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Hi, (sorry this is a bit long winded, it was hard to explain)
I had a problem with my old PC just before I upgraded it. About a week before I got all my new stuff the internet just stopped working. I tried to access the page for the modem (I have to type in 192.168.1.1 in web browser, then it should bring up the options), but that wouldn't work, just kept giving like an error 404 type thing. So I restarted and it posts ok but then when it got to loading windows it just slowed right down, and then showed my background but none of the icons loaded or the task bar or anything. For a couple of days I thought it was broken, but then one time I left it for like 15 minutes and it finally loaded windows. I tried to sort the internet again with no luck, in fact I also found that windows firewall wasn't working (it gave some error about not being able to load ICS or something). I tried unplugging/disabling the ethernet, etc, to no avail. I then backed up my things and formatted and then it worked fine. I have since bought all new parts off OcUK and put them in (the only things I didn't change was the PSU, DVD drive and Sound card) and it has worked fine for about a week. But just now it happened again, internet stopped working, couldn't access the modem menu and then restarted and it took 10 minutes to load up again. Tried a system restore to earlier today and it started working again. Then 5 minutes later the internet stopped working and I restored again and it's working now. So I decided to post on here before it happens again.
I don't see what it could be other than my modem doing something strange to my ethernet?
Any ideas?
Thanks
I had a problem with my old PC just before I upgraded it. About a week before I got all my new stuff the internet just stopped working. I tried to access the page for the modem (I have to type in 192.168.1.1 in web browser, then it should bring up the options), but that wouldn't work, just kept giving like an error 404 type thing. So I restarted and it posts ok but then when it got to loading windows it just slowed right down, and then showed my background but none of the icons loaded or the task bar or anything. For a couple of days I thought it was broken, but then one time I left it for like 15 minutes and it finally loaded windows. I tried to sort the internet again with no luck, in fact I also found that windows firewall wasn't working (it gave some error about not being able to load ICS or something). I tried unplugging/disabling the ethernet, etc, to no avail. I then backed up my things and formatted and then it worked fine. I have since bought all new parts off OcUK and put them in (the only things I didn't change was the PSU, DVD drive and Sound card) and it has worked fine for about a week. But just now it happened again, internet stopped working, couldn't access the modem menu and then restarted and it took 10 minutes to load up again. Tried a system restore to earlier today and it started working again. Then 5 minutes later the internet stopped working and I restored again and it's working now. So I decided to post on here before it happens again.
I don't see what it could be other than my modem doing something strange to my ethernet?
Any ideas?
Thanks
I know quite a lot about PC's so you don't have to go into too much detail, but this area isn't my expertise at all. Could you explain what NICs and IRQs are? and DNS settings? sounds so familiar.