ie6 sp1 animations/graphics flicker

[skimmers]

Followed the thread on gif's and jpg's not displaying and found some new area's to explore, however my problem is a little different and hopefully someone can help me. I recently downloaded all critical updates and IE6 SP1 for Windows ME. Now, when I start IE6, my home page loads ok and all animations play.
However, if I encounter a page where the
animations "flicker" with white boxes, all subsequent pages
with animations will flicker ( even my home page ) and
when scrolling ALL pictures will "flash" with white. My
vid drivers are up to date as are my monitor drivers. My
refresh rate is 800x600 85mhz which is the best for my
monitor. I unistalled all macromedia flash which helped
but did not fix the problem. This did not happen in IE6
non-SP1.

Thanks in advance, skimmers

 

[skimmers]

Fixed my problem. It seems I needed to upgrade my DirectX to 8.1, I had 7.0. After upgrading all the flickering went away. I don't know if this problem was just related to my machine, but 7.0 seemed to work fine in plain old IE6 and if DirectX 8.1 is need with IE6 SP1 Microsoft should mention that with people running Windows ME. I re-installed flash and shockwave with no problems. Hope this helps someone.