Dlink DGE-530T won't connect gigabit in Win7

[Flaus]

Hey,

I started a thread earlier but I have since found the problem so I started a new thread. I installed a dlink DGE-530T nic in a pc running windows 7 the other day and I cannot get it to connect to the gigabit LAN. I have the same card installed on a machine running Vista and it is connected at 1gbps to the Dlink DIR-655 router. The Windows 7 machine is connected at 100mbps, but when I go into the Device Manager-->Properties==> Advanced--> Speed and Duplex, and I set it to 1000 Full duplex, is drops the connection and just shows a red X over the network symbol. I have reinstalled the latest Vista 64-bit drivers, but no luck. Any thing I'm missing, could it be a bad card, or maybe just not compatible with Win7 on gigabit? Thats what I am leaning towards since it works fine on the machine running Vista. Any help is appreciated. Thanks!

 

[jdabbs]

Hardware check. Swap the switch port, then the cable, then pull the known good card from the Vista box and try it there.

 

[Flaus]

Ok. Ill try that when I get home from work. In the meantime, any other ideas?

 

[Flaus]

Problem solved. My cable connections were off, so I re-terminated the patch cords and all is good. Thanks for the help jdabbs.