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Intermittent network in Windows 7
My brother-in-law just recently installed Windows 7 Pro 32bit on some older hardware (Pentium 4 on ASUS P4P800D-X, SIS 900 network card). At first we used the network drivers that came with the motherboard cd as Windows couldn't even find drivers for that model. That worked and then we performed update to get the latest ones... great.
The problem is, his network kinda burps along now, when it was fine with Windows XP Pro. It gets short bursts of speed and then almost like stops for a few seconds.. and goes again. I've scoured the Internet for solutions, and most came down to reinstalling the XP network drivers under Win 7. I've tried just about everything and I'm now almost certain that this network card (SIS 900) simply does not work under Windows 7 with his Speedstream 6250 DSL modem. I've tried to adjust every network setting available.. made sure firewalls weren't in the way.. no virus scanner causing trouble.
Has anyone been through this with legacy network cards and W7? I hope he doesn't need to buy a card that's compatible as it seems SIS have dropped the ball on this one.
Thanks for the help.