Re: Fresh Swing Migration SBS install hangs on "Applying Computer Settings"

By the way, a 2900 has two built in Gb NICs. What is the purpose of the
Intel Dual NIC? Were you attempring to stay as far away as possible from
the Broadcoms?

Buddy G ~

"J. M. De Moor" <papajoe.nospam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I was just wondering if anyone else has seen the "Applying Computer
Settings" hang since the APC PowerShute issue many moons ago?


Buddy

We are in the middle of a similar swing on a Dell 2900 at a client site
and got locked in "Applying Computer Settings" limbo also. Our problem
was not with the Broadcom, which appears to work fine so far, but with the
Intel Pro GB dual port. Without going into the gory details, I had to
uninstall all the Intel Pro drivers (using the utilities that Dell
provided), reboot and rediscover the NIC. The startup delays went
away...but I have not yet gone back there to re-install ISA, so this is
just a 'so-far-so-good.'

I will tell you this: I was on the phone with Dell for 2 hours (because
initially I thought it was a hardware problem -- given the card appeared
to work and then stopped). After ruling out HW, the 1st tech escalated me
to what they called an advanced software specialist. But this guy had
never worked with ISA. They were friendly enough, but if you call after
having already done all the standard troubleshooting that they have on
their scripts, they are not very helpful.

I think Susan Bradley's comments about the Broadcom are interesting
though. (That's me getting nervous again...)

Will know on Monday if this was just a case of broken driver installation
or if there is another issue.

Joe


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