Problem solved. Youtube Issue

[JohnnyGaloshes]

I am at a lost with this newly developed issue i have. As of 24 hours ago when i go to YouTube or play a video linked to YouTube they will not load nor play. The screen pops up to show the advertisement, but the little icons keeps going round and round. Also the video previews on the right will not load nor will comments. It does it for both IE and Firefox. Here is what i have done so far.

Uninstalled Firefox & rebooted and did a fresh install
Uninstalled all Adobe & rebooted and did a fresh install
Uninstalled Java & rebooted and did a fresh install
Cleared all cache and history
Disabled Hardware Acceleration for Flash
Uninstalled K-lite codec pack video codecs and player & rebooted and did a fresh install
No add ones installed on Firefox
Tried it while AV disabled, still not working
Also tried changing the Youtube player to HTML5 player with still no luck

Nothing is working. I can;t seem to find any more info online to a fix other than the ones i tried. I do know i didn't install any updates within the last few weeks. I did however do a Defrag last night, but i don't know how that could affect it. Thinking of doing a system restore?

So damn frustrating. Any suggestions gang?

 

[PsychoRealm]

Start Firefox in a Safe Mode and see if the issue persists.
Also, try updating your graphic card's drivers.

 

[JohnnyGaloshes]

Start Firefox in a Safe Mode and see if the issue persists.
Also, try updating your graphic card's drivers.

Still does it in safe mode
Drivers are current and latest.

 

[PsychoRealm]

Still does it in safe mode
Drivers are current and latest.

Reinstall them. Also, define "the little icons keeps going round and round"...

 

[JohnnyGaloshes]

 

[JohnnyGaloshes]

Video drivers uninstalled and reinstalled. Still not working

 

[Sheev_Palpatine]

That's weird as hell. What kind of addons do you have installed? Any kind of blocking software or anything that could cause interference?

 

[KillerZebra]

Add youtube to your security add on exception list.

 

[JohnnyGaloshes]

Add youtube to your security add on exception list.

Adding to exception did not work.

Also did a system restore to 2 weeks ago and that did not fix it also.

 

[JohnnyGaloshes]

That's weird as hell. What kind of addons do you have installed? Any kind of blocking software or anything that could cause interference?

there are no add ons installed

 

[KillerZebra]

Open up IE and check your proxy settings.

Also, download Ccleaner and run it. Make sure you check the options for FF as well.

Check your firewall settings. What AV/FW do you use?

 

[JohnnyGaloshes]

Don;t use a proxy, don't use a firewall/

Will run CCleaner.

 

[PsychoRealm]

Don;t use a proxy, don't use a firewall/

Will run CCleaner.

Try changing your DNS server settings to Google DNS.

 

[JohnnyGaloshes]

Open up IE and check your proxy settings.

Also, download Ccleaner and run it. Make sure you check the options for FF as well.

Check your firewall settings. What AV/FW do you use?

Ran CCleaner fixed registries and deleted old files. Still not working.

 

[PsychoRealm]

Also, do you have any other PCs in your household? Is everything working fine on them?

 

[KillerZebra]

Assuming you ran CCleaner while checking all of the IE and FF boxes, I guess that means its not a cache or a similar problem.

I really don't know then, try what psycho said.

You could also try flushing your DNS. Open up command prompt and type in inconfig /flushdns .

Maybe download Spybot and run it.

Question, are any other not working for you? or is YouTube the only one?

 

[JohnnyGaloshes]

I reset router to factory settings, now it works.

Dunno what made it fuck it up in the first place, never touched any settings on it.

Thanks for your help everyone!

 

[PsychoRealm]

Dunno what made it fuck it up in the first place, never touched any settings on it.

Your ISP made routing changes which fucked up routing tables cached in your router.

 

[JohnnyGaloshes]

Your ISP made routing changes which fucked up routing tables cached in your router.