Computer freeze up when replying to a post

[iron bark]

Over the last few days, every time I try to post a topic or a reply, my computer freezes and gives a "woodworkforums.com is not responding" message. Is anybody else having the same problem??

[DJ’s Timber]

What browser are you using?

There are known problems with Internet Explorer.

Have you tried Mozilla Firefox Web Browser (http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/) or Google Chrome Web Browser (https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/browser/) as these 2 are pretty stable

[shedbound]

yes im havIng the same issue on the pc, but yet the tablet works great!

[iron bark]

I am using IE9, and up until a couple of days ago, the problem didn't exist. Sometimes it works first up, other times it might take 3 or 4 attempts to post successfully, and so far I have not been able to identify any pattern to the problem.

[ubeaut]

Over the last few days, every time I try to post a topic or a reply, my computer freezes and gives a "woodworkforums.com is not responding" message. Is anybody else having the same problem??

Believe me we're all over this and a couple of similar problems, most appear to be linked to IE 8 & 9 and are being reported on forums running vBulletin from places all around the world. There are at least a dozen or so fixes being touted for the problems but to date none of them seem to work. We are taking our own measures but to date none seem to have eradicated the problems.

As a rule there have been no problems with Firefox and most of the problems seemed to start after IE was updated from 8 to 9. Possible that the problem also comes from the users computer as there is only a very small number of people being affected.

Biggest problem is it seems to be intermittent, so it's almost impossible to track down. Steven and I have tried many, many times, with all sorts of operating systems and browsers to replicate the problem but can't.

Trying late tonight with an affected members login to see if I can make it happen. Have tried with a couple of others but to no avail.

The first thing I recommend is to try Firefox as it still seems to be fine or Chrome.

If you would like me to try it your login as well, please email me your password and I'll do some tests in the wee small hours of tomorrow. Very hard to track down problems like this without at least trying the same thing as the user reporting the problem

Hope this is of some help.

Cheers - Neil :U

[iron bark]

Thanks Neil,

I understand your frustration and appreciate your efforts.

If it helps, I am running Win 7 64 bit and the latest versionof IE9

Cheers,

[Grumpy John]

Neil, I'm also having similar problems. As you said it seems to be intermittent, which doesn't help the cause.
I'm using EI8 Ver 8.0.7601.17514
Running on Windows 7 64bit Ver. 6.1.7601 Service Pack 1 Build 7601.

I'm not trying to start a Mac Vs. PC debate here, but I'm wondering if any of the Mac users using Safari are having these freeze ups.


System Information
OS Name Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium
Version 6.1.7601 Service Pack 1 Build 7601
Other OS Description Not Available
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name JOHN-PC
System Manufacturer Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
System Model P35-DS3P
System Type x64-based PC
Processor Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz, 2400 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 4 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date Award Software International, Inc. F6, 7/09/2007
SMBIOS Version 2.4
Windows Directory C:\Windows
System Directory C:\Windows\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume2
Locale Australia
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "6.1.7601.17514"
User Name John-PC\John
Time Zone AUS Eastern Standard Time
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 8.00 GB
Total Physical Memory 8.00 GB
Available Physical Memory 6.03 GB
Total Virtual Memory 16.0 GB
Available Virtual Memory 13.9 GB
Page File Space 8.00 GB
Page File C:\pagefile.sys

[Rod Gilbert]

I have been having the same problem. I respond to a forum question and try to post to forum and get the same message woodworkforum is not responding only option offered is to recover web site and when you do you loose you responce and have to write it all again which I am afraid on several occasions I couldn't be bothered to do. I am using window's 7 / internet explorer what ever the latest version is. Any help greatly appreciated.
Regards Rod. This post worked first time but not the edit.