CSS image loading intermittently

I can't provide much info except that sometimes (maybe 1 in every 25 runs) an image that I call with CSS does not load properly. The image is there because if I hover my mouse over it it shows in certain places.

The HTML:

<div class="body-top"> blah </div>

The CSS:

.body-top {background:url(../images/top.gif) no-repeat; height:55px; width: 970px; margin:0; padding:0;}

It is running on Visual Studio's Development Server.

Any ide开发者_开发知识库as?

edit: hovering over the image itself actually doesn't make anything appear, it's when i hover over a link that is on the image

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It's hard to help without seeing the page, but.

Can you verify that none of the elements inside have a background colour? Try adding this to test things:

.body-top *{background:none !important;}

Don't use this as final code, because the !important flag will stop any background working for elements inside .body-top