Vista Randomly Dropping Off the Network
March 27, 2007
AAACK! It's following me! We had a very similar issue with a co-located box of ours (PE 1850 + Gentoo + 2.6.12 don't work btw)... and now it's followed me home! My completely unrelated machine with a brand new Vista install is randomly detecting media-disconnection and dropping off the network when absolutely nothing has happened. Disable the interface, re-enable it and all is hunky dorey. Wow, weird.
Yes, I am sure that this issue is completely unrelated. Two totally different machines, totally different operating systems and totally different software. No worries, it's definitely Vista.
What sort of horror stories have you heard from customers Jesse?
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Jesse 2007/03/27
Jordan,
Because of my position in the company I have to be somewhat nice. The vast majority of my customers are not tech savvy thus I don't hear a ton of issues. However, the majority of issues we have gotten have been from customers who try to load Vista onto their old junkers. For our service though it seems to work very nice as long as it is a brand new machine with Vista loaded properly on it.
Jordan T. Cox 2007/03/27
Jesse, ah I see. Indeed, you do have to have a beefy machine. Their base specs are listed as;
- 1 GHz 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
- 512 MB of system memory
Which in my book qualifies as "it boots, but not much else". I can't imagine loading it on anything less than 1Gb or RAM and at least a ~2.0Ghz machine with a /nice/ video card. Like, gaming grade. Seriously.Jordan T. Cox 2007/03/27
Also, I wasn't really interested in customer horror stories. We all have those (been to dailywtf?). I was more interested in Vista mis-haps; things that just don't work right in Vista.
James 2007/03/27
Odd... I haven't had any of the network problems you're describing Jordan...
Jordan T. Cox 2007/03/28
It could be my hardware. I've had it happen twice, and I'm hoping that it's just Vista doing it's settle-in-thang.