Archive for July 10th, 2007
July 10th, 2007
LAN card not working in Vista
My Realtek RTL8139 Family PCI Fast Ethernet NIC was not automatically detected by vista, it seemed a bit strange as previously I have never faced any issue with the installation of a LAN card in any OS be it Linux or Windows and Ethernet cards are usually plug and play so with this problem I feared that I might never get this card ( which is built-in in my Intel motherboard )to work on vista.
Anyway after a bit of research I found the new drivers for vista at ftp://202.65.194.212/cn/nic/WinVista_6104_NIC_8139-20070620.zip I have downloaded and installed the new driver and now thankfully the lan card is working.
The link to driver that I have provided is from the realltek’s official website.
the imax | 11:01 pm | Uncategorized | No Comments
July 10th, 2007
Display broken in vista
I changed my resolution from 800*600 to 1280*1024, the 1280*1024 resolution works fine in XP on the same machine but in vista my monitor refused to display it and I was left with a blank screen, so I rebooted to safe mode so that I can set the resolution back, I reset the resolution in safe mode and reboot to normal mode but again a blank screen welcomes me, vista is due to some unknown reasons still bent upon displaying the 1280*1024 resolution .
I rebooted to safe mode many times and changed the resolution but it didn’t work , I went to MS website and found a faq in vista section that told you what to do if you cannot see any display because your monitor is not supporting the resolution , the only solution to this provided there was again : SAFE MODE
Which I have already tried
So what can I do now? Will I have to reinstall vista just because I changed the display settings ?