>I have Vista Ultimate x86 on a nForce 590 AMD SLI platform. After
>installing
> and running Virtual PC 2007, during boot up, it will cause network driver
> malfunctions (according to Vista diagnosis). Basically after restart, my
> network is down. Sometimes I can reboot and get it back, other times it
> will
> be down for numerous reboots until it finally works. I know it's not the
> network hardware or drivers themselves as I have had no problems
> whatsoever
> until after installing VPC2007, and even then it may or may not show up on
> the first restart, plus I can load in safe mode w/networking and it will
> work
> fine.
>
> I have tried all of the different nForce drivers, both direct from nvidia
> and from MS update. I have experienced this on both x86 & x64 Vista
> Ultimate.
> This most recent time is on a fresh install that has been clean of VPC and
> stable for 3 weeks solid, and this problem came up after VPC2007 install
> (and
> this was the only software, driver or other install for the past two
> days).
>
> So I have uninstalled VPC2007 and the very next boot, my network is just
> fine. So I'm 100% sure that VPC2007 is causing the problem with the
> network
> drivers during startup in Vista Ultimate.
>
> Has anyone experienced this? Does anyone have any suggestions on how to
> fix
> this? I really need to have VPC2007 running on my machine, but I can't go
> through this round and round of never knowing if it will kill my network
> the
> next time I reboot.
>
> Thanks for your help.