Also check you are in full duplex - I know the cards shipped with dell will not always auto negotiate with the network switch, so you may have to manually set the switch and card to full duplex
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of lappies Sent: 10 July 2008 08:12 To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [U2] Server 2003 When using a broadcom network card. Change the Advanced settings of the Device. The Option "Large Send Offload" needs to be disabled. hth Lappies Tecfinity (Pty) Ltd South Africa -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Colin Alfke Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2008 12:33 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [U2] Server 2003 Try another network card (different brand). IIRC there used to be a conflict with Broadcom cards. hth Colin Alfke Calgary Canada > From: Tom Dodds > > I have a client that is a running 2003 Server on a large Dell box. Dual > quad cpu, 4 gigs of memory, 120 Gig drive, controller driven raid 5( I know > about Raid 5 but that is not causing this issue). UniVerse 9.6.2.1, 36 > users. > > We were running on a an old P3 with software raid 5 and very little memory > and 18gig drives. One of the drives died and we can't find a replacement > for it, so we build a new power server. > > Every once in a while, every 10/15 minutes a workstation will seemingly stop > for between 5 and 15 second and then start up again. It doesn't seem to be > the whole system, just one workstation at a time. It is not one program, > nor one file, it is seemingly random. We have tried everything we can > think of with no results. The database is very small. The largest file is > 1.4 gigs, we have resized the larger files. We have taken the current data > of off the new server, put it back on the old server and it still runs > without any slowdowns. > > Anyone have any magic. > > Thanks in advance for your help. > > Tom Dodds _________________________________________________________________ ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.138 / Virus Database: 270.4.7/1543 - Release Date: 7/9/2008 6:32 PM ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
