Ive found the 8139's almost as fast (like 5~10% less speed) as the 3com's and Intel e100's and 1/10th the price, for a workstation they seem fine.
The failure to start is not a heat sink problem but a PSU problem, we had hundreads of these as desktops and this was a common symptom, swap in new PSU and its fine. These cases wont take a "standard" AT or ATX motherboard, its a Dell special. These cases wont take a "standard" AT or ATX PSU, its a Dell special. regards S -----Original Message----- From: Alvin Oga [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 3 August 2004 12:33 p.m. To: Steven Jones Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: install reboots, optiplex gx1 On Tue, 3 Aug 2004, Steven Jones wrote: > I have used these quite a bit on Redhat and Debian, with hundred's of days uptime. start uptimes in x,000's and than rattle the cages :-) > You will probably find, if it has a 3com network card "its odd" and wont work with > Linux, something in the Dell bios. I ended up installing a 8139c. 3com's 3c5xx and 3c9xx are okay ... rt8139's are whacky ... and slow > Otherwise I have found them rock steady, the PSU's do go dodgy, always have spare fans and spare ps > it might be yours is Donald Ducked. or goofy'd ... or just plain garfield'd or just plain ole lemon > Usually the first symptoms are failure to boot when warm, but boots fine when cold... means the airflow aint flowing right and/or the contact between the heatsink and fan aint working anymore - remove the heatsink, very carefully scrap off the junk and reapply a brand new batch of heatsink grease my choice of mb... intel, tyan, asus, - other mb are last option, no choice and inherited my choice of ps... sparkle or emacs - no other options ... pull the other ps before they die on you after it went to the far away colo good thing for "dell" ... it's job security that somebody keeps calling to come fix their boxes now .. c ya alvin
