No1 cause of LAN intermittency is a buggy powersave feature:
http://mylogon.net/support/psave/
Other than that, does the LAN card use some kind of specialist 'manager'
software or a conventional driver? (If you had to run a setup program instead
of just pointing Windows at an .inf, then that is likely) If it has special
software loaded, try removing it.
For all it costs I'd be inclined to bang-in an RTL8139 or similar PCI card
and see what happens. At least this might clinch where the trouble lies.
"Adam Marshall" wrote:
> Recently bought a Dell server with this OS, and every time it is
> rebooted, the NIC's do not come live till you manually log into the
> server, and it sits for 5-10 minutes. The server administrator MMC
> that loads is stuck querying the system, and until that is done, the
> NICS are dead, and the system is near unresponsive. I have reformatted
> several times, and it keeps happening. Dell has no idea.... I need to
> install this server SOON, any ideas would be greatly appreciated!
>
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