Booting PC disconnects ADSL Modem

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Thee Chicago Wolf

Hmmmmmmm.......
Is Ms preparing a SP3 to XP to "improve" it, or is it putting into it
some "limitations" in order to force us (and the Corporate Users) to
migrate to Vista??????

Less than the 3% of the Corporate Users have migrated into Vista up to
now, according to PC Magazine. That means one tenth of the Corporate
Users that they did migrate from W2K to XP after eight months of XP's
original release date.

Maybe it would be not a good idea to be one of the first ones to
install this SP3.

"K" <[email protected]> wrote:

It's part roll-up part update. It's going to make transitioning to
Vista, someday, easier for corporate folks. The only reason
Corporation are running it is because like many other Dell buyers,
they didn't have the option they do NOW of ordering a machine with XP
instead of Vista. It was a default option so they got stuck with it.

- Thee Chicago Wolf
 
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w_tom

The LED on the router that's associated with my wife's PC stays lit during the
power up sequence.

And that should not happen. Ethernet means the NIC first monitors
for silence before sending its message - Collision Detection with
Collision Avoidance. Your one NIC is not doing that during power up.

If while transmitting, the Ethernet interface detects another also
trying to transmit, then it stops the message and sends a jamming
signal so that all others also must detect interference. The suspect
NIC is sending the equivalent of a jamming signal during power up.
That's weird. Normal that would be a defective NIC. But your system
did the same thing via its wireless connection? Did the same thing
when ethernet cable was physically disconnected? Something here does
not make sense.

If ethernet cable was connected when the same PC was using a
wireless connection, then the suspect is still the ethernet NIC
controller. But if the same problem is created via a wireless
connection when PC is powering up, then all I can say is 'weird' - and
boy is that one the kind of problem I love to solve. Very
interesting.
 

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