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Not Connected-No Connections are Avail??

Brutus04

Brutus04

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My wife’s Win7 64 build is about 3 weeks old and stopped connecting to the Internet for no apparent good reason. It has an Intel H55 chipset with a ReakTek 8111E onboard LAN connection. I booted an Ubuntu LiveCD and the onboard E adapter worked fine. I’ve been using the same Netgear Router for years and it works fine, wireless is also OK. I think Win 7 did something to the adapter and/or is corrupted somehow. I made sure I took it out of sleep mode and loaded the latest Realtek drivers; I also tried disabling the onboard LAN and installed a Netgear NIC (which also uses a realtek chip)…no joy, same indications. The Device Mgr reports that the adapter is working fine; went from auto to 10Mbps. Windows also tells me that the Diagnostic Policy Service is not running. At this point I cannot perform a "Repair Install" because Win 7 wants to go to the internet to complete the repair. Any help appreciated...thx!

r/ Brutus
 
Do you have a firewall, I had issues with windows 7 and smoothwall and I had to hardcode the address since windows 7 refused to pull a DHCP address.
Might help if you post some more information about what your network looks like but I would try to hardcode the IP address and DNS servers and see if that helps.
 
I do have a firewall and it has been working fine with it since I put the machine together. I tried connecting directly from the modem (bypassing the router) with same results. I think I will have to do a clean install of Win 7
 
uninstall from device manager the nic and let win7 do its thing on reboot. it should show back up. If it is a freaky nic - might be a good time to bust out that cheap rosewill pcieX1 that windows has really good built in drivers (or a intel nic).
 
Very freaky...I pulled out the memory and re-installed them in different slots (only 2 on this MB) and bam! This may have something to do with a "Deep-sleep" issue with Realtek onbiard NICs.
 
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