Asus PCE-N53 not loading any webpages properly

Dantoshou · 17 Aug 2015 at 07:53

Hello OCUK forum goers!

Recently my brother built me a custom loop water-cooled desktop computer, which has been working really well so far.
In recent days, I have noticed that, although I have WiFi connection on this computer, when I do try to use any internet explorer or program that uses the internet, it won't connect properly, in web browsers the circle at the top spins indefinitely, with the page never completely loading all elements.

I have tried resetting the router to see if that will help, but we have plenty of phones and laptops that all still work (hence I am able to use the internet to ask this!)

I hope somebody can help me, A friend asked me to try ipconfig /release
ipconfig /renew
ipconfig /flushdns
but this didn't resolve the issue.

Thanks for any help in advance

Space Monkey · 17 Aug 2015 at 09:10

Have you tried a hard wire to the router rather than WiFi?

Dantoshou · 17 Aug 2015 at 09:20

Unfortunately my router is 10 feet away and I have no Ethernet cable, my wife doesn't want them trailing on floors, under carpets or trunked to the wall...

Space Monkey · 17 Aug 2015 at 09:27

Just wanted to see if you get a good connection with a network cable to narrow down the fault? Could you temp move the PC closer and use a shorter cable that probably came in the router box?

Dantoshou · 17 Aug 2015 at 09:33

I Will try that if I can Space Monkey, I am currently restoring a hard drive on that computer, which told me that it was going to break about a week ago, could that have anything to do with the issues I'm facing?

it isn't the C: drive however, it is a D: drive I use for storage.

the tower is also an XL case so I'll have a job to lug it over to the router, I'll let you know if its working with the wired connection when I manage to move it.

Nasher · 17 Aug 2015 at 11:46

A lot of wi-fi cards for desktops are not that great. You might have to just use a cable.

I gave up on them and switched to poweline adapters instead.

Dantoshou · 19 Aug 2015 at 09:47

Nasher and Space Monkey, I reinstalled windows 7 and the card now works fine, it had worked for weeks on windows 10 but suddenly stopped working, I'll stick to windows 7 for that desktop for now, might be a driver issue or something to do with windows 10's policies.