Windows 7 no internet connection on boot.

Nope, iTunes was lost on reinstall. I'll double check but I certainly haven't used it in some time.

Seems there are thousands of people with the problem but nobody has found a solution.

I bought a new Intel NIC (not cheap) as it has Win 7 drivers, installed, disabled onboard lan in networking, disabled onboard lan in BIOS, installed the drivers... it was perfect for 6 hours and then went back to being worse than ever. Turned off "allow windows to power down", turned off "recieve side scaling" and all the other ideas people have had, and still nothing.

It's getting incredibly infuriating. It's tempting to forfeit all my RAM and DX10 and go back to XP, just so that i accomplish a difficult task such as "browsing the internet".
 
On the up side, it did stop the Ethernet controller from disconnecting (requiring disable and re-enable)... but now it just doesn't resolve connections to web address. It will work for 5 minutes every hour or so, but that's it. The moment you go to any site that isn't 99% text it breaks it again.

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More info - The problem...
Doesn't affect Ubuntu from USB pen
Doesn't affect any other machine (inc Vista 32, UbuntuNBR, XP)
Didn't happen before Win 7 was installed
Doesn't affect connection outside of the browser (Games, Alt.Binz, Direct file transfer all work fine).
 
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Wow, that is weird.

Does anything show up in eventvwr?

What security software are you using?
W7 has been flawless for me on about 6 different machines.

Using either Nod32 (Antivirus only) or Microsoft Security Essentials
 
Haven't tried Eventvwr, but will check it tonight.

No third party software regarding security. I use Security Essentials with the user account thing on. Tried with windows firewall enabled and disabled.

Yeah, it's truly bizarre. I get that Win 7 is a excellent OS (everything else runs flawlessly) but there's obviously something very wrong here, and I just can't find what it is.

I was positive that installing an NIC with up to date (october) drivers would fix it, but nothing, so it must (presumably) be a Win 7 problem. I would do a clean reinstall (i did the upgrade) but flicking through that 52 page thread i posted on the last page people are reporting that reinstalls are not working, and i don't want to do it unless i absolutely have to (it's a pain, isn't it?).

The only thing I can think of is that when i installed the NIC, Win 7 installed it's own drivers for it. I "uninstalled drivers" from the device manager but it refreshed and reinstalled them automatically, so i just installed the Intel drivers over top. Is there a way to disable the auto-driver install? I'm almost certain the problem is localised to something that Win 7 is doing itself, or set to do.
 
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Good shout.

What's the easiest way to partition a HDD from inside Win 7? Any free software you would use?

Post install, how do I set it so that i can choose which install to boot? (like a Grub menu choice when you dual boot Linux/Windows).
 
bledd. can you confirm what i'm looking for in the eventvwr mate? :)

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"DHCPv6 client service is stopped. ShutDown Flag value is 1" has occured loads of times but only Once or Twice per day. Presumably this is just on turning the machine off? I know that's network related.

Also I have 205 events for "DNS Client Events" timing out after no DNS servers responded. This is clearly linked as it's happening 5, 6, 7 times per day at specific times. It's happened 3 times since i've returned home from work and there are 3 of these events logged since 6pm, presumably at the same time.

edit: confirmed, it's the second one.

Example:
Name resolution for the name i.technet.microsoft.com timed out after none of the configured DNS servers responded.
Name resolution for the name en.wikipedia.org timed out after none of the configured DNS servers responded.

These are all logged as
Source: DNS Client Events
Event ID: 1014
Level: Warning
User: NETWORK SERVICE
OpCode: Info
 
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Ok well, some serious googling over the event "Name resolution for the name timed out after none of the configured DNS servers responded" has shown a dozen different forums, sites and discussion, and nobody has a single fix for it.

It's seems the majority are Asus boards, but not exclusively, and many have Nvidia chipset drivers, but not exclusively. In fact, the only correlation i can see between cases is that there is no common factor. (I have an Asus board with an Intel Chipset, using an Intel NIC with Win 7 Compat Drivers downloaded from the Intel site)

http://social.technet.microsoft.com...g/thread/14fc08fb-f62b-4f86-b59f-d7a4d685b3fe

Is the best lead i have which I will try tonight, but otherwise still no word from Asus, Nvidia or Microsoft over what the problem is, how to fix it, or how to avoid it.

If the above doesn't work, i'll have to make a decision as to whether i'm going to give them more time to release a fix or just go back to Vista or XP.
 
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wierd.. we (IT dept) have W7 installed on 6 machines at work (all dell lat' E6500) all were fine bar 1 which had no network on booting like you were experiencing where you had to disable and re-enable the interface. download of new drivers worked for that. odd that they were identical laptops too.
 
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