First off thank you for all the great responses to the asked questions in the past, as I have been able to get this system up and running by reading previous posts....However, I am stuck.
Customer's ALOHABOH server stopped working 2 1/2 weeks ago, it was the processor fan gunked with dust etc. Cleaned the fan, explained the danger of an overheated processor and turned the machine back on, it worked. Explained how lucky "we" were the drive came up it gives us an opportunity to image the drive and save the data....Did I mention this place is in the boondocks.
This was the time the old "if it ain't broke don't fix it" attitude can be costly. He was going to call me Friday to image the drive, the machine crashed hard Thursday night and it wasn't coming back. He had just finished entering in credit card info and had clicked OK when the machine died
I imaged the drive to a back up disk then to another drive. I got the drive working 2 different ways. First, after failed recovery consol attempts I ran a repair install and since the drive was partitioned the Aloha stuff was safe.
Thats when I decided to try a different approach, re-imaged the drive to its original state and made recovery disks for the WIN 2K machine and low and behold it came back to life. The transactions that were in limbo were able to be sent.
I manually grinded the days up to yesterday. I want to see if it grinds tonite. When I fire up the Master Terminal it turns to the Make fileserver screen. I also notice the time in the lower right corner of the aloha screen it shows 12:00am. The machine(s) have the right time.
When I try the fileserver recovery nothing happens.
Thank you in advance for any help.
Tim
Customer's ALOHABOH server stopped working 2 1/2 weeks ago, it was the processor fan gunked with dust etc. Cleaned the fan, explained the danger of an overheated processor and turned the machine back on, it worked. Explained how lucky "we" were the drive came up it gives us an opportunity to image the drive and save the data....Did I mention this place is in the boondocks.
This was the time the old "if it ain't broke don't fix it" attitude can be costly. He was going to call me Friday to image the drive, the machine crashed hard Thursday night and it wasn't coming back. He had just finished entering in credit card info and had clicked OK when the machine died
I imaged the drive to a back up disk then to another drive. I got the drive working 2 different ways. First, after failed recovery consol attempts I ran a repair install and since the drive was partitioned the Aloha stuff was safe.
Thats when I decided to try a different approach, re-imaged the drive to its original state and made recovery disks for the WIN 2K machine and low and behold it came back to life. The transactions that were in limbo were able to be sent.
I manually grinded the days up to yesterday. I want to see if it grinds tonite. When I fire up the Master Terminal it turns to the Make fileserver screen. I also notice the time in the lower right corner of the aloha screen it shows 12:00am. The machine(s) have the right time.
When I try the fileserver recovery nothing happens.
Thank you in advance for any help.
Tim