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Poweredge 2950 III Network Firmware / Drivers

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Hey all.  

So I may have done a real bad thing with my PE2950 III and am hoping you may be able to help.  I was tinkering around with it (AKA getting my learn on) and installed Vista Ultimate on the server.  I noticed it didn't install network drivers so I searched Broadcom's website for the Vista Drivers.  I found what I thought were the Vista drivers for the internal NIC but man was I wrong.  Turned out it was a firmware flash update for the NIC.  

So to make a long story short, not the server boots up but it takes 3 times as long for it to post.  The Dell logo shows up with the progress bar at the bottom and it hangs for around 1 1/2 minutes at the 1/3 mark and then starts the boot up progress.  however, when the NIC card is being initialized it hangs there as well for around 2 minutes.  Much longer than it did before being flashed.  Is there any way to get this back to normal again?

Cheers.

Sapper


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