Yes, I'm on NetZero with their so-called Hi-Speed Internet. I can't get
wireless in the small town I'm in due to the trees that suround my house.
ADSL is a long way away too due to the old phone equipment that Verizon keeps
the whole town on.

"PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote:

> 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?
>
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