Can't get online w/Vista 64 bit

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Dan

Loaded Vista 64 bit on my newly built core 2 duo machine. Dual boots
w/xp on a separate SATA drive. Can't get either IE or FF to go online.
Control panel says network card is working. No problems from XP. When
I run the short diagnostic which pops up in IE when the machine won't go
online, it resets the network card, then is fresh out of ideas. Me too
;-) What might be the trouble? Hard to start evaluating the OS if I
can't get online...

TIA

Dan
 
Hi,

There is a known issue in pre-RC1 and in RC1 with marvell yukon network
adapters. If you are using one, try installing XP drivers on top of the
Vista ones.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
 
Rick said:
Hi,

There is a known issue in pre-RC1 and in RC1 with marvell yukon network
adapters. If you are using one, try installing XP drivers on top of the
Vista ones.
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Thansk for the reply. Yup, mobo (Asus P5B deluxe) has 2 network
adapters, both Marvell Yukon. Figures. I tried loading the drivers
from the mobo's setup disk, but Vista wouldn't accept the bloody things
because they weren't "signed". I'll check the Asus site 7 see if they
have any others, but I doubt it. This pretty much brings the experiment
to an end for me, if there's no other workaround. I know this OS is
hyper about security, but they're going to have to ease up on this, at
least provide a route for "informed override", or they're going to have
a hell of a time when it launches for real.

Dan
 
Dan said:
Thansk for the reply. Yup, mobo (Asus P5B deluxe) has 2 network
adapters, both Marvell Yukon. Figures. I tried loading the drivers
from the mobo's setup disk, but Vista wouldn't accept the bloody things
because they weren't "signed". I'll check the Asus site 7 see if they
have any others, but I doubt it. This pretty much brings the experiment
to an end for me, if there's no other workaround. I know this OS is
hyper about security, but they're going to have to ease up on this, at
least provide a route for "informed override", or they're going to have
a hell of a time when it launches for real.

Dan
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Well I got it to work. Tried dl'ing a beta driver from here
http://www.techspot.com/drivers/driver/file/information/7861/ Vista said
it was corrupt. So I loaded the driver from the ASUS disk via device
manager & it took (rather than just starting the disk from WE, which I
had tried previously & which Vista wouldn't accept as it was "unsigned).

Thanks for putting me on the right track!

Dan
 
No problem, I had the same issue on my test box. You'll be glad to know that
it has been fixed in later builds.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
 
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