Website Not Working In IE - on some computers only?

[nicksweb]

Please help

My website works fine in Mozilla but on some pc's it doesnt work in internet explorer.

an example it works fine on my dell laptop but on a friends that was bought at the same time with the same IE it doesnt work showing ths page cannot be displayed error.

ive had about 20 reports of it not working from other people, but i know it does work on some as i have tested it myself on around a dozen different pc's and all is ok.
My site logs show also that it has many hits from users with IE.

How can it work on some and not others?

Thanks in advance

<Sorry, no personal URLs.
See Terms of Service [webmasterworld.com]>

[edited by: tedster at 7:04 pm (utc) on Feb. 28, 2006]

[JAB Creations]

You're going to need to post the code here for us to help you figure out whats wrong with it. Please ensure you include the doctype, the stylesheet, and any relevant scripts.

John

[rocknbil]

Welcome aboard nicksweb, your first stop should be here:

[validator.w3.org...]

Punch your URL into the validator and see if your code validates to one of the doctypes or the doctype you're using, if any. An error in the code is a very likely suspect.

[encyclo]

When you say they get a "page cannot be displayed error", do you mean a 404 Not found error or something else? You should check to see what precise error is generated (usually given at the bottom of the IE error page). If the site does not display at all, then there may be a DNS or routing problem - try running a traceroute from the problematic machine to help diagnose the problem.

If you get a 404 error, check your server logs to see which exact page they are requesting - they may be requesting with out without the www, for example, which might throw an error if the server is misconfigured.

[nicksweb]

Thanks

im getting 16 code errors at the validator.w3.org

of which im not having much luck fixing.

The page code is too large to post here as its giving me an error when i try

any help with this is much appreciated

[edited by: encyclo at 1:51 pm (utc) on Mar. 2, 2006]
[edit reason] no URLs please, see TOS and forum charter [/edit]

[tedster]

Tackle the first one -- some times errors cascade and fixing the first one handel many of the rest.