Web pages freeze - Do I need a new video card?

[FlyingDevilFish]

Whenever I go to a web page with intense graphics such as embedded video or high density graphics the computer freezes for 15-20 secs. I cant use the back button, click on another link or anything. UIsing IE6, CPU is 98% idle. I have a lame Radeon 9000 64K 4X AGP vid card. Could that be the congestion? any way to run any diagnostics on the card? System has a 2.8G P4 and 1 gig duel ddr.

 

[ski]

Does it happen only with graphics on websites, i.e., do games, DVD movies, etc., play ok?

 

[FlyingDevilFish]

yes DVD, .avi, games are all fine just on web pages on fifferent sites. same thing happens on mozilla browser as IE. ive cleared temp files and tried some tweaks, checked cable modem network speed, ect. thats why im looking at the vid card GPU

 

[ski]

Games should be more intense than website graphics and movies, and thus the video card may be ok.

When the system recovers after freezing for 15-20 seconds, do the website's graphics finish loading, and do the videos play?

 

[Krosus]

Graphics card is definetly not your bottleneck, well it is a bottleneck but not in this case.
Have a firewall installed by any chance?, that may well choke your connection while it loads in the stuff, other option try forcing flash/shockwave/java updates as most stuff uses 1 of those to show embedded stuff in an applet/window.

 

[ski]

Also, are you using a dial-up ISP?

 

[felixc]

The graphics card itself may not be the bottleneck, but the drivers associated to this card may. Even if they are listed in the Catalyst documentation, I doubt that they get much work done at every new release.