Recent content by Sage

This sounds like an all-too familiar problem. Do you have a NVIDIA network controller/NVIDIA chipset by chance? I was getting this same thing - random disconnect and then the only way to fix it to restart, and of course it would hang on shut down (And if I waited long enough - 15-30 minutes - it...

I think I've found the solution to this problem. It was revealed recently (A week or two ago) that there is a bug in the NVIDIA chipsets when using 64-bit addressing. This ends up affecting a whole host of things on machines, including this nefarious "Random internet disconnect" problem. I...