It could be the ghost bootdisk/driver you are using.
Have you tried creating a Bart Network Boot Disk with the broadcom (B57) driver?
http://www.nu2.nu/bootdisk/network/

I have had good luck with this method.
-Tram

I am having the same issue with our d800. I created a broadcom ghost boot disk and it works well on a desktop and doesn't work in our d800. 

I downloaded this driver and it worked. I have downloaded no less than 5 differnt versions of the B57.dos driver and this one seems to have done the trick. However, I did notice one thing. I used the Ghost Boot Wizard to create my NDIS bootdisk. I pointed it to the dir where I extracted the b57.cab file. But when the disk was done, I opened it and found that the B57.dos file it was using did not match the one in the b57.cab file. So I copied the b57.cab version to my boot disk and it worked! It may be that this was the problem with all the other versions I downloaded, they were never actually getting onto the floppy.

Good luck!

Havein exactly the same problem. I have 2 D800's and the problem occurs on both. Seem's we have a theme here, no?

My bad! I didnt give you the URL for the driver.

http://www.nu2.nu/download.php?sFile=b57.cab

Incidently, I also just bought 2 D500's they did not have any problems at all.

I have the latitude D600 with the same nic. ghost locked up every time at almost the same point. What made it worse was no floppy drive. Even with figuring how to boot from the usb drive or the cdrom it still wouldn't work. Finally updated the bios from A05 to A06. That fixed everything.

Thanks, that driver worked for me too!  Using ghost 7.5 bootdisk, added that driver and imaged fine.

Glad I found this forum... My company just received a shipment of Inspiron 600m's and I the same problem with Ghost 7.5 Corp. Ed. locking during image dumps.  Tried everything listed above (lastest Broadcom driver/ghost.exe switch, etc..) and the only thing that worked was mbfromit's link to http://www.nu2.nu/download.php?sFile=b57.cab.  Pulled down the driver and added it to Ghost Bootwizard setup and was up and running in 5 minutes.

Good work mb.

This worked for me as well and I had the issue with the D600 series.  This was a great find, and it saved me tons of time.  Thanks!!

Thanks mbfromit! The driver from Bart's worked for me too.

This is the second time that the forums have saved my a$$ from a Ghost problem. The first was the issue with the GX270's and Ghost locking up. For those who may not have seen it, just add the -fni switch to the Ghost command line and all is well.

BTW, anyone using PEBuilder from Bart's? It's a great tool for any software tech's toolbox! Check it out if you get a chance. I highly recommend it. http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/

Thanks again!
Wayne

We downloaded the following file from the Dell web site and it was the only one that finally worked for us:

bcom_lan_66_dosutilities_a04.exe

Prior to reviewing this forum...I had updated a dell latitude d800 bios to a05 (since it only was created on a02), created a ghost boot disks...utilizing b57.dos driver and verified the bios of the ghost/symantec server....my test environment worked fine....xp ghosting server capturing an xp image...now deploying over the difference in a semi-production environment...server 2003 ghosting server capturing an xp image resulted in what everyone stated a problem with....ghosting will stall in any capturing form after approx. 1 minute...I am dealing with ghost 8.0, proper factory nic drivers are installed on our server (poweredge 4600) and proper ndis2 drivers used to build the ghost boot disk...verified bios version on server and updated bios on d800...the only difference I see between my scenario and all the others.....ghost version 8.0 opposed to 7.5 and server version 2003 opposed to 2000...I realize that Intel and Broadcom nic's are problematic with ghost software...but I have hurdled that issue previously with success.....any thoughts or suggestions would be greatly appreciated...Thanks.

can you share the network boot-up disk for the D500? 

 

thanks

I use Ghost 8.0 and I was also experiencing the same issue with the Broadcom card but updating the drive didn't fix the issue.  I had to call Symantec tech support who sent me a new full version of Ghost 8.2.  There is no mention of this new version on the Symantec webpage nor are there any mention of any patches to download.  They also instructed me to use the Broadcom driver from the Broadcom webpage instead of the drive that is used with the Ghost Boot Wizard.  I hope this helps someone.