Screen Not Loading Properly

I am using IE8 (32 bit version) with Vista 64.

When I goto ESPN and try to see the gamecast (for college football) the 15
second commercial comes up fine but when the commercial ends (or even if I
skip commercial) the games cast does not come up. The screen stays blank
after the commercial. I tried using Yahoo Sport and then use their
GameChannel a screen pops up which says "loading" but it stays there and it
never loads.

Please advise what setting I have that might be wrong

I should have mentioned that I have the popup blocker turned off.

"neil154" wrote:

> I am using IE8 (32 bit version) with Vista 64.
>
> When I goto ESPN and try to see the gamecast (for college football) the 15
> second commercial comes up fine but when the commercial ends (or even if I
> skip commercial) the games cast does not come up. The screen stays blank
> after the commercial. I tried using Yahoo Sport and then use their
> GameChannel a screen pops up which says "loading" but it stays there and it
> never loads.
>
> Please advise what setting I have that might be wrong

I finally found an error message "Webpage error details

User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.0; Trident/4.0;
SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; Media Center PC 5.0; MDDC; .NET CLR 3.5.30729;
..NET CLR 3.0.30729
Timestamp: Sat, 17 Oct 2009 18:29:25 UTC


Message: Object expected
Line: 81
Char: 3
Code: 0
URI: http://a.espncdn.com/insertfiles/javascript/flash.js



"neil154" wrote:

> I should have mentioned that I have the popup blocker turned off.
>
> "neil154" wrote:
>
> > I am using IE8 (32 bit version) with Vista 64.
> >
> > When I goto ESPN and try to see the gamecast (for college football) the 15
> > second commercial comes up fine but when the commercial ends (or even if I
> > skip commercial) the games cast does not come up. The screen stays blank
> > after the commercial. I tried using Yahoo Sport and then use their
> > GameChannel a screen pops up which says "loading" but it stays there and it
> > never loads.
> >
> > Please advise what setting I have that might be wrong

neil154 wrote:

> Message: Object expected
> URI: .../flash.js

There's your sign. Tried uninstalling (which requires getting Adobe's
uninstaller program) and reinstalling Adobe's Flash Player which is an
ActiveX plug-in to IE?

If reinstalling Flash Player doesn't help, see if switching to
Compatibility View mode in IE8 gets the site looking right.

Check which version of flash is loading via the following link..

http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/155/tn_15507.html

it will show you the version *it* see's, and further down that page is a
list of the current versions. If there is a discrepancy, download and
install the newest version they have ... see if that fixes the issue ...
sometimes code snippets (the flash.js) are looking for functions that older
versions of code don't support.

This could also be related to the version of Java that is installed/loaded.
Note that if you go to www.java.com and install a current version, that by
default Java does not uninstall the older versions ... their reasoning, is
that "maybe you're a developer, or maybe you have applets that require a
specific java version" .... most users however don't fit into either of those
Java BS reasons ... so I'd recommend uninstalling all other versions of java
except the most recent one ... look in Add/Remove programs to see how many
java versions you have.. when I first found out about this.. I had 10
different updates installed, each taking 100 meg of drive space .... 1 gig in
total drive space wasted and all *I* needed was the most recent one..

Anyway... good luck!

"neil154" wrote:

> I finally found an error message "Webpage error details
>
> User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.0; Trident/4.0;
> SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; Media Center PC 5.0; MDDC; .NET CLR 3.5.30729;
> .NET CLR 3.0.30729
> Timestamp: Sat, 17 Oct 2009 18:29:25 UTC
>
>
> Message: Object expected
> Line: 81
> Char: 3
> Code: 0
> URI: http://a.espncdn.com/insertfiles/javascript/flash.js
>
>
>
> "neil154" wrote:
>
> > I should have mentioned that I have the popup blocker turned off.
> >
> > "neil154" wrote:
> >
> > > I am using IE8 (32 bit version) with Vista 64.
> > >
> > > When I goto ESPN and try to see the gamecast (for college football) the 15
> > > second commercial comes up fine but when the commercial ends (or even if I
> > > skip commercial) the games cast does not come up. The screen stays blank
> > > after the commercial. I tried using Yahoo Sport and then use their
> > > GameChannel a screen pops up which says "loading" but it stays there and it
> > > never loads.
> > >
> > > Please advise what setting I have that might be wrong