ever had the addition of a ethernet switch stop a pc booting?

[Adam K]

grrrrrrrrrrr, sat up till 4.30am last night trying to work out why my pc was hanging on the windows splash screen on boot up.

even installed a new copy of vista onto my pc and that did the same thing.

event viewer was throwing up "network location awareness" errors, but it never struck me that the switch could be causing all these problems.

anyway, took the switch out today and it still didn't boot.

only when i stuck the ethernet cable directly into my pc it must have sorted out the problem and it's now back to normal.

strange.

 

[Chrisjk]

i had a similar issue with a cd drive, just caused constant hanging on boot up, removed it and it was fine.

 

[Pettsi]

Had similar problem Chris at work.