Exactly... ...

Well I figured something out. All these boards have a built in NIC right? And every NIC should theoretically have a unique MAC address right? Why not query the MAC addy's before and after?
Just thought I'd gloat a little bit.. I'm pretty happy about coming up with something.

Thought about that too, but we make a BIG deal that dell updates the Service Tag when swapping sys.boards, because we use it ALOT for asset tracking. But, I may try to do something with writing a sequence to the BIOS.. That's an awesome idea. That way I can search them via the Dell Open Manage IT Assistant that we have to verify. I will look at this tomorrow while I'm at work. Keep the ideas coming though. This is awesome!...

That's correct.. I wish I could do a hardware solution, but the roughly 400 computers I need to replace are scattered all across the country... literally.

Thanks for the reply.. Yep, that's pretty much what Dell is doing for us, where they've identified a certain percentage of our overall GX270 install base as "problem" systems and are mass replacing them.

I just can't always trust the technicians that they send to let me know if they can't contact our user, have problems swapping the board out so they just leave without swapping it or whatever else.

I had to use a nice little registry query I had several times while working through our Maxtor swap project. I just have to figure out if I can have the same...

Forgive me if this info has been posted in another area.. This is my first post here, but I have been searching for a while..

These GX270's are really becoming a pain in my ***. After having to replace about 350 Maxtor Slimlines, the company I work for now has this bad capacitor issue to deal with (around 400 boards to replace).

The problem during our Maxtor project was that sometimes the tech would close the call even though the drive wasn't actually replaced (for various reasons, user not available, problems during ghosting, etc). However, I was able to query the...