After CHKDSK ran, 2 problems: audio driver down & Http 404 from IE repeats

[tmccarthy101]

Windows XP on Dell dimension 3000

within the last 2 weeks I followed the message to run CHKDSK, now I'm wondering what the heck have I done. Read other posts about running it more than once, done that too.

problem 1:
after doing so, the driver for my speakers kept dropping out.
I could get it to reload thru Control Panel and it would work for a while (mins) then stop again. Then wouldn't reload without rebooting.
I downloaded the latest SoundMax version 2005, rebooted, and things seemed fine. Now its getting dropped too.

Second weird thing>>>
I connect using Firefox but Internet Explorer keeps opening up on its own trying to connect to something but just shows a Http 404 Error Page message. In the morning there are 22 to 27 open IE windows of the same message.

What to do?

tm

 

[DelJo63]

the browser 404 error messages are from the website access to a non-exiting page

test your browser on the google.com homepage to prove your browser is running correctly
and then do some trival search, eg "gulf oil spill"

 

[tmccarthy101]

IE will connect

IE goes thru when I open it for something.

Why is it trying to access "any" page without me opening it? let alone a blank page.

What is giving it a reason to do so?

How to find that and stop it?

Thanks,
TM

 

[DelJo63]

delete all cookies and history and then close the browser

from an admin login, get a command prompt (run->cmd) and enter

arp -a
ipconfig /flushdns
net stop "dns client"
net start "dns client"
and yes the QUOTES are needed

 

[tmccarthy101]

did what you said, yet

IE still tried to open up some 404 related web page.

Everything in the C prompt went through fine ... "successful" messages were listed after they were done.

Any other suggestion?

Thanks for your help! so far

tm

 

[tmccarthy101]

still hoping for help with this problem

Internet Explorer had 19 open 404 Windows this AM

 

[DelJo63]

1) it is possible that those are all REAL errors
2) a web page has many resources (like graphics, scripts and CSS formats) and
each must be loaded (and susceptible to a 404 on each)

can you post a URL for any of these 404s?