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Constant errors from all browsers "Cannot load webpage" please help
Hello,
I have a HP Pavilion tx1308nr notebook computer that I upgraded from Vista to 7 several years ago. The laptop is about 8 years old now, but was working ok until about a few months ago.
I have a horrible problem right now that has developed. Web browsers will not display webpages! In particular, Chrome gives the "Aw Snap something went wrong..." error on just about every web page I try to load. I have also tried Opera (a little better), IE (about the same) and Firefox (somewhat better). The internet speed is fine because I have 3 other newer devices that work fast on my wifi, however, I switched to an ethernet cable and there was no improvement, if anything it's worse.
Its really awful, I cant use the internet anymore! I tried reinstalling the network driver and the graphics card driver from the HP website for the product, there was no effect. I thought maybe the graphics card went bad or was incapable of keeping up with all the data (NVIDIA GeForce Go 6150, 128MB memory internal) on webpages compared to when it was designed probably 9 years ago.
Sometimes I see stray horizontal black lines on the monitor, an external 22" display. Something doesn't seem to be working right, but I can't figure out what it is. The internet speed is fine because using other devices it is fast. I have a new hard drive with 25GB free, and added memory (4GB total). I have also tried starting in Safemode with Networking but the browser behavior was exactly the same.
The problem happens all the time, regardless of the memory or CPU usage. I wonder if some hardware went bad... Maybe the network adapter?
I'd like to diagnose the graphics card and network adapter if possible. I already ran the Windows memory test and hard drive checkdisk and other tests. Nothing was found. What can you do to diagnose for a network card or a graphics card?
Can someone please help me? My laptop has become unusable.
Thanks,
Stephen.
Last edited by metaturbo707; 12 Nov 2015 at 03:42. Reason: added info