Network Access... Like Everyone Else...

Having a network problem but mine seems to be different than everyone else's...

I'm not wireless - wired directly into my router. Network is accessible, works fine, but randomly loses network connection. Every once in a while my network icon will get the big yellow triangle and say no network access. When I go into my network settings and try "Connect or Disconnect" it just keeps repeating the same thing about being connected to home network and having no network connection. (The yellow triangle icon is mapped between my computer and the network).

The only thing that gets it working again is if I go in, disable my ethernet adapter and enable it again. It does this constantly - every fifteen minutes or so I'd say.

I updated all the drivers, released and renewed my IP, tried every setting around IPv4 and IPv6, nothing seems to be fixing this.

When I'm connected and my internet is working, local area connection status shows IPv4 connectivity as "internet" and IPv6 connectivity as "no network access".

When I'm yellow-triangled and getting no network access messages, both IPv4 and IPv6 display "no network access".

Any help here? Feel like I've tried everything... tweaked every setting in this thing and I'm not seeing any changes.

No Bonjour services installed either.

"is it like sign plug and then unplug?"

I'm not sure I understand what you're saying here... or maybe I do and you're just not the greatest with English.

No, it's not a sign because when I was using XP there was no problem at all. The motherboard has dual ethernet - both work fine on any other version and either one i use on Win7 has the same issue. I've switched the ethernet cable between both and also to every port on my router. Nothing changes it.

When you say lose connection, do you mean to Internet? Or to other machines on your LAN? Or both. Win 7 can be touchy with certain routers, I have seen issues where auto/auto for speed/duplex caused issues and hardcoding both sides has fixed the issue. Then again, i had a similar issue as you with just internet before and it was my cable modem going out.

oceanicblack said:

Having a network problem but mine seems to be different than everyone else's...

I'm not wireless - wired directly into my router. Network is accessible, works fine, but randomly loses network connection. Every once in a while my network icon will get the big yellow triangle and say no network access. When I go into my network settings and try "Connect or Disconnect" it just keeps repeating the same thing about being connected to home network and having no network connection. (The yellow triangle icon is mapped between my computer and the network).

The only thing that gets it working again is if I go in, disable my ethernet adapter and enable it again. It does this constantly - every fifteen minutes or so I'd say.

I updated all the drivers, released and renewed my IP, tried every setting around IPv4 and IPv6, nothing seems to be fixing this.

When I'm connected and my internet is working, local area connection status shows IPv4 connectivity as "internet" and IPv6 connectivity as "no network access".

When I'm yellow-triangled and getting no network access messages, both IPv4 and IPv6 display "no network access".

Any help here? Feel like I've tried everything... tweaked every setting in this thing and I'm not seeing any changes.

No Bonjour services installed either.

This is an ongoing problem with certain Nvidia chipsets and drivers. There are a few things that can fix this problem for you. Follow the post below which tells you how to disable side scaling. If that doesn't work try the older Vista chipset drivers or you can try some of the other Nvidia chipset drivers which should fix this problem for you.

Windows 7 Networking Problems with Nvidia Ethernet NICs