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I had that problem with some 3Com 3C905 cards about three years ago.
They were slowly failing, and swapping the card with a new one fixed
the problem.<br>
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Nadav Kavalerchik wrote:
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cite="mid4219988b0702170232u291ee0aag4d6c998ca3556430@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">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. <br>
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(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)
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/14/07, <b
class="gmail_sendername">Shawn Powers</b> <<a
href="mailto:spowers@inlandlakes.org">spowers@inlandlakes.org</a>>
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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<br>
support PXE. For some reason, several of them started showing a<br>
problem where the "dots" that fill up the screen during the boot<br>
process are glacially slow, and the computers often will fail to boot<br>
all the way. A different computer, sitting right next to it, booting<br>
PXE, boots up lightning quick.<br>
<br>
These computers have been thin clients for years, and are connecting
<br>
to the same server all year. Any ideas where I can troubleshoot the<br>
booting problem? It's very odd...<br>
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-Shawn<br>
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