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May 19th, 2005 02:00
NIC appears to be hanging up
Dim2400, XP SP2, 128MRAM (yes, I know it's kinda lite but it's my daughter's), Home LAN into Linksys Bband router w/DHCP.
Full bootup to get network icon in the sys tray takes around 4 min. Looks like it slows down when it starts to work with the NIC. I've run a lot of cleanup and there wasn't much adware/spyware that should slow it down this much.
I noticed when I shut down the PC it looks normal but after all the fan noise stops I still see a NIC lite turned on the router. If I unplug the AC - it goes out in about 20 seconds but comes on again when AC is reapplied. It also react the same with with the RJ45 unplugged/plugged. Not right but not supprising.
I've uninstall, power cycle and successfully detected and reinstalled the driver, I've tried to update the NIC driver but there's nothing newer. Sounds like a hardware issue but I'm looking for opinions.
Thanks in advance.
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volcano11
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May 19th, 2005 02:00
Have you tried running the Broadcom Advanced Control Suite diagnostics on the NIC? Have you mapped any network drives that it may be trying to look for on bootup? Are there any startup programs running that may be looking for something on the internet on bootup?
Steve
DeltaDart106
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May 20th, 2005 01:00
Thanks for the tip. Ran Broadcom test and everything was perfect.
Went on-line chat w/Dell (20 min wait) and no immediate resolution. I did MSCONFIG and set /BOOTLOG switch, rebooted and a very interesting result happend.
"Control" PC = HP Vectra P3, 850MHz, 384M RAM, XP SP2 ... log was 2 pages
"Problem" Dimension 2400 ... 42 pages. I chose not to "cut/paste" into this posting but a file (260K) can be made available.
It seems that after Mup.sys loads the problems begin. First "did not load" was driver for ACPI Uniproecssor PC - 6 pages later things started to randomly load (1st random load was usbuhci.sys.
Based on a 42 (printed) boot up log - something is very-very wrong. This is the part where help is really needed. If anyone can point me in a direction to clean up all this "did not load" on bootup - please come forward.
NOTE: on control PC only 10 items "did not load but it's assume they loaded sometime in the process.
Thanks in advance for any help that you can provide.
volcano11
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May 20th, 2005 04:00
Sorry, I have no experience reading or interpreting these logs. I suggest you post in the Dimension - General Hardware forum where you are more likely to find someone who can help you.
Steve