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Roger Wright wrote:
Any suggestions?
Is changing ISP an option? (I know you live near the border of the world)
The unreliable connection may come from a unstable web proxy or from a failing unity in a cluster of firewalls. If they don't have tech support, you're in bad waters.
You could try turning off your HTTP proxy, if there is any...
I see dumb people
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Changing ISPs is an option, but then I'd have to settle for a mere DSL connection and pay at least twice as much. For 11 Mbps @ $28/month I'm willing to put up with much!
I'm not using any proxy, and I don't believe the ISP is using any firewalls, but I do recall that they have about 6 servers running in the office. If they're clustered, there might be some synchronization issues after the power failure, but I'd expect that sort of problem to have more extensive effects. I was hoping that there might be some service or feature that chat agents all use and I don't know about, but maybe there isn't, and it was just a coincidence that this nonsense started the same day the lights went out. With luck, maybe it will just go away
"How many times do I have to flush before you go away?" - Megan Forbes, on Management (12/5/2002)
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It also may be a router problem. (My thinking being that chat services use specific ports and if the router reset to a default configuration, those ports may be now blocked and/or improperly configured.)
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Good call! Though not exact, that's sort of what happenned. The fact that it started at the time my ISP lost power seems to be coincidence (what are the odds?). Much digging and gnashing of teeth led to the discovery that Zone Alarm Pro, after many months of working perfectly, suddenly started blocking most of the packets going to and from Trillian. It did this on its own, with no change in settings, and there's a mystery! It also started, a few hours later, blocking messages from Sonork, as well.
I deliberately added Trillian, and the subnet it operates on, to the Trusted Zone in ZAP, then removed and re-added the program itself to the list of apps permitted to access the Internet. Rebooting a couple of times changed nothing, but when I shut down both Trillian and ZAP manually, then cold-started the server, it went back to operating smoothly again as it always had before.
Problem solved, though not the mystery of why it happenned, or perhaps more importantly, why it had always worked before without any special settings in ZAP.
"How many times do I have to flush before you go away?" - Megan Forbes, on Management (12/5/2002)
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All of my *.avi movies (only *.avi) are flickering during playback, in any player. Recently I've installed new display drivers (For: ViperII/RivaTNT2) 'detonator 4' for win2k. Any ideas for troubleshooting/resolving this issue???
--BlackSmith--
/*The roof is on fire, we don't need no water, let the MF burn*/. BHG.
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Try to update your video codec (possible DivX from www.divx.com) and video driver (www.nvidia.com). This must help.
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I have some problems in installing windows-NT.
Actually my PC already has windows-2000 professional edition. Due to some problems I wanted to install windows NT. So I booted with the windows NT CD.
MY PC has a HDD of 28GB. The C: has 2GB with FAT32, I have other drives with ntfs partition.
During the installation process an error message appeared telling that one of the drives has more than 1024 cylinders and cannot install NT. And the process stopped.
Anyone can explain why, and tell me a method to install windows NT. I have some files in my d: and that needs to be backed up. So, dont tell me to reformat the whole hdd. Anyother solution welcomed....
I started with nothing,
And I still have lots of it left with me.
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windows NT only has support for 4GB size partitions
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Anonymous wrote:
4GB size partitions
But I tried to install in a 2GB partition only yar!!!
I started with nothing,
And I still have lots of it left with me.
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Th windows NT installer can't create big partitions. You can install WNT on a small partition (1~2GB) and later expand it with a partition resizer like Partition Magic or some free ones which come with boot CDs for Linux.
Windows 2000 and later won't give you this hassle.
I see dumb people
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Daniel Turini wrote:
You can install WNT on a small partition (1~2GB)
This looks cool..... I have a question... if the HDD has another paretition larger than 3GB, does it give problem for the winNT??
And..... MY 28GB HDD is reported as 8 GB only???? Can that also get 'OK' in partition magic?? I mean, can I use my 28GB fully in Win-NT after installation?
I started with nothing,
And I still have lots of it left with me.
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You can use a large disk with WinNT, but it doesn't like a large boot partition. It's been a long while since I installed it last, but the maximum size was either 2 or 4 GB. I would install it on a small initial partition, then use it to manage the rest of your physical drive. You should have no trouble using the whole space.
Just out of curiosity, why are you spending your time and effort installing an obsolete product? My experience with NT is unrelieved misery - it's a major pain to install, use, maintain, and repair. Win2K is so much better that it's a complete no-brainer choice if you have the option to use it instead.
"How many times do I have to flush before you go away?" - Megan Forbes, on Management (12/5/2002)
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Roger Wright wrote:
Win2K is so much better that it's a complete no-brainer choice if you have the option to use it instead.
I am right now with win-2000. But it has some problems. My PC hangs with MACHINE_CHECK_EXCEPTION with I play pinball in it...  . I am serious...
I reinstalled win-2000. Nothing else.... I installed just the win-2000, and still has the same problem... So thought od trying with win NT where I can play pinball... the folks at my home needs it... and I need ntfs.. So tried for NT... and  ....
Any help???
Dont trell me XP--- my RAM is just 128MB, and cant aford for more!!!
I started with nothing,
And I still have lots of it left with me.
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I wouldn't waste my time on NT. The error you're getting would make me look for an updated driver for my video card. A lot of the NT drivers will install okay, but they just don't work on Win2k. Tell me more about your hardware configuration - did you check it all with the compatibility registry? BTW - 128 MB is plenty of RAM for Win2K. True, it performs better with more, but I ran it for a time on 96MB, and it did very well.
"How many times do I have to flush before you go away?" - Megan Forbes, on Management (12/5/2002)
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Roger Wright wrote:
an updated driver for my video card
I will be happy if this is/was the problem....
Roger Wright wrote:
Tell me more about your hardware
To b frank, I really havent opened the box, as my win-2k itself provided its video/sound/modem driver - all onboard cards. Will have a look at the box, and then try to get a new driver.......
Roger Wright wrote:
the compatibility registry
Will check that also.... I guess there is no problem in this aspect.
Roger Wright wrote:
128 MB is plenty of RAM for Win2K
I said that for running XP. Believe it or not, I had a PC... Celeron-366Mhz-64MB ram... I now upgraded that to PIII-866Mhz-128MB ram.... And thats giving me problem now.....
Thanks....
I started with nothing,
And I still have lots of it left with me.
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Roger Wright wrote:
an updated driver for my video card
My video card is SIS-6326.. and I installed the driver for the same from the CD. I still have problem?? Can u help me still???
Will give the info that has got logged in the events...
The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck. The bugcheck was: 0x0000009c (0x00000001, 0x00000000, 0xb2000000, 0x00000115). Microsoft Windows 2000 [v15.2195]. A dump was saved in: C:\WINNT\Minidump\Mini120702-01.dmp.
was the message logged after I rebooted!!!
I started with nothing,
And I still have lots of it left with me.
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SiS video cards are very common, and are generally a pain in the a&&. Have you checked Technet for clues about this particular error? Alternatively, have you tried doing a step-by-step boot, eliminating drivers one by one? I know it's tedious, but often it's the only way to isolate boot problems. In this case, though, the error seems to be a hardware failure - see this[^] article, for starters.
"How many times do I have to flush before you go away?" - Megan Forbes, on Management (12/5/2002)
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Roger Wright wrote:
step-by-step boot
U mean the F8 key during bootup??
The mictrosoft link gave nothing useful for me to 'solve' my problem!!!
I started with nothing,
And I still have lots of it left with me.
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Actually, a "no-problem" installation of Windows NT requires to be in the 1st 8Gb (practically, in the first 7182 Mb - don't ask...). I don't know what is the behaviour of NT installation having a FAT32 partition - since NT does not recognize it, i'd try to get rid of it - but try to find more on http://www.ntfaq.com/ - there are plenty of informations about install, maybe you can find something useful for your particular configuration.
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Cristian `Sardaukar` Amarie wrote:
http://www.ntfaq.com/
Thanks for the link....
Cristian `Sardaukar` Amarie wrote:
8Gb
I started with nothing,
And I still have lots of it left with me.
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I was just wondering is there any good web sites for explaining how to create a dual boot system under Windows 98
thanks
Stephen 
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ballyduff wrote:
dual boot system under Windows 98
What r the OS you wanna dual boot with win 98.
For your info, win-95 cannot co-exist with win-98 for dual boot. Similarly... win-NT and win-2000 doesnt co-exist...
I started with nothing,
And I still have lots of it left with me.
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I was thinking of putting on a linux operating system on it Something like SuSE Linux 8.1.
What i want is when i turn on the pc i want to be greeted with an option to either boot into win 98 or linux.
is this possiable?
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Install Linux, and the installation software will take care of setting up dual boot.
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