Problem with new Vostro 1510

I have had my new Vostro 1510 for about two weeks now. After a few days I started to notice an issue where the network would go dead, then the machine would hang. This seemed to happen every day, usually within 10 minutes of boot. After about a week of this under XP, I switched the machine over to Vista. Same issue, and SAME log eventid(12) to describe it. About to send it on back to Dell. Anyone else have this issue?

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Details of log Event:
EventID 12

The device 'Realtek RTL8168C(P)/8111C(P) Family PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC (NDIS 6.0)' (PCI\VEN_10EC&DEV_8168&SUBSYS_02731028&REV_02\4&442e7fa&0&00E4) disappeared from the system without first being prepared for removal.

 

Might be the hardware. Can't hurt to have Dell replace it.

 

Randomly happened to me also last week. Uninstall it form the device manager and reboot and let it reinstall the drivers automatically for you. It fixed it for me.

Edit: noticed it was wired not wireless. This may not work.

 

Yeah, and he switched OSes too.

 

This hasn't happened to me yet. Contact Dell .... Good luck

 

'issue' is such a loaded word. let's call it personality instead.. ?

 

Being sent in for a monterboard swap. Funny thing is, they said to keep battery, power strip, and HD. Luckly I did not encrpt stuff with a TCM reference since I think that chip is on the motherboard. Tech support should have asked me about that, otherwise you might loose access to your data.