Help with Vista networking please

[Kapibarra]

Hi all.

I can't seem to get a network connection working in vista. The upgrade
advisor I ran in XP did not indicate any problems with my hardware
before installing vista.

My system is as follows:

epox 8kda3j motherboard with an nforce 3 250 chipset and builtin gigabit
ethernet
2gb pc3200 ram
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro graphics card with 256 mb video memory
AMD Athalon 64 3200 cpu
IDE 110gb drive
sata 110gb drive
sata 150gb drive
(onboard sata controller)
Audigy sound card
cd/dvd rom drive

I also tried installing a netgear fa311 network card. Tried the vista
compatible drivers and tried disabling IPv6 on that connection. Also
tried disabling the firewall in vista.

This netgear card uses a realtek chipset, could be 8169 or 8139. I
tried both of those realtek drivers too.

I should note that all of this hardware works great when I boot into XP.

Any suggestions?

Thanks.

 

[Guest]

Netgear has bad, bad probs with Vista; I threw their wireless network adaptor
out, and went back to cat5. that works

 

[John Barnes]

Check in Device Manager and see if device is properly installed. If it
shows as working properly, one possibility is the nVidia firewall. When
installing the chipset drivers some part can be installed even when not
selected, especially on Vista64. Best try is to allow the install, then
uninstall it using control panel, uninstall a program.

 

[The Forgotten]

Check in Device Manager and see if device is properly installed. If it
shows as working properly, one possibility is the nVidia firewall. When
installing the chipset drivers some part can be installed even when not
selected, especially on Vista64. Best try is to allow the install, then
uninstall it using control panel, uninstall a program.

Or try Network Magis (trial software)

It worked for me at home and work with no network knowlege

 

[Kapibarra]

Netgear has bad, bad probs with Vista; I threw their wireless network adaptor
out, and went back to cat5. that works

Hi Mick, and thanks for the reply. It's actually not a wireless card,
just a plain old ethernet nic. Are those bad for Vista from Netgear too?

 

[Kapibarra]

Check in Device Manager and see if device is properly installed. If it
shows as working properly, one possibility is the nVidia firewall. When
installing the chipset drivers some part can be installed even when not
selected, especially on Vista64. Best try is to allow the install, then
uninstall it using control panel, uninstall a program.

Hi John. Thanks for the reply. I tried as you suggested, and the
device manager looks fine, it does not indicate any problems with the
Netgear driver. I didn't actually install any drivers for the chipset,
as the Vista seemed to do that for me. I checked it in the device
manager, and it looks like there is no problems with those drivers
either. Even though I did not install anything for the chipset, I did
check the installed software and I did not see any nVidia software
installed. How would I go about checking the nVidia firewall then?

 

[Kapibarra]

Or try Network Magis (trial software)

It worked for me at home and work with no network knowlege

Thanks to all who replied. I went to Staples and bought a linksys
gigabit card, and it works great now.