I have 2 problems

[Gamingphreek]

THe first problem seems simpler than the next so here it is. Whenever i click and drag the scroll bar up and down it makes a noise. I have pinned it down to my speakers but i dont know why. If you know what it sounds like when you plug an Audio RCA cable into a video cable or enable digital on analoge speakers, that is what it sounds like. I am using onboard Soundstorm Audio from my A7N8X-E Deluxe.

The second problem is really starting to piss me off. On black friday we bought a wireless kit, including router, 802.11G PCMCIA card, and a wireless PCI card. Nothing is on the wireless part yet as of right now we are still hardwired using standard CAT5 network cable. We have it running from downstair in my dads office (located in the basement) to my room which is on the second story where we have a plug. THen we have another standard cable that we plug into the wall outlet and goes into my Marvel onboard Gigabit LAN. Now every ~2mins i suddenly lose my network (and internet) connection. Everything just quits that is network based. I lose my conversations with my friends, everything. Then it comes back on in about 30secs. On top of that sights are constantly unavailable, and they take forever to load. We didn't use to have this problem. When i do the broadband reports test i experience 30% packet loss all of a sudden. I cannot ping anything. I have absolutely no clue what is going on.

-Kevin

 

[Gamingphreek]

bump

 

[chmike]

I'd do a netstat -s from the command window and see if you're getting a bunch of errors or discarded packets. Keep looking at it over time as some types of errors aren't on your end.
See if your retransmitted segments are high. Any suspicious numbers point to (probably) a cable problem as a router problem would show up on both computers if I understand your setup.

 

[Fardringle]

If you are getting excessive packet loss and keep dropping the connection on a wired network, I would expect either a bad cable or failing hardware. Does this happen with all computers connected to the router or only with your computer?

If it happens to all computers I would suspect the router. If not, you may have a problem with the NIC in your PC or the patch cable going to your PC from the router. Try a different patch cable and/or a different port on the router and see if the problem persists. If you still have the same problem with a new patch cable and a different port on the router, reinstall your onboard NIC. If that fails to correct the problem, your NIC is probably going bad or you have hostile software (virus/spyware/adware) on your system that is interfering with the connection.

 

[Gamingphreek]

Well it is happening to all the computers on the network, even my dads whose computer is the "server"; it is the one connected to the cable modem and all that.

I did a netstat -s and i got 9295 address errors. 73182 packets recieved. 73172 packets delivered. 60593 output requests. 45 Messages received, 1 sent. 1 desination unreachable received and sent. Time exceeded 44 received. 1499 Active Opens. 235 Passive opens. 10 failed communications attemps. 490 reset connections. 15 current connections. 62880 segments received. 59637 segments send. 30 segments retransmitted. 10240 datagrams received. No ports= 52. 1 receive error. 919 datagrams sent. Everything else is 0.

Not sure if that helps at all.

-Kevin

 

[Fardringle]

Connect the computer that was originally set up on the cable connection directly to the cable modem (preferably with a software firewall enabled) and run netstat again. Try to access games and web sites that you have been having trouble with previously.

If it still fails at that point, the problem is with your cable modem or ISP. If everything works perfect there, your router is causing the errors.