why is my browser missing buttons etc?

[tgbyhn10111]

Here is a link to a screen capture I did.



The light grey sections at the top are missing information. If I were to move my mouse over the area between "ebay tools" and "QC" another button would appear but not until I move the mouse over that area.

I have vista and IE7 installed. Using a ATI X1950pro card and have uninstalled and re-installed the latest catalyst drivers. I'm wondring if it's the card that is knackered. It happens a lot but not always.

The other day I opened a file in notepad and the file contents were not displayed. Closed and opened the file again and the content was displayed OK.

It seems that random bits of information are not displayed until another repaint is forced etc.

Thanks

 

[SteveB]

There's no link to a screeny. I doubt its anything to do with the card. Sounds like software to me. The default answer would be to uninstall then reinstall whatever software the button is for. Or perhaps IE7. Others will just tell you to use Firefox.

I didn't read it was Vista at first. I've experienced similar things in XP but thought they would have sorted it for Vista.

 

[thepeganator]

Checked for virus's?

 

[chaosophy]

AGP card? If so check the settings under smartgart in CCC.

Only other time I've seen similar is when the PC is running low on resources, mem etc.

 

[tgbyhn10111]

The affected buttons are on different toolbars so I don't think it's a specific toolbar in ie7. Also notepad had problems.

4GB memory and happens when I'm browsing and nothing else running so resources should be OK



Spec is:

Intel Core 2 Duo E4300 1.8GHz @ 3.0ghz
Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3P
Sapphire X1950Pro 256MB GDDR3 DVI TVO HDCP PCI-E Graphics Card
2 x Raid Seagate 160GB 7200.10 7200RPM SATAII/300 8MB Cache - OEM
1 x Seagate 7200.10 320GB SATAII/300 8.5ms 7200RPM 16MB Cache - OEM
4 sticks of Corsair (CM2X1024-5400C4) 1024MB, DDR2-5300/5400 (667/675MHz) Twin2X Matched Memory Pairs
1 x Lite-on 16 X DVD-ROM SHD-16P1S
1 x Lite-on DVD-Writer SHM-165P6S
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro
CASE ASONIC XCLIO Server case 5X5.25 6X3.5 2xfloppy
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium x32Bit OEM 1PK DVD

The system is very stable.

I'm going to run online kaspersky scan but I'm sure it will find nothing


Something else that has been annoying me is that when I click on the windowws icon bottom left to open the programs list, a lot of the program icons take ages to display.

 

[djdave748]

Go into your Internet Explorer settings and restore all defaults and get rid of any addons you have and re-install them:

Tools,
Internet Options,
Manage Add-ons > Enable or disable Add-ons

 

[jigger]

Dont use IE as your browser

 

[tgbyhn10111]

kaspersky scan found nothing

I don't think the problem is just with the browser, like I said, a couple of times the contents of a txt file were not drawn in notepad - I closed the window, reopened the file in notepad and the contents were there.

any other ideas?

 

[thepeganator]

Virus's?

Like I said....

Post a hijackthis log somewhere it would be read by the experts

 

[tgbyhn10111]

OK but I think I have found the problem. It is happening on my laptop too and the has a totally different graphics card installed.

It seems to be flash9f.ocx that is causing the problem, anyone else had problems with flash? I have downloaded the uninstall routine for that from adobe and run it. I'm going to try running for a while with no flash installed, then install the latest release and see how it goes.

Thanks for all the help