Are you on dial-up and is a "web accelerator" installed?

Ruptured Rancher wrote:
> Not sure if I have a hardware or software problem here.
>
> I have run into a problem viewing photos or otherwise high resolution
> pictures in Internet Explorer 7 and later 8 after I upgraded to it. These
> photos on a webpage will be displayed in a very low resolution, blocky,
> blotchy manner while text or line drawings are usually displayed with no
> problems. This occured after I had upgraded my motherboard to the fastest
> processor the manufacturer said it would accept which was an Intel 3.06Ghz
> HT one. Unfortunately I gave the old processor away when I upgraded my
> uncle's computer with it and he's out of state. The original processor
> was
> not a HT processor but the computer's manufacturer (a major one - THE
> major
> manufacturer of PCs out there) said this processor was compatible with the
> motherboard.
>
> I thought the integrated video card may be the problem as it wasn't all
> that
> great so I put a new one in that doubled the amount of memory and had a
> faster processor in it. Unfortunately this didn't change anything.
> What's
> strange is I can have the problem viewing a photo in my ISP's mail website
> but not when I download the same photo into Outlook Express and view it
> there! Raising the video card's resolution to the highest level doesn't
> change anything either as those high resolution pictures on the page are
> still out of focus, so to speak.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas what to tackle next with this problem?