Gigabit NIC... anyone know about these things?

[recon]

My new workstation (Sony VAIO) came with a Gigabit NIC that is constantly losing it's connection for a split secon at a time. I get the little windows XP balloon at the bottom right of the screen saying "a network cable is unplugged", followed by the one that saya "local area connection is now connected".

Constantly!!! and I have to click the balloon to make it go away. Then it's back within 20 seconds or so. It makes working in any full screen program a total pain.

I've taken to simply unplugging the cable when I can, but this even interferes with network rendering.

Is it a bad card or what? My router has 8 10/100 ports and a single gigabit port (which the Vaio is plugged in to).

 

At the very least, is there any way to turn the damn balloons off??

 

-john manning

[Greg Hess]

Recon,

 

Start-Settings-Control Panel-System-Devices-Device Manager

 

Go to the ethernet/network adapter.

 

Go to properties.

 

Go to power management.

 

Turn off (Allow computer to turn off this device to save power).

 

See if that fixes your problem.

 

If not, post again.

[Jeff Mottle]

I have had connection problems in the past that were fixed by explicitly setting the link speed and duplex, rather than have it auto detect. Worth a try if Greg's suggestion does not work.

[recon]

Originally posted by Greg Hess:

Turn off (Allow computer to turn off this device to save power).

 

See if that fixes your problem.

 

If not, post again. [/QB]

Hmmm...

 

Sounded like a cure, but it was already turned off.

 

Well, I've bypassed the problem by plugging the NIC into a 10/100 port instead of the gigabit port. Sure like to not have to do that though.

 

-john manning