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gzt

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#697528 7-Oct-2012 17:44

Good luck with that issue and feel free to continue/unlock this thread if the issue occurs again or becomes a problem in some other way.

By deleted norton I assume you mean removed it using Programs and Features from Control Panel? If you just deleted the icon from the desktop it is not really removed.

Regarding the separate network issue - this appears to have caught out a number of manufacturers. My feeling is the vendor will recognise the issue before too long and issue a driver update for that - but they might not be use windows update for that. Therefore drivers provide by windows update may or may not be designed to address the issue.

If you want to provide:

The exact HP model number for your machine
The full network adaptor name from system > device manager > network adaptors
Driver provider + driver date + driver version from that network adaptor general tab
The full names of all available settings on the power management tab of that network adaptor

: I can use that information to look into that problem a bit further.

atwuk

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#697546 7-Oct-2012 18:54

Hi Best I can find is as follows
HP Omni model 220-1010a
Product code Qu221AA#ABG
Network card Realtek PCL GBE Family Controler
Driver 7.44.421.2011
Date 21-4-2011
Wasn't sure where to find the last bit of info

I appreciate the effort you are making

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#697551 7-Oct-2012 19:18

That's good, but #4 is critical. What are the names of all the tabs you have available on the network driver properties dialog?

Also need the driver provider name - that should be above the driver version name.

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#697570 7-Oct-2012 19:58

The name is realtek and only tab available is driver details

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#697610 7-Oct-2012 21:16

Ok. You may need to log on as an administrator or right click the computer icon and choose manage to see those details.

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#697718 8-Oct-2012 08:22

Correct and just as a test I reinstated the admin back to the original acct and restarted and every thing opened fine.we have driver details which appear to the system files ,Update driver ,Disable and uninstall.I tried the update driver and in came back with the installed driver being the latest available so I guess that is as far as I can go.Once again thanks for your help

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#697722 8-Oct-2012 08:48

farcus:
kontonnz: sigh it is surprising to see the advice given to . . . run as local admin

+1

Can't believe people would do this. Even experienced users should still be running as a user instead of admin.

I tried running as a user once, but, windows 7 goes nuts. I get all sorts of issues, some apps will not run at all as a user.

The boot process as a user is poor too -- my asus start up items require the admin password to be entered. My cicso vpn client goes into some kind of 'reinstall' mode. I get missing DLL errors.

Just not a nice experience running as a user -- i suspect it is more to do with poor application programming where they do not plan on users running as a 'user'.

I'll keep running as an admin for now.

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#697754 8-Oct-2012 10:06

atwuk: Correct and just as a test I reinstated the admin back to the original acct and restarted and every thing opened fine.we have driver details which appear to the system files ,Update driver ,Disable and uninstall.I tried the update driver and in came back with the installed driver being the latest available so I guess that is as far as I can go.Once again thanks for your help

The absence of that tab under admin for this driver version is good information in itself, so we can continue from there.

Realtek provides an updated driver version but unfortunately all their stuff is now behind a password protected ftp. The latest driver version provided by Realtek is 7.061.

The most respectable looking source I can find elsewhere for the latest updated driver version 7.061 is Softpedia. Click the "Softpedia secure download" link when you get there.

Before you install the driver - please create a restore point.

After the driver install and a restart - have another look for that power management tab using admin and see if the new driver provides that tab - and post the options it provides on that tab here.

There is a slim possibility you may need to perform a system restore if the driver does not meet expectations. This system restore feature does not affect any files or data - it just rolls back drivers and settings to the point they were at when the restore point was created. It is very unlikely you will need to use it.

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#697857 8-Oct-2012 13:50

Good work on the help you're providing gzt, very thorough and well written for a novice user. keep it up.

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#699992 12-Oct-2012 00:22

mjb: Good work on the help you're providing gzt, very thorough and well written for a novice user. keep it up.

+1 We definitely need a "like" button ;)

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#700711 13-Oct-2012 17:48

Just a follow up on this I have installed the latest driver for the network card and it appears to have fixed the problem.I can now allow the computer to go into sleep mode and it reconnects each time it awakens. I did still have log in issues but have discovered that when it requests my password if I wait until the hard drive stops making any processing noise and then enter it it works fine,I have done this several times this week without problems.Thanks again for your time and effort much appreciated

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#701818 15-Oct-2012 22:18

That's great. You are welcome. I'm glad you stuck with it.

Mjb and Elpie - thanks for the likes : ).

From memory HP consumer have a 30 day support policy on software. If the machine had this sleep problem from the beginning the HP really did have a responsibility to resolve it under the CGA either way.

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