Images not displaying and websites randomly rerouted

Hello all,

This problem I am having is different from the Red X problem.
The issue is as follows:

When I visit a webpage that links to images from any imagehosting site, such as tinypic, imageshack, photobucket etc, the image will either display as a red X or as a logo from the relevant imagehosting site that reads "This image was not found on our server" or somesuch.
However, the images display just fine for others, and I can see all images that I have posted fine all the time (if I can connect to the hoster to upload in the first place, which also not always works)

The problem that I believe is linked to this, is that upon entering an address into the address bar of any webbrowser (IE and FF), I sometimes get randomly rerouted to another page. Say I enter www.majorgeeks.com/Something, I would get rerouted to a page such as www.bbc.co.uk/Something or www.microsoft.com/Something. This persists for several hours or until I reset my router.

Now, this may sound like an issue with the router, but it is not because other computers on the network are not experiencing it. Also, after I reformatted a while ago, that problem disappeared completely and everything worked just fine. Then I had my hard drive replaced and reformatted and installed all the same updates and patches, but this time around I have the problem again.

I am not sure what kind of other information would be useful for someone to help me find what is causing this issue, but here is what I know. Please let me know if you requrie further information!

Dell Inspiron 9400
Intel Core Duo T7400 @2.16GHz
2GB SD DDR 433 MHz RAM
256MB NVidia GeForce Go 7900 GS
160GB SATA Fujitsu MHY2160BH
Windows XP Pro MCE 2005
IE6 and FF 2.0.1.1

Thanks very much!

 

Chances are you're having the same issue that I was. The fix is really a lot simpler than it seems.

START > RUN > type 'CMD' without the quotes > hit ENTER
"ms-dos" window will come up

type in ipconfig /release and then hit enter
your ip's will release
type ipconfig /renew and hit enter again

should work for you now

 

Hi tryfuhl,

Thanks for your reply and suggestion.
I tried it as you wrote and emptied the cache of IE and FF afterwards, but the problem remained. I then rebooted, but after reboot it still did not work...

Would you have any other suggestions?
I should also note that my connection is a Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection card.
The driver is the newest Dell provides for it (11.5.0.32, revision A13 from September 2007)