’ll say “FireFox is still in process. You must close the browser or end process to continue.” or something like that.

When I go and hit “End Process” in the Manager, nothing happens; the process doesn’t end.

I tried un-installing and re-downloading FireFox, but it didn’t work.