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Connectivity Issues with several different boot disks!

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  • Internet Connection
  • Chrome
  • Toshiba
  • Internet Access
  • Internet Explorer
  • Windows 7
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October 10, 2014 11:41:41 AM

Im working on an old Toshiba laptop that is giving me some really crazy issues. Among other things no browser except internet explorer seems to be able to work. Chrome has given me several errors including DNS lookup failure and also a warning that the connection is not private and would not allow me to visit any site.

Heres the crazy thing. I took a hard drive with windows 7 out of my dell laptop that everything was working fine on, and put it in the toshiba. The same symptoms happened with the new boot disk! As crazy as it sounds, something outside the harddrive is causing Chrome to crash!

Any ideas how this could be possible, or what could cause this?

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October 10, 2014 11:47:58 AM

is it only chrome? Is this a fresh install of windows 7?

Some errors happen when the date/time is wrong. Check that just to make sure.
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October 10, 2014 12:02:21 PM

inerax said:
is it only chrome? Is this a fresh install of windows 7?

Some errors happen when the date/time is wrong. Check that just to make sure.


No date and time are correct on both disks. And yes, the disk that worked perfectly in the dell was reformatted only hours before trying it in the toshiba. The problem seems to be the same with Firefox as well which is really strange. I honestly have not been able to come up with any logical explanation for this within the realm of possibility.
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October 10, 2014 12:11:25 PM

mowingmachine said:
inerax said:
is it only chrome? Is this a fresh install of windows 7?

Some errors happen when the date/time is wrong. Check that just to make sure.


No date and time are correct on both disks. And yes, the disk that worked perfectly in the dell was reformatted only hours before trying it in the toshiba. The problem seems to be the same with Firefox as well which is really strange. I honestly have not been able to come up with any logical explanation for this within the realm of possibility.



That is a weird one. Its weird how IE works but other browsers will not.

Only think i can think of is the network. If you have a router eliminate it from the equation. Direct connect this computer to the modem, reset the modem and see what happens. Wonder if your router is blocking something.... but i still cannot see how it would allow 1 browser and not the other....

Do you have a firewall?
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October 10, 2014 7:32:43 PM

inerax said:
mowingmachine said:
inerax said:
is it only chrome? Is this a fresh install of windows 7?

Some errors happen when the date/time is wrong. Check that just to make sure.


No date and time are correct on both disks. And yes, the disk that worked perfectly in the dell was reformatted only hours before trying it in the toshiba. The problem seems to be the same with Firefox as well which is really strange. I honestly have not been able to come up with any logical explanation for this within the realm of possibility.



That is a weird one. Its weird how IE works but other browsers will not.

Only think i can think of is the network. If you have a router eliminate it from the equation. Direct connect this computer to the modem, reset the modem and see what happens. Wonder if your router is blocking something.... but i still cannot see how it would allow 1 browser and not the other....

Do you have a firewall?


Nope none of that can be it. This problem has been duplicated on multiple networks, none of which cause problems for other machines. The original drive for the toshiba did have Avast installed, but the new one has nothing other than Windows firewall.
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