Network slow after reimage XP

[Guest]

I have an office with 10 PC's.. Eight machines have XP and two with NT. I
needed to make the two with NT into XP machines. What I did was use a ghost
software to do disk to disk from an already operating XP machine in the
office with all the needed software, to a machine that had NT on it. I have
a volume license.
After doing the disk to disk.. I changed the machine name, so there was no
dups, then re-added to the network. Everything works fine.. just that when I
try to go to the server this machine is extreemly slow.. both that I imaged
are.. the original copy machine is fine.
Any thoughts....

 

[Interrogative]

I have an office with 10 PC's.. Eight machines have XP and two with NT. I
needed to make the two with NT into XP machines. What I did was use a
ghost
software to do disk to disk from an already operating XP machine in the
office with all the needed software, to a machine that had NT on it. I
have
a volume license.
After doing the disk to disk.. I changed the machine name, so there was no
dups, then re-added to the network. Everything works fine.. just that
when I
try to go to the server this machine is extreemly slow.. both that I
imaged
are.. the original copy machine is fine.
Any thoughts....

Yep. If the machinery inside both machines wasn't exactly the same, then you
have the wrong drivers. Get the motherboard disk out and put them on the
newly XP'd machine OR download them from Internet again and redo them.
Chances are that one or more of your drivers are causing you problems that
end up drawing too much processing time and making your network look like
the problem when it may not be.

 

[Guest]

All of the machines are Dell 260GX. However bought at different times.
Is it possible they have different network cards....? If so.. If I delete
the network drivers and allow XP to find and reinstall, would that help?

 

[Malke]

All of the machines are Dell 260GX. However bought at different times.
Is it possible they have different network cards....? If so.. If I
delete the network drivers and allow XP to find and reinstall, would
that help?

It is possible that different chipsets are being used. Go to Dell's tech
support site and download drivers for your particular model computer.

Malke

 

[Interrogative]

It is definitely possible they are different drivers. If you delete the nic
drivers, they will reinstall as the same thing again. You really should know
which they are to begin with.

The next thing you should also be looking at is the recommended virtual
memory versus what is allocated on that machine. If that is OK, you might
like to download Essential Net Tools to check out what connections are
constant on your network but from the sound of it, if your network is slow
but the machines aren't slow themselves, you have something dicky going on
with the cards and/or cabling.

 

[Interrogative]

It is possible that different chipsets are being used. Go to Dell's tech
support site and download drivers for your particular model computer.

Actually that is what Dell say to do for modem drivers when you ring them to
ask them why they didn't supply them on the CDs. Apparently they thought
video and modem drivers for certain Inspirons weren't needed as they were at
the web sites. They were slightly flustered when I asked them how to
download a modem driver when it was the modem driver I needed so I could use
the modem. I was being nasty, of course. They should really have supplied
all on the CD.

 

[Brandon McCombs]

I have an office with 10 PC's.. Eight machines have XP and two with NT. I
needed to make the two with NT into XP machines. What I did was use a ghost
software to do disk to disk from an already operating XP machine in the
office with all the needed software, to a machine that had NT on it. I have
a volume license.
After doing the disk to disk.. I changed the machine name, so there was no
dups, then re-added to the network. Everything works fine.. just that when I
try to go to the server this machine is extreemly slow.. both that I imaged
are.. the original copy machine is fine.
Any thoughts....

Make sure the NICs are operating at the same duplex level as the other machines.
If they are running at halfduplex with the switch being at full then that will
cause major slowdown as the communication is out of sync.