Vista 64 & Internet Stalling

[rbrychckn]

I wrote about some early Vista 64 issues here (http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1296974). The original thought was that my machine was running into issues with P2P software. I hadn't seen any apparent issues after throttling down the max_connections_per_second down to 2 and my max upload/download speeds.

Now my internet is stalling out even without running P2P software. I haven't been able to find a pattern to be honest. I disabled IPv6, I attached my computer directly to my modem and I still have some problems. Does anyone know what else I can try? I am probably one of the few that like Vista but this problem is becoming frustrating - my only solution still is to reboot.

One strange thing I've found is that about 2/3's of the time, after I reboot from this, my sound is turned off and my Microsoft Keyboard Pro/Intellimouse drivers do not load. I've reloaded these drivers and stepped down the drivers but it's still the same problem. The internet stalls and my weather docklets show N/A (my marker that my internet has gone to the crappers).

Any help would be appreciated.

[DeaconFrost]

That almost sounds like one of those old "resource conflict" problems, but that shouldn't be the case in a modern system. Are your NIC drivers up to date?

[rbrychckn]

Yes, all my drivers are as up-to-date as possible. I think it has to be some sort of a conflict but I can't piece together how to test anything. Also, since there's no pattern, it's tough to figure out what is the culprit.

[rbrychckn]

Any ideas folks? With more digging, I'm finding I do get the Event Viewer ID 4226 warning that is associated with the half-connections problem, but from what I understand, there's no patch for the tcpip.sys file for Vista 64 that was widely useful in XP SP2. Any help would be appreciated.