I recently bought a Dell Studio MT Core 2 Quad Q8300 to replace my old clunker and have been very happy with it but it's had a problem that seems to be getting worse. I also have high speed Verizon FIOS internet service and the computer is hard wired into the router with Windows 7 x64. The NIC is built in to the computer and not a separate card.
Several times I had this happen in the past and recently it has gotten to be more regular. When I power the computer up, if I don't log in QUICK and fire up a browser (Chrome or IE) for some reason I can't get on the internet. I have debugged my router, the ports and the cables with a laptop and everything is working fine with the router and the internet. If I don't log on quick, like if I power the computer up and 10 minutes later I go log on, when I log on and fire up a browser I just get a message the page cannot be displayed. If I try to ping something like www.google.com or something else, I get the message back that the destination host is unreachable but it does echo back the IP address of the site I'm trying to ping. So this seems to be that it's resolving the name to the IP address, but it's not working right. I tried ipconfig /renew and things but nothing would fire it up. The green light on the NIC and the other end of the cable at the router both flutter like I was online. Yesterday even if I logged in quick I was unable to get online. After an hour with Dell tech support, doing stuff like unplugging everything with PC off, holding power button in for 30 seconds, it fired up and got online. I restarted the computer and it go right online quick again. Usually even if I fire up a browser quick it dwells like 15-20 seconds before it pulls up my home page (www.google.com). After I got off the phone with Dell and restarted my computer, it was online instantly. Today I fired it up, was busy so it was a while before I logged on. Then a while later I came in, fired up Outlook and it timed out trying to access my email. Opened browser and no connection :O/ I restarted it, logged on quick, fired up Chrome, 15-20 seconds later Google fired up. Whew! So I figured first thing I needed to do was post a message with some people who know :O) The Dell guy said if that didn't fix it I'd have to take it for service. If this means shipping this thing out and being computer-less for a while, that just isn't practical since I work with this every day from home. So if this isn't something that I can tweak to fix (TCP stuff?) then I'm tempted to buy a regular NIC and slap it in the system. Any suggestions, hints, tricks, advice? Thanks in advance. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Computer Tech Support" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/computer-tech-support?hl=en.
