"Ethernet" Connection Drop

[DampCat]

Hi guys, flicked through a lot of this thread but found nothing that would fix this for me. Eventually I resurrected an old thread on my regular haunt and was given a solution. Thought i'd register and post it here for people to try: Windows 7 no internet connection on boot. - Overclockers UK Forums Using services.msc i disabled Bonjour DNS service (comes with Apple software, presumably iTunes).

"type in services.msc in the search box and hit enter if you have an entry something like ##Id_string1.6844F930_1628_4223_B5CC_5B... then double click it to open its properties on the General tab, change startup type to Disabled now reboot and see if you now connect to the Internet on boot"

 

[jleslie246]

I too joined this forum just for this topic.

I fixed my problem by updating the driver for my network controller. nvidea (for my mb) came out with new drivers about 2 months ago. very easy fix. shoot me a message if you need help.

 

[Wargollo]

Great Post!!!

 

[alanthiana]

Ran through Britomartus's steps, and so far, it seems to be working. I've bookmarked the site, and will come back if I see the problem again.

Note: updated to the latest drivers did NOT work for me. I had already tried that prior to finding this site.


Edit as of 1/1/10 - I have not had any more issues with a dropped connection. Thanks Brito!

 

[Zawarudo]

Thought I'd trow in my new problem here, not sure if its connected with yours but, it might help add to the pool of information.

I have a problem where every little while my internet will stop working, and when i say internet i mean WWW, regardless of the browser i keep getting a message to check my router and connection, though the strange thing is that only browsers are affected by this problem, either insanely long load times or no connection at all, while torrenting and online games work flawlessly without ever losing the connection even for a second.

And just in case someone feels like asking, Yes, I am absolutely certain the torrent app is not active when these problems are happening to the browsers.

My browser is Firefox 3.5.7

 

[aem]

Goodness me, 51 horses...where is computersplus, when u needed him?

 

[borodino]

Thought I'd trow in my new problem here, not sure if its connected with yours but, it might help add to the pool of information.

I have a problem where every little while my internet will stop working, and when i say internet i mean WWW, regardless of the browser i keep getting a message to check my router and connection, though the strange thing is that only browsers are affected by this problem, either insanely long load times or no connection at all, while torrenting and online games work flawlessly without ever losing the connection even for a second.

And just in case someone feels like asking, Yes, I am absolutely certain the torrent app is not active when these problems are happening to the browsers.

My browser is Firefox 3.5.7

I am having the exact same problem as above. While whatever browser I am using lose connection, online games keeps working. A reboot fixes the problem temporarily, and then it re-occurs.

 

[Lombas]

Same problem with me. I have an Asus P5K SE and it uses intel's P35 chipset, not nvidia.... It happens mostly when streaming video from pc to PS3 player.... My on board network card is Atheros L1 Gigabit Ethernet

Tryed everything posted, (Ipv6, RSS,...) nothing worked, so I decided to install the network card driver for Windows Vista available in the motherboard's website.

It seems to have worked.
So don´t trust Windows 7 driver for your network. Try the manufacture's website.

 

[LittleCarp04]

Ok so Ive had this problem on and off for about 2 weeks now. Internet connection will randomly drop doesnt really seem to be linked to any specific actions. I dont torrent, mainly just play online games.

I have a nvidia 650i ultra mobo, and was previously running the nvidia control module for the networking, and have removed that in an attempt to fix the issue. I have followed the instructions Britomartus suggested and had the same issues. I have tried updating my mobo driver to 15.51 and then another forum suggested using 15.25 (the vista driver) and still have the same problem either way. Ive tried forcing it to run full duplex 100mb, disabled the ipv6 net connectivity. And still have the issue randomly, anyone find a fix for this yet? Or any other suggestions? Thanks!!

 

[KG56]

This happens to me ALL the bloody time.
So so frustrating - I'm going back to XP!

 

[garethccc]

same thing...

SiS191 ethernet, ASUS F81SE laptop w/ Windows 7 x64. Can't remember this being a problem with the RC but since installing the RTM version of Windows 7 Professional my wired connectivity has gone to sh%t. Most of the time I can't get connectivity (browsers always trying to resolve host) and sometimes I'll get internet access for a couple of hours and then it disappears again. Nothing seems to work. Screw M$, I'm gonna be stuck with Ubuntu now. What a waste of $200.

 

[Tews]

Have you tried running in safe mode to see if the problem remains?

 

[garethccc]

Yep, I run into the same problems in safe mode. I just changed a setting yesterday in the registry to force broadcast flags and things seem to be working so far... I'm just waiting for the problem to reappear... if it doesn't then I'm back in troubleshooting mode.

I'm still bewildered by the fact that this wasn't a problem in the 4 or so months that I was using Windows 7 RC b.7127 ... might they (MS) have made some changes to the driver (my SiS191 ethernet driver) or some core TCP configuration? There's only one driver available and that's the one from Microsoft - ASUS doesn't even offer a driver for download (for W7x64) but did for Vista x64. I'm doing more research on the issue now...

Oh, and I live in a bloody apartment building in Bangkok, Thailand, now so it's conceivable that what I'm encountering now is a router issue (that doesn't seem to affect WinXP or the other tenants that are not suing Win 7). When I was using the W7 RC I was living in a house and had, of course, my very own personal router. I'll have to go to the office of my building and try to get the make and model of the router they are using.

 

[kensiko]

Did you do a fresh install?

 

[jleslie246]

Check my post on this. I am using Asus mb. The fix worked fine for me.

 

[garethccc]

Ok,

My problem is not exclusive to Windows 7. I installed XP and also a linux distro and the same problems occured. Must be a new problem related to the routers this apartment building uses!

_sP_

 

[bigbramble]

I registered just to post about this. I have had this exact problem running an asus mboard using nvidia nforce 650i chips, I trawled and trawled, trying a bunch of things but it still kept disconnecting the internet.

Eventually I found the fix was as easy as changing a few of the adapter settings, I havent had 1 problem since doing this.

Good video with instructions right here;

YouTube - WINDOWS 7 INTERNET DROP FIX NVIDIA nforce ethernet

 

[newyorkjbe]

Solved

Delete the key found in:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Setup\State
No More Disconnections.

 

[newyorkjbe]

Delete the key found in:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Setup\State
No More Disconnections.

 

[kensiko]

Wow that's a strange solution. I don't have the problem anymore, but for the others, it's easy to try.