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June 6th, 2004 21:00
Network mapped drives disconnecting
I have a customer that bought 6 dell dimension 4600 pc's.I setup up a windows 2000 server as a domain controller that all of these connect to,plus there are a few older clone pc's also on this network.There is a linksys router doing nat and dhcp for the network.The problem is that 5 of the 6 Dell 4600's will drop their network connections after a period of time which I haven't been able to determine,but overnight every time for sure.The 6th 4600 works great as do all of the clone pc's.They are all running win xp sp1.I have tried everything I have found on this and so far no good,I even reinstalled windows using a standard windows disk.All of the bios dates are the same,the same network drivers,Am I missing something?Is there something in the hardware that could be different between the one and other 5?Believe me I think I have been through everything from security settings to network drivers,with no change....The pc's have to be rebooted to reconnect the drives.\
Please Help !!
volcano11
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June 6th, 2004 21:00
Does running ipconfig /release /renew get them connected again with a reboot?
Steve
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June 8th, 2004 12:00
volcano11
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June 8th, 2004 23:00
Are you using Standby or Hibernate modes on these computers? If so, try disabling these modes and see if the problem goes away. Also, check the advanced properties of the network cards and make sure that they are not set to turn off to conserve power.
Steve
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June 9th, 2004 13:00
Yes,believe me I have been everywhere....I turned off the hibernation,the power saving on the net card,the power saving on the pc,disabled the disconnect in the security settings.
I even set the link speed to manual 100 instead of the auto setting as i read somewhere to try.I really think I covered everything in the past few months.