From: Ellen K. 

I think I have that too, I remember asking about that when I was gonna buy the box.

On Sun, 15 Feb 2004 18:33:20 -0500, "Geo."
 wrote in message :

>On the server with the problem the NIC is on the motherboard, there is no
>actual card. It's claimed by dell to be Intel Pro 100+ standard nic but it's
>not standard to anyone but dell.
>
>Geo.
>
>"Robert Comer"  wrote in message
>news:402fd7d0$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>> Hmm, I have a DELL NT4 box that wont shutdown properly -- I wonder if it's
>> the same cause.  (it would pay me to change NIC's if so...
>>
>> - Bob Comer
>>
>>
>> "Geo."  wrote in message
news:402fbba8$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>> > Not quite antti, the setiqueue server I run is on one of
those dells and
>> I'm
>> > still dealing with this nonsense. Dell still says for that model no
>> service
>> > packs from MS, I still don't listen to them. When I go to
windows update
>I
>> > still have to be careful not to accept the IntelPro100 driver update as
>it
>> > will make it so I can't do a proper shutdown but I've solved
that too by
>> > putting a powerswitch there so I can powercycle the stupid box.
>> >
>> > Geo.
>> >
>> > "Antti Kurenniemi"
 wrote in message
>> > news:402fb7d6$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>> > > This was something like 15 years ago - Geo got fed up with dell's
>> because
>> > of
>> > > their non-standard drivers and hasn't updated his knowledge on the
>> subject
>> > > since . I've happily used windowsupdate on our
50 or so dell's at
>> work
>> > > with no problem. I haven't seen dell supplied service packs even
>> mentioned
>> > > anywhere.
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > Antti Kurenniemi
>> > >
>> > > "Ellen K."
 wrote in
>message
>> > > news:na9v2056dnk432goshh9n4vc5thjhn1qdg{at}4ax.com...
>> > > > They do?
>> > > >
>> > > > How do I get Dell service packs?
>> > > >
>> > > > On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 19:26:51 -0500,
"Geo."  wrote
>in
>> > > > message :
>> > > >
>> > > > >dell even
>> > > > >tells you that you can't install NT service
packs on their
>computers
>> > you
>> > > > >have to get the dell supplied and approved service packs.
>> > > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>

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