I have a long string of the following message in the system event viewer:

"Adapter Intel(R) PRO/100VE Network Connection: Hardware failure detected"

It says it is Event ID 6

Is this serious? What can I do to get rid of these error messages?

Thanks, John

The source of the Event ID is also needed in order to read the error. What is the source?

Do you have any network connection problems?

My computer is a stand alone laptop. When I am near wifi, I swithch the switch to pick it up. When I am into the hospital that I donate time to, I plug the network cable in the rear and use their network. When I leave, I simply pull out the cable and move on.

The source is E100B.

John

So do you have any problem using the computer?

If not forget about it. Errors happen.

If you do have issues here are a couple of ideas:

Adrian Grigorof
From a newsgroup post: "A correction is needed to a setting in PROSet when running the driver for a Microsoft OS from the February 2001 software release version 5.0 (individual e100b driver version 5.40.11). In the settings in PROSet, please turn APT off to eliminate any hardware error messages being added to the event log.
To turn off APT, please go into PROSet and click on the Advanced tab. Choose Adaptive technology from the middle left column and change the value on the right side to OFF. Exit PROSet and depending upon the OS, reboot. This workaround is for 82557 based adapters only."

Mathias Tölken
We found this to happen if we disabled the (second) onboard NIC, but it was still first in the binding order. After the change of binding order (and for good measure also unbinding TCP/IP from the adapter) the errors stopped. [Network and Dial-Up Connections -> Advanced -> Advanced Settings]