wheresmybacon
Diamond Member
I spent far too long on this problem, and came to a laughably-simple resolution this morning. Wanted to share so someone else might be able to forego the hours of troubleshooting I did.
System: Win 7 x64 Home Premium, Intel E8400 @ 3.6, Asus P5Q deluxe, 4 GB RAM, 1 SATA SSD RAID 0 array for OS and some apps (games), 1 large SATA drive for data
Problem: Windows occasionally loses internet connection due to DNS breaking, system log in eventvwr logs 1014 errors.
Details: One morning a couple months ago I came in to my office and noticed I had a yellow “!” in my system tray, indicating I had little or no internet connection on my main box. I figured an update broke it, which - if you work in IT - isn’t terribly surprising; updates break stuff all the time. I found that disabling and re-enabling the NIC in device mangler got me going again, and that was that. Since I rarely reboot, I didn’t know the problem persisted, until I had the need to reboot a few times yesterday. Sure enough, after each reboot I had a new 1014 error in the syslog, DNS was broken, and of course I had no internet connectivity.
Solution: I tried all kinds of “fixes”. BIOS updates. Driver updates. Driver Rollbacks. Windows Drivers. Static IP. Reg hacks. Bypassing the router. Nothing worked. Finally, I had the idea to check the website of the NIC manufacturer (Marvell), instead of Asus. All this time I had been getting the drivers from the Asus site, instead of Marvell. Man, do I feel stupid. Long story short – don’t trust your mobo manufacturer to have updated drivers for onboard devices! Go the maker of the device itself. The drivers from Marvell were 2 weeks old and they fixed the problem.
System: Win 7 x64 Home Premium, Intel E8400 @ 3.6, Asus P5Q deluxe, 4 GB RAM, 1 SATA SSD RAID 0 array for OS and some apps (games), 1 large SATA drive for data
Problem: Windows occasionally loses internet connection due to DNS breaking, system log in eventvwr logs 1014 errors.
Details: One morning a couple months ago I came in to my office and noticed I had a yellow “!” in my system tray, indicating I had little or no internet connection on my main box. I figured an update broke it, which - if you work in IT - isn’t terribly surprising; updates break stuff all the time. I found that disabling and re-enabling the NIC in device mangler got me going again, and that was that. Since I rarely reboot, I didn’t know the problem persisted, until I had the need to reboot a few times yesterday. Sure enough, after each reboot I had a new 1014 error in the syslog, DNS was broken, and of course I had no internet connectivity.
Solution: I tried all kinds of “fixes”. BIOS updates. Driver updates. Driver Rollbacks. Windows Drivers. Static IP. Reg hacks. Bypassing the router. Nothing worked. Finally, I had the idea to check the website of the NIC manufacturer (Marvell), instead of Asus. All this time I had been getting the drivers from the Asus site, instead of Marvell. Man, do I feel stupid. Long story short – don’t trust your mobo manufacturer to have updated drivers for onboard devices! Go the maker of the device itself. The drivers from Marvell were 2 weeks old and they fixed the problem.
