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Answer» Hello, I have a strange situation. After ~6 hours of operation, my PC no longer accesses the internet. This happens every day. My antivirus goes blank around that time and my email dies. Six hours later it occurs all over again. Programs RUN from the PC operate, but at a slower speed. How would I go about diagnosing the cause of this problem? Thank you in advance.Who is your ISP ? ?I have Verizon FIOS but the problem existed before I switched to that service.Is this an onboard NIC or an addon card ? ? If a card i'd buy a new one for about 15 Bucks and swap it in there...There was no add-on card. The GUY simply switched the modem with a FIOS one. I may be wrong about the email - the anti-virus just turned off again but the email works. What's a NIC? BTW I have Windows XP sp3 Network Incerface Card... It's either a chip on the Motherboard or an add-on card.Well like I said, there is no NIC that I know of. I built the PC myself and I know there is no such card on the mb. My thinking is that it's software...SPECIFICALLY the OS.Does the same thing happen if you boot to safe mode with networking?I will try that, but you should also know that my 2nd PC - which has the same software and FIOS connection - does not exhibit this problem. I'll run it in safe mode tomorrow and see what happens. Quote from: bullwinkle on May 06, 2010, 03:45:31 PM I will try that, but you should also know that my 2nd PC - which has the same software and FIOS connection - does not exhibit this problem. I'd be surprised if it did.Symptoms seem like DHCP lease is expiring. Your FIOS HardwareI'm not sure what a DHCP lease is, but FIOS was installed just a few months ago. I have not run under safe mode before so some of these results may be normal. I selected both Safe Mode and Safe Mode with Networking. However - the resolution was 640x800 and could not be changed - No program could access the internet - When trying to run my antivirus program it said it was loading and then said it could not respond Therefore I could not run a comparable test in this mode. BUMP!Bumpety bump! Quote from: bullwinkle on May 12, 2010, 03:28:05 PM Bumpety bump! Don't do this. It's an unwritten rule here that we punish BUMPERS by not answering them. (Except like this.) Also, you rejected ADVICE saying you knew better. So that might be another reason the answers dried up.

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Hello,

I have a strange situation. After ~6 hours of operation, my PC no longer accesses the internet. This happens every day. My antivirus goes blank around that time and my email dies. Six hours later it occurs all over again.

Programs RUN from the PC operate, but at a slower speed.

How would I go about diagnosing the cause of this problem?

Thank you in advance.Who is your ISP ? ?I have Verizon FIOS but the problem existed before I switched to that service.Is this an onboard NIC or an addon card ? ?
If a card i'd buy a new one for about 15 Bucks and swap it in there...There was no add-on card. The GUY simply switched the modem with a FIOS one.

I may be wrong about the email - the anti-virus just turned off again but the email works.

What's a NIC?

BTW I have Windows XP sp3 Network Incerface Card...
It's either a chip on the Motherboard or an add-on card.Well like I said, there is no NIC that I know of. I built the PC myself and I know there is no such card on the mb.

My thinking is that it's software...SPECIFICALLY the OS.Does the same thing happen if you boot to safe mode with networking?I will try that, but you should also know that my 2nd PC - which has the same software and FIOS connection - does not exhibit this problem.

I'll run it in safe mode tomorrow and see what happens. Quote from: bullwinkle on May 06, 2010, 03:45:31 PM

I will try that, but you should also know that my 2nd PC - which has the same software and FIOS connection - does not exhibit this problem.

I'd be surprised if it did.Symptoms seem like DHCP lease is expiring.
Your FIOS HardwareI'm not sure what a DHCP lease is, but FIOS was installed just a few months ago.

I have not run under safe mode before so some of these results may be normal. I selected both Safe Mode and Safe Mode with Networking.

However

- the resolution was 640x800 and could not be changed
- No program could access the internet
- When trying to run my antivirus program it said it was loading and then said it could not respond

Therefore I could not run a comparable test in this mode.
BUMP!Bumpety bump! Quote from: bullwinkle on May 12, 2010, 03:28:05 PM

Bumpety bump!

Don't do this. It's an unwritten rule here that we punish BUMPERS by not answering them. (Except like this.) Also, you rejected ADVICE saying you knew better. So that might be another reason the answers dried up.

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