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CRC errors seeing on Windows Vista and Windows 7 machines but not on Windows XP

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While I was troubleshooting session disconnects and had to capture traffic on my PC, I discovered that in addition to the disconnects, there were CRC errors on the IP packets. Further checking with Cisco's help showed that this condition was present on my two test PCs, one Windows Vista and one Windows 7. When we tested a Window XP we found no CRC errors in the frames.

The Cisco TAC engineer and I checked every single switch port and trunk-port involved in the path between my two VLANs that were traversed and the router ports as well. No input errors, no CRC errors, at all.

Even packets to the text Windows XP, which is in the same subnet as the Vista and 7 machines show the errors.

Please see attached screen capture of the wireshark net capture. The error occurs on every packet sourced from the Vista computer (10.20.0.95)

If you have any idea or there is a know IP condition in Windows Vista and Windows 7, I'd like to know if there is a workaround or solution to this.

This problem is not the cause of my session disconnects. User generated image
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Normally when I have had crc errors it's because of faulty ethernet cables.
You could try updating the NIC drivers as well, are the Vista and 7 machines the same hardware/model?
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Sorry experts. I forgot to mention I had already changed my Vista cable with a new cat 5e. No change.
The Vista machine is a Dell workstation, and the Windows 7 an HPmini netbook.
Too much coincidence the drivers would be the issue, but I will try that.
I vaguely remember having to change the MTU settings in the registry to fix other network related problems with Vista.  I can't seem to find a related article at the moment though.
Now I need to add to the affected systems by this condition Windows 2008 R2.

I discard the possibility of this being a local issue to the affected hosts. Now I am finding out that my time-sensitive alerts are being generated to to the disconnects in other systems.

No one has seen this???

It looks like a stack issue, but is this a bug starting at Windows Vista on the IP stack???
This article from Cisco may be helpful, although not exactly your setup perhaps.
https://supportforums.cisco.com/message/1326710
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