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Nightly disconnect issues
Hello folks,
I had this problem earlier this week and it started up again, which has something to do when the DHCP renew/release occurs every night. All of a sudden, it just started starting in September after 6 months of solid connections but I don't know what to do to restore stability to this Windows 7 machine (upgraded in Sept from WinXP, had NO problems). Only the ethernet connections appear to suffer from this and the wireless connections are unaffected.
Router replacement didn't help, hard restarting to factory settings didn't help but switching to the free ethernet slot helped for a few weeks before it started happening again several nights ago. The TVs are also unaffected so this may be isolated to ethernet connections only or even this computer alone.
I cannot add in a NIC to my PCI slot since the video card fan is blocking it, so I cannot do that and stuck with the Realtek PCIe GBE NIC with driver dated October 25th, 2010.
I am not entirely sure but it could be drivers (already tried newest, didn't help) or something with the LAN lease that is bumping me off in the evening hours. Whenever I do drop and 'fix' with Troubleshooting, it generally says it fixed something to do with Default Gateway not avail...so that might give a lead on this.
I already posted this issue over on the Verizon forums to try and get some help but decided to post my problem here to see if I can get help here as well.
So doing anything to restore the connection stability would be greatly appreciated.
Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit
FIOS 30/30 & TV
Actiontec MI424WR router
ASUS M3A78-EM
EDIT: Issue has arised again as of March 2011.
Last edited by Glaice; 04 Apr 2011 at 22:41. Reason: Check bottom, issue has arised again