Just so everyone knows i think i am RE JUNKING this pc, shortly after i got all the drives loaded up (only XP mind you) and ready to load software , it started rebooting for NO REASON and then suddenly couldnt find files like driver.sys or something, it also kept hitting "checkpoint" and...
thanks for the info
Ill get rid of the floppy error, but please know the rest has been tried, its not memory since XP loaded fresh, as for the sata drive there is not one hooked up, it has the option but primary is IDE only right now
My question is why are the iamges or "clones" failing, thats...
Ok so here it is, every once in a while i come across these situtations, never one to give up i try to solve every one of them
first and foremost for this tek issue we are working with a
Dell Optiplex 170L
3.0 ghz
1 gb ram
primary sata drive (not used)
DVD ROM
IDE drives (1)
sounds healthy...
hi everyone
I remember a day when this forum was crawling with "professionals", now posts sit here and go unanswered for days, sometimes weeks. Pretty sad but I guess everything on the web loses its "fad" status someday.
Anyways, heres my issue,
I have a Western Digital SATA 500 GB EXTERNAL...
no i dont
all it shows is the drive size as healthy and it also reports it as 100% disk free which we kNOW is incorrect
when i click properties it shows RAW as the disk type
anymore thoughts?
BTW thanks for the help
hey everyone
strange incident going on
we backed up a server running AD and the like using a external backup drive through the network
when we try to reconnect the WD external drive via usb back to the reformatted server it shows up as a "raw" drive under disk management
this could be due to...
this is a log report from a HD monitor
Hmonitor Version 4.3.1.2 Pro
(Trial)
H/W diagnostics info:
Windows XP Professional Version 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2
Manufacturer: ASUSTek Computer INC.
Board model: Guppy
Version: 1.03
BIOS vendor: Phoenix Technologies, LTD
BIOS version: 3.08, Release...
thanks for the reply
as far as the questions
1. not a confined space
2. not near a heat source
3. i dont think the bios on this machine will give a reading like that
any other suggesestions?
hey everyone
for around 6 months now we have had a desktop in our lobby running with the FANS always on, they NEVER shut off, we dont shut the PC down so it can get annoying, any suggestions, our secretary (whos pc it is) tried to put a piece of a popsicle stick in the fan on the exhaust to...
just as a closure
thansk to everyone who helped with this issue, it is our hope that this resolution will help others in time
Problem resolution
the machine that was "losing" the drives after siad timeouts was in fact getting DNS information from a place OTHER then our LOCAL acitve directory...
ok NEW UPDATE
we fired up the PC with the "issue" yet the staff went to a conference so no one used it or opend the drives, when they came back four hours later the drives failed to connect giving the same "connection ot restored" error
so is this a TIME thing
anyone?????
BTW due to the...
this part is interesting
after all teh programs crash we try to connect ot the drive and after about 5 min we get this dialog box
blah balh balh
an error occured while trying to connect to (mapped drive)
the local device name is already in use
this connection has not been restored
and...
11:04 pm autoenrollemnt error, all our web programs crashed because the drive failed, we had dreamweaver, golive, fireworks, and flash open, there goes another projects work
its so frustrating, yeah we have thought of replacing the machine, but we all know thats NOT the answer
anyone
help!!!!!!
almost forogt
we did change DNS as it was showing an EXTERNAL dns entry
teams report the drives have not failed today since that change and one reboot
im not counting the gremlins out just yet tho!
hmmmm
thats a good question but alas no
this pc only has drives attached to a network and also it has a small 1 (g b) OS drive, no external devices can get to it, all usb, cd rom, and no floppy are disabled
per DOD policys (one of our clients)
your being helpful thanks so much
im confident...
ok so i cheked out the autoenrollment features,
it doesnt seem that this is the cause, i mean YES thats probably bad, but im not leaning towards that error being the one that shuts the drives off
any other suggestions as to why the drives fail
(when we say fail we dont mean they are no good...
event viewer
shows weird event every so often (seems to be right around the time the drive fails to connect, this might be the problem however none of our admins recognize this event as ever being shown
Event Type: Error
Event Source: AutoEnrollment
Event Category: None
Event ID: 15
Date...
Hi there everyone
used to be a member so long ago, if this is in wrong area please see it finds its way to where it needs to go.
ok so heres the deal
for o ill say 6 months now very strange and ANNOYING behavior occuring on ONE machine on the network
network is vast so i wont go int othe...
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