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Multiboot and internet issue
Hi all,
I loaded win7 build 7000 the other night onto my system drive (2x 36gig raptor,raid0 on rocket raid3510 pcie) I have the drive partitioned as follows:
20g XP32 20g XP64 28g win7
Install went flawlessly! Installed all drivers booted up quick and patched itself really fast, incl some driver updates for my hrdwre (audio,video,and raid controllers) which I thought was a really cool feature.
I had been reading your site for a while before so I also went and got the beta nvidia video drivers as well as the mp3 patches.
I was taking a food break when I heard the machine power down, and when I powered it back I realized that it had gone into hibernate. That scared me a bit as I had read some thing about issues with this on google, but on wake up, there was everything I had been working on intact.
Except... no internet.
(Small wired home network via lynksys wrt54g)
I could not get it back up so I restarted and logged into my XP64 installation (same machine) No internet!
I tried a lot of stuff, resets of modem and router, wipe network and re install, diagnose problem via 7 and XP, switched all cabling around, nothing.
I booted another machine on the network, voila! internet.
I booted back into xp64 on the first machine and reformatted the win7 partition and re installed. Failed installation with unknown error!
Reboot, try again, BSOD with error driver_not less or equal....
Ok, Flashed to new bios (1801) reset cmos, reformatt, reinstall 7, no prob.
Boot into 7 patch it up, internet!!! Yay!
Boot back into xp64, no internet. reset up network, no joy.
restart to boot back into 7 and NTDLR missing Hahaha I forgot to reset drive order from clr rtc and am not sure where bootloader actually went.
By now Im sure you have gathered that I dont have a clue what Im doing
Im back on the other machine at this point.
I dont want to have to re install my xp x32 and x64 if I dont have to but Im unsure what else to try to get theyre networks back up.
My searches turn up lots of hibernate issues and some connectivity issues but not really anything the same as what Ive been having.
Any insight would be much apreciated
Dennis