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  1. rocmills

    Excel 2007 Crashes at Save-As

    Thanks, Kjv, I'll give that a try. No need to bother the IT guy with it (half the time, he comes to me when he has a problem. I'm technically the bookkeeper, but I have more experience with building and fixing computers than our IT guy does, he's more the software fellow while I am trying not...
  2. rocmills

    Excel 2007 Crashes at Save-As

    I have Office 2007 and use Excel on a daily basis. This version of Excel saves to *.xlsx format by default, which is fine for me but not when I have to email a spreadsheet to someone using an older version of Excel. The problem is that every time I try to Save-As, the computer instantly...
  3. rocmills

    Computers Stop Responding

    Linney, Thanks for the sympathy. New schedule starts next week, so the non-happening isn't due to reduced staff or reduced network load. I really think it may be that I inadvertently uninstalled the driver for the Netgear Gigabit adapter. I've been posting the various trials on the other...
  4. rocmills

    Workstations Lose Connectivity

    Very strange... I saved the metadata script. Tried to run it on the server via run command under start button. It asked me FILESERVER or PRINTSERVER and I typed FILESERVER in the box. Told me I could not run the script on the same machine as the script resided. When I try to run the script...
  5. rocmills

    Workstations Lose Connectivity

    Added the environment variable. Ran netdiag /fix on server. Lots of information scrolled across cmd window... including lots of DNS_ERROR_RCODE_SERVER_FAILURE referencing an ip of 208.57.0.11 - I'm pretty sure this was the old IP and not the new one. Will not be able to reboot the machine...
  6. rocmills

    Computers Stop Responding

    Four days and counting with no occurrence of the problem. We are all now officially on 20 hour weeks, so it is likely I won't be investigating this much further after today... or at least not until things pick up again. --Roc
  7. rocmills

    Workstations Lose Connectivity

    Grim, I just installed all the support tools for 2000 Server, but have not yet had a chance to try them out. Hope to have time to get to all your suggestions later today, or maybe tomorrow. An interesting note, the problem has not occurred at all for the past three days. Also just learned...
  8. rocmills

    Computers Stop Responding

    I run Ad-Aware and Spybot on the server regularly, but it does not have an anti-virus program. Don't ask me why; the boss was willing to spend the money to AV all the workstations, but not the server itself. I run manual scans regularly, though. The problem has not occurred for the past three...
  9. rocmills

    Computers Stop Responding

    Sam, The directions are clear enough, with good pictures, so I am not afraid of giving it a try. My only concern was that the page previously pointed to was specifically referencing Server 2003 and we have Server 2000. If these tools are also on my 2000 install disk, I will have to hunt it...
  10. rocmills

    Computers Stop Responding

    According to that article, it is a tool for Windows Server 2003... but we are running 2000 server. I'm willing to install it and give it a try if it will work on a 2000 machine. --Roc
  11. rocmills

    Computers Stop Responding

    mscallisto, Thanks, that looks like the right thing only under Resolution it says "Start ADSI Edit" - and I am already lost. I started Active Directory Sites and Services, but the branches mentioned in the MS kb article do not exist... I can't expand "Configuration NC" because there is no such...
  12. rocmills

    Workstations Lose Connectivity

    I think I may have found another clue. When I "rebuilt" the network (server) from the back up after our break in, I didn't change anything in the software though there was one change in hardware. The server box (fileserver) and/or the network think we still have two servers: fileserver and...
  13. rocmills

    Computers Stop Responding

    Sam, I appreciate the continued encouragement and think I may have found another clue. When I "rebuilt" the network (server) from the back up after our breakin, I didn't change anything in the software though there was one change in hardware. The server box (fileserver) and/or the network...
  14. rocmills

    Computers Stop Responding

    Strangely enough, the problem did not occur this past Monday or Tuesday and on both days the server was rebooted mid-day as were the workstations. Also, when I tried to update the driver for the Netgear Gigabit card (ga311.exe), the update closed half-way through - it uninstalled the old...
  15. rocmills

    Workstations Lose Connectivity

    GrimR, That's a lot to chew on, and I will see if I can manage it. I'm not a server person, I can geek a workstation and fix a broken computer, but servers and networks are mostly beyond my comprehension. Strangely enough, the problem did not occur this past Monday or Tuesday and on both days...
  16. rocmills

    Computers Stop Responding

    Say... if this is a serious consideration: Is anyone running something that could be disturbing the whole building, like an airplane.. ? Then maybe that is the issue... at both our old location and our new location, when we had the old computers and the new computers... we are near the flight...
  17. rocmills

    Workstations Lose Connectivity

    I originally posted this problem in a different forum, and Linney suggested it would be better to post here. This is the problem I am having: http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=1494275 If anyone has any suggestions (in plain english-for-idiots), I would be extremely grateful. I've...
  18. rocmills

    Computers Stop Responding

    Sam, Thanks, that was just me wondering out loud - I wouldn't actually do that unless a professional was responsible for the whole thing. I can barely get Ubuntu to run for me at home, I'm certainly not ready to do anything so drastic to our office computer. Back to the OP, however... I have...
  19. rocmills

    Computers Stop Responding

    Linney, Oh, come on, that's the easy way out! LOL If this server were a bit older, I'd go to the new boss with that suggestion. Maybe a compromise would be to upgrade to a newer OS. We are actually in transition at the moment... the company we have been for 15 years is shutting down (the...
  20. rocmills

    Computers Stop Responding

    jujet84, I've looked at my DHCP properties and do not find any check box for dynamic DNS. I accessed DHCP via Services, right-click properties. Is there somewhere else I should be checking for this? --Roc

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