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  1. JohnCitron

    Invalid Media Bit Error - CONTINUOUS!

    Hi, It sounds like you have an IBM drive by the name of the diagnostic software - Drive Fitness Test. I have had weird problems off and on with them so... First of all, check your drive geometry settings in your BIOS. I had that happen with my 18.0 Gig IBM. If the sector settings are...
  2. JohnCitron

    aha-2940w/2940uw driver issue

    Check the Adaptec site for the actual controller chip on your SCSI card. Your's maybe the AIC-7880 from what I can remember about the 2940x. Look on the big black chip and look for AIC-78xx, where the xx is the rest of the model number. Adaptec offers drivers for their cards not just by the AHA...
  3. JohnCitron

    Throughput issues.

    I have had a similar throughput problem after upgrading to an HP-Surestore 8000 (DLT8000) from an HP-Surestore 4000. Overall, the drive operates slower than the old one, and that seems to have thrown a curve in my backup time. What kind of tape drive were you using prior to this one? John
  4. JohnCitron

    Norton Antivirus for Exchange

    I agree with jjzhang... I have had none of the issues you have had with Trend ScanMail. ScanMail, in conjunction with ServerProtect provides an excellent barrier against incoming mail-borne virii. ScanMail, like all of Trend's products have very little impact on the system performance. Just my...
  5. JohnCitron

    Norton HELP!

    Julie, There is a possibility that your machine is infected so therefore it will not install the Norton. Some viruses actually block the installation of AV products, and kill them if they are already installed. You may want to try a remote scan of the system using Trend Micro's House Call or...
  6. JohnCitron

    Win XP pro FAT 32 probs

    Suggy, Check your bios settings to make sure that something didn't get lost. I had that problem with my system a year or so ago. I have an IBM 18Gig in an older system, and for some reason, the LBA settings got confused in my bios during a lock up. After I redetected drive I was able to see the...
  7. JohnCitron

    Toshiba Hard Disk Boot Problem

    Arkadas, Here is something that might be useful http://h18000.www1.hp.com/support/files/armada/us/download/8881.html This is for the Toshiba Hard Drive lock problem that seems to cause problems for Compaq laptops. Peter is right too, Compaq loves the proprietary bit with hardware, but they...
  8. JohnCitron

    C:\ Drive failed - Recovering data from other disks

    GuySmiley, I just went through this recently on a Win2k system of my own. I was able to remount the RAID using Win2k Disk Management. The Striped set showed up as an unknown volume and I was able to select it and remount it. See the Microsoft Knowledge Base Article - 222189...
  9. JohnCitron

    User32.dll error

    Hi, To me it sounds like application is corrupted and it keeps failing. Do you know of any service or application that is scheduled to run on a monthly basis? Check the usual places... Startup folder, registry in the runas service, run, etc. Good luck, John
  10. JohnCitron

    Can't See NT 4.0 Server in Network Neighborhood

    Okay... Do you have WINS running or do you have WINS enabled? Also - check your DNS settings and your sub-net mask settings if you are using static IPs. Good luck, John
  11. JohnCitron

    NT 4.0, Diskeeper, and Exchange 5.5 - defrag question

    It looks like the Essutil runs the built in defragger while the database is online. That is as far as I can tell. I am not an expert, by any means with Exchange; I just inherited the fine job of handling our Exchange server. I know how you feel about messing with the Exchange database; let...
  12. JohnCitron

    Completely locked out of PDC. Nt 4.0 Sp6a Any suggestions?

    Age, Thanks for the link... I copied to my favorites for future referefence. John
  13. JohnCitron

    Completely locked out of PDC. Nt 4.0 Sp6a Any suggestions?

    Hi, I agree with Lawrence - sack the sob because he does not have the brains to work in an IT environment. %-( Anyway... If you can't login locally either try this utility: NTFSBOOT.EXE It builds a bootable disk that runs a bit of Linux, and allows one to boot up and change passwords from a...
  14. JohnCitron

    Can't See NT 4.0 Server in Network Neighborhood

    Hi, From your workstations, make sure that the network settings have NetBios over TCP/IP enabled. John
  15. JohnCitron

    NT 4.0, Diskeeper, and Exchange 5.5 - defrag question

    Hi, Diskeeper is correct in not being able to defragment those files since those files are in use by the Exchange Server. Diskeeper has no way of knowing or seeing the actual data that belongs to the Exchange Server because Exchange is really a huge transactional/journaled database. The data...
  16. JohnCitron

    Blue screen on startup of Win NT4

    Wolluf, I had the same problem...bad RAM caused format errors on the install of Win2k; Win98 ran OK. I replaced my RAM and everything worked. Dermot, I agree with the rest here. Replace your CPUs with something else. Intel may have changed the Celeron in some way. Also, there are problems...
  17. JohnCitron

    What's the Problem With "Weak" PSUs?

    Erik, It is important that the correct current is supplied to the motherboard to assure that everything is operating at its optimal level. Too much or too little current will cause the voltage regulators to work harder to produce the required voltages for the circuitry. This in turn causes them...
  18. JohnCitron

    Hard disk speed

    Hi, You might want to try a really great free utility called Diskspeed32. It will graphically show the throughput of a hard disk. I used it to compare between a SCSI and an IDE drive in my test system. You can download it at: www.downloads.com or www.geocities.com/vgrinenko John
  19. JohnCitron

    Probably a dumb question

    Sorry there isn't anything like that available directly within NT4.0. I am not sure how much you are willing to spend, but Microsoft offers their system mangement server or SMS which has remote control tools. There are other third-party tools available from IBM (Tivoli), Intel and others.

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