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Spent 4 hours chasing a ghost NIC issue on a Dell Optiplex 7080
Had a client's machine drop off the network randomly every 45 minutes. Ran through drivers, swapped cables, checked the switch port - nothing worked. Turns out the power management setting in Windows 10 was killing the adapter to save juice (you know, the classic). Has anyone else had Dell's default power profile cause weird intermittent dropouts like that?
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william_carter1mo ago
Dell still ships these things with that setting on? Thought they learned their lesson years ago.
It's always the power management. I swear I check that before drivers now.
First thing I do on any Optiplex is nuke those power saving defaults.
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finleyw991mo ago
Honestly, that's the exact fix for most of them, but was it the Windows power plan or the BIOS setting? Tbh I've seen the C-state control in the BIOS cause the same 45 minute drop on those 7080s even when Windows is set to high performance.
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daniel59319d ago
Wait, do you really think Dell's learned anything? They've been shipping those power saving defaults for at least a decade now, and I doubt they'll stop anytime soon.
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