Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Network Link has been disconnected.

I have come across a strange problem in last two week in my network. There is a machine which is getting disconnected from network every 2 to 5 min. I have checked the event viewer and found following event.
Event  ID 27    Source- e1kexpress
Intel 82567LM-3 Gigabyte network connection
Network Link has been disconnected.
I was wondering why this is happening. I changed switch port, network cable and updated latest network card drivers but still problem didn't get resolved.
Finally i started googling around and found that there would be a problem in HP switch and firmware has to be updated. I tried replacing the switch itself but replacing switch also too didn't help me.
And after two week of struggle here is the solution to this problem.
Suddenly my mind worked and decided to reduce network adapter link speed from auto negotiate to 100 mbps full duplex and problem was fixed. It was too late to find out such a small problem but sometimes it happens.
Cheers..........
Vinod Patidar

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

How to Create new partition with Windows 7

If have bought new laptop or desktop and you got with single 300 GB partition. Here is the steps to create new partition without formating.

Right Click on My computer then go to Manage.. Select Disk Management option.
Right Click on existing partition and select Shrink volume.
It is easy to create new partition in Windows 7.