Update on this: As it appears, the user's network card causes the problem. He's using an Atheros L1 Gigabit Ethernet 10/100/1000Base-T Controller, which will drop the connection whenever BOINC is set to Always connect to the network.
According to this thread at Microsoft Answers (http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-networking/connection-lost-of-atheros-l1-gigabit-ethernet/c1b11358-7ba0-44d1-9918-b6bb7f52a147) it's really a problem with the last known driver for this NIC. Problem here is that that driver is also the official one in Windows 7. The thread does show some options that users can set in the advanced settings of the NIC, to stop the problem from occurring. -- Jord van der Elst. On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 7:40 PM, Jord van der Elst <els...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > Over at Seti there's a person who claims that his BOINC will disable > his Windows 7 network. See > https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=74077 > > In the thread he says that whenever he runs BOINC, his network will > crash, show the yellow mark on the network icon. he has reformatted > and reinstalled Windows, added everything to his firewall exceptions. > > I have asked him to test if it would do the same with something like > Folding@Home or Prime95. It does not. > I have asked him if it may be a problem with his videocard, so he ran > Furmark a couple of times. Gives no problems. > > But running quickly out of ideas. Other than hoping that Windows Event > Viewer has recorded something about it, does anyone here have an idea? > Ever heard of just BOINC disabling the Windows network? > > He is running BOINC 7.2.33, although I don't think that matters much. > > -- Jord van der Elst. _______________________________________________ boinc_dev mailing list boinc_dev@ssl.berkeley.edu http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and (near bottom of page) enter your email address.
