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Diagnostics don't help[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#20)
by sconeu on Wed May 16, 2007 at 07:35:32 AM PDT

"I go out to either Dell's web site (preferably) or the drive manufacturer's web site and get a diagnostic program to check the drive"

Doesn't help.  I had a Dell that had a bad onboard ethernet.  The "Dell Diagnostics" didn't show anything, but the Broadcom diagnostics bundled on the CD showed the onboard NIC was bad.

The Dell script follower refused to acknowledge the problem.  I wound up just buying a $10 PCI ethernet card and disabling the onboard ethernet.

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