Yet another motherboard

I moved my desk at work so that the outside door was no longer at my back. This involved having to disconnect my workstation and set it back up once my desk was turned around. Once everything was connected, I booted my system (Dell Precision 380) but it wouldn’t connect to the network.

It wasn’t a problem with the network cable or jacks because:

It wouldn’t work on any jacks.
It wouldn’t work with different cables.
My laptop worked fine connected to the jacks at my desk.

In order to test the NIC, I downloaded the Broadcom diagnostic utility from the Dell support site. All test passed except the one for EEPROM. The status for it always showed “EEPROM is corrupted”.

Great. A new motherboard has been ordered, the NIC is integrated, but it won’t be at my office until Thursday. I just replaced the motherboard two or three months ago because the PCI-E slot was failing. Good thing we have the 3 year warranty on it because the original warranty expired last month.

A woman drove me to drink and I never even had the courtesy to thank her. – W.C. Fields

17.Oct.06 Hardware, Networking

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One Response to “Yet another motherboard”

sligh | October 17th, 2006 at 12:11 pm
Usually the power supply will go also. Any problems with the mobo seem to run hand and hand with the power supply!
I know it sounds crazy.. But who would have thought you would be needing another mobo so soon?
So keep an eye on your voltage 3 volt is usually the culprit.. You you can shoot at me if I am wrong. Your bullets can’t hit me from where you are anyway…..