RE: 2924XL and Blue Screen of Death: Resolved [7:33203]

2002-01-28 Thread Bill Carter
It would be a great help to have Intel NIC's as the built in NIC an Dell's! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of juno vtv Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 5:16 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: 2924XL and Blue Screen of Death: Resolved

2924XL and Blue Screen of Death: Resolved [7:33203]

2002-01-25 Thread John Neiberger
Well, sort of resolved. This turned out to be a known issue with Dell machines, specifically machines using a 3COM 3C905C NIC. They expect the network to be available almost immediately upon bootup and can't handle the delay caused by spanning tree. In some cases, even portfast did not reduce

Re: 2924XL and Blue Screen of Death: Resolved [7:33203]

2002-01-25 Thread Steven A. Ridder
Those DELL's with the 3com nic's have so many problems! There's a thread over in comp.dcom.sys.cisco with someone else having problems with the same PC's and NIC's. Usually the 3c509's are OK. I remember the 3C509B's as being rock-solid. How fast are the PC's booting to beat portfast? Or are

Re: 2924XL and Blue Screen of Death: Resolved [7:33203]

2002-01-25 Thread Steven A. Ridder
I meant 3c905b's are nice. I think the 509's are old ISA cards. Steven A. Ridder wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Those DELL's with the 3com nic's have so many problems! There's a thread over in comp.dcom.sys.cisco with someone else having problems with the same

Re: 2924XL and Blue Screen of Death: Resolved [7:33203]

2002-01-25 Thread John Neiberger
I was just discussing this with one of the LAN guys here and it sound like the problem is with the Novell client and some service it expects to be running before a user logs in. If the network is unavailable and that service doesn't start in time and then a user attempts to log in, the PC

RE: 2924XL and Blue Screen of Death: Resolved [7:33203]

2002-01-25 Thread Ole Drews Jensen
~~~ -Original Message- From: Steven A. Ridder [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 10:14 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: 2924XL and Blue Screen of Death: Resolved [7:33203] I meant 3c905b's are nice. I think the 509's are old ISA cards. Steven

RE: 2924XL and Blue Screen of Death: Resolved [7:33203]

2002-01-25 Thread Bill Carter
I wonder if these cards would have problems with 3Com switches -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of John Neiberger Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 9:58 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: 2924XL and Blue Screen of Death: Resolved [7:33203

RE: 2924XL and Blue Screen of Death: Resolved [7:33203]

2002-01-25 Thread Bill Carter
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Steven A. Ridder Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 10:14 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: 2924XL and Blue Screen of Death: Resolved [7:33203] I meant 3c905b's are nice. I think the 509's are old ISA cards. Steven A. Ridder wrote

RE: 2924XL and Blue Screen of Death: Resolved [7:33203]

2002-01-25 Thread John Neiberger
Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of John Neiberger Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 9:58 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: 2924XL and Blue Screen of Death: Resolved [7:33203] Well, sort of resolved. This turned out to be a known issue with Dell machines

Re: 2924XL and Blue Screen of Death: Resolved [7:33203]

2002-01-25 Thread Carroll Kong
At 10:57 AM 1/25/02 -0500, John Neiberger wrote: Well, sort of resolved. This turned out to be a known issue with Dell machines, specifically machines using a 3COM 3C905C NIC. They expect the network to be available almost immediately upon bootup and can't handle the delay caused by spanning

Re: 2924XL and Blue Screen of Death: Resolved [7:33203]

2002-01-25 Thread Mike Mandulak
problems with 3Com switches -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of John Neiberger Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 9:58 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: 2924XL and Blue Screen of Death: Resolved [7:33203] Well, sort of resolved

Re: 2924XL and Blue Screen of Death: Resolved [7:33203]

2002-01-25 Thread Patrick Ramsey
but they were stable! Steven A. Ridder 01/25/02 11:13AM I meant 3c905b's are nice. I think the 509's are old ISA cards. Steven A. Ridder wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Those DELL's with the 3com nic's have so many problems! There's a thread over in

Re: 2924XL and Blue Screen of Death: Resolved [7:33203]

2002-01-25 Thread W. Alan Robertson
of these three steps independantly, but you can achieve the same results. This has always corrected the problem for me... HTH, Alan - Original Message - From: John Neiberger To: Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 12:17 PM Subject: RE: 2924XL and Blue Screen of Death: Resolved [7:33203] I

Re: 2924XL and Blue Screen of Death: Resolved [7:33203]

2002-01-25 Thread John Neiberger
problems with 3Com switches -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of John Neiberger Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 9:58 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: 2924XL and Blue Screen of Death: Resolved [7:33203] Well, sort of resolved. This turned

Re: 2924XL and Blue Screen of Death: Resolved [7:33203]

2002-01-25 Thread MADMAN
the problem for me... HTH, Alan - Original Message - From: John Neiberger To: Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 12:17 PM Subject: RE: 2924XL and Blue Screen of Death: Resolved [7:33203] I don't think the issue is the switch, but the fact that spanning tree is running. I

Re: 2924XL and Blue Screen of Death: Resolved [7:33203]

2002-01-25 Thread Chuck Larrieu
gee, and my customer happens to have a 3com NIC. whaddaya know!! ( he has a generic PC, but what's sauce for the goose... - guess I will tell him to try an Intel NIC ) Chuck John Neiberger wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Well, sort of resolved. This turned

Re: 2924XL and Blue Screen of Death: Resolved [7:33203]

2002-01-25 Thread Priscilla Oppenheimer
of Death: Resolved [7:33203] gee, and my customer happens to have a 3com NIC. whaddaya know!! ( he has a generic PC, but what's sauce for the goose... - guess I will tell him to try an Intel NIC ) Chuck John Neiberger wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">new

Re: 2924XL and Blue Screen of Death: Resolved [7:33203]

2002-01-25 Thread John Neiberger
Larrieu To: Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 4:23 PM Subject: Re: 2924XL and Blue Screen of Death: Resolved [7:33203] gee, and my customer happens to have a 3com NIC. whaddaya know!! ( he has a generic PC, but what's sauce for the goose... - guess I will tell him to try an Intel NIC

Re: 2924XL and Blue Screen of Death: Resolved [7:33203]

2002-01-25 Thread Mike Mandulak
... But the problem usually got fixed by something in that document link that I sent. - Original Message - From: John Neiberger To: ; Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 5:43 PM Subject: Re: 2924XL and Blue Screen of Death: Resolved [7:33203] I found out that we do have the most recent drivers so

Re: 2924XL and Blue Screen of Death: Resolved [7:33203]

2002-01-25 Thread juno vtv
That's interesting, I work at Intel and we test our nics and drivers here in the lab all day. I would be willing to help out anyone who are having problems with their Intel nics. John, what version of the Novell client are you using? -junovtv Message Posted at: