"Ethernet" Connection Drop

[PaulS]

Getting used to not having Internet for random periods of time (one hour, 5 hours or a day)? I don't think so... It's driving me crazy.

 

[Snufffed]

Have you tried to move / copy all the Vista Drivers and install them in Win 7 with compatibility mode.

also there are some many different ppl using this thread for the similar its damn confusing on who to help anybody.

Plz if you have a specific Problem
START YOUR OWN THREAD.
PS: in your specs what version of Win 7 - there are 5 you know and all work differently, OH yes, x86 or x64.

 

[PaulS]

Snuffy, if you are referring to me, I've already started my own thread. You can find it here http://www.sevenforums.com/network-sharing/28558-nvidia-nforce-network-adapter-problems.html . Even with the modifications from the last post, I'm still having problems.

 

[hance]

Hi everyone, i joins with you because i have the same problem of droping connection in about every 20minutes. I have tried to update all drivers :

Mother board : ASUS P5Q-E , so i have an Marvell Yukon 88E8001/8003/8010 PCI Gigabit Ethernet

Drivers saw by windows when i installed win 7 : Drop connection.
Drivers update with windows update : Drop connection.
Drivers update downloaded from ASUS for win 7 x64: Drop connection.

I feel very strange because :
Other PC use the same LAN in XP , vista : No problem.
I didn't have this kind of drop with vista x64 ultimate.
I didn't have this kind of drop for my fiste month of using windows 7 Ultimate RTM
...
now, i'm using version 7 OEM updated through Dell with all update from microsoft and then ... connection drops.


Solution ? i have tried all solution posted here , but no lucky for me.
i deactived homegroup, changed network type from home to office or public ... nothing happened.

I have read from internet from others forums: many ppl have this kind of issus ...
do we have to contact microsoft ? ,

with out internet, my computer is just like a box cold metal...

 

[Snufffed]

Hi everyone, i joins with you because i have the same problem of droping connection in about every 20minutes. I have tried to update all drivers :

Mother board : ASUS P5Q-E , so i have an Marvell Yukon 88E8001/8003/8010 PCI Gigabit Ethernet

Drivers saw by windows when i installed win 7 : Drop connection.
Drivers update with windows update : Drop connection.
Drivers update downloaded from ASUS for win 7 x64: Drop connection.

I feel very strange because :
Other PC use the same LAN in XP , vista : No problem.
I didn't have this kind of drop with vista x64 ultimate.
I didn't have this kind of drop for my fiste month of using windows 7 Ultimate RTM
...
now, i'm using version 7 OEM updated through Dell with all update from microsoft and then ... connection drops.


Solution ? i have tried all solution posted here , but no lucky for me.
i deactived homegroup, changed network type from home to office or public ... nothing happened.

I have read from internet from others forums: many ppl have this kind of issus ...
do we have to contact microsoft ? ,

with out internet, my computer is just like a box cold metal...

It really would have been nice if you had started your own thead.
Please do.
You have a DELL and Microsoft does not give support with out PAY to OEM. CALL DELL.
First - you answered your own question.
1. RTM - worked fine.
2. update thru OEM DELL and you loose connections.

3. How did you update 7600-RTM via OEM thru DELL?

 

[Solace]

unistall whatever driver you have installed. use the default driver thats in windows. enjoy a stable connection until ****ty software developers get a grip on whats actually considered compatible/stable "this will never happen"

 

[hance]

It really would have been nice if you had started your own thead.
Please do.
You have a DELL and Microsoft does not give support with out PAY to OEM. CALL DELL.
First - you answered your own question.
1. RTM - worked fine.
2. update thru OEM DELL and you loose connections.

3. How did you update 7600-RTM via OEM thru DELL?

thank you for reply and sorry if i didn't creat the new topic, i've just wanted to say that i had that problem too.

My dear friend works for Dell and he will bringout my PC this WK to re change the mother board for the XPS630i once and that means re-installation at full.
i will feedback if the problem stand still.

 

[RugbyHoe]

I'm new to this forum but I thought I'd add my $0.02 here.

I was experiencing a similar problem with my ethernet dropping out with alarming frequency after I upgraded one of my Vista x64 boxes to Windows 7. Any time I'd attempt to play music stored on my Windows Home Server with WinAmp (or WMP), it would play for a minute or two, then the connection would drop and force me to reset the NIC. I'd also suffer similar drops when surfing the net, but this was not nearly as often or predictable.

These issues are what led me to this thread, but frankly, there is so much information on here that it really wasn't all that helpful, since there seems to be a wide variety of cards/symptoms being discussed here. It did give me a few good leads to pursue though - and thanks for that.

In my particular case, I have 2 nVidia nForce NICs on my MSI P6N Diamond motherboard. I was experiencing the dropped connections regardless of which ethernet port was being used (1, 2, or both). The Windows 7 upgrade had applied the generic Microsoft drivers, so that was my first suspect. I downloaded the currrent nForce 680i SLI drivers for Windows 7 x64 from nVidia (v. 15.51), and installed just the ethernet drivers from the package (driver version 73.1.4.0).

This was over 2 days ago (Monday night). In a totally unscientific test, I have been running WinAmp in shuffle mode since that time without any drops. Since it used to lock up hard when the drops would occur, I am starting to have some confidence that this issue might be resolved (at least for me).

This makes me happy, because my only other options were going to be to either restore Vista from WHS, or repave the box using a clean install of Win 7 (meaning I'd have had to reinstall all of my programs and tools - of which there are many)

So in my case, despite some suggestions to the contrary, using the default Microsoft drivers was causing my problems, and they went away after I installed the current drivers I obtained directly from the chipset manufacturer (being nVidia, not MSI).

I realize that this will not be a one-size fits all solution, but it's worth a try if you are having ethernet connection problems with Windows 7 x64 on an MSI P6N Diamond 680i SLI motherboard. Hope this helps.

 

[rascaluk]

Adding my troubles to the pie

Just adding info into the pot really. Running W7 on my media PC in my front room and last night added it to my my quadcore desktop.

It's totally fine on my media PC runs like an absolute charm. This afternoon however my quadcore started dropping the (wired) ethernet connection. So far it only seems to be when I try to copy a large file across to my home server. It's gets so far and then loses ethernet connection.

I'm running the 32 bit version on both machines. The Quadcore was perfectly fine and never had a problem under Vista and is exactly the same hardware inside as it had last night under Vista and was fine. The install was a clean one on a freshly formatted HD

My ethernet is onboard my intel motherboard, with 4 gig ram and the specs of this machine are a million times better than the machine it is working perfectly on.

I thought everything had gone pretty smoothly so far but if I can't copy files across my network then grrr..

I'm assuming it is W7 software related, NIC drivers or something...

Hoping for a fix soon.

 

[davefr]

Just adding info into the pot really. Running W7 on my media PC in my front room and last night added it to my my quadcore desktop.

It's totally fine on my media PC runs like an absolute charm. This afternoon however my quadcore started dropping the (wired) ethernet connection. So far it only seems to be when I try to copy a large file across to my home server. It's gets so far and then loses ethernet connection.

I'm running the 32 bit version on both machines. The Quadcore was perfectly fine and never had a problem under Vista and is exactly the same hardware inside as it had last night under Vista and was fine. The install was a clean one on a freshly formatted HD

My ethernet is onboard my intel motherboard, with 4 gig ram and the specs of this machine are a million times better than the machine it is working perfectly on.

I thought everything had gone pretty smoothly so far but if I can't copy files across my network then grrr..

I'm assuming it is W7 software related, NIC drivers or something...

Hoping for a fix soon.

Quadcore??? Both my problem systems are also quad core.

This is strange because there are a ton of us with connection problems that span across multiple different H/W platforms, NIC's and versions of W7.

There are also plenty of other users that appear to be running just fine.

Why the differences?? I wonder if it could be some interaction between W7, NIC driver and quad core?? I thought I read that W7 included changes to take more advantage of quad core CPU's.

 

[rascaluk]

For me, as yet, it certainly only has happened when I've tried to copy a file to my server. The transfer just seems to make it explode. Having said that I have downloaded stuff fine, although that was overnight on a fresh install whereas this morning Windows Update added a host of new stuff so I'm not sure if it was fine yesterday and one of the updates has screwed it.

I'm not home at the mo so tonight I'll try different NIC drivers etc etc. Can't believe it would be the Quadcore but the prob seems so wide-ranging it may be tricky to trackdown. I'll post my NIC specs when I get in so we can have a compare.

It's a proper show-stopper for me though because it's the machine I use to work at home on.

I'd hazard a (relatively uneducated) guess that it's a driver issue and it's falling over when pushed hard. Having said that people have replaced onboard NICs with bought ones and nothing changes, so maybe it's a chipset thing.

Never simple is it? :huh:

 

[RugbyHoe]

FWIW - the machine I was having problems on was also a quad (Q6600), but I'm not sure if it's relative. It's now been 3+ days with no drops using the nVidia 73.14 ethernet driver for Win7 x64 they released on 10/6, but I'd did not install any other drivers from the 680i chipset package...

 

[spoduke]

M2n32-SLI Premium Vista - more dropped connection

I've just upgraded Vista 64-bit to Windows 7 on the retail, upgrade release and I too am having dropped connection issues. Tried looking for drivers on the ASUS site but no go. Doesn't even list Windows 7 as a supported OS for this board.

I'm going to try the Nvidia site for the SLI 590 and see what happens.

Part of my guess is gigabit support. When I go into the Advanced, driver details under speed/duplex I see 100MB Full Duplex listed but nothing higher. I've also turned off allowing Windows to power off the device when not in use.

I'll let you know how this goes..

 

[RugbyHoe]

I've just upgraded Vista 64-bit to Windows 7 on the retail, upgrade release and I too am having dropped connection issues. Tried looking for drivers on the ASUS site but no go. Doesn't even list Windows 7 as a supported OS for this board.

I'm going to try the Nvidia site for the SLI 590 and see what happens.

Part of my guess is gigabit support. When I go into the Advanced, driver details under speed/duplex I see 100MB Full Duplex listed but nothing higher. I've also turned off allowing Windows to power off the device when not in use.

I'll let you know how this goes..

FWIW - Looks like there are definitely "fresh" Win7 drivers available for the 590 series on nVidia's website.

 

[Chasm]

So I've been lurking on this thread for a couple weeks now. I am experiencing this issue as well on the new computer I built recently. Specs are in my profile but the important details: I'm running Windows 7 Professional RTM on an ASUS P55D EVO motherboard with onboard dual gigabit Realtek 8112L / 8110SC LAN adapters. One is connected via PCIe and the other PCI.

I have tried the drivers on Realtek's site, the drivers on ASUS's site, the drivers that came in that windows update a few weeks back. All of them have this isssue.

I have tried using both the PCI and the PCIe adapter. Both have the issue.

I have changed every configuration option in the driver settings, including power management on both adapters, and power management to PCIe within my Windows 7 account profile. I have also disabled IPv6 using netsh. After every change I made I continued to have the issue.

Network failure in the case of this issue is the inability to open new connections until reboot. The adapter shows that it is connected, and all open connections will remain open (AIM remains open, existing file transfers continue, etc), but I cannot open new connections. Disabling/Enabling the adapter does not fix the issue. The adapter will drop all existing connections, reboot, and then claim to be working, but no connections can be opened until the machine reboots.

The issue ONLY occurs on large file transfers. If I transfer a gigabyte of files from this Win7 desktop to my laptop, the issue will occur. If I run uTorrent overnight, the issue will occur. The failure rate seems very high as well. I have only had 1 night in the last 2 weeks where the issue did not occur if I was running uTorrent.

The issue DOES NOT occur if you are not transferring files over the network. If I close uTorrent and cease transferring files to my other computers, I can leave the computer running for 3 days and never have the issue.


I had been waiting for Realtek to release a new driver now that Windows 7 is retail. They released a download on 10/23/2009 with the same driver version number which did not fix the problem. As of now it seems my only option is to buy another network adapter, although based on the posts in this thread this issue is happening to many different brands of adapters so I'm not sure buying a new one will even help.

Thanks in advance if anyone has any pointers or fixes. I'll be happy to provide more information if you need it.

 

[davefr]

As of now it seems my only option is to buy another network adapter, although based on the posts in this thread this issue is happening to many different brands of adapters so I'm not sure buying a new one will even help.

Save your money. I also have Realtek 8111's and decided to buy a D-Link PCI adapter card. It has the same exact problem.

I think the problem is W7 vs. ethernet adapters.

 

[scottyd]

Hi everyone, i joins with you because i have the same problem of droping connection in about every 20minutes. I have tried to update all drivers :

Mother board : ASUS P5Q-E , so i have an Marvell Yukon 88E8001/8003/8010 PCI Gigabit Ethernet

Drivers saw by windows when i installed win 7 : Drop connection.
Drivers update with windows update : Drop connection.
Drivers update downloaded from ASUS for win 7 x64: Drop connection.

I feel very strange because :
Other PC use the same LAN in XP , vista : No problem.
I didn't have this kind of drop with vista x64 ultimate.
I didn't have this kind of drop for my fiste month of using windows 7 Ultimate RTM

Same motherboard here and I am having the same issue. Although the problem only occurs under high bandwidth loads. For example if I am downloading a large file at high speeds ~2 MB/s or more my network cards will just disappear. They don't show up in task managers, network tab. Ram usage spikes to 90% or more and I can't open anything. Only option is to press the reset button.

Downloaded the latest drivers from the Marvell site and still didn't help.

 

[maximoutlaw]

I've been reading through probably hundreds of posts and I've been seeing the same recurring words....Asus and Nvidia. Being that it's the same setup I have and I'm having sort of the same issues ( I can't even connect to the internet though) I think we have to wait for them to get together and get their heads in the game to give us some drivers that actually work.

 

[scottyd]

I've been reading through probably hundreds of posts and I've been seeing the same recurring words....Asus and Nvidia. Being that it's the same setup I have and I'm having sort of the same issues ( I can't even connect to the internet though) I think we have to wait for them to get together and get their heads in the game to give us some drivers that actually work.

The chipset on the Asus board I have is Intel, although the network adapters are Marvell. Do you have links to other threads about this issue?

 

[Snufffed]

Well, Im really not sure on any of the ADAPTERS, that every body seems to be haveing problems with. Network Adapters.

1. I am using Realtek RTL8168C-8111C - Not one problem.
2. one laptop has Marvel
3. one laptop has Atheros
4. one laptop has Intel

I have NO PROBLEMS WITH DROPPING CONNECTIONS ON ANY OF THE UNITS.

All units are using DEFAULT Drivers installed by Windows 7.
So I would ask that all of you consult your ISP and insure they are set to
accept Windows 7.