ThatSailor
your tangerine of electricity is ripe
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join:2003-08-21
Waterford, MI
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| Vista 64 bit- connection dies
I'm having quite an odd problem with my network connections. I have a desktop, setup to dual boot XP 32bit and Vista 64bit. i use vista mostly and have noticed the problem on XP too. If I connect to a website and stay on that page for a while, like watching a youtube video for say 5-6 minutes, my internet connection dies. at which point i need to restart my computer, my router, and the cable modem to get connected again.
when this does happen the process for the browser (happened in both IE and Mozilla) stays stuck. if i try to kill it with task manager it wont die and it prevents other programs from starting. i have to hold the power button on the computer to restart it.
I have cable internet and a router (to which i am hardwired). i have a tivo and my desktop computer on the network. i'm running zone alarms free firewall and a free antivirus program.
I'm clueless as to where to start diagnosing the problem. i have already scanned my computer in safe mode with windows defender and spybot s&d with no results. any suggestions for me?
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Cudni
La Merma - Vigilado
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Someshire | check event viewer logs for errors
»www.computerperformance.co.uk/vi···ewer.htm
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bond787
join:2002-06-25
Guy | reply to ThatSailor
You don't need dual boot, with 64 bit your internet is 32 bit by default and ZA is bullshit the worst thing you can install on a PC |
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ThatSailor
your tangerine of electricity is ripe
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Waterford, MI
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| reply to Cudni
This is what i found in the event viewer after I restarted after it happened again:
at 11:00:13 PM
and at 11:00:14 PM
I didn't need to reboot my router and modem this time (maybe that was a separate problem- just a coincidence that occurred twice). I was actually able to start > shutdown when it happened last night. I did pull up the task manager before shutting down and noticed an instance of iexplorer.exe that wouldn't quit even though I didn't have a browser open. when i came home from work today and booted it up and its working like normal, for now :)
next time it happens i will post the anything from the event viewer up here.
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ThatSailor
your tangerine of electricity is ripe
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Waterford, MI
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| just happened again, when browsing a non- video site. looks like some key in the registry is causing internet explorer to hang.
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StNickless
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Ya might wanna maybe check power configs and see if yer NIC is going into power saver mode.
You know, it shuts down to save on power.
It's not just lappy's that do that (ACPI and all that).
default setting is to shut down the network card/adapter in 5-10 minutes |
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ThatSailor
your tangerine of electricity is ripe
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| this is how my setting was, i dont even have a wireless adapter.
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dallasdawg
join:2002-12-22
Plano, TX | Do you have an Nvidia chipset based mobo?
There has been problems with the latest nforce drivers and the NIC. |
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StNickless
@tmodns.net
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ThatSailor 
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No, not there 
Go into device manager, right click the network *device*.
This is both my wired and wireless on this 'puter....you should see something like one or t'other. |
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ThatSailor
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| the box that said 'Allow the comp to turn off this device to save power' was checked so i unchecked it. hopefully that will take care of it
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ThatSailor
your tangerine of electricity is ripe
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| reply to dallasdawg
I have an ASUS mobo (ASUS P6T Deluxe LGA 1366 Intel X58 ATX Intel Motherboard). It happened again this past weekend so the NIC power wasnt the problem. I think Im just gonna reinstall windows completely and cross my fingers, this is frustrating.
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