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Old 27th May 2009, 22:02
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I have a refurbished Dell GX280 SFF that has been functioning well since putting it together and installing drivers.
I pulled the only drivers available for all of the components from the Dell website and they all seem to be working fine.

My confusion is over the onboard NIC, which has a solid orange light and a blinking orange light. I seem to have full connectivity to both networked computers and the internet, and after several bandwidth tests it appears that speeds are normal.
In Bios, all settings for the NIC were normal. There are no conflicts in windows, duplexing is set on Auto.
The LAN cable I am using works perfectly with several machines and they all have green lights.
Pins on the NIC port appear to be clean and solid.

I cannot understand what is wrong with the device, but the orange light has been on it since before an OS was even installed. Any clues as to what the problem may be?
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Old 30th May 2009, 00:52
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I wouldn't worry about it if it is working, your nic probably has orange led's instead of green
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