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Network not working when booting XP after Vista Installation

#1 User is offline   ringedingdong 

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  Posted 14 August 2005 - 04:34 AM

Hi community,

I installed Vista yesterday, everything was fine.
But, when I boot the PC with XP it always says a network cable isn't connected.
The on Board LAN card doesn't work anymore.
When I switch to Vista it works. Really crazy.

I tried many things to solve the problem, like uninstalling the driver or siwthing the card off in the BIOS... nothings helps.

I know use WLAN to connect to my router, works ok, but I want to use the on board LAN again.

Anybody got ideas?

HELP ;)
Alex

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Posted 29 January 2006 - 07:33 PM

Hey Alex,

I have the exact same problem. Did you fix it? If so how? This is driving me nuts....

Thx
Kathlik.

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Posted 31 January 2006 - 03:41 AM

Fixed it. For those who may suffer the same fate, do as follows:

1. Pull the power plug from your PC for a good 30 seconds. It seemed to reset the onboard LAN and give me two LED's back on the LAN input.
2. Go to your router. I found my internet connection had been disconnected. Vista does something to the router, as it kills my internet connection after every time I use it.

Hope this helps someone...

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Posted 09 February 2006 - 05:09 AM

View Postkathlik, on Jan 31 2006, 03:41 AM, said:

Fixed it. For those who may suffer the same fate, do as follows:

1. Pull the power plug from your PC for a good 30 seconds. It seemed to reset the onboard LAN and give me two LED's back on the LAN input.
2. Go to your router. I found my internet connection had been disconnected. Vista does something to the router, as it kills my internet connection after every time I use it.

Hope this helps someone...


yeah i did that from time wheni installed vista but also
i have a problem that vista don't even have internet connection
the configuration of the ip's and the the internet protocols is not complete as it is beta
i think this version of vista even 1 or 2 have alot of bugs and alot of shorts and missing services
this is what i see and this is what i searched for like for example when i tried to install netbios servie to let the network , it didn't work and i put the windows xp cd instead of vista dvd, then i installed the service and also it didn't work .
i hope that was informative to you
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Posted 29 July 2006 - 05:34 AM

Anyone have an idea on how to setup the network with one computer connecting wireless and one hard wired. Can seem to get them to recognzied. I ran the windows netowrk wizard and they are not working.

Please Help!!

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Posted 29 July 2006 - 08:52 AM

The Microsoft Connect site has a download for Legacy drivers (and they're all network adapters). So, I'd presume that there are issues with the network adapters in Vista.
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