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Richard_D wrote:
Faulty Hardware" is not the same as "Faulty Driver
The PC has....
NO FAULTY DRIVER
NO FAULTY HARD-WARE....
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Heya,
It is possible that you have faulty hardware that only faults under specific conditions. Windows drivers are not a good way of diagnosing hardware problems. Simplest solution:
1. Remove all non-essential hardware (i.e. leaving CPU, RAM, MOBO, Boot HDD)
2. Run an intensive test program or similar for 12 to 24 hours on the hardware. If the exception occurs, blank the boot disk; install a fresh clean copy and try again. If the exception occurs again, one of the above is faulty. Now follow a replace and retest on the above items.
3. Should you get this far... Replace the cards, etc. in the PC one-at-a-time. It is important that you do this in steps. Again, test the PC for 12 to 24 hours with a burn-in application. If a BSOD / exception occurs then install a fresh copy of the OS and the latest drivers. If you are using the latest drivers already; go back a release.
4. If everything works fine - your system is OK.
NEVER say that there are no faulty drivers or hardware UNLESS you can prove (preferably using Z or some other tool) that they are correct! There may be bugs in hardware / software that are benign until a specific combination of hardware and software occurs.
Iain 
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"I would be careful in separating your weirdness, a good quirky
quantum weirdness, from the disturbed weirdness of people who take
pleasure from PVC sheep with fruit repositories."
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voodoopriestess wrote:
Simplest solution
Not a simple one for me.... Anyhow... will preserve these instructions for my later use........
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Here's how to correct your problem. Ready? Here we go:
- Power off the computer.
- Unplug the computer from the wall.
- Remove all external cables (video, etc.).
- Disconnect the keyboard, mouse, and speakers if you have them.
- Put all of the hardware you've just disconnected in a box.
- Set the box of hardware, the CPU, and the monitor at the curb in front of your house.
- In a few days, the trash collection men will come and take your problem away.
There now, isn't that better?
Software Zen: delete this;
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A few info that you had missed out.....
8. This is the method that "Gary R. Wheeler" followed.
9. Gary R. Wheeler has no PCs at home.
10. The garbage area is full of PCs that were running windows...
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I had installed win2k(FAT filesystem) on my system which already had win98. Then I formatted the drive where I had 2k. But a boot menu still appears with win2k and win 98 as the options. When I choose win 2k, nothing happens. After 30 secs it starts up win98. What do I have to do to remove Win2k from the boot up menu????? 
Rohit
u hv just been buzzzzzed by JUMBO JET  ;);P  
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try giving.....
fdisk /mbr
from the command prompt. It removes the MBR from the boot, and by default it boots from commamd.com......
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One day, I decided when I received a mail with a zip file attached that when I double clicked on it, Outlook didn't ask me if I wanted to "open it", "save it", etc. I unchecked the option "always ask before opening a file of this type" and Outlook never asked me it again.
Now, I want Outlook ask me it again. How can I reactivate this question?
I'm using Outlook 2002 SP1.
Thanks in advance. 
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Hi,
I am facing problem in my active directory. I have windows 2000 Server Installed. The problem is that sometimes administrative accounts are being lockedout by the system automatically. My password policy is disabled. I dont think that somebody is trying to guess administrative accounts passwords in our LAN and that is why admin accounts are being lockedout after 5 tries.
Can anybody help me out in this regard?
Thanks in advance.
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As you'll soon notice, I'm a newbie in RH administration:
I've setup a Linux RH 7.2 some time ago, and, as I don't know which are the best practices in it, let it to "auto-partition" the disk. I've put a cron job to up2date -f -u daily the updates, so I have a updated setup and it is working fine until today.
But now, the problem is, my RH box is trying to download the new kernel version and can't, because there is no 6Mb of disk space free on the '/' partition:
[root@linux /root]# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda8 251M 216M 22M 91% /
/dev/hda1 53M 14M 37M 27% /boot
/dev/hda6 3.9G 95M 3.6G 3% /home
/dev/hda5 3.9G 1.3G 2.5G 33% /usr
/dev/hda7 251M 68M 170M 29% /var
As you can see I have plenty of space on the other partitions.
My questions are:
1. How can I resize the '/' partition without destroying the machine, or, at least, free some space on it?
2. Why does it says it needs 6Mb if there is 22Mb free?
My latest article:
SQL Server DO's and DONT's[^]
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1. If there's unpartitioned space after /dev/hda8 you can use parted to extend the root partition. In Red Hat Linux 8 you could use LVM to dynamically resize your partitions.
2. Did you run that df -h while up2date was running? It may have created some temporary files (in /tmp) before giving the error message about missing space.
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markkuk wrote:
1. If there's unpartitioned space after /dev/hda8 you can use parted to extend the root partition. In Red Hat Linux 8 you could use LVM to dynamically resize your partitions.
Unfortunately, this is not my case:
Using /dev/hda
Information: The operating system thinks the geometry on /dev/hda is
1247/255/63. Therefore, cylinder 1024 ends at 8032.499M.
(parted) print
Disk geometry for /dev/hda: 0.000-9787.148 megabytes
Disk label type: msdos
Minor Start End Type Filesystem Flags
1 0.031 54.909 primary ext2 boot
2 54.910 9781.765 extended
5 54.940 4141.757 logical ext2
6 4141.789 8228.605 logical ext2
7 8228.637 8487.465 logical ext2
8 8487.497 8746.325 logical ext2
9 8746.356 9005.185 logical linux-swap
(parted)
Is there a way of moving the '/' filesystem (is that the word?) into another partition? Or will I have to completely rebuild the machine?
My latest article:
SQL Server DO's and DONT's[^]
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Moving the root fs ('/') is possible, but tricky. You could split your '/home' partition into two to create your new '/' partition, then format it and copy everything from old '/' (use cp -ax, edit /etc/fstab and /boot/grub/grub.conf to match the new partition layout.
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Hi....
I have windows 2000 Advanced server. And it has the norton internet security installed in it. The problem was, the PC hangs with IRQ related message when I do something with the IE. This doesnt happen when my norton internet security is disabled. What does norton security do with the/....
DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL error message???
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They tell that.... the product is out-of-date, soo no suport..... What shall I do.... I disabled the security.... Thats it, till I get time to upgrade the product to the one that has 'support'..
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I'm looking for the system policy editor for WinME. Is there any such thing in WinME? If so where do I find it?
"My brother says 'Hello'... So hurray for speech therapy!" -Emo Phillips
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Hi All,
May I know what are Real Time Operating Systems. Though I know the general overview of the concept, what I want to know is that what are the various constraints that the Real Time OS follows. Also I've read that real time systems do not have a secondary memory such as Disk, is it true?? If yes then does Real time systems only have a RAM or ROM ?? I've come across some people saying that real time systems may have a Disk as a secondary memory. This has lead me to confusion. Can anybody clear my doubts.
Thanks and regards,
Abhishek.
Learning is a never ending process of Life.
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Real Time Operating Systems are usually subdivided in two classes: "hard" real time and "soft" real time. A "hard" RTOS must have absolutely predictable response time to any event, which usually prevents the use of disk memory. A "soft" RTOS will have response time following a known statistical model with some guaranteed upper boundary. Many commercial RT systems are actually hybrids that run a normal time-sharing OS as a "background task" of a soft RTOS.
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As far as I consider RTOS, its just the platform whenr the system runs for LIVE. For example, the mobile phone has a processor in it, with its own OS running on it. And that OS I mean, may or maynot have the memory disk.
The actual 'code' will be in a EEPROM, programmed at the lab/factory. And it starts 'running' when power ON.
They are mostly driven by the interupts and timed routines (people call that as ISRs - interupt service routines).
Thats what I know... r u confused more??
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Hi,
I search for any ideas about to know the name
of the interactive user on any remote machine.
I try the API function WNet... , it lists all userlogons
on a machine (batch, service, interactive,...).
But I can't figure out who is the interactive logon-user.
Do you have any ideas ?
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Up until about 10 days ago, I'd been using Windows 2000 Professional as my development system, and everything was just fine.
As my HD was dying rapidly I just bit the bullet, and got a new drive, new CPU, etc, including getting a copy of XP Professional.
I did NOT do an upgrade, but a brand new install, and had IIS selected for install as well.
Installed Visual Studio 7 Enterprise Developer Edition just fine as well. No errors, no warnings.
Ok, now come the fun part.. IIS is NOT rendering ANY of my ASP.NET components when I make an ASP.NET application. No buttons displayed, no Textforms, NOTHING, except labels.
I can take the exact same code and put it on my production W2K Server, and IIS there handles it all just fine. However I don't fancy using my production box for hosting development stage code.
Has ANYONE run into this irritating problem? And if so, has anyone a solution. I am rather close to doing a fresh install of Windows 2000 Professional, but then I would have thrown away the $200 I paid for XP Professional, and that irks me.
Thanks
/CMH (who is really  right now)
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Chris Hansson wrote:
Has ANYONE run into this irritating problem? And if so, has anyone a solution. I am rather close to doing a fresh install of Windows 2000 Professional, but then I would have thrown away the $200 I paid for XP Professional, and that irks me.
It is not just WXP, I use WXP and ASP.NET works just fine.
What does happen though (and it happens on W2K as well) is that the file associations in IIS for ASP.NET disapear. I have not found the cause, but it has happened to me once before.
To check go into IIS and then: Right Click the Default Web, select Properties. Then click the Home Directory tab and click the Configuration button. Now in the list displayed in front of you look for the ASPX file. If it is not there or the Executable Path does not point to aspnet_isapi.dll then you need to run the following command which re-associates ASP.NET files in IIS.
C:\WINNT\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v1.0.3705\aspnet_regiis.exe -i
Obviously replace WINNT with whatever your Windows path is.
Hope that helps 
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South Africa
Ray Cassick wrote:
Well I am not female, not gay and I am not Paul Watson
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hi,
my os is windows 95.
when it starts it says "cannot find system.ini"
you need to run windows setup again to install the file
press any key to continue"
when i press the key
" it says it's now safe to turn off your computer"
please give the solution
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Besides saying that you are screwed (probably are in the long run) you can try this...
1 - Boot to dos
2 - Search for any files that have a 'system" in thier name. You ar elooking fo ranything that coul dbe a backup copy (due to a recent install of something or file edit using a good utility - like systedit - from a recent date). Pay attention to file extensions like '.bak' '.syd - file was backed up by sysedit'.
3 - Copy this file back to system.ini (IE: copy system.syd system.ini)
4 - Try to restart into windows.
This MIGHT work, but I highly recoment that you determine why you lost the file in the first place. This sounds either like someone was messing with you, or you, or you did something carless, or you had a virus. I had seen a virus in the past that places a 'del c:\windows\*.ini' in the autoexec.bat file so each time you boot up your ini files get deleted.
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