first I would try the Nic Card. If for some reason that doesn't work I it
wouldn't hurt to try the 64 bit version if the nic card doesn' work.
I believe there is physical limit of 4 gigs on a 32 bit system. So you may
want to consider going 64 anyways for this server.
If none of this fixes it you got a bad MB or CPU and time for Dell to
replace it.
>> Just out of curriosity are you running 64bit or 32bit version of centos?
>>
>> The 32 bit version usually gives less problems.
>>
>>
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Have you tried booting with the non-smp kernel to see it the same
>>> problem
>>> occurs?
>>>
>>> If you have an Intel nic handy you could try to see if that eliminates
>>> the
>>> problem. I recently had trouble with the sky2 module, but in that case,
>>> I
>>> would loose all network connectivity until the module was reloaded. I
>>> have
>>> now had no problems since switching to the Intel nic.
>>>
>>> Hope that helps.
>>>
>>> A.
>>>
>
> I'm going to snip the top/bottom posting and try and reply to both.
>
> I'm relatively certain that the CentOS-4.4-i386-bin?of4.iso are the
> 32-bit versions. I'm tempted to try the 64 bit version for grins just
> to see if the behavior is different.
>
> I will power the machine down and take a stab at it with an Intel NIC.
>
> Peter
>
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