UHB Computer problems

We are experiencing problems at the south end of UHB and I’m wondering if it could be network related.
IE is SO slow, some machines aren’t getting correct IP (10.103.) addresses and imaging (which seems to correct the IE problem, maybe) is taking Forever…..(an image of one machine almost an hour, 2 machines over two hours and 5 machines almost 2 hours – although none of these are done, yet).
The problem with IE apparently started over the weekend. But, we had problems with that and connecting to the domain in UHB2030 today. This is a mix of windows 7 and XP machines, and two different hardware combinations (GX760s are win7 and GX270s are XP).

3 thoughts on “UHB Computer problems

    1. jvoyl1

      Kevin and I spent a couple of hours in the UHB 2028 lab this morning, and although we didn’t find a solution, we discovered some interesting symptoms. Internet Explorer Browser is the only browser affected.
      When you open the IE browser it if full screen and will take several minutes to open, no matter the site.
      If you change the window to less than full screen (don’t laugh) the site will open quickly, almost as fast as firefox. we watched the task manager to see how much of the CPU processor is being used by what app and found that at full screen IE was using 90 – 99 % of the CPU. with the smaller window it drops to less than 50% (still to high). Another observation was that while IE was using 50% of the CPU another app (realauncher) was using the other 50% so the system was down to a crawl. I believe that Pam had already reimaged half of this room and we were working on machines that had not been reimaged. Prior to going to UHB we had taken a look at the swithces in the south IDF for the second floor, where most of these lab machines connect to the network. There were a few errors on some ports but not enough to cause problems or to indicate that there was serious trouble with the switch. We will continute to monitor these switches, however I don’t think this trouble is a network issue. Next time you plan to ghost some machines let me know and we will try and watch the traffic.

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