# Computer tech help saught. Please? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [November 4, 2003, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/computer-tech-help-saught-please/211254 "2003-11-04T01:45:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Blackeyes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f6c823/32.png) [@Blackeyes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackeyes)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2003, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/computer-tech-help-saught-please/211254/1 "2003-11-04T01:45:30Z")
Okay, so yesterday everything worked fine. All the images and graphics loaded and my internet surfing experience was swell. Today something’s wrong. I go to an invisionfree board for this online game I play (hey guys, I’m seeking help, btw) and none of the graphics loaded. All the images, buttons, emoticons, pictures, avatars, stickies, user images, graphics, and post icons were all blank squares (or rectangles) with little white squares inside them, and red Xs in the middle of those. I went to another board and it was all over there too. A phbb board had the same thing.A proboards board, given the glance over, worked. I go to a random website, and everything’s messed up. Yahoo, works fine, and another random website did too. This [picture](http://myisland0004.50megs.com/images/pict0091-2.jpg) of sancour loaded and worked. I’d say it might have had something to do with cookies -most forums work with them and the ones that didn’t work I had set it so that I’m automatically logged on, like this one. That picture didn’t seem to work on cookies, and Yahoo usually doesn’t, unless you’re logged in or something. But [this](http://www.overnow.com/apachephp.html) web page is also hit by it. Clearing out all my temporary internet files and cookies doesn’t seem to have done anything -maybe it just made the beast madder. For what it’s worth, this board works -except the 15 minutes it took for me to get from IMHO to here, which ended up being IMHO to main page, to here. But the Monday night pressure-induced hamster suicide is another story and I digress. Help please? Pretty please? ---
**Author:** ![Hanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b3f665/32.png) [@Hanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hanna)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2003, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/computer-tech-help-saught-please/211254/2 "2003-11-04T02:08:09Z")
Every once in awhile (well, like twice) I have run into this problem. I do one of two things: Write it off to ISP problems (Comcast can slow to a crawl at times), if pics usually come back up in a reasonable time. Or else I reboot. It doesn’t seem to be a lasting problem, so I don’t worry too much. ---
**Author:** ![Blackeyes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f6c823/32.png) [@Blackeyes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackeyes)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2003, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/computer-tech-help-saught-please/211254/3 "2003-11-04T02:18:06Z")
Reboot, eh? That’s so crazy it just might work. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2003, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/computer-tech-help-saught-please/211254/4 "2003-11-04T02:53:06Z")
You understand that actually telling us the OS and browser you’re using, including version #s, would be a _big_ help, don’t you? Ditto hardware, net access method, etc. ---
**Author:** ![Declan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecae2f/32.png) [@Declan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Declan)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2003, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/computer-tech-help-saught-please/211254/5 "2003-11-04T03:03:29Z")
> [@](#): > > Today something’s wrong. I go to an invisionfree board for this online game I play (hey guys, I’m seeking help, btw) and none of the graphics loaded. All the images, buttons, emoticons, pictures, avatars, stickies, user images, graphics, and post icons were all blank squares (or rectangles) with little white squares inside them, and red Xs in the middle of those. I went to another board and it was all over there too. A phbb board had the same thing.A proboards board, given the glance over, worked. Are the websites that you are having problems with , mainly java based ? Declan ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Nader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Darth\_Nader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Nader)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2003, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/computer-tech-help-saught-please/211254/6 "2003-11-04T11:32:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Blackeyes \* > \*\* I go to an invisionfree board for this online game I play (hey guys, I’m seeking help, btw) \*\* …and a late reply. The ol’ Three-Finger-Salute" fixed everything, right? \ ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2003, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/computer-tech-help-saught-please/211254/7 "2003-11-04T11:48:44Z")
One possibility is that your computer is accessing the net through your ISPs proxy service and that their cache is messed up; (assuming you’re using IE) Click on Tools\>Internet Options\>Connections\>(select your account)\>Settings. See if ‘Use a Proxy Server’ is checked. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2003, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/computer-tech-help-saught-please/211254/8 "2003-11-04T11:49:53Z")
(If it is, try unchecking it, then restarting)