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Posted 30 March 2012 - 07:05 PM
I recently bought a Dell XPS 8300 I7 pc with a Broadcom Netlink Gigabit Network card and it only shows (auto, 10 half, 10 full, 100 half, and 100 full, there is no 1000 half and full on the list for speed & duplex). Gigabit supposed to be 10/100/1000 and not 10/100 only. I contacted Dell and they sent a technician with a motherboard labeled refurbished. I didn't want a refurbished motherboard when i just bought this last January 2012. They told me that they label the tested new motherboard as refurbished cause they tested it.
I have a 4 yrs warranty from best buy's geek squad and it might void that if i let the dell tech touch the computer. I think it is just a driver issue. Also the computer's video card has been changed and I had let Geek Squad install a USB 3.0 so I still have a vacant slot and I was wondering if I could install a gigabit network card and just join them since I have a router and I am with Road runner and have an extreme connection with download speed of 30MBps. My old P4 computer had a gigabit network card and it was set to 1000 full on the speed and duplex. Any help would be appreciated.
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Broadcom Netlink Gigabit Network Not Showing 1000 I have a Dell XPS 8300 with a gigabit card that only shows up to 100
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Posted 30 March 2012 - 07:45 PM
Go into device manager, uninstall the network card, and reboot. Windows should automatically reinstall the driver.
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