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Spent 4 hours chasing a phantom network drop in an office in Tulsa
Had a client's Dell OptiPlex that would lose internet connection exactly every 47 minutes like clockwork, drove me nuts because all other devices worked fine. Turns out the power management settings on the Intel NIC were set to 'turn off device to save power' by default after a Windows update. Has anyone else had OEM driver updates silently reset advanced adapter settings like that?
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blair_martin28d ago
Did you check for any scheduled tasks or scripts triggering that reset?" Honestly I think you're overthinking this one. Windows update resets NIC power settings all the time, it's not some deep mystery with scripts. I've seen it happen on maybe a dozen machines where after a big update the NIC goes back to "turn off to save power" and the user gets random drops. OEM driver updates are notorious for doing this, Dell especially. If you dig into scheduled tasks you're gonna waste time looking for something that's just Microsoft being lazy with driver defaults. Simple fix is just to disable that setting in the NIC properties and move on.
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ray_miller8424d ago
Yeah, Susan, I've been through this exact mess. Disabling that power saving checkbox in the NIC settings killed it for me every time, no need to chase scripts.
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Did you check for any scheduled tasks or scripts triggering that reset?
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