Anybody develled into the depths of the new M$ resource drain yet?
After my main machine went bang, I've splashed out on a new quad core mobo, 2Gb of fast corsair ram and a half terabyte HDD, together with a new GeForce card (none of my old stuff was PCI express) and various re-used bits from my old machine. The hardware side sorted, I decided to give Vista Ultimate a go and promptly upgraded from XP where things were flying along nicely.
After a few days of poking I now have it more or less as I would like except for an odd problem with networking. The new mobo has two onboard GBit NIC ports. To start off, I just plugged an RJ45 plug into one of these and DHCP magic from my router took care of the rest. Then periodically, I would get outages which could be resolved by moving the RJ45 end from one NIC to the other. I've also tried putting cables into both ports and bridging connections. Now for some reason, whichever permutation I try, I have a comms outage and with DHCP I get an address from the emergency private addressing range (a while since I studied windows networking so forget what the proper name for this is).
I suspect the large number of automatic updates may have been at the route of this, so have tried system restore to various restore points with no success. I've also tried providing a fixed IP address in the IP v4 settings, but again this was to no avail. Both NICs also have an IP v6 protocol installed by default, but I haven't messed with this as I don't know anything about it.
I have a workaround in place for the time being (I fitted a Wifi card), but for the sake of curiosity would like to know what I've done wrong. This may be a bit specific for here, but worth a go...
Thanks,
AC