Internet drops upon restart.

Howdy,

seems like as good a place as any to ask a question, hope you live up to your name ;o)..


I've been building computers for the last 5 years. I've never had ANY major problems until this latest one. It started with a Bad Gigabyte Motherboard. My first returned board ever. The thing, for whatever reason, wouldn't post. I returned it, and got a new one of the exact same model, if only because it fit my Intel chip. This one seems to work fine, but every other time when I reset it, I loose the internet connection upon restart.

I either have to restart the computer a few times to get it back, or I have to unplug the connection. Highly annoying, because I just reset it remotely while at the jersey shore, and I've been without it for the last two days.


The computer is a Windows 7 machine, it's on a network. I don't believe I have the firewall running..and I THINK it's an ActionTech router... I am also on the FIOS Network. never had any problems like this before this motherboard... any ideas?

thanks