I just finished building my new machine, I have dual Marvell Yukon
88E8056 Gigabit controllers on my Asus Rampage Formula motherboard. I
have the latest drivers installed from Marvell's website (10.64.10.3
[9/26/2008]). Both controllers are set to "Auto-Negotiate" speed. I only
have one of the controllers connected to my Netgear GS605 at any one
time, but I have tried this on both of them. Every time I start my PC
the controller connects at 100Mbps (orange light on switch). I then
configure the controller manually to "1000Mbps Full Duplex" and
everything is fine (green light on switch). Is this a driver issue
(hopefully not cause this is the latest driver available) or is it
something to do with Vista? I am moving to Vista from using XP for years
and I have never seem an issue with "Auto-Negotiate".

And then sometimes, my controller does not connect to the network at
all. During system POST the light on the switch is active for the
connection, but then as soon as Vista starts to load the light goes out
and when finally loaded the connection is still not made to the network.
I physically need to unplug the cable and plug it back in again.

Any help would be appreciated.


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quadric

Hi
The onboard Giga NICs of some motherboards are only of "So so" quality. I.e
some are rather quirky.
Since you can use it one at the time, No point to keep them both Enable.
Test the transfer rate of both (one at the time), use the one that is
faster, and Disable the other one.
Jack (MS, MVP-Networking)

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I just finished building my new machine, I have dual Marvell Yukon
88E8056 Gigabit controllers on my Asus Rampage Formula motherboard. I
have the latest drivers installed from Marvell's website (10.64.10.3
[9/26/2008]). Both controllers are set to "Auto-Negotiate" speed. I only
have one of the controllers connected to my Netgear GS605 at any one
time, but I have tried this on both of them. Every time I start my PC
the controller connects at 100Mbps (orange light on switch). I then
configure the controller manually to "1000Mbps Full Duplex" and
everything is fine (green light on switch). Is this a driver issue
(hopefully not cause this is the latest driver available) or is it
something to do with Vista? I am moving to Vista from using XP for years
and I have never seem an issue with "Auto-Negotiate".

And then sometimes, my controller does not connect to the network at
all. During system POST the light on the switch is active for the
connection, but then as soon as Vista starts to load the light goes out
and when finally loaded the connection is still not made to the network.
I physically need to unplug the cable and plug it back in again.

Any help would be appreciated.


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quadric