Have you ruled out speed/duplex mismatches between the NICs and the switch ports, have you recertified the cabling at the client, including the patch cords to the machines? Network interfaces very rarely go bad, 99.9% of the time it is something else.
We manually set the card to 1gb/sec through 10mb/sec, changed cables (after proofing with our cableIQ tester) and used a test switch. This one machine is now failing outright in that every 4-5 seconds windows believes the cable is disconnected. We've now disabled the NIC in the Bios and added in a new network card. This is the first onboard nic I've ever known to go bad on a Dell machine.
pcmeiners
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April 2nd, 2008 22:00
Have you ruled out speed/duplex mismatches between the NICs and the switch ports, have you recertified the cabling at the client, including the patch cords to the machines? Network interfaces very rarely go bad, 99.9% of the time it is something else.
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April 2nd, 2008 22:00