Internet not working

liam887 · 3 Mar 2013, 19:34

That's officially the first time I have ever heard of a NIC failure. Congrats on getting it sorted. Maybe eventually you can get an internal PCI slot NIC instead of the USB, your speeds will be much better. I have a stack here, but it would cost more to send you one than it would to buy one locally.

Yes finally have all the drivers loaded on. Thea is up and running (and registered) but unfortunately cant afford to transfer my Sketchup pro from my Mac to PC for $50. I will have to wait 5 weeks until I get paid again I am so disappointed .

Interestingly my Windows experience number has dropped from 8.0 to 7.7 since downgrading the OS.

solo · 3 Mar 2013, 20:09

@unknownuser said:

Interestingly my Windows experience number has dropped from 8.0 to 7.7 since downgrading the OS.

Because Windows 8 is actually leaner and faster than Windows 7, and because MS wants you to upgrade those greedy bastards. I run Windows 8 on my laptop and wife's surface tablet and it is screaming fast, IE 10 still sucks however, Chrome is very stable on W8.

liam887 · 3 Mar 2013, 20:36

@solo said:

@unknownuser said:

Interestingly my Windows experience number has dropped from 8.0 to 7.7 since downgrading the OS.

Because Windows 8 is actually leaner and faster than Windows 7, and because MS wants you to upgrade those greedy bastards. I run Windows 8 on my laptop and wife's surface tablet and it is screaming fast, IE 10 still sucks however, Chrome is very stable on W8.

yeah I thought as much, how annoying...

I also have a surface tablet, have been using it for a month now and havent put it down its super fast.I was also enjoying W8 for the last two days until it decided to break.

However one annyoing thing, the USB internet stick I bought today only works on W8 if you have less than 4GB of RAM, thats another reason why I had to downgrade.

In this day and age what desktops are running less than 4GB or RAM...http://mediapool.xpressplatforms.com/product-files/original-images/573334-178440.jpg

numerobis · 4 Mar 2013, 14:29

@escapeartist said:

...2000/ME, junk! ...

ME was junk, 2000 was great! (at its time) I had it for several years after NT4.

notareal · 4 Mar 2013, 20:47

@solo said:

@unknownuser said:

Interestingly my Windows experience number has dropped from 8.0 to 7.7 since downgrading the OS.

Because Windows 8 is actually leaner and faster than Windows 7, and because MS wants you to upgrade those greedy bastards. I run Windows 8 on my laptop and wife's surface tablet and it is screaming fast, IE 10 still sucks however, Chrome is very stable on W8.

Not 100% sure, BKT maybe win7 and win8 experience numbers are not campatible. Anyhow, win8 is supposed to perform better when multithreaded apps are run.

notareal · 6 Mar 2013, 10:28

Btw starting windows with safemode with networking can reveal if some other program is messing the network stack in normal mode. Did take while to recall, that some failed installation of a security program can mess system similarly.
http://support.microsoft.com/mats/program_install_and_uninstall/en-us may help...

liam887 · 6 Mar 2013, 10:44

@notareal said:

Btw starting windows with safemode with networking can reveal if some other program is messing the network stack in normal mode. Did take while to recall, that some failed installation of a security program can mess system similarly.
http://support.microsoft.com/mats/program_install_and_uninstall/en-us may help...

No that wasn't the case. i did three clean installs with no software installed, even disabled the standard firewall and anti virus in both W7 & W8 but no luck.

I also brought the machine into work for IT to look at, would point to a hardware failure.

notareal · 9 Mar 2013, 15:37

@liam887 said:

I also brought the machine into work for IT to look at, would point to a hardware failure.

For me at work it's pretty rare to see hardware failure with NIC (IRL working as a team leader for the onsite IT support team for a organization with 700+ workstations ). For this year I think I seen only one failed NIC (HP JetDirect card).

Anyhow HW failure sounds possible in your case. There is still a little change that some BIOS setting is causing the issue (example some motherboards will start dropping packets if two onboard NICs are enabled (some intel issue). Enabling UEFI boot also may mess NIC (another intel issue).