Windows 10: Random Windows 10 network interruption

Hi,


We're currently running Windows 10 on four of our machines here. I'd like to upgrade all the others from Windows 7, but there's a problem that seems to be occurring on every single one of the Windows 10 machines.


At seemingly random intervals (>1 hour-ish) the network connection gets interrupted. All that happens is any Explorer windows I have open that are pointing at any directory on a network drive suddenly close, and our Access Database crashes saying it's lost network connection. I then have to close the database down and start it back up again. It literally seems to be a split second drop in connectivity. None of our Windows 7 machines have this problem, but all of our Windows 10 ones do. It seems that only programmes that require a constant connection are affected (as I guess Word, Excel, etc store their temporary data locally when open, so are immune to temporary connection dropouts).

I've tried to see if the computers all do this all at the same time, but they do not, it occurs at different times. Internet connectivity seems unaffected.

I'm wondering if it's something set on Group Policy on our servers perhaps, that disconnects Win 10 machines after they've been connected for a set period of time or something?


This isn't a major issue, but it's really annoying - especially if you're in the middle of inputting something into the Access database or you have several Explorer windows open at once that you need to use a lot.


FYI we're running Server 2008 R2 Enterprise on our file server.


I think drivers are unlikely to be the issue as the problem is not restricted to one machine. Similarly I don't think it's a faulty switch or the like, else all machines would suffer this problem. It is a problem isolated to all our Windows 10 machines only. It doesn't seem to be version specific either, as we've had this problem for quite a while - I've updated the Windows 10 machines and the problem persists. it's not a timeout issue either as I can be using the database and it'll happen.


I'm going to see if I can time the period between the dropouts to see if it's consistent. If it is, it's likely a server-side setting causing the issue.


Any help much appreciated

:)

 

Windows 10 Tweaks

Pressing “Windows+Pause Break” (it’s up there next to scroll lock) opens the “System” Window.

Windows 10: In the new version of Windows, Explorer has a section called Quick Access. This includes your frequent folders and recent files. Explorer defaults to opening this page when you open a new window. If you’d rather open the usual This PC, with links to your drives and library folders, follow these steps:

• Open a new Explorer window.
• Click View in the ribbon.
• Click Options.
• Under General, next to “Open File Explorer to:” choose “This PC.”
• Click OK

credit to Lifehacker.

 

Help with Hardware Interrupts

To use Krview, ignore any driver that is part of Windows or that is for the CPU idle thread.
inteppm is for the CPU idle thread, ignore it.
hal and ntkrnlpa are part of Windows, ignore them.
ati2mtag is the first one on the list that is elevated and relevant.
Find out what hardware interrupt it uses and then any device that shares this interrupt could be the problem. It might not be ati2mtag.
If its the video driver, can you use another card?
Putting the computer to sleep might reset things.

 

Random BSOD while browsing internet


BitDefender is nothing special. mwac.sys causes BSODs anywhere.
A tiny documentation can be found here: Solved Random BSODs - Windows 10 Forums
In that very thread, the suggested action apparently worked.

The storage and network filters of any third party antivirus can cause BSODs. Neither MBAM nor BitDefender is any special. For a regular antivirus, it may be shifted to an alternative; but MBAM has no alternative. So a clean install of the said program is the most feasible first step.
As far as the first step is not failing, it is better to not think for the second step. Because the BSODs are not universal, failure at the first step is not universal; and success at the second step is also not universal.
That is why I posted that my suggestion may work, or may not. Let us see where it goes.