VISTA machine fails off network

Help!
I have occurences on two seperate Vista Business laptops where the network
just fails.
This appears as Outlook 2007 asking for the user name and password - where
the machine can not find Exchange. I am running under a Windows 2003 domain.

I cannot then restart the machine as it hangs "Logging off". After the
forced restart everything is ok until it happens again - usually every day.
XP machines never to this.

This has happened on two machines now - a HP 6400 and now a Lenovo T61.
I am a bit fed up now..

It's the net card driver. I suggest testing my assertion by reducing the
speed of the Ethernet card Properties to 10 mbps half duplex, and see if the
problem is not there.

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"MAGICWAND" <> wrote in message
news:49B152F0-A282-402C-83F1-...
> Help!
> I have occurences on two seperate Vista Business laptops where the network
> just fails.
> This appears as Outlook 2007 asking for the user name and password - where
> the machine can not find Exchange. I am running under a Windows 2003
> domain.
>
> I cannot then restart the machine as it hangs "Logging off". After the
> forced restart everything is ok until it happens again - usually every
> day.
> XP machines never to this.
>
> This has happened on two machines now - a HP 6400 and now a Lenovo T61.
> I am a bit fed up now..

Please repost your inquiry to the experts in the Exchange Forum:
http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/...=831&SiteID=17

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows Desktop Experience -
Windows Vista Enthusiast

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"MAGICWAND" <> wrote in message news:49B152F0-A282-402C-83F1-...
Help!
I have occurences on two seperate Vista Business laptops where the network
just fails.
This appears as Outlook 2007 asking for the user name and password - where
the machine can not find Exchange. I am running under a Windows 2003 domain.

I cannot then restart the machine as it hangs "Logging off". After the
forced restart everything is ok until it happens again - usually every day.
XP machines never to this.

This has happened on two machines now - a HP 6400 and now a Lenovo T61.
I am a bit fed up now..