u/Zorronin

i can't let you get low

Using Windows 10 on an HP Spectre x360 (6 years old), having some absolutely baffling issues that I suspect are caused by a dying network card. The symptoms:

• In the 30 seconds (not exact) after a reboot, wireless networking works flawlessly. I can ping google.com, load webpages, you name it
• Around 30 seconds in, browsing and other online activities stop working. At this point, I can still ping IP addresses but not URLs (I get an "Unable to resolve" error from "ping google.com"). However, nslookup still works, returning correct IPs for any URL I can think of. This is regardless of if I have set my DNS to default, 1.1.1.1, 8.8.8.8, or other normal values.

Things I've tried:

• It's not the network - other devices connect fine, and these symptoms are identical when hotspotting off my phone, or even USB tethering off my phone.
  • I restarted my modem and router just in case, to no avail
• Safe Mode with Networking produces the exact same symptoms
• I've tried the usual battery of network stack reset commands, including but not limited to:

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Is the next step a full reinstall of Windows? Is there a way to tell if this is a hardware issue?

Blue box: "The gems are not in the black box."

White box: "This statement is as true as the statement on the black box."

Black box: "The gems are in the white box."

If the gems are in the blue box, these would be T ? F, where the white box is a paradox.

If the gems are in the white box, these would be T ? T, white box is indeterminate.

If the gems are in the black box, these would be F ? F, where the white box is a paradox.

I opened the blue box, and it was empty. What gives? It's incontrovertible that the gems in the blue box would give one True and one False box, which should be a valid solution.