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JD
Ok, here's a doozy for you! We purchased a brand new Dell
2400 pc. It has 2 NIC's on it, one on-board, the other is
a card. We copied (Ghost) a Dell Dimensions XPS 500 pc
and over-wrote the original image on the new 2400 pc. We
brought the system up, it asked for quite a few drivers
and we installed those succesfully. Nothing is showing in
the device manager as having a problem now. On first
glance, everything seems to be functioning normally. But,
here this, if you right-click on the desktop, hover your
mouse over "New" (for, let's say, a new shortcut), it then
completely bogs down the pc. It sits there with an hour-
glass for about 3-5 minutes, then the screen you're
waiting for pops up! But that's not the end! Get this.
If you hover the mouse over "new" as explained above,
unplug the network cable from the NIC card (either one,
depending on which one we plug it into for testing
purposes), the screen comes up immediately! It only
happens while plugged into the network! If you unplug, it
works, if you plug it back in, it bogs down
immediately....but just something small like hovering
over "New"! Anything else you hover over in the menu
works either way! Email, even if plugged into the
network, works like a charm. Other network applications
work just fine, no slowness at all. Just random things
that shouldn't take any time at all, for whatever reason
just bogs down. Another thing like the "New" item
described above is....I go into Windows Explorer, I expand
to Windows/System (or any other folder with hundreds of
files), I attempt to scroll all the way down the list, and
it bogs down, just like above, halfway through it! You
unplug the network cable and it scrolls instantly! Now, I
know what you're thinking....we're having a problem with
our network and it's bogging it down. But I tend to
disagree for the simple fact that network programs and
files work just fine. Why would network email work fine,
yet right-clicking on your desktop and going to "New"
would bog it down? This is perhaps the oddest problem to
ever come across the pike! Please help, please!!!
JD
2400 pc. It has 2 NIC's on it, one on-board, the other is
a card. We copied (Ghost) a Dell Dimensions XPS 500 pc
and over-wrote the original image on the new 2400 pc. We
brought the system up, it asked for quite a few drivers
and we installed those succesfully. Nothing is showing in
the device manager as having a problem now. On first
glance, everything seems to be functioning normally. But,
here this, if you right-click on the desktop, hover your
mouse over "New" (for, let's say, a new shortcut), it then
completely bogs down the pc. It sits there with an hour-
glass for about 3-5 minutes, then the screen you're
waiting for pops up! But that's not the end! Get this.
If you hover the mouse over "new" as explained above,
unplug the network cable from the NIC card (either one,
depending on which one we plug it into for testing
purposes), the screen comes up immediately! It only
happens while plugged into the network! If you unplug, it
works, if you plug it back in, it bogs down
immediately....but just something small like hovering
over "New"! Anything else you hover over in the menu
works either way! Email, even if plugged into the
network, works like a charm. Other network applications
work just fine, no slowness at all. Just random things
that shouldn't take any time at all, for whatever reason
just bogs down. Another thing like the "New" item
described above is....I go into Windows Explorer, I expand
to Windows/System (or any other folder with hundreds of
files), I attempt to scroll all the way down the list, and
it bogs down, just like above, halfway through it! You
unplug the network cable and it scrolls instantly! Now, I
know what you're thinking....we're having a problem with
our network and it's bogging it down. But I tend to
disagree for the simple fact that network programs and
files work just fine. Why would network email work fine,
yet right-clicking on your desktop and going to "New"
would bog it down? This is perhaps the oddest problem to
ever come across the pike! Please help, please!!!
JD