Problems with homepage- Could MB be the issue?

[Cocoa2424]

Hello all. I just built a new computer and now I am having a few minor problems. Board is Asus A7A266 with an Athlon 2000+. The problem I am having is that msnbc.com is my home page. When I put my address in yp personalize my home page, it will not save. It is dropping a cookie in the folder, it just does not save correctly on the home page. I have swapped processors, reformatted and reinstalled twice, swapped hard drives & changed memory. As for software, I have cleared all history, cache and cookies, I have gone to control panel and run the fix for IE, have tried updating to IE6.0 and then back to 5.5 and I even took the cookie from another machine where I was able to personalize and dropped it in the folder on my machine. I am also unable to access a few web pages, will just act like it's loading and then say done, but page is blank. It is the same sites, not just random. The only hardware I didn't change is MB, which is why I am posting here in hardware. Could there be some jumper or setting that will correct? I am running Win 98se and IE 5.5. I appreciate any suggestions. Thanks.

 

[Jakespeare]

Whoa. No offense, but you really missed this one.
> I believe it has ZERO to do with hardware.

It is with IE, and how it reads websites. Now, I don't have a fix, nor does Microsoft, but somebody might have a good suggestion.

I had the EXACT same problem with a webpage loading BLANK. I too have an Asus mainboard, but it's a P4. I was running IE 5.5 SP2, all updates, and every page on the Internet loaded EXCEPT ONE,,,,,,, and it drove me crazy. I could NOT fix it, no matter what I tried.
Down at the bottom, LEFT corner of IE is an error message, if you read it, you will get a clue as to what is going on.
> My message said something just like this:
syntax error
line 13
character 20
* IT was ONE DARN little character of code that stopped the webpage from loading.
I tried EVERYTHING, that I could think of. Nothing.
I had every page in the world, except one I really need.
* I was reinstalling Windows XP Pro again, anyway, and I did and it was fixed.
Somewhere in IE is a flaw that was introduced. Now, this was a clean install, like yours, so I don't know how to correct it.
BLANK PAGE,,,,,,,, I tried security setting, removing them all; juggling java settings, turning off Zone Alarm, ..... on, and on.

So, hopefully some software nerd versed in IE code has an answer.
* Try looking at the error message,,,,,, and post that back.

 

[Cocoa2424]

OK, I found an error, but not for the personalization issue. That gives no error. When trying to access another site I get;
Line: 2
Char: 1
Error: syntax error
URL: (wherever I was going)

Any suggestions on how to fix?
BTW- I know the motherboard would not likely be the problem, it's just the only thing I haven't swapped.

Thanks.

 

[Jakespeare]

Cocoa2424
I would repost this problem of yours, in the Windows 98 /95 forum,,,,, (or if there is an IE forum).

You might want to combine the information that you have supplied in both posts, into one post, and give that a shot.
I would really like to know how to fix that. It is frustrating,,,,,,,

 

[Cocoa2424]

I did post on an IE board. Like I said, I have tried everything myself and 6 technicians can think of. I am hoping someone somewhere may have an answer. And if it turns out to be hardware, I've seen stranger things. You never know.....

 

[tlcscousin]

Have you tried going into the advanced options of internet options and check the box to disable script debugging and uncheck the one for display a notification for every script error.

 

[yahoo]

are you running on a network? i had the same problem on my ICS clients after bulding 3 new ones. It was the server, not the clinets, after reinstalling windows on my ICS server, all was well. also, try typing in the IP address in the IE address bar. you can find web page ip addreses from tracert at the command prompt e.g.
C:\tracert yahoo.com