Hi All. I have a VGN AR21S laptop which came with Windows XP Media Center Edition preinstalled. I have dual booted it with Vista Ultimate 32 bit and generally have not had many problems getting all drivers to work as it is just a case of coming here or looking at various other vista forums and looking at what other folks have been doing to resolve problems.
BUT my only issue has been the drivers for the network adapters!! My Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection and Intel(R) PRO/100 VE Network Connection suffer random Internet dropouts.
Before anyone comments let me explain my set up.
My office is 1 desktop and 2 laptops connected to my modem router which is a dlink DSL 2740b model. The desktop is wired to the modem and my laptop is wired as well. The other laptop is wireless. The desktop is a HP business model and uses a broadcom network adapter and the connection is SOLID it never drops out!! The other sony laptop has a 3945ABG wireless adapter as well and suffers random dropouts as well!!
Its like this - the network icon in the corner and the globe are indicative of my connection being active. Randomly the globe disappears but reappears about 15 seconds later and does this on my machine about 6 times a day! All machines are vista (desktop - business vista, my laptop vista ultimate and the other laptop vista home premium). If I go to the Network and sharing center and watch what is happening its as if the connection craps out for no reason and then reestablishes itself. The lan has all manually assigned ip address's.
DHCP, IPV6 is disabled. BT have checked the line for dropouts and there are none (I actually get around 8megs which is fantastic!!), the router has been checked out and the firmware is stable.
All I can think of is <profanity removed by moderator> drivers.
At the moment I am using microsofts own driver version 8.0.22.0 and have used intels from their site (as on sonys update there is Jack <profanity removed by moderator> for my machine and vista drivers) but they are too pretty crap (random mysterious connect and the reconnects).
What I dont get is how come the HP vista business machine with the broadcom adapter be so stable? It never suffers dropouts and is rock solid.
I have attached an image for all....
