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 > > -- > Peter Serwe <peter at infostreet dot com> > http://www.infostreet.com > > "The only true sports are bullfighting, mountain climbing and auto > racing." -Earnest Hemingway > > "Because everything else requires only one ball." -Unknown > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >