I have a Netgear N600 WNDR3700v1 Dual Band Gigabit router and am having a problem with the wired connection with my PC. Everything wireless in the house works fine. In fact, I also have a Direct TV box hooked up for on demand and a sling box hooked up (both wired) and they work find. It's just my PC that is having issues. If I bypass the router and hook straight into the modem, it runs fine also so I have something going on between the router and this PC that has me stumped. By no means am I a computer expert but I know a little.



I updated the NIC driver and this did not help. Before the update in the device manager, it said it was a NIVIDA nForce Network Controller (if I remember right) and now it says NIVIDA nForce 10/100 Mpbs Ethernet. It was suggested that I change my speed and duplex to match the router after I update but I am unsure what to change it to. Could this be the problem or am I way off?

Any help is greatly appreciated!

Looks like I forgot to mention that I am running Vista. Sorry about that. I think I should also mention that I did a restore to factory settings thinking it would fix the problem but of course it did not so as of right now, other than firefox and the driver update, it is just as it would be when it is pulled from the box, unless I found a really nasty bug that hung around.

Thanks for taking a look at this.

Results from the FSS

arbar Service Scanner Version: 04-08-2012 01
Ran by WeVie (administrator) on 06-08-2012 at 12:52:45
Running from "I:\"
Microsoft® Windows Vista™ Home Premium (X86)
Boot Mode: Normal
****************************************************************

Internet Services:
============

Connection Status:
==============
Localhost is accessible.
LAN connected.
Google IP is accessible.
Google.com is accessible.
Yahoo IP is accessible.
Yahoo.com is accessible.


Windows Firewall:
=============

Firewall Disabled Policy:
==================
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\SharedAccess\Parameters\FirewallPolicy\StandardProfile]
"EnableFirewall"=DWORD:0


System Restore:
============

System Restore Disabled Policy:
========================


Security Center:
============

Windows Update:
============

Windows Autoupdate Disabled Policy:
============================


Other Services:
==============

sharedaccess Service is not running. Checking service configuration:
The start type of sharedaccess service is set to Disabled
The ImagePath of sharedaccess service is OK.
The ServiceDll of sharedaccess service is OK.


File Check:
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C:\Windows\system32\nsisvc.dll => MD5 is legit
C:\Windows\system32\Drivers\nsiproxy.sys => MD5 is legit
C:\Windows\system32\dhcpcsvc.dll
[2006-11-02 04:56] - [2006-11-02 05:46] - 0204800 ____A (Microsoft Corporation) 17210D8064EC116A3FC6B5E45E577D43

C:\Windows\system32\Drivers\afd.sys => MD5 is legit
C:\Windows\system32\Drivers\tdx.sys => MD5 is legit
C:\Windows\system32\Drivers\tcpip.sys => MD5 is legit
C:\Windows\system32\dnsrslvr.dll
[2012-08-04 03:23] - [2012-08-04 03:23] - 0084480 ____A (Microsoft Corporation) 05D7E62FD2EABAD579EB4D0C29245EEC

C:\Windows\system32\mpssvc.dll => MD5 is legit
C:\Windows\system32\bfe.dll => MD5 is legit
C:\Windows\system32\Drivers\mpsdrv.sys => MD5 is legit
C:\Windows\system32\SDRSVC.dll
[2007-08-24 00:07] - [2007-08-24 00:07] - 0102912 ____A (Microsoft Corporation) 56AA904311B3BACC67DBA8679AFF73D4

C:\Windows\system32\vssvc.exe => MD5 is legit
C:\Windows\system32\wscsvc.dll => MD5 is legit
C:\Windows\system32\wbem\WMIsvc.dll => MD5 is legit
C:\Windows\system32\wuaueng.dll
[2006-11-02 05:14] - [2006-11-02 05:46] - 1568256 ____A (Microsoft Corporation) 9397D21939A25DA1BD0ED8DB5BB3C853

C:\Windows\system32\qmgr.dll => MD5 is legit
C:\Windows\system32\es.dll => MD5 is legit
C:\Windows\system32\cryptsvc.dll => MD5 is legit
C:\Windows\system32\svchost.exe => MD5 is legit
C:\Windows\system32\rpcss.dll => MD5 is legit


**** End of log ****

I will let you know. I will have to download the files to my laptop and transfer them or they will most likely never download. Thanks!

I have booted into safe mode and it is still the same.

I have not reset the router. I will give that a shot tomorrow. I don't have a wireless adapter but I can borrow one to see what it does. Something else I thought about today is hooking my laptop up wired and see what that does too. If the laptop runs OK through a cable, would that still indicate the router or would that point back to the PC?

Thanks again for helping out with this.

So today, I turned off the wifi card in my laptop and plugged a cable into it and it had the same results as my PC so obviously, something is going on with the router. The crappy part is that I cannot even view any of the settings on the router because they will never load.

I am going to try to reset to factory settings to see if that will help and if not, I suppose I will go get a new router and give that a go.