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VPC2007, Vista Ultimate x86 and nvidia network driver error

Source: microsoft.public.virtualpc
Sent: 04/29/2007
From: bw8755
Message:

I have Vista Ultimate x86 on a nForce 590 AMD SLI platform. After installing
and running Virtual PC 2007, during boot up, it will cause network driver
malfunctions (according to Vista diagnosis). Basically after restart, my
network is down. Sometimes I can reboot and get it back, other times it will
be down for numerous reboots until it finally works. I know it's not the
network hardware or drivers themselves as I have had no problems whatsoever
until after installing VPC2007, and even then it may or may not show up on
the first restart, plus I can load in safe mode w/networking and it will work
fine.

I have tried all of the different nForce drivers, both direct from nvidia
and from MS update. I have experienced this on both x86 & x64 Vista Ultimate.
This most recent time is on a fresh install that has been clean of VPC and
stable for 3 weeks solid, and this problem came up after VPC2007 install (and
this was the only software, driver or other install for the past two days).

So I have uninstalled VPC2007 and the very next boot, my network is just
fine. So I'm 100% sure that VPC2007 is causing the problem with the network
drivers during startup in Vista Ultimate.

Has anyone experienced this? Does anyone have any suggestions on how to fix
this? I really need to have VPC2007 running on my machine, but I can't go
through this round and round of never knowing if it will kill my network the
next time I reboot.

Thanks for your help.

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Re: VPC2007, Vista Ultimate x86 and nvidia network driver error

Sent: 04/30/2007
From: bw8755
Message:

I don't have another network card handy, but based on your suggestion, let me
pose a possible work around.

If VPC installs "Virtual Machine Network Services" function to the network
drivers, would this be just like any other service that I could disable from
auto-start through Services, set to Manual startup trype, thus bypassing it
during the boot sequence, presumably that it would start the service when VPC
is started?

Since VPC runs fine until the PC is restarted, and even then sometimes still
runs fine, I think if the service would be started after the network drivers
were running, after pc startup, there shouldn't be a problem.

Does this sound like a feasable approach?

Thanks for your help!

Brian

"Bo Berglund" wrote:

Show quoted text

> On Sun, 29 Apr 2007 15:42:01 -0700, bw8755
> <(email address - cut out)> wrote:
>
> >I have Vista Ultimate x86 on a nForce 590 AMD SLI platform. After installing
> >and running Virtual PC 2007, during boot up, it will cause network driver
> >malfunctions (according to Vista diagnosis). Basically after restart, my
> >network is down. Sometimes I can reboot and get it back, other times it will
> >be down for numerous reboots until it finally works. I know it's not the
> >network hardware or drivers themselves as I have had no problems whatsoever
> >until after installing VPC2007, and even then it may or may not show up on
> >the first restart, plus I can load in safe mode w/networking and it will work
> >fine.
> >
> >I have tried all of the different nForce drivers, both direct from nvidia
> >and from MS update. I have experienced this on both x86 & x64 Vista Ultimate.
> >This most recent time is on a fresh install that has been clean of VPC and
> >stable for 3 weeks solid, and this problem came up after VPC2007 install (and
> >this was the only software, driver or other install for the past two days).
> >
> >So I have uninstalled VPC2007 and the very next boot, my network is just
> >fine. So I'm 100% sure that VPC2007 is causing the problem with the network
> >drivers during startup in Vista Ultimate.
> >
> >Has anyone experienced this? Does anyone have any suggestions on how to fix
> >this? I really need to have VPC2007 running on my machine, but I can't go
> >through this round and round of never knowing if it will kill my network the
> >next time I reboot.
> >
> >Thanks for your help.
>
> Assuming that your problems occur even though you have not yet started
> the VPC2007 (console or any guest):
>
> I don't know what can be done, but what VPC2007 does when you install
> it is that it adds a function to the network drivers called "Virtual
> Machine Network Services". You can see it in the properties of your
> network card.
> This service is responsible for handling the VPC2007 virtual machine
> linkage to the real netwok system and it is what might be interfering
> with your Vista machine.
> For diagnostic purposes you could uncheck this in the network card
> properties and see how it affects your host networking.
>
> Maybe the network driver you use on the host is not yet compatible
> with this service? In that case you could perhaps add another network
> card to your PC and use that as the one for VPC2007?
>
> /Bo
>
> Bo Berglund
> bo.berglund(at)nospam.telia.com
>

RE: VPC2007, Vista Ultimate x86 and nvidia network driver error

Sent: 05/02/2007
From: Stromb
Message:

I have the same problem. I not tested things as much as you, but the result
is the same (Mobo is AMD Nforce 4 SLI and all drivers are updated).
i tried uninstalling VPC 2007, and it hangs near the end obliging me to
reset computer (and does not seems to be unistaleld, but i don't touch it
anymore for now).

This problem is really desesperating me ...

"bw8755" wrote:

Show quoted text

> I have Vista Ultimate x86 on a nForce 590 AMD SLI platform. After installing
> and running Virtual PC 2007, during boot up, it will cause network driver
> malfunctions (according to Vista diagnosis). Basically after restart, my
> network is down. Sometimes I can reboot and get it back, other times it will
> be down for numerous reboots until it finally works. I know it's not the
> network hardware or drivers themselves as I have had no problems whatsoever
> until after installing VPC2007, and even then it may or may not show up on
> the first restart, plus I can load in safe mode w/networking and it will work
> fine.
>
> I have tried all of the different nForce drivers, both direct from nvidia
> and from MS update. I have experienced this on both x86 & x64 Vista Ultimate.
> This most recent time is on a fresh install that has been clean of VPC and
> stable for 3 weeks solid, and this problem came up after VPC2007 install (and
> this was the only software, driver or other install for the past two days).
>
> So I have uninstalled VPC2007 and the very next boot, my network is just
> fine. So I'm 100% sure that VPC2007 is causing the problem with the network
> drivers during startup in Vista Ultimate.
>
> Has anyone experienced this? Does anyone have any suggestions on how to fix
> this? I really need to have VPC2007 running on my machine, but I can't go
> through this round and round of never knowing if it will kill my network the
> next time I reboot.
>
> Thanks for your help.
>

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