I have a whitebox with an AMD Athlon 3000+ processor and an Asus K8U-X
mainboard. I'm running Windows Vista Premium x64. Very often, though not
completely consistently, when waking from sleep the computer will not
connect to the network for several minutes; I know the network is
running because my Macs can access it (including networked printers and
the Internet) immediately.

I have turned the power saving options off, except for turning video
off after 30 minutes. It still exhibits this problem. Thinking it was
the nVidia NIC on the mainboard, I installed a Netgear NIC, but it
exhibits the same problem. I have Windows Update turned on, and all
hardware drivers are the most recent.

Has anyone had a similar problem that they fixed? Next I'll try turning
off monitor sleep, and hope that I remember to shut it off manually when
leaving. I'd turn the computer off completely, but Vista takes so long
to boot that it'd be inconvenient.


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ClemSnide

Solved! Kinda.

To reiterate, Vista appears to disconnect your computer from the
network during any kind of sleep. I had experimented with the options
and was down to just switching the display off after 30 minutes-- no CPU
sleep, nothing. (My hard drives are set to spin down after 20 minutes,
but I don't think that has anything to do with it.)

So I took that final step and turned off display sleep. Instead, when
leaving my computer, I try to remember to turn off the monitor manually.
Guess what? It works. When I turn the monitor on (for some reason the
computer beeps a couple of times), the network is connected and raring
to go.

Of course, this is tremendously inconvenient. Not to mention stupid. I
have no idea why it's turning the network (both onboard NIC and a PCI
card NIC) when it turns the monitor off, but then, Vista is a dog in
other ways, so I guess it goes along with the package. I still use my
Macs more than my WIndows boxes for Internet work because I'm not fully
convinced of the security level of any Windows OS, but at least now when
I sit down at my Windows box, it doesn't take ten minutes to connect to
the Internet or printers or other computers. Huzzah!


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Just to let you know, I posted this message -once-. That much of a
newbie to the Internet I'm not.

Evidently someone found it important enough to repeat four times. I
guess solutions in the Vista world are rare enough so that we need that
inflation! The biggest remaining problem is how Vista will get into a
state where everything, including the Task Manager, becomes
non-responsive. If we ever come up with a fix for that, go ahead and
repeat it a dozen times-- it'll be that important.


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ClemSnide