Jim wrote :-
Because of the lightening strike, i'd suspect that the switches are faulty.
Of course, that is not what I wanted to hear :-)
The three computers that happen to boot from hard drive - there seems no problem with those ports.
I deal with other schools, with more fearsome strikes, and I mark "X" with a marker on the bad ports. A 'slow attrition' story.
/Every single/ other client (35) fails to boot.
Fortuitously, the three machines that boot by themselves are OK ??
Admittedly, the main servers are in close proximity, and the print server could well have been off at the time. I do not even know if the clients were on either.
And - no experts are onsite.
We are in Africa - I cannot tell them to buy two new switches unless I /know/ they are busted.
I will have them try a small 8 port switch.
I will also have them swap out the card, in case that is a problem.
I was looking for a silver bullet. Still am :-) I am very aware that if it doesn't work, it looks like Linux. The school administrator fondly remembers Redhat (8.0), and doesn't trust this Whitebox thing :-(
Cheers, Andy! [ replying from somewhere else, thus breaking threading ]
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