Nvidia nForce Network Controller quirkiness on Vista Home Premium...

On Windows Vista Home Premium on booting up my PC it is nearly always
telling me that I am not connected to any networks, despite there being
a healthy, working ethernet cable connected.

I only have one of the ethernet ports enabled on my Asus P5N32-E SLI
Motherboard, so there are no other networking controllers in use.

On going in to device manager and disabling, then enabling the 'nForce
Networking Controller' all is well.

What on earth is causing this, it's very irritating!

Thanks

"Kontaminator" <> wrote in message
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> On Windows Vista Home Premium on booting up my PC it is nearly always
> telling me that I am not connected to any networks, despite there being a
> healthy, working ethernet cable connected.
>
> I only have one of the ethernet ports enabled on my Asus P5N32-E SLI
> Motherboard, so there are no other networking controllers in use.
>
> On going in to device manager and disabling, then enabling the 'nForce
> Networking Controller' all is well.
>
> What on earth is causing this, it's very irritating!
>
> Thanks

I have an nForce Network Adapter as well, and "Windows Update" offered an
updated driver as an option. I installed the driver, and all was fine except
I could no longer "map" my network. I rolled back the driver to it's
original state, and voila... my network map worked again! I, however, never
lost my network connection with the new driver. With the new driver, it
still said I was connected; I just couldn't "map" my network, under
"Network and Sharing Center," "View full map." So try rolling back your
driver to it's previous state, and see what happens. I wish I knew more
about the new driver that appears to disable some of Vista's network
options. That's my story anyway. Hope this helped some.

Try Nvidia for updated drivers also look at the Vista beta's...link below:
http://www.nvidia.com/content/drivers/drivers.asp


"Bob" <> wrote in message
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> "Kontaminator" <> wrote in message
> news:xF2ki.22316$%...
>> On Windows Vista Home Premium on booting up my PC it is nearly always
>> telling me that I am not connected to any networks, despite there being a
>> healthy, working ethernet cable connected.
>>
>> I only have one of the ethernet ports enabled on my Asus P5N32-E SLI
>> Motherboard, so there are no other networking controllers in use.
>>
>> On going in to device manager and disabling, then enabling the 'nForce
>> Networking Controller' all is well.
>>
>> What on earth is causing this, it's very irritating!
>>
>> Thanks
>
> I have an nForce Network Adapter as well, and "Windows Update" offered an
> updated driver as an option. I installed the driver, and all was fine
> except I could no longer "map" my network. I rolled back the driver to
> it's original state, and voila... my network map worked again! I, however,
> never lost my network connection with the new driver. With the new driver,
> it still said I was connected; I just couldn't "map" my network, under
> "Network and Sharing Center," "View full map." So try rolling back your
> driver to it's previous state, and see what happens. I wish I knew more
> about the new driver that appears to disable some of Vista's network
> options. That's my story anyway. Hope this helped some.

Look at this:
http://www.nvidia.com/content/drivers/drivers.asp

"Bob" <> wrote in message
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> "Kontaminator" <> wrote in message
> news:xF2ki.22316$%...
>> On Windows Vista Home Premium on booting up my PC it is nearly always
>> telling me that I am not connected to any networks, despite there being a
>> healthy, working ethernet cable connected.
>>
>> I only have one of the ethernet ports enabled on my Asus P5N32-E SLI
>> Motherboard, so there are no other networking controllers in use.
>>
>> On going in to device manager and disabling, then enabling the 'nForce
>> Networking Controller' all is well.
>>
>> What on earth is causing this, it's very irritating!
>>
>> Thanks
>
> I have an nForce Network Adapter as well, and "Windows Update" offered an
> updated driver as an option. I installed the driver, and all was fine
> except I could no longer "map" my network. I rolled back the driver to
> it's original state, and voila... my network map worked again! I, however,
> never lost my network connection with the new driver. With the new driver,
> it still said I was connected; I just couldn't "map" my network, under
> "Network and Sharing Center," "View full map." So try rolling back your
> driver to it's previous state, and see what happens. I wish I knew more
> about the new driver that appears to disable some of Vista's network
> options. That's my story anyway. Hope this helped some.