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Windows Forum / Internet Explorer / IE 5.x / August 2006IE 5.5 blanks display during refresh
I have an HTML page for a weather station so that I can see the current weather conditions. It is on a dedicated computer (an older laptop running Windows 98) so it is always active. The page automatically refreshes every 60 seconds. Occasionally, at random, the display area of the browser window goes blank. The rest of the window (buttons, menu, etc.) are still there. When this happens, I can "view source" and see that the page IS refreshing because the time of day is included in the data of the page. So, it is refreshing the page but not displaying anything. If I press F5 the page comes back onto the screen and continues to update properly until this problem happens again. Try clearing out your TIF (temporary internet files folder) completely: Boot to DOS (Start...Shutdown...Restart in MS-DOS mode) Go to C:\Windows type -- smartdrv -- <enter> - gets rid of all that disk thrashing type -- deltree history -- <enter and y to verify> - to clear History type -- deltree tempor~1 -- <enter and y to verify> - to clear TIF Reboot  SignatureJon R. Kennedy MS MVP/IE Charlotte, NC USA jkennedy2@carolina.rr.com >I have an HTML page for a weather station so that I can see the current > weather conditions. It is on a dedicated computer (an older laptop [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > the page comes back onto the screen and continues to update properly until > this problem happens again. Thank you, Jon! I did exactly what you said... it took about 30 minutes to do the 2nd delete, but it hasn't failed in about 4 days. I'm not sure why that would have worked, but it seems to have! Dave > Try clearing out your TIF (temporary internet files folder) completely: > [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] > > the page comes back onto the screen and continues to update properly until > > this problem happens again. I spoke too soon... it just did it again after about 5 days. Do you have any other ideas?? Dave > Try clearing out your TIF (temporary internet files folder) completely: > [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] > > the page comes back onto the screen and continues to update properly until > > this problem happens again. With the page refreshing every 60 seconds, your TIF can fill up fast - with all sorts of stuff. What size do you have your TIF set at? If that is all the computer is doing, you could dramatically increase the size of your TIF. Another thing to check, which I didn't think of before, would be to see if there are any updates to the driver for your video card. SignatureJon R. Kennedy MS MVP/IE Charlotte, NC USA jkennedy2@carolina.rr.com >I spoke too soon... it just did it again after about 5 days. > > Do you have any other ideas?? > > Dave If the problem is caused by TIF filling up, is there a way to avoid using TIF in the first place? Performance isn't an issue... neither is efficiency. I have 168MB specified for TIF - but I looked at the files and none of them were accessed recently... in fact, the newest one was over a year old. I will check on the driver. > With the page refreshing every 60 seconds, your TIF can fill up fast - with > all sorts of stuff. What size do you have your TIF set at? If that is all [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > > > Dave > If the problem is caused by TIF filling up, is there a way to avoid using > TIF [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > them > were accessed recently... in fact, the newest one was over a year old. Reduce the size of TIF to 50 MB. SignatureFrank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM Reply in newsgroup "They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security" |
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