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A little story for you.

My connection has been playing up for the last few weeks, little freezes, random drops, big ping spikes and all the fun they can bring for a medic. When the connection dropped it would be offline for 5 minutes or so unless I manually disconnected from the network and then re-connected where it would re-connect instantly, strange. Knackered router was the best diagnosis anyone could come up with.

I then bought a new router which failed to connect, (my isp insists on us using one of their own routers apparently), but finally got a new one yesterday. I set it up and was back online…but still getting the ping spikes, freezes and drops. I was sad face.

After an hour or so with a non-techno noob, (cheers tik <3 ), going through a lot of stuff with me, we found out I was actually connected wirelessly, even though I was all plugged in. Further investigation found out my network adaptor wasn't even being found by my pc, despite green lights around the cable socket.

Apparently this is a bit strange, so off I went to my BIOS menu to find out if my LAN thingy was in fact enabled. I couldn't find the option in my BIOS menu. The motherboard's manual showed the menu screens with the LAN, but mine didn't have the option…weirder and weirder.

It turns out my pathetic attempt at overclocking, (simply raising the front side bus), made the motherboard decide to not even recognise the fact I had a LAN capability. By re-setting to fail-safe defaults the LAN menus appeared in my BIOS and the pc had a LAN connection again. I connected with wires and it's been as smooth as a baby ever since.

The mother board in question is a gigabyte P35-DS3R. May other techno-noobs be warned.

Tl;dr: Increasing front side bus makes connection go poo.

Fair comment :)

Quoted from vani

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2ez

Fairly silly describes me quite well tbf Spike, and I didn’t think an overclock of my CPU would come anywhere near causing a problem for my connection, I mean, like you said, it sounds unlikely. I did mention it to one guy who knows his stuff and he was ‘fairly certain’ an overclock couldn’t affect connection.

I has found out new stuff that techies didn’t know…I’M A PIONEER :D

It’s definitely what happened though, we concluded it was some kind of safety feature as maybe throwing more power at the modem thingy would have fried it? Dunno, but I had nothing in my network adaptors list except the wireless connection until I reset it all to the fail-safe settings, then it appeared again.

Maybe I should email gigabyte and ask…