Might I ask what speed network connection you are using?
Our building is wired with cat 5, and the switches are capable of 10/100, and are set to autodetect the speed.
The dell machines with 3com integrated 10/100 ethernet (3c920) get shipped from the factory with the NIC hardware set to auto detect the speed and duplex.
I swear the nics and the switches cannot decide on a speed, and this causes the machine to report that the cable is unplugged, or plugged in but you have no connectivity, but intermittently. A reboot may get it working ONCE.
The DELL 3c920 network card drivers have a little DOS utility called 3C90XCFG.EXE, that will allow you to configure the hardware, and it saves these settings in some non-volatile ram on the chip. I have had to force all of my DELLs to 10MB, and as soon as I do, the duplex gets detected as HALF, and everything works fine. You might want to try forcing your NICs to a particular speed.
BTW: I'm on list.
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All,
I wrote a bit ago about running into the atapi.sys error and here is what I found out. I was trying to install it on 3 different machines.
# Model Integrated NIC PCI NIC Notes
1 Optiplex 260 Intel Pro 1000 Ran with no problems
2 Optiplex 400 3com 3c920 (905-TX) Atapi.sys error
3 Precision 610 3com 3c1918 Atapi.sys error
This first machine had no problems. Machines 2&3 got the atapi.sys error every time. Finaaly I added a PCI Intel Pro 1000 to machines 2 & 3 and it worked. I'm nmot sure but anytime i ran it with the 3com integrated NICs i would get the atapi.sys error. I even tried adding the drivers for the 3com cards to the OEM preinstall but that didn't work.
I guess this mean I have to add Intel Pro 1000 PCI cards to all my machines here. I am hoping there is another way around this. If anyone has any feedback let me know
Thanks
Heather
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