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Thanks for the info! I discovered that there's some odd interaction
between the 3COM NIC and the Compaq that always gets me to the LAN boot
situation. There is no jumper on the NIC. I did discover that PXE is a
LAN protocol that is a choice in the Master Boot Agent but it didn't
give me a choice of not booting from the LAN. After some discussion with
Compaq, I ended up installing a Belkin NIC (Realtec chip) and it boots
correctly and works just fine. I've used these 3COM NICs in lots of
computers (since I have the driver for it), never encountered this problem.
I also discovered if I press "esc" during the splash screen (without the
3COM NIC), it boots right into the OS without the 1 minute wait.
David Gillett wrote:
> On 29 Jul 2006 at 8:59, Russ Cox wrote:
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>> I want to install a NIC temporarily so I can download updates. When I
>> install a 3COM NIC, the computer tries to boot from the network and of
>> course fails. Then it hangs and will not proceed to boot. There is no
>> boot sequence choice in setup so I can't eliminate the network boot
>> option. Any ideas?
>>
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> This isn't typical default behaviour. There may be a jumper on the NIC
> that is enabling this option; it may be labelled "PXE". In that case,
> removing the jumper would correct it.
>
> David Gillett
>
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