win2k networking disapears then server resets

[itsfisko]

Hi all I have a problem that is driving me nuts.
I have one user on a 150 PC network who has an apple mac with airport, This seems to have become a server and messed up my DHCP set up by broadcasting rogue IPs which the networked PCs took up denying access to the network. So after setting the IPs manually I now have another nasty.
My server keeps rebooting, I have antivirus running on the server, and scan 2 times a day and constantly check for updates, There is NO VIRUS (that I can detect)
Now I have noticed that the network connection on the server disappears, No NICs are visable, If I reboot they reappear...
any help please before I hit the bottle, or the Server.
Thanks John Stressed School tech

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[Lemon13]

disable power safing for the nics

 

[NickFerrar]

Is it a Dell server? Some older models had this issue a lot with various things helping to resolve it (including disabling power saving as the poster above suggested but in a lot of cases a motherboard or NIC repalcement was required).
Also for the DHCP thing why didn't you just stop the device issuing DHCP addresses rather than change your whole network to static?

 

[itsfisko]

HI all thanks for your thought will look at the power saving settings on the server, PS its fairly new (only)2 yrs old

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