...what's the provenance of the hard drive you're using at this moment?
Something is quite amiss, particularly since NT doesn't use autoexec.bat and you may as well rename it so it isn't seen. If the system *is* looking for it... it may have been for neferious reasons. Neferious as in malware, and the type I have in mind will survive an OS rebuild, and will even survive a quick format because it's initialization code is pointed to by the MBR and held outside the windows partition.
If the drivers are all proper, the OS is fresh, and nothing else has been tampered with, then the only thing that would cause performance and/or networking issues are either hardware or iunanticipated software.
On the network issues.... can you ping localhost? Are you pulling an IP? If you have a network appliance, is it set to recognize the MAC you're using?
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Date: 2010-10-06 02:28 am (UTC)Something is quite amiss, particularly since NT doesn't use autoexec.bat and you may as well rename it so it isn't seen. If the system *is* looking for it... it may have been for neferious reasons. Neferious as in malware, and the type I have in mind will survive an OS rebuild, and will even survive a quick format because it's initialization code is pointed to by the MBR and held outside the windows partition.
If the drivers are all proper, the OS is fresh, and nothing else has been tampered with, then the only thing that would cause performance and/or networking issues are either hardware or iunanticipated software.
On the network issues.... can you ping localhost? Are you pulling an IP? If you have a network appliance, is it set to recognize the MAC you're using?