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--- Comment #105 from Quentin Jackson 2008-10-01 01:04:29 MDT ---
Guys, I have an HP 8510w which is experiencing some interesting behaviour. I
believe I may have had a graphics corruption first, though I don't recall if
the problems started directly afterward. I'm definately running the e1000e
driver, the machine has an NVIDIA Quadro FX570M (Mobile Version). The first
thing I noticed was the Intel Boot agent in the BIOS reports the following;
Initializing Intel (R) Boot Agent GE v1.2.45
PXE-E05: The LAN adapter's confirguration is corrupted or has not been
initialized. The Boot Agent cannot continue.
Then the eth0 device would no longer work. I found a link which I've posted at
the end of this which talked about some work arounds etc using free dos and
resetting the Intel Boot Agent using an Intel Program called IBAUTIL. I was at
this point able to use the NIC while using windows, I was not able to use it
using Linux, Linux would complain with a standard message in Yast that the card
was corrupted and that therefore the module was not loaded.
I ran the procedure outlined using IBAUTIL and voila my linux ethernet worked
again. However, upon booting up a day after it is back to being dead.
If this is indeed the same situation, this may be all we need to get info out
of the card. Also, I may potentially have access to more of these machines
that ARE going if that helps.
The windows OS will now not get an IP address either, which I assume isn't just
about the address and rather about hardware failure. Event Viewer shows
nothing as usual, where's the Windows DMESG!!!! Windows was working fine all
day though.
I shall try this procedure again, but I expect I am now out of luck :(
If someone wants me to post some kind of image from a going one of these
machines it might be possible, but I'll need to do it from an older version of
Linux I expect :)
http://dance.richii.com/article238.html
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