[Fishkeeper101]

Hey,
I dont know if this is in the right spot, but I'm really not sure who the culprit is, so I figured this was the best spot.

So my family's desktop crashed the other day, and would not start back up. Luckily, after opening the hood and cleaning out some dust, it finally started back up. This was great, because all of my documents and Photos were on this computer.

So today I was scared into transfering all those files to my Laptop (HP Pavillion DV9000 with vista 2 gigs ram and dual processors... nividia geforce go 7600... cant think of any other specs) using the file share thing on Network Magic...

So as the files were transfering, my network card light switched from the blue color that it shows while its working and it just disabled. The switch was not in the "disable" position, but Network Magic indicated that I had lost connection with the home network.

I was terrified because I figured that it might be a virus that had crashed my other comptuer that was transfered on to mine somehow... but I check all processes didnt see anything strange, so I restarted the computer.
Low and behold my network card worked again, but did the same thing about an hour later.
restarted and tried again, 1/2 hour later, the comp did the same thing...

Its up and working again after a restart...
But for how long?

Anyone have any ideas what might be causing this? And any fixes?

All ideas appreciated.

Thanks,
Aaron.

[DaveBurnett]

Could be a power saving setting.
Have a look at the Advanced settings and disable any turn off for the network card.

[Fishkeeper101]

Alright, thanks for the advice. Went in, changed some things... never turned off again after the intial post.

Thanks for the help.