Networking issues

[mamamia]

I have been having an interesting experience with Vista since installing
it. Long story short, whenever I boot into Vista, it keeps connecting
and disconnecting my network connection, until it knocks out the port in
the switch temporarily. If I reboot into XP, I still don't have
connectivity until I switch ports. The ports that get knocked out
always work again after waiting a bit. I'm pretty sure it's not just
the switch because it happens only with my machine when booted into
Vista and it has happened on more than one switch. Here are the event
log entries from Vista listed below. My nic is integrated to my epox
motherboard with an nforce 3/250 chipset, using the integrated Vista
driver for the nic. The nic is the NVIDIA nforce networking controller,
driver dated 1/2006. Does anyone have any suggestions as to what I
could do to address this issue? Thanks.

Log Name: System
Source: Tcpip
Date: 5/9/2006 8:39:10 PM
Event ID: 4201
Task: None
Level: Information
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: Vista
Description:
The system detected that network adapter Local Area Connection 5 was
connected to the network, and has initiated normal operation over the
network adapter.
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
<Provider Name="Tcpip" />
<EventID Qualifiers="16384">4201</EventID>
<Level>4</Level>
<Task>0</Task>
<Keywords>80000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2006-05-10T01:39:10.928Z" />
<EventRecordID>2125</EventRecordID>
<Channel>System</Channel>
<Computer>Vista</Computer>
<Security UserID="" />
</System>
<EventData>
<Data>
</Data>
<Data>Local Area Connection 5</Data>

<Binary>0000000002002C000000000069100040020000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000</Binary>
</EventData>
</Event>

Log Name: System
Source: NetBT
Date: 5/9/2006 8:39:33 PM
Event ID: 4321
Task: None
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: Vista
Description:
The name "ASGUARD :1d" could not be registered on the Interface
with IP address 1.254.168.192. The machine with the IP address
201.254.168.192 did not allow the name to be claimed by this machine.
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
<Provider Name="NetBT" />
<EventID Qualifiers="49152">4321</EventID>
<Level>2</Level>
<Task>0</Task>
<Keywords>80000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2006-05-10T01:39:33.303Z" />
<EventRecordID>2126</EventRecordID>
<Channel>System</Channel>
<Computer>Vista</Computer>
<Security UserID="" />
</System>
<EventData>
<Data>
</Data>
<Data>ASGUARD :1d</Data>
<Data>1.254.168.192</Data>
<Data>201.254.168.192</Data>

<Binary>000000000400320000000000E11000C001010000010000C006000000000000000000000000000000</Binary>
</EventData>
</Event>

Log Name: System
Source: Dhcp
Date: 5/9/2006 8:39:35 PM
Event ID: 1003
Task: None
Level: Warning
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: VISTA
Description:
Your computer was not able to renew its address from the network (from
the DHCP Server) for the Network Card with network address 0004617C5B0B.
The following error occurred:
The semaphore timeout period has expired. . Your computer will continue
to try and obtain an address on its own from the network address (DHCP)
server.
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
<Provider Name="Dhcp" />
<EventID Qualifiers="0">1003</EventID>
<Level>3</Level>
<Task>0</Task>
<Keywords>80000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2006-05-10T01:39:35.000Z" />
<EventRecordID>2127</EventRecordID>
<Channel>System</Channel>
<Computer>VISTA</Computer>
<Security UserID="" />
</System>
<EventData>
<Data>0004617C5B0B</Data>
<Data>%%121</Data>
</EventData>
</Event>

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Soundblaster Audigy 2

Triple Boot (all 32 bit):
Fedora Core 4
Vista 5308
XP SP2

 

[Andre Da Costa [Extended64]]

Sounds like the problem is the "onboard NIC", you said the issue is not
specific to Windows Vista, so I suggest getting a dedicated NIC and install
it and see how that goes.
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[mamamia]

Sounds like the problem is the "onboard NIC", you said the issue is not
specific to Windows Vista, so I suggest getting a dedicated NIC and install
it and see how that goes.

Yes Andre, I was thinking that also, but it is always Vista that causes
the problem. It's just that after Vista knocks out the port on the
switch, then even after booting into XP, I still don't have network
connectivity until I change ports on the switch. XP never actually
causes the problem. But I'll try another nic as you suggest. Any
suggestions? Who here has a dedicated nic that plays well with Vista?
Thanks again for your reply.

--
AMD64 3200 CPU
1 gig ram
dual 120gb sata HDDs
AGP 8X ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 256mb
Soundblaster Audigy 2

Triple Boot (all 32 bit):
Fedora Core 4
Vista 5308
XP SP2

 

[mamamia]

Yes Andre, I was thinking that also, but it is always Vista that causes
the problem. It's just that after Vista knocks out the port on the
switch, then even after booting into XP, I still don't have network
connectivity until I change ports on the switch. XP never actually
causes the problem. But I'll try another nic as you suggest. Any
suggestions? Who here has a dedicated nic that plays well with Vista?
Thanks again for your reply.

I threw in a Netgear FA311 card because that's what I had lying around,
and it works fine now. I also had to disable the onboard nforce card.
But it is working well. Thanks for the input Andre.


--
AMD64 3200 CPU
1 gig ram
dual 120gb sata HDDs
AGP 8X ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 256mb
Soundblaster Audigy 2

Triple Boot (all 32 bit):
Fedora Core 4
Vista 5308
XP SP2