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I have a machine that for no apparent reason started ringing the bell, like a railway crossing signal but a bit faster. This happened before and when I moved it to my lab to take a look inside the box it decided to work without my doing anything except move some wires around so I could feel if any of the various connectors were loose. This leads me to believe that it is a loose connector but I don’t know which.
The ringing starts when there is normally a single beep but doesn’t stop and the boot doesn't progress to where anything is written to the screen. I did swap the video driver with one I know to work on another machine and that was not the problem. I disconnected boards one by one but that didn't have any effect either.
What is the absolute first thing to happen after the single bell sounds when a machine is booting before anything is written to the screen?
Does anyone have similar experiences and can suggest what the most probable cause of this problem is?
Thanks for any advice you can give me.
I'm on-line therefore I am.
JimmyRopes
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It sounds like your machine hung during the boot. The sound card just started playing the same sound over and over again because it wasn'ttold to stop or wasnt given anything else to do.
Do you have any "inflated" capacitors on you motherboard? Google for "Capacitor plague" for what I'm talking about.
RageInTheMachine9532
"...a pungent, ghastly, stinky piece of cheese!" -- The Roaming Gnome
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Thanks, I wasn't aware of this problem. I'll have to take a good look at the MB and power supply.
Do you happen to know where I can locate a writeup on MB test points? I am just getting back into diagnosing hardware, after many years, but do not have the engineering specs for the boards I need to check out.
I'm on-line therefore I am.
JimmyRopes
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It is also possible that the cause is a hardware failure. Check your PC or motherboard manual for error codes. Error conditions are indicated by different beep patterns.
I have only one superstition. I touch all the bases when I hit a home run.
- Babe Ruth
-- modified at 7:10 Tuesday 27th December, 2005
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JimmyRopes wrote: Do you happen to know where I can locate a writeup on MB test points?
You're really not going to find anything useful. This stuff is proprietary to the manufacturer for each design. No-one publishes the stuff.
RageInTheMachine9532
"...a pungent, ghastly, stinky piece of cheese!" -- The Roaming Gnome
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I came across the following syntax in a batch file (runs on XP, probably on any NT version)
type filename.ext || echo error
The result is that if filename.ext exists, its contents are listed, but if it doesn't, the second command (echo error) is executed
The same is true of any command other than type and echo, meaning that the part after || is executed only if the first command fails.
This feels like an incredibly stupid question, but what exactly does || do? I know that | is the pipe operator... 
Seaching the web came up with this wonderful site which gives all kinds of batch file examples & tips, but I can't find the above
http://www.robvanderwoude.com/[^]
This is off topic, but I even found out that it is now possible to write subroutines in batch files, using call :label & goto :eof  ...
- Indivara
"...This city desert makes you feel so cold.
It's got so many people but it's got no soul..."
- Gerry Rafferty, Baker Street
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 Conditional Commands
When an internal command or external program finishes, it returns a result called the exit code. Conditional commands allow you to perform tasks based upon the previous command's exit code. Many programs return a 0 if they are successful and a non-zero value if they encounter an error.
If you separate two commands by && (AND), the second command will be executed only if the first returns an exit code of 0. For example, the following command will only erase files if the BACKUP operation succeeds:
[c:\] backup c:\ a: && del c:\*.bak;*.lst
If you separate two commands by || (OR), the second command will be executed only if the first returns a non-zero exit code. For example, if the following BACKUP operation fails, then ECHO will display a message:
[c:\] backup c:\ a: || echo Error in the backup!
All internal commands return an exit code, but not all external programs do. Conditional commands will behave unpredictably if you use them with external programs which do not return an explicit exit code. To determine whether a particular external program returns a meaningful exit code use an ECHO %? command immediately after the program is finished. If the program's documentation does not discuss exit codes you may need to experiment with a variety of conditions to see how the exit code changes. Note that this is backwards from the C/Perl meaning of && and ||, because in DOS, 0 = succes but in C, 0 = failure.
--Mike--
Visual C++ MVP 
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so it is the logical OR operator. wonder why it doesn't appear anywhere in cmd.exe's help (or maybe I missed it...)
thank you!
Michael Dunn wrote: in DOS, 0 = succes but in C, 0 = failure.
which is why main() used to return 0 on success in old DOS programs... 
[edit] not only in DOS but all programs. using MFC made me forget that.[/edit]
kind of confusing, isn't it...
4NT[^] looks useful. I'm looking in to that too. Thanks again!
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-- modified at 19:37 Monday 26th December, 2005
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Printing is sent from an application ( notepad,wordpard,pdf file etc) .
I want some default data to be printed with the print data.
or
start a progarm/application , when i goes for print from any application.
plz ,give me the idea...
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Guru prasad sahoo wrote: I want some default data to be printed with the print data.
do you mean, like a separator page at the beginning of each print job? that can be done in the printer's settings in control panel
Guru prasad sahoo wrote: start a progarm/application , when i goes for print from any application.
I doubt the OS provides a standard setting to do this...
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Guru prasad sahoo wrote: I want some default data to be printed with the print data.
or
start a progarm/application , when i goes for print from any application.
Hi, could you explain more detail about that? Because I don't know what you want to do with printing.
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I have installed WS 2003 and applied sp1 from the MSDN CD. I have not activate it yet and I like to use my VLK. When I try the new key it tells me that it is an invalid key. How can I change it?
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The problem is that you installed the service pack before activating Windows. Scrap it and reinstall Windows Server 2K3, activate it, THEN install the service pack.
RageInTheMachine9532
"...a pungent, ghastly, stinky piece of cheese!" -- The Roaming Gnome
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I do not want to reinstall ws 2k3. Can this be done via terminal services?
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Nope. Installing the service pack is what screwed up your chance to use the key you have.
RageInTheMachine9532
"...a pungent, ghastly, stinky piece of cheese!" -- The Roaming Gnome
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Is it a possible method to uninstall service pack and activate windows? If it is possible then reinstall service pack 1 again 
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You can TRY it, but I don't think it'll work. Installing SP1 is akin to turning his MSDN version of Windows into hte ull retail version. I don't think it'll back that portion out.
RageInTheMachine9532
"...a pungent, ghastly, stinky piece of cheese!" -- The Roaming Gnome
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If he make a system restore point before he install sp1, can we restore an orginal system setting in order to activate the product?
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Create a restore point just to save the activation???? WHY? I have no idea if it'll work so you'll have to try it yourself.
I agree that it's a good idea to create a store point before installing a service pack. In fact, it's done automatically when the SP is installed.
The whole point, though, is to activate the thing BEFORE you install the SP.
RageInTheMachine9532
"...a pungent, ghastly, stinky piece of cheese!" -- The Roaming Gnome
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Neither is correct. Sorry.
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I want to open a chm file from a network location. Due to a recent ms security path, you can't do it.
I was reading the following microsoft article which explains the workaround.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/896054/
i want to use the solution listed in "Example 1: How to use UrlAllowList to enable specific URLs"
The reg file i created is:
REGEDIT4<br />
<br />
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\HTMLHelp]<br />
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\HTMLHelp\1.x\ItssRestrictions]<br />
"UrlAllowList"="\\\\beyond15\\GASPNet 7\\;file://\\\\beyond15\\GASPNet 7"<br />
It works if i access the folder via \\beyond15\GASPNet 7\ and then execute the chm, but if i create a network drive (i.e. z:\) with that folder, i can open the file but i get the message action cancelled.
any ideas?
Thank you very much
-- modified at 15:30 Wednesday 21st December, 2005
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kfaday wrote: It works if i access the folder via \\beyond15\GASPNet 7\ and then execute the chm, but if i create a network drive (i.e. z:\) with that folder, i can open the file but i get the message action cancelled.
In my opinion, you should try to change the path in your regiedit to the specifi drive that you mapped.
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Would you mind telling me how to do that?
Thanks
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Try to change:
REGEDIT4<br />
<br />
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\HTMLHelp]<br />
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\HTMLHelp\1.x\ItssRestrictions]<br />
"UrlAllowList"="\\\\beyond15\\GASPNet 7\\;file://\\\\beyond15\\GASPNet 7"
to
REGEDIT4<br />
<br />
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\HTMLHelp]<br />
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\HTMLHelp\1.x\ItssRestrictions]<br />
"UrlAllowList"="\\\\beyond15\\GASPNet 7\\;file://z:\"
or
REGEDIT4<br />
<br />
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\HTMLHelp]<br />
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\HTMLHelp\1.x\ItssRestrictions]<br />
"UrlAllowList"="z:\;file://\\\\beyond15\\GASPNet 7"
or
REGEDIT4<br />
<br />
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\HTMLHelp]<br />
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\HTMLHelp\1.x\ItssRestrictions]<br />
"UrlAllowList"="z:\;file://z:\"
I can't guarantee it is working or not but you should try to do the above method first. But make sure to backup the registry key before you do that.
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