Re: I'm thinking about switching over to the other team.
Oh! I remember an interesting PC snafu from a few weeks ago!
I was reinstalling Windows XP SP1 on a PC and it worked well. First install, it installed basic hardware and I started installing Windows updates. First reboot, and suddenly the network card refused to recognize that there was a cable connected. Windows saw the card fine, but the card did not see the cable. After two days of leaving it on the bench, I was working on another project when I looked over and saw the link light was on. Curious, I installed more updates, restarted, and bang, no link light again. Another two days, and it started working again. By this time, I had another identical PC on my bench, and the exact same thing happened. It worked at first, but not after the first round of updates.
I ended up buying a separate NIC because it was cheaper than spending my time uninstalling updates one at a time to find out which one was causing the issue.
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