No network connection...WTF

[OverclockN']

Originally Posted by Meteor|WAR

Format, reinstall Windows.

Seriously, with all the time you've already spent on this problem it would have been a lot of easier if you had just reinstalled. By now you would have had your files and programs all up and running again.

Dont waste anymore time on this pain in the ass problem.

[EDIT] Actually, last thing I'd try is a system restore.

Most likely, this is what I will be doing. I wanted to try out all my options first and honestly...it hasn't taken that much time. I was away from home on a house-hunting trip the past week so I couldn't touch it. We are moving out on Thursday, so I won't be doing anything until the PC is moved into the new home in about 2 more weeks.

[Meteor|WAR]

Good luck, man, with everything.

Sounds like you've got a lot going on and I know how an annoying computer problem like this can seem like a bastard monkey on your back. Hope you get it sorted soon so you can move on with your life.

[OverclockN']

Originally Posted by Meteor|WAR

Good luck, man, with everything.

Sounds like you've got a lot going on and I know how an annoying computer problem like this can seem like a bastard monkey on your back. Hope you get it sorted soon so you can move on with your life.

Thank you!

[Perky McGiggles]

OFN thread, probably fixed it by now. But before you completely format, make a new partition and put an install of Windows on that first, and see if it does anything. That way you know it's worth the effort of formatting or not, if it still doesn't work then you just saved yourself several hours of reinstalling/restoring/whatever.

If that didn't work, I'd buy a NIC card and end the madness. It sucks having an additional PCI card (or PCI-E) but it beats swapping motherboards. Which could very well have been the cause.

[OverclockN']

Originally Posted by Perky McGiggles

OFN thread, probably fixed it by now. But before you completely format, make a new partition and put an install of Windows on that first, and see if it does anything. That way you know it's worth the effort of formatting or not, if it still doesn't work then you just saved yourself several hours of reinstalling/restoring/whatever.

If that didn't work, I'd buy a NIC card and end the madness. It sucks having an additional PCI card (or PCI-E) but it beats swapping motherboards. Which could very well have been the cause.

Problem isn't solved. I'm in the middle of moving across the country and won't be able to work on it for a few more days. I have a spare hard drive with Vista installed it on it still, I'll most likely stuff that in there and see if it works or not.

Also, installing a seperate NIC is 100% NOT an option. I just can't do it. I don't have the space with the audio card and 2x video cards.

[Perky McGiggles]

Get rid of the Audigy 2 and use onboard sound.

I did and I actually prefer it. At least Realtek provides new working drivers.

[OverclockN']

Originally Posted by Perky McGiggles

Get rid of the Audigy 2 and use onboard sound.

I did and I actually prefer it. At least Realtek provides new working drivers.

I'm using both. I have another thread telling all about why I did that. Not canning the Audigy2. If it's the mobi, I'll just get a new one.

[Qb2k5]

As I said earlier its the chipset. I had the same problem as you with my 680i board. The only way to fix it was to reformat. Hope it works out.

If I was you Id hop on the i920/x58 train while intel is still selling the 920s. You should get a decent amount for your current board/ram/cpu if you plan on selling it. When I upgraded from the 9650 to the i7 920, everygame with sli ran much smoother. The lows are much higher.

[OverclockN']

Originally Posted by Qb2k5

As I said earlier its the chipset. I had the same problem as you with my 680i board. The only way to fix it was to reformat. Hope it works out.

If I was you Id hop on the i920/x58 train while intel is still selling the 920s. You should get a decent amount for your current board/ram/cpu if you plan on selling it. When I upgraded from the 9650 to the i7 920, everygame with sli ran much smoother. The lows are much higher.

I'll be upgrading soon, but waiting on the release of the new Intel chip for the holiday season. If my board is bad, I'll talk to my buddy who is a Process Engineer at the fab plant and see what's what with the new chips before making my decision. He's been telling me to wait.

If it just needs a reformat, that will be even better. I'll just wait a while on the upgrade and ride this system out a bit longer. Hopefully we'll find out soon, moving into the new place tomorrow. I hope to be able to reformat the PC on Wednesday.

[OverclockN']

Everything is working fine again.

We completed the move and I set the PC up in my new office. We just had internet installed yesterday by the local provider. Fired the PC up with him here to see if it would work. He had the modem going through my router, then out to my PC. It worked the first time, although extremely slow with 760ms pings and ~.26Mb download rates. He did some testing and plugged the cord directly into the PC, going around my router. Then the speeds were perfectly fine and he said my router was hosed. Everything was good and he left after his job was done.

I went back to the PC and the speeds were down again, nearly as slow as before. I had some more things to do, so I left and came back later. Speeds were back to the service I'm paying for (7Mb/1Mb) with 10ms pings. I decided something didn't seem quite right, so I put my router back into the mix. The speeds were around .80-1.2Mbit down at first, but then went back to the 7Mb/1Mb service and has been there ever since.

So...that's where it lies. I now have the router hooked up and all my devices have network/internet again at the exact speeds I am paying for. The service isn't intermittent like my router might be going out.


So what do you guys think? Keep in mind I have changed NOTHING during this move. I simply unplugged the cables, packed the PC case in its box it came in, unpacked it at the new location a week later...and it worked upon bootup.

[Nascar24]

I would have went with another NIC card myself. Sounds like some flackey hardware to me. Ive Dumped the old creative sound card as well quite a while ago.

[AMD_G@y]

nVidia based mobos are notorious for their NICs.. best to avoid even if you have to move to onboard sound, seriously an Audigy 2 isn't the cats meow (I know I have one..) hell I'd probally go with a 5.1 USB based soundcard before I would buy a Creative product ever again.