Network not connecting after boot & solution

Older PC, Win7x64, nForce networking,

In the last month, this daily driver PC developed a problem after boot. It would not connect to the network without either power cycling the 10-100 hub it was plugged into, or bypassing the hub entirely. The issue was specific to this PC as other devices on this hub had no issue. Swapping ports made no difference. Shutting down all A/V made no difference. Running the troubleshooter made no difference. The adapter driver is old, but no newer version exists. The only SW changes to this PC would be the usual MS & A/V updates. I did see a post about a recent MS update that caused some network issues so that may be related.

The quick fix was to change the adapter setting from auto-negotiate to fixed 100M half duplex. I suspect a newer hub may have fixed it as well.

Hi tns1,

tns1 said:

In the last month, this daily driver PC developed a problem after boot. It would not connect to the network without either power cycling the 10-100 hub it was plugged into, or bypassing the hub entirely. The issue was specific to this PC as other devices on this hub had no issue. Swapping ports made no difference. Shutting down all A/V made no difference. Running the troubleshooter made no difference. The adapter driver is old, but no newer version exists. The only SW changes to this PC would be the usual MS & A/V updates. I did see a post about a recent MS update that caused some network issues so that may be related.

The quick fix was to change the adapter setting from auto-negotiate to fixed 100M half duplex. I suspect a newer hub may have fixed it as well.

I will ask @samuria if he could have a look at this post for you!

Hi tns1,

tns1 said:

I had changed to half-duplex, but the problem came back. I swapped out the hub, and it seems to be working OK.