Well I've exhausted my limited expertise on an issue I'm experiencing with my home network. I hope this august crowd my be of assistance.
I've two PCs and a Game console tied together by 2 Netgear Gig (605s) switches. Everything has been fine until recently when the one switch started resetting due to errors. The first machine is a newer Vista machine with 2 1Gig NICs. The other PC is an older machine with a 10/100 NIC. The game console has a 1 Gig NIC. Now for the weird part. This first switch resets even if the game console and PC are off. However, if I turn of the second switch the first one works fine. I've switched the first switch out with a known good 10/100 and another known good 1 gig switch and the situation remains. The cable between the switches is CAT6. I've replaced the cabling between the switches a couple of times.
This scenario has worked for nearly a year. I'm out of ideas. I could really use some ideas.
I've two PCs and a Game console tied together by 2 Netgear Gig (605s) switches. Everything has been fine until recently when the one switch started resetting due to errors. The first machine is a newer Vista machine with 2 1Gig NICs. The other PC is an older machine with a 10/100 NIC. The game console has a 1 Gig NIC. Now for the weird part. This first switch resets even if the game console and PC are off. However, if I turn of the second switch the first one works fine. I've switched the first switch out with a known good 10/100 and another known good 1 gig switch and the situation remains. The cable between the switches is CAT6. I've replaced the cabling between the switches a couple of times.
This scenario has worked for nearly a year. I'm out of ideas. I could really use some ideas.