strange eth behavior

[Lonni J Friedman]

On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 7:24 AM, vu Pham <vu at sivell.com> wrote:
> By the way, the MB is replaced because of the CPU check error, not the
> eth problem :)
>

By CPU check error, you mean a machine check exception, or something
else?  Unless this is some very strange abomination of a mobo, a CPU
MCE typically means that you replace the CPU, not the entire mobo.
Granted, Dell might have some non-standard motherboard where the CPU
is not a field replaceable unit, and requires the entire mobo to get
swapped out.