Windows 7 w7 vs. new modem

[ianian]

Hi y'all. I recently switched from Bell DSL internet to Teksavvy cable service. No network connection/no internet service would function on my computer. A Roger's Cable tech rep came to my apartment. His Windows XP laptop worked fine using my ethernet cable connection, which would not function on my W7 64 bit computer. The Rogers rep told me to take the one year old (3.3Ghz/ram) computer tower to where I bought it from (Canada Computers). The Canada Computers service rep hooked their DSL ethernet LAN cable to my W7 computer, and it worked fine. Back at home and using cable, the internet finally worked (after I changed my log-in user to administrator). After a few days of surfing, the network connection died again. All I get now is "Error message 651; The modem has reported an error." RCA model DCM425 is the modem. Window's "Diagnose" and "troubleshooting" functions came up with nothing. I thought it might be a virus, so I re-installed W7 a few times. Furthermore, using a different computer at a shop, I downloaded a driver for this RCA modem, but the files were not recognized by W7. I've tried doing hard resets with the RCA modem, turning it off/on, all to no avail. I even tried some advice from forum.techguy.org to command prompt "ipconfig/release" and "ipconfig/renew" in order to get the modem and computer communicating, but still no luck. I phoned Microsoft tech support, and they want $100 to "solve the problem." Teksavvy has no answers; Rogers, the same. So too for Canada Computer.

Windows IP Configuration
Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : i-PC
Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . :
Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Hybrid
IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 1C-6F-65-A1-0B-18
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::41d3:2bee:d978:7b4%11(Preferred)
IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.100.10(Preferred)
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : Wednesday, September 26, 2012 1:39:00 PM
Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : Wednesday, September 26, 2012 1:42:26 PM
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.100.1
DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.100.1
DHCPv6 IAID . . . . . . . . . . . : 236744549
DHCPv6 Client DUID. . . . . . . . : 00-01-00-01-17-F3-A9-87-1C-6F-65-A1-0B-18
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : fec0:0:0:ffff::1%1
fec0:0:0:ffff::2%1
fec0:0:0:ffff::3%1
NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Enabled

 

[Trouble]

Hello and welcome to the forum.
Disable IPv6 in the properties of your network adapter and
Install this driver from here Realtek
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Win7 and WinServer 2008 R2 Driver

7.061

2012/8/1

772k

Driver Install - Manual Method

1. Download the driver and extract it to a folder.
2. Open the Device Manager.
3. Right click the device you wish to change the drivers for. You can select Properties > Driver > Driver Details to check you have the right device.
4. Choose Update Driver Software.
5. Select Browse My Computer For Driver Software.
6. Select Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer.
7. Select Have disk...
8. Select Browse..
9. Navigate to the extracted folder and double click on the .inf file
10. Hit OK, then Next and the driver(s) will then begin to install.
11. After it has installed, GoTo C:\Windows\System32\Drivers. Locate the driver you've just updated, right click it and check the dates under its properties.

Regards
Randy