Recent content by Boomer67

I work will Dell’s mostly, D4/6/800's and M60's and haven’t had too many problems with them, DELL service is not too bad either. Personally I have an Emachine M5100 2+ years now and have had no problems with it. About the only down side would be the battery life. :cool:

I find SmartFTP to be pretty good and its freeware for personal use.

I find that AdWare SE is pretty good for getting rid of a lot of crap as well

Thanks for the link, I'll look into it.

The problem is that when it is connected to the network the event log fills up with these DHCP errors (event id 1001) every 5-7 mins. As far as I can see the LT is working fine but the user wants to know what these errors are or the laptop replaced as he is convinced it is a hardware fault...

I have herd that the following hotfix (KB885250) has been known to affect file shareing on some files and not others. I think its bundled ito SP2 I'm not 2 sure. As for removing it.........someone else might know how to do it but not me......sorry.

Yea, I had a look at eventid.net, a few hints but no solutions. One hint was the router may not be processing the DHCPREQUEST quick enough, I might get some stats from the router and have a look at the traffic going through.

Check the share properties and make sure that they are propagating to the child folders. Any security issues/restriction on the shares?

Hi All, I am looking at getting a external drive for my LT. Any recommendations? Thanks

Unable to assign a static IP, LT is used on different subnets (roaming), I'll pick it up and do some NW diags on it for a day or so, it may be a NIC prob or no prob at all. Thanks

What type of system do you have?

I've already had a look at the switch and it seems fine. Like you said, I would'nt worry about it but the user is banging my ear about these event logs. Perhaps I should just take it off him for a week or so for 'Testing'. Thanks for you help.....

DELL Latitude D600 LT, DHCP network via managed switches. Logs onto the networks OK but constant errors in the event log (1001). A little slow at times logging in. IPCONFIG /renew takes its time and returns with the same IP. Other PC's / LT appear fine. os- w2k.

Hav'nt come accross that before, I assume that the correct drivers are installed? Perhaps a BIOS upgraded is needed for the GX150?

Any Ideas? EventID: 1001 "Your computer was not assigned an address from the network (by the DHCP Server) for the Network Card with network address XXXXXXXX(MAC address). The following error occured: The semaphore timeout period has expired. . Your computer will continue to try and obtain...