slidelltiger wrote: We have 9 new Windows 7 systems and have installed Fiber cards in them. We have used Startech 1000Base-SX cards and Transtion Networks N-GSX-SC-01 cards. We get the same message when trying to logon to a system when the workstation has either been powerd off or has sat for a day with not being logged on. If you pull the fiber line out and put it back into the card or reboot you will be able to login. sometimes it take doing those 2 or 3 times. All computers have IP numbers assigned to them. Is this something that someone here has a fix for? The BIOS is upto date and the drivers are the newest. The same cards work in our XP systems without issues. Thanks for the help. Greg There is a group policy (Computer Config/Administrative Templates/System/Logon) "Always wait for the network at computer startup and logon". Enable this setting and see if that helps. If it does not helpm it's probably a driver/hardware issue. Wolfgang

First of all, I have not found this card among current type here 1. Use drivers for Windows 7 (if not available, perhaps Windows 2008 R2 is a viable alternative). Are there any? 2. Play with NIC parameters that may influence the card behaviour (jumbo packets, autotuning,...) and other protocols like SMB 3. I have been surprized by missing forum or community of Transition web 4. Catch and analyze network traffic. Regards Milos

We have 9 new Windows 7 systems and have installed Fiber cards in them. We have used Startech 1000Base-SX cards and Transtion Networks N-GSX-SC-01 cards. We get the same message when trying to logon to a system when the workstation has either been powerd off or has sat for a day with not being logged on. If you pull the fiber line out and put it back into the card or reboot you will be able to login. sometimes it take doing those 2 or 3 times. All computers have IP numbers assigned to them. Is this something that someone here has a fix for? The BIOS is upto date and the drivers are the newest. The same cards work in our XP systems without issues. Thanks for the help. Greg

slidelltiger wrote: We have 9 new Windows 7 systems and have installed Fiber cards in them. We have used Startech 1000Base-SX cards and Transtion Networks N-GSX-SC-01 cards. We get the same message when trying to logon to a system when the workstation has either been powerd off or has sat for a day with not being logged on. If you pull the fiber line out and put it back into the card or reboot you will be able to login. sometimes it take doing those 2 or 3 times. All computers have IP numbers assigned to them. Is this something that someone here has a fix for? The BIOS is upto date and the drivers are the newest. The same cards work in our XP systems without issues. Thanks for the help. Greg There is a group policy (Computer Config/Administrative Templates/System/Logon) "Always wait for the network at computer startup and logon". Enable this setting and see if that helps. If it does not helpm it's probably a driver/hardware issue. Wolfgang

First of all, I have not found this card among current type here 1. Use drivers for Windows 7 (if not available, perhaps Windows 2008 R2 is a viable alternative). Are there any? 2. Play with NIC parameters that may influence the card behaviour (jumbo packets, autotuning,...) and other protocols like SMB 3. I have been surprized by missing forum or community of Transition web 4. Catch and analyze network traffic. Regards Milos

Under the network adapter properties - power management Uncheck "Allow computer to turn off this device to save power" Windows is probably turning off device to perserve the power.