Windows 7 Internet connection acting extremly weird

[honsbeek]

Hello there ,

I am just getting use to a new ASUS board I got and Windows 7 ...

I am having weird problems with my internet connection. Although all drivers are up to
date including the BIOS and ethernet/ internet drivers , as it is of now let me try to explain the situation exactly.

Every time i restart windows , the internet icon in the system tray shows normal , as connected , but when I open IE my homepage doesn't load. All other web based application cannot connect either.

Now I have scratched my head over this and tried out some things, ,When I leave out the LAN cable from the computer and restart windows and wait till it's finished , the tray Icon naturally has the red X through it. Then when I put the LAN cable in (LAN cable comes straight from the wall no routers connected , yet ^^) and wait , and open IE , the damn thing works. However when I restart the whole thing starts over again , NO CONNECTION.

Another method I tried to make it work is when freshly restarted and no connection , I tried to reinstall the Realtek Internet Device drivers , and chose Recover option , when all done , the internet connection miraculously CAME BACK !!!! , but after restart ...
yet again , failed ...

This is all the information I have right now , please assist any way you can ..

Thank you

ASUS board is ASUS P5P43TD/USB3 iBORA

and I need to know if this is a software/OS problem or hardware

thanks again

Ralph

 

[Trouble]

If I had to pick one It would be the strange looking string value at the top of the services tab. It looks suspiciously like the bonjour/mdnsresponder issue we discussed earlier. So leave it disabled and see what happens. Also double check the services console by typing services.msc in the search or run dialog box and hitting enter, find it and make sure that it is in fact disabled.

 

[honsbeek]

For your information :

that string (##Id_string1.6844F930_1628_4223_B5CC_5BB94B879762##) was indeed the cause of the blockage .

I googled it and found that it is caused by Itunes 7.6 and also Photoshop CS3 two programs I had to install.

Without your help and knowledge , I would have never found this out and would have just re-installed Windows again . This

Way it's refreshing to know what is causing that problem exactly , for the future ,

Much thanks again ...

Ralph

 

[Trouble]

Ralph:
Glad to hear that you were able to successfully resolve your problem, congrats. You're the one that did all the work, all I did was sit on this end and make a few lucky guesses.
Thanks for hanging in there, and hope to see you around the forums.
Randy