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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