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?
Are you saying that you are running a separate PCMCIA/ExpressCard NIC? Anyway, you may just have a conflict.
Remember that with the SZ you have to choose if you want to run
Intel Pro Wireless [integrated into the North/Southbridge] or your Windows/hardware wireless.
Personally I would choose
Intel Pro Wireless. I have never had any problems finding/connecting to networks the world over with
Intel Pro.
Also:
Since you are having issues, I would [1] try to get a hold of a full – open copy of XP and [2] the Sony SZ XP restore discs [$17.95]. The reason for buying the restore discs
and having the full version of XP is that you want the full set of order-specific self-installing Sony XP drivers.
Don’t worry about flashing your BIOS. Just wipe your hard drive, install the full retail version of XP then before doing anything else, put in the Sony SZ XP restore disc. The disc should now “see” that you properly have an SZ BIOS and that you have and XP license and should then let you auto-install all of the SZ XP drivers.
If this doesn’t work then no harm, no foul, you are just back where you started.