Originally Posted by
PTravel
Okay, I'll ask.
After last night's exercise, the gigabit nic is still not working correctly. Device manager reports that it's installed and working properly, the various network reproting screens in Vista indicate that it's connected to the LAN and internet and working fine, yet the status screen indicates that it's only running at 10 mbs. I've tried forcing both the linkspeed and nic speed to 1 gig, but it doesn't help. The card is good (it works on my other laptops) and with the same gigabit switch that the SZ is connected to. I've given up (at least I was able to get a full install of Office 2003 with no errors, so last night's re-install wasn't completely in vain).
Any suggestions?
I ran into the problem of Microsoft installing it's own Vista drivers on my Dell when I upgraded. This driver caused a lot of CPU looping and an almost daily reboot. I finally figured out what was wrong when I went into the device manager and started systematically disabling component after component.
I went to the Dell site and installed the XP driver and the problem appears solved.
I would recommend looking for a driver from either Sony or the manufacturer of the network card.