in our experience, it has to do with either a failure in the Ethernet network card or the cable is ending his life and needs to be replaced. (this is how we solved a few incidents like your, in which the workstations used to work for a year or two without and problem) <div>On 2/14/07, Shawn Powers <<a href="mailto:spowers@inlandlakes.org">spowers@inlandlakes.org</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> I have some older IBM computers that use etherboot because they don't support PXE. For some reason, several of them started showing a problem where the "dots" that fill up the screen during the boot process are glacially slow, and the computers often will fail to boot all the way. A different computer, sitting right next to it, booting PXE, boots up lightning quick. These computers have been thin clients for years, and are connecting to the same server all year. Any ideas where I can troubleshoot the booting problem? It's very odd... -Shawn -- Shawn Powers Technology Director Inland Lakes Schools PHN: 231-238-6868 x9174 FAX: 509-356-7024 <a href="mailto:spowers@inlandlakes.org">spowers@inlandlakes.org</a> Work Website: <a href="http://techcorner.inlandlakes.org">http://techcorner.inlandlakes.org</a> Personal Blog: <a href="http://www.brainofshawn.com"> http://www.brainofshawn.com</a> --<Disclaimer, now required for frustrating reasons>-- The views, opinions, visions, thoughts, comments, sarcastic whims, forecasts, poetic outbursts, cynical wit, future plans, implementation ideas, OS preference, curricular insight, ice cream preference, or anything else I might infer are not the views of Inland Lakes Schools. Pretty much everything I say, do, think, or imply with punctuation should be considered my own delusions, and ignored completely. _______________________________________________ K12OSN mailing list <a href="mailto:K12OSN@redhat.com">K12OSN@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn"> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn</a> For more info see <<a href="http://www.k12os.org">http://www.k12os.org</a>> </blockquote></div>