Server-related: Problem with Internet Explorer

[dcopcutt]

Who doesn't have problems with IE? But here's mine:

IE will not load web pages, either local or remote.

All network services work fine otherwise.

What does it do? It just hangs there, with the revolving globe.

If I boot into safe mode with networking support, IE works fine.

So it's some kind of software conflict.

How do I track down this software conflict? There isn't anything obvious in the Event viewer, and four different anti-spyware and virus programs say that the machine is clean.

This happened on two servers at the same time, and I made no changes to the software at that time. They were powered down, disconnected, moved, reconnected, then powered up.

Any ideas?

Thanks for any time and/or help.

David

 

[djnes]

Could be a problem with either a software firewall, or some DNS related problem. When IE fails to connect to a web page, can you still ping local and remote sites?

 

[dcopcutt]

"When IE fails to connect to a web page, can you still ping local and remote sites?"

Yes. The issue is that IE will not load any webpages, local or remote. DNS still resolves, I can ping local and remote addresses. But IE hangs when it loads the html. There is no local firewall (Server 2000). No other machines on the network (aside from the other server) have this issue.

David

 

[dcopcutt]

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[Phoenix86]

I have a less related question, why are you surfing on a server? I mean if IE broken, it's likely that happened because of a site in the wild, and not some web interface for a network printer.