Absolute Vista RC2 Nvidia Network Problem
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| Andy |
> Everything always worked fine in Vista RC1, I hope this issue is brought to
> someones attention so that it can be corrected. I have an Asus M2n-SLi Deluxe
> motherboard, with two nvidia nforce network adapters. The drivers for these
> network adapters come with Vista, and used to always work fine.
>
> In RC2, they still work fine to connect to the internet. However, if I try
> and make a shared folder available on my network, and anyone tries to
> download a file from my share, my network adapter craps out, I can't get back
> onto the internet until I restart my computer.
>
> In network properties, it shows no errors. However, if I try to disable and
> reenable the problem adapter, the O/S freezes to a halt.
>
> To test my theory that the network driver is bad, I messed around for about
> 40 minutes and finally got Vista to use an old driver that Nvidia designed
> for Xp x64 for my network drivers, instead of the default one. Using this
> driver, everything works perfectly. However when I restart my computer the
> driver defaults back to the pre-installed driver and my problem comes back,
> it happens on both adapaters.
>
> To be sure of this problem I did a clean format of my computer, and
> reinstalled vista RC2. I installed nothing else and tested the problem, it
> repeated itself identically, leaving me 100% convinced this driver has some
> sort of a problem in RC2. I tried two different hard drives, that didn't make
> any difference either.
>
> Any workarounds would be much appreciated.
| PS851112 |
> Everything always worked fine in Vista RC1, I hope this issue is brought to
> someones attention so that it can be corrected. I have an Asus M2n-SLi Deluxe
> motherboard, with two nvidia nforce network adapters. The drivers for these
> network adapters come with Vista, and used to always work fine.
>
> In RC2, they still work fine to connect to the internet. However, if I try
> and make a shared folder available on my network, and anyone tries to
> download a file from my share, my network adapter craps out, I can't get back
> onto the internet until I restart my computer.
>
> In network properties, it shows no errors. However, if I try to disable and
> reenable the problem adapter, the O/S freezes to a halt.
>
> To test my theory that the network driver is bad, I messed around for about
> 40 minutes and finally got Vista to use an old driver that Nvidia designed
> for Xp x64 for my network drivers, instead of the default one. Using this
> driver, everything works perfectly. However when I restart my computer the
> driver defaults back to the pre-installed driver and my problem comes back,
> it happens on both adapaters.
>
> To be sure of this problem I did a clean format of my computer, and
> reinstalled vista RC2. I installed nothing else and tested the problem, it
> repeated itself identically, leaving me 100% convinced this driver has some
> sort of a problem in RC2. I tried two different hard drives, that didn't make
> any difference either.
>
> Any workarounds would be much appreciated.
| PS851112 |
| PS851112 |
| PS851112 |
> I have a very similar problem. My nvidia nic craps out during high bandwith
> usage seems more likely to occur when high uploads are going on. I have a
> quick fix on mine is switching cat5 cable to the next nic slot. At the same
> time i also have MAC addressing setup in my router so 1 MAC gets this
> reserved ip and the other MAC this reserved IP, so when i switch nic ports i
> get a diff ip. I kinda figured i might be my router or my switch but i guess
> it narrows down to vista and nvidia.
>
> I havnt had any other luck in getting it to work. I have been having this
> problem since the first vista beta release. I have the epox mf570sli.
> Just wanted to let you know your not alone i share the hair pulling
> frustration.
| Andy |
> Thanks for the reply, yea it sounds like we are having the same issue here.
> You should try what I did that made it work (though not a permanent fix, this
> can you tell you without a shadow of a doubt that its the driver causing the
> error). I
>
> went on nvidias site, and downloaded the nforce drivers for my chipset and
> selected the windows xp x64 edition of the drivers. I extracted the setup
> files to a folder, and in this folder there is an ethernet folder. In here
> you will find an older, 64 bit driver for our network cards.
>
> Next took a lot of fighting with vista to get it to recognize this "new" old
> driver. It always said the version I was trying to install wasn't better than
> the one already installed. Eventually I uninstalled both of my network cards,
> removed the default driver from the windows/system32/drivers folder, and
> finally got it to recognize the old driver on ONE of the network cards. I
> tested the heck out of this network card for hours and could not break it
> under any circumstance. Obviously as soon as I had to restart it "fixed"
> (read: broke) itself again. But at least this made me 100% certain its that
> driver causing all my problems.
>
> "PS851112" wrote:
>> > I have a very similar problem. My nvidia nic craps out during high bandwith
> > usage seems more likely to occur when high uploads are going on. I have a
> > quick fix on mine is switching cat5 cable to the next nic slot. At the same
> > time i also have MAC addressing setup in my router so 1 MAC gets this
> > reserved ip and the other MAC this reserved IP, so when i switch nic ports i
> > get a diff ip. I kinda figured i might be my router or my switch but i guess
> > it narrows down to vista and nvidia.
> >
> > I havnt had any other luck in getting it to work. I have been having this
> > problem since the first vista beta release. I have the epox mf570sli.
> > Just wanted to let you know your not alone i share the hair pulling
> > frustration.
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