I am alarmed by what recently happened to my 2 station network.
I had a 486 DX2/66 running Win95 & WinNT work station
And Win NT server 4.0 running on another 486. Both linked by RG 58 A/U cable.
They hardly failed over the NE2000 compatible ethernet card.
I then replaced the workstation Mother Booard with an AMD K6-166 based MBd.
After that I could not log on to the network. Just Locally.
What alarmed me was that The SERVER would freeze after a while. And nothing
but a reset would do. I never touched the server. I just noticed that the
screen saver was not working.
I finally fixed the inabibility to logging onto the network by changing the
IRQ for the NE2000 card to Legacy ISA instead of PCI/ISA. And the freezing
of the server stopped. Which means that the errant NE2000 in the worksattion
froze the server.
I can't imagine how something like this will impact a bigger network in an
office department. How do you fellows on large networks stop something like
this from bringing down your SERIOUS networks.??
Chuma
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