A fix without finding the cause cannot be called a fix
As the comments say:
> Now waiting for the war story from your successor "you'll never guess what I found when I took apart this one server that wouldn't wake-on-lan"
As the comments say:
> Now waiting for the war story from your successor "you'll never guess what I found when I took apart this one server that wouldn't wake-on-lan"
If the thing is broken because X then you can fix it by removing X. That's enough explanation. You don't need to know "why" for everything.
But if disabling a faulty connection you don't need in the first place stops the problem happening, that's a decent workaround... I'd just be a little worried that something else could be faulty on the card if the WoL pin is glitching, so potentially you could have other intermittent issues.