[AccessD] VM loses connection briefly

Jim Lawrence accessd at shaw.ca
Tue Apr 3 01:35:00 CDT 2012


Hi Darryl:

All the new motherboards have their own proprietary software on top of what
MS provides. I had a heck of a time getting a 64 bit Asus motherboard
working. It took close to a week before everything worked right as the only
place for the drivers was from the Asus site. 

The CPU, Video card, LAN Card, Sound card, interface components and a few
other chips sets on the board require special drivers from Asus.   

Microsoft could not find the correct drivers for anything. Even virtual
drives do not necessarily work or work consistently because the system is in
a constant state of being confused. I suspect a few of these ASUS drivers
were thrown together.

On a client's site, I installed a version of Ubuntu and unlike Windows in a
similar circumstance, it found all the necessary drivers. Impressive.

Jim

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Darryl Collins
Sent: Monday, April 02, 2012 4:30 PM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] VM loses connection briefly

My Wife's PC main motherboard seems to have a similar issue when doing a
clean install - it can never find the driver for the LAN connection which is
a right PITA.  I need to get a copy of the driver from the OEM website (via
a 2nd PC that has internet connection, luckily I have a few of them laying
around the house) and then install.   This slows things down a lot as
windows cannot update as it installs.  Bah... I guess it is not something I
need to do often, but I am just lucky I know enough about these things to
figure out a fix....

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Arthur Fuller
Sent: Tuesday, 3 April 2012 8:16 AM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] VM loses connection briefly

Just a comment, not quite related to the topic, but rather to the
driver-related part of it. About a month ago I bought a 1TB USB 3.0 external
drive, primarily so I could back up and then reformat my four internal
drives and rebuild them from scratch (not restore them). The boot drive was
running Windows 7 Ultimate. So once everything was backed up, I reformatted
the drives and reinstalled Win7 Ultimate and various essentials such as
Office 2007, NoteTab, xPlorer2 and a couple of other things I can't live
without. Then I did a regular backup of that so if ever I needed to, I could
restore my essential setup very quickly. Anyway, that's not the point. The
point is that somehow, some way, after rebuilding the boot drive, my sound
card failed to work. After much investigation, Google searches, etc., I
discovered that its driver had gone missing. How, I have no idea. Anyway, I
was about to go buy a replacement when I finally learned that the driver was
missing. I downloaded it a!
 nd presto, the card was back in business! Lucky day for me.

A.

On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 5:47 PM, Mark Simms <marksimms at verizon.net> wrote:

> John - just because you have the LATEST drivers, that doesn't mean 
> they are "solid".
> We all know where the drivers are made today, right ?
>
> I went thru hell with both new machines that I built....all problems 
> were driver related.
> And now the advent of 64 bit has created an avalanche of 
> driver-related issues.
>
>
>
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