[G4] Help! Dead built in ethernet on G4 450DP?

[James Asherman]

On Thursday, January 22, 2004, at 08:22  PM, Al Poulin wrote:

> Ran Apple's hardware diagnostic CD.  No problems noted.
>
> No joy on anything until AFTER I ran TechTools Pro hardware 
> diagnostics.
> TTP reported all ok.  After that the QS came up on ethernet.  Repeated
> attempts to uncover a failure mode with different cables and with 
> different
> ports on the switch failed -- could not replicate the problem.
>
> Go figure!  Did the simple act of running TechTools Pro straigten out 
> some
> glitch somewhere???
>
> Everything has been fine since.
>

And considering, if I have read right, the cable runs on the PC so it 
isn't the cable or modem,
and the ethernet shows as awake, then it's something obscure like this.