Internet Problems?

[Kingoflodis]

I don't know if I should put this in Windows 2000, but here goes anyway. My internet keeps turning off at random times, usually in 3-10 minute intervals. The router works perfectly, so does the internet connection. I know this because we have two computers, and the other works perfectly while mine keeps messing up (AIM keeps shutting down, games get disconnected, and websites don't show up) in those interval things.. It keeps shutting the internet off, and on, and off, and on every 3-10 minutes, like I said. If you have any idea how I could fix this, or if you need more information, don't hesitate to ask please.. I need help =P


If anyone here has tried helping me with the freezing/shutting down issue, thanks, and this problem with the internet was happening before I got rid of Apache.

Thanks in advance if you can help me with this problem.

[Landon]

Try a different network cable, when you loose your Internet connection see if your LINK light on your network card is staying on or not.

[Kingoflodis]

It's in, snug and tight, and the light is on...

[Kingoflodis]

I already looked for spyware, adware, viruses, and all that stuff, I even got rid of DSO Exploit, and thought it fixed it.. But then it started doing it again...
I've also reinstalled the drivers for networking too...

I have Cable.

My network card is integrated: NVIDIA nForce Networking Controller
and something else I'm not sure what it is though.. It's -> NVIDIA Network Bus Enumerator.

[bAdWaYz]

Do you have windows firewall or another software firewall on such as ZA or Norton? If so turn them off. Also if you right click "My network places" then go down to "properities" click it. Then click the icon for "Local Area Connection" to highlight it. Now right click it.go down to "properities" click it. Now under the "General" tab you should see a box with your adapters name and beside that a tab that says "Configure" click that. Now another box will pop up. Look for the last tab at the top that says "Power Management" click it. Now make sure the box that says "allow the computer to turn this device off" does NOT have a check mark in it. When done just click ok and close the Lan settings window.

[Kingoflodis]

I just turned off my firewall to see if that fixes anything... I have ZA for a firewall...

I'm going to try the right click thing.. hold on -.-

If this works.. I love you.. and it was checked by the way..

OK, I restarted my computer after I changed that setting, because it told me to.. And ZoneAlarm started up again, and sure enough, the problem persists. Do you think that it could be a setting or something within ZoneAlarm that's causing this problem? I think that the network card's "power management" setting being checked was part of the problem as well though...

Ok, it's not ZoneAlarm that's causing the problems.. I turned it off completely and all of a sudden the internet turns off again after 5 minutes of having ZA off..

I looked in my event log and I decided I'll post the errors and other things on here that look like they're related to the internet.

Event Type: Warning
Event Source: Dhcp
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1007
Date: 3/7/2005
Time: 10:44:06 PM
User: N/A
Computer: CDC-B24DC0F3362
Description:
Your computer has automatically configured the IP address for the Network Card with network address 00112FDBCC8E. The IP address being used is 169.254.xx.xxx
Data:
0000: 00 00 00 00 ....

That one showed up a lot...


Event Type: Information
Event Source: Tcpip
Event Category: None
Event ID: 4202
Date: 3/7/2005
Time: 11:22:13 PM
User: N/A
Computer: CDC-B24DC0F3362
Description:
The system detected that network adapter NVIDIA nForce Networking Controller was disconnected from the network, and the adapter's network configuration has been released. If the network adapter was not disconnected, this may indicate that it has malfunctioned. Please contact your vendor for updated drivers.
Data:
0000: 00 00 00 00 02 00 50 00 ......P.
0008: 00 00 00 00 6a 10 00 40 ....j..@
0010: 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0018: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........

As did that one.. This seems to be before my computers internet goes out..

Event Type: Information
Event Source: Tcpip
Event Category: None
Event ID: 4201
Date: 3/7/2005
Time: 11:22:48 PM
User: N/A
Computer: CDC-B24DC0F3362
Description:
The system detected that network adapter NVIDIA nForce Networking Controller was connected to the network, and has initiated normal operation over the network adapter.
Data:
0000: 00 00 00 00 02 00 50 00 ......P.
0008: 00 00 00 00 69 10 00 40 ....i..@
0010: 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0018: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........

and this one seems to be after...

[bAdWaYz]

Is this computer running behind a router? If you have a router then you can turn ZA off or just do away with it as the router has a built in firewall that is better to use. If its not behind a router then leave ZA on. As for the things in event view it looks like your NIC is releasing its ip at some point. The ip address shown isn't a internal network ip so if you are behind a router then I'd say dhcp is not enable in the router. That or you may want to find and update the NIC drivers. I'm also guessing that this is an onboard NIC yes?

P.S. I edited the above post as its not a good idea to share you're public ip address in a public forum, hope you don't mind.

[Kingoflodis]

I don't mind you taking off the ip, and my computer is behind a router... But even if ZA is off, the problem still happens.

You said this:
The ip address shown isn't a internal network ip so if you are behind a router then I'd say dhcp is not enable in the router.

What is dhcp and can it cause this problem?

I don't get what you mean by NIC... Network Interface Card? If that's what you mean.. Yeah, it's integrated.. NVIDIA nForce Network Controller.

[bAdWaYz]

The simple answer is that it is what the router uses to give each computer on your network its own ip address. If your router has dhcp enable then you should get an ip address for your computer that doesn't look anything like your public ip address. Lets say your computer is pc1 and the other is pc2. The router has its own internal network ip as an example we will use 192.168.1.1 ok now your computer would be 192.168.1.2 and pc2 would be 192.168.1.3 and so on ect. Keep in mind these are just example ip's based on a linksys router. Your router may not give out the same ip's depending on what brand you have.