Strange router issue - software or not?

Diggsy · 4 Sep 2009 at 19:25

Guys, I have just encountered an issue with my Belkin G+ MIMO router.

It has ran flawlessly for a long time now, and recently I upgraded my system to an IP35 board and the CPU is now at 3.6ghz.

I am still using onboard LAN, only before my motherboard used the nforce chipset, whereas the new board uses a realtek one. Not sure if this has something to do with the issue.

Anyway, over the last week for some reason when I cold boot there is no internet connection. The only thing that gets it working is to power cycle the router.

As soon as I power cycle it everything is dandy, including reboots. But it's a royal pain to have to reboot the router every time I turn the flaming PC on!

Does anyone know if this error would be hardware (router or LAN) or software based? It's starting to do my head in! :mad:

theheyes · 4 Sep 2009 at 19:43

Have you got the latest chipset drivers for the motherboard? It could be one of a number of things, but that would be the first thing I'd try.

Diggsy · 4 Sep 2009 at 19:49

Yeah, all the drivers are the latest as far as I am aware, although I will check that. Just rolled back to the LAN driver that came with the board to see if that helps. Will let you know.

Cheers

theheyes · 4 Sep 2009 at 20:17

You might want to roll back the overclock while you're trying to figure out the problem also.

Diggsy · 4 Sep 2009 at 20:21

theheyes said:
You might want to roll back the overclock while you're trying to figure out the problem also.

Yeah, will see what happens with the driver change 1st and take it from there. Cheers

Diggsy · 5 Sep 2009 at 16:37

Hmmm, at first switch on today again the router was not working. The first time I power cycled it, it still didn't work either.

I am leaning towards the router having developed a fault, or that it simply is about to fall over.

I have the Wii connected to it, so tomorrow if I remember, I think i'll only switch the router on and not the PC, and see if the Wii has connectivity.

Surely that would prove once and for all if the router is about to die, or it's something on the PC annoying it?

theheyes · 5 Sep 2009 at 18:37

If your router has been running fine beforehand and other devices can connect to it without any issues, and the only machine that has a problem has been recently upgraded then logically you can say with some certainty that this is where the problem lies. Although not impossible it would be highly coincidental for your router to fail at the same time you upgrade your motherboard.

Are you running XP, Vista or Windows 7? If you don't mind spending a little money you could perhaps buy a network card and try that.

Diggsy · 5 Sep 2009 at 19:36

Running XP, have several network cards lying around.

It has been working fine with the new machine for the last couple of weeks before falling over.

I do think its the router unfortunately