I recently purchased a new Dell Studio Mini-Tower, Intel Core 2 Quad Q8300 (2.5GHz, 4MB) with Windows 7 x64 and still had my old Asus running as my primary computer. Over the last few months I have migrated all my data to the Dell, installed a new 1.5TB hard drive and have all my axillary stuff hooked up.
Ever since I used the Dell I would have an occasional issue where I would power it up but it wouldn't have any network connectivity. I thought it was the network cabling in the spare room I had it rigged in so I would check the cables, restart the computer and it would come back. Now I have it in it's permanent location cabled directly into my FIOS router and the problem persists. I would power it up, log in, open Explorer and after several minutes get a page not found error. I would bounce out to a command prompter, ping something like www.google.com and it would echo back the IP address, but then it would time out. I replaced cables, tried different router ports, all kinds of stuff. I grabbed my laptop, yanked out the wireless card and hard plugged it into the router ports with the same cable in the Dell and it would connect perfectly so I pretty much decided it's the Dell. One night I couldn't get online and called Dell support and they said to do things like turn it off, unplug all the cables, hold the power button in for some period of time, plug everything back in and try it and it worked. But a few days later, back to flaking out. Have run a full McAfee scan and all clean, ran a full Maleware Bytes scan and all clean, ran an AdAware scan and all clean. The tech guy said if it continued I would have to have it checked at a Dell store or something. I have this thing cabled in and all kinds of software installed and configured and the big secondary drive in, too. What a pain if I have to start over. So I thought I'd check here and see if I could get any expert advise. When I ping some address it echos back the IP address so it has to be seeing some DNS service to know what the IP is for the name I am pinging. I have also noticed that when it was getting on after the service tech had me do some things, I would log in and it would be up and running in 10 seconds. Now I can see delays in the start up and the little status wheel at the cursor (hour glass?) pops on and off a few times over a minute or so before I can do something. Any suggestions???? -- 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.
