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Block on network - PXE screen
Have worked on a school machine - Lenovo ThinkCentre M55 Intel Pentium E2140 core @ 1.6GHz 1Gb RAM (DDR2 - not sure of the speed without reefing it out again) and XP Pro.
Now my problem is as always when fixing these sorts of machines is the ability to hook up to the net and not being able to I think it is probably due to the thing being formatted to an intra-net of some sort as I get a screen showing Broadcom working some PXE? system that doesn't work and it goes through a series of other screens to boot - 7 in all yep 7!
In the past I have just put in a D-Link adapter card and driver to hook up to the net but am loathe to do this with this one as it has got to go back and I don't want to do that in case I mess it up by doing that. I just need to update drivers etc as this machine was running VERY slowly and have got CC and Defraggler on it from a stick and that has made quite a difference and I think the drivers would add to the performance. I suppose I could load drivers from a stick but I cannot tell without the net if they are out of date or not.
Any ideas please - if there is no solution it doesn't matter just that it would have been nice to get it really up to speed.