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Ev'ning All (OK, so I mean Roger, but I'm in a nice mood. The wife will be driving to a family wedding tomorrow, so I can get pissed as a maggot at the reception  ).
My computer has started freezing (I need to press the power or reset button to have any effect on it) at random times. It can be a matter of seconds after Windows has started or an hour or so later after I have performed many tasks.
I don't believe it is the hardware on the computer as I have been in Knoppix now for over 2 hours with no problems. Looking through the Event Viewer shows no problems and I haven't installed any new hardware, drivers or patches in the past week or two. It took me 7 reboots yesterday to read 26 emails in Outlook using IMAP. Frustrating doesn't begin to describe it.
Wednesday I was downloading the latest Knoppix release while I was at work. My wife decided to use my computer (the effort of pressing her power button must have been too much). After she finished surfing the net she shut it down. At this point it froze. She then rang me and I got her to power it off. When I got home I powered on no problem then set the Knoppix download off while I went to bed. In the morning all was well, MD5'd the ISO and then burn't it to CD. Wasn't till that night that sh*t started happening.
I have NAV 2003 installed with latest sigs, can't get machine up long enough to scan. Any ideas?
Michael Martin
Australia
"I suspect I will be impressed though, I am easy."
- Paul Watson 21/09/2003
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Err, check seating of all add-in cards, check CPU temperature, check CPU fan working?
If that doesn't help anything, try booting up in safe mode (hold Ctrl before boot screen appears) and see if it stays up longer. If it does, probably some driver or service is running that shouldn't be.
Could it be NAV itself that's the problem? Perhaps the latest signature set has broken something. Modern anti-virus products on Windows NT/2000/XP/Server 2003 use a file system filter driver to process file requests for the on-access scanner.
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I had something like this happen to me a couple of years ago. The machine would intermittently hang for no apparent reason. I did eventually determine that one of my memory chips had gone bad. Of course it would only crash when the system addressed a specific address so it didn't happen all the time.
I'd get a diagnostics program and make sure your memory is OK.
Same thing could be true if you have a bad sector on your HD, so ChkDsk it.
What OS? XP?
-Kevin
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If we knew what it is that we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
-Einstein
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What OS is it? Win98 (both editions) was famous for this, especially on shut down. I've never seen a definitive analysis of the cause, so I suspect there are multiple flaws in the OS that can result in a freeze up. Installing NAV almost always destroys a Win98 machine, but since you've had it running successfully for a while before this started it is most likely innocent this time. New signature files are just data, and don't have any effect on the program code.
Most of the freezing problems I've run into have been resolved by re-installing various devices. It's a long process to isolate them, but the procedure is to disable devices in Device Manager, one at a time, rebooting each time, until the system runs for a long time without failing. If this isolates a problem device, remove it and re-install it. If not, re-install Windows.
Sorry if this isn't particualrly helpful, but this is the kind of problem that really needs to be fiddled with personally for me to diagnose properly.
"Some people are like Slinkies... not really good for anything,
but you still can't help but smile when you see one
tumble down the stairs."
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Roger Wright wrote:
Installing NAV almost always destroys a Win98 machine
Have it installed on two Win98 machines, and they've done fine.
"Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God." - Jesus
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." - Mahatma Gandhi
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A few people have had very good luck with it, but not me, nor any others I've met around here. When it is preinstalled as part of an OEM package, it usually works well, too. But never as an addon, and the huge database of workarounds and fixes Symantec maintains is good evidence that my experience isn't unique.
"Some people are like Slinkies... not really good for anything,
but you still can't help but smile when you see one
tumble down the stairs."
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Windows XP Professional SP1 with all the fixin's.
It's been runing perfectly since I installed it 3 or so months ago. It could still be something in the hardware area, though since Knoppix 3.2 has been able to run for hours at a time I think it is more Windows specific. Could also be a driver but I doubt that as nothing has changed.
Only thing is my wife shutting down the computer while it was still downloading and creating the first freeze point.
I have more than enough space to install another installation of Windows. I will probably do this before blowing away my may installation.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I suspect I will be impressed though, I am easy."
- Paul Watson 21/09/2003
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Before installing a fresh copy of Windows, try using System Restore to roll it back to Tuesday, before this started happening. I did one this week with similar problems, except that there were also significant files completely missing from WInXP - in that case, the Restore function was one of the missing files, so a full reinstallation was the only hope. Perhaps yours isn't so far gone.
"Some people are like Slinkies... not really good for anything,
but you still can't help but smile when you see one
tumble down the stairs."
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Roger Wright wrote:
Before installing a fresh copy of Windows, try using System Restore to roll it back to Tuesday, before this started happening.
Done and it's working as perfectly as a Windows computer can.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I suspect I will be impressed though, I am easy."
- Paul Watson 21/09/2003
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Michael Martin wrote:
Done and it's working as perfectly as a Windows computer can.
My computer just started doing this  I'm running a scandisk right now to see if thats part of the problem. I guess I'll just have to use System Restore
Matt Newman
Sonork: 100:11179
"If you're Noah and you're facing the Flood, don't call a lawyer, start building an Ark." - David Cunningham
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My computer has started doing this occasionally again yeaterday. What I have noticed (months ago and now) is when I am using Outlook 2002 to connect to my email via IMAP I get this hanging. Using Kmail under Knoppix 3.3 for hours at a time caused no problem or POP3 and Outlook. Has me confused still.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I suspect I will be impressed though, I am easy."
- Paul Watson 21/09/2003
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I think my problem was a bad IDE Controller driver, which was related to my attempts at getting a ATI TV Tuner to work. The problem really showed up when I tried defragmenting the HD  I reinstalled windows and it seems to be working so far.
Michael Martin wrote:
I am using Outlook 2002 to connect to my email via IMAP I get this hanging.
I have an IMAP account I access with Outlook 2002 too  I can't wait until 2003 comes out.
Matt Newman
Sonork: 100:11179
"If you're Noah and you're facing the Flood, don't call a lawyer, start building an Ark." - David Cunningham
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It sounds like the IMAP implementation in Outlook 2002 is not quite ready for prime time.  I've never used it, since all the ISPs I've ever used or seen are strictly POP3. I wonder if that's a US thing, or just this area?
"Some people are like Slinkies... not really good for anything,
but you still can't help but smile when you see one
tumble down the stairs."
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Roger Wright wrote:
I've never used it, since all the ISPs I've ever used or seen are strictly POP3. I wonder if that's a US thing, or just this area?
I am only using IMAP because thats what my school email is available in IMAP.
Roger Wright wrote:
It sounds like the IMAP implementation in Outlook 2002 is not quite ready for prime time.
I used Outlook 2003 Beta for a while and it is quite improved.
Matt Newman
Sonork: 100:11179
"If you're Noah and you're facing the Flood, don't call a lawyer, start building an Ark." - David Cunningham
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need c++ code for calculating the memory usage!
can someone help me in this regard!
ranjani
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You can get some info from GlobalMemoryStatus(...) but it just gives you, as you might guess from the name, the status of the global memory... it won't tell you how much a particular process is using.
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why not simply give a call to pgrep (if you are using a *NIX system). You could have pgrep dump to a temp file, then parse it to get out whatever information you need.
Of course, this solution really cuts down on portability...
Otherwise, to have an approximation of the memory used, if it's a small program, you could use sizeof() and your variables... You'll be missing the memory usage for the program itself though, as far as I see it.
Matt
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With the advent of Win XP's fast user switching you can now get multiple users logged onto a single machine.
The problem I run into in a multi-user environment is that they don't bother to log off again.. which really stresses the virtual memory of my machine.
Is there a way to 1) determine which users are currently logged on and 2) figure out how long they've been idle, and 3) selectively log them off if they haven't been doing anything?
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-Werner von Braun
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Hello Everybody,
Can anybody provide me the soft copy of the book "UNIX NETWORK PROGRAMMING Vol I - by STEVENS".
Unfortunately this book is presently not available in bookstores here and I need it desperately.
Pls tell me on my personal id also if anybody can help me.
I will create the sufficient space in the account.
Thanx and Regards,
Saurabh
Email: agrsaurabh@hotmail.com
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Hi,
I would like to know something about the workgroup configuration. When a group of computer are configured for a work group configuration then is it possible somehow to manage those computers remotely from some other computer using the Local Administrators user name and password? How are the computers configured for the work group configurations be seen from a network supporting domain configuration. Can somebody help me in this regard?
Any reference material provided or any link will be of great help.
Thanks
Abhishek.
Learning is a never ending process of Life.
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abhinarulkar wrote:
How are the computers configured for the work group configurations be seen from a network supporting domain configuration
There is no domain in a workgroup - just individual hosts in the workgroup. Products like PCAnywhere allow you to administer individual hosts remotely. If you're using XP the Remote Management functions may allow you to isolate individual hosts in the workgroup if each host's local administrtor logon is known, but I haven't yet tried it out.
"Some people are like Slinkies... not really good for anything,
but you still can't help but smile when you see one
tumble down the stairs."
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when you set a group of computers in a workgroup, you can access the shared resources of each computer from any other computer on the same workgroup. you can give access to the files and resources unrestricted over the workgroup or can give it with password.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/reskit/prcf_omn_wrta.asp
http://www.microsoft.com/mspress/troubleshooting/w2k/ls/082301.asp this link is for windows2000, but the procedure for XP would be similar.
try to find more on microsoft website.
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Windows XP no longer auto runs any CDs, regardless the drive I place them in (the CD-RW or the DVD-ROM). The autoplay is not turned off for either.
Another thing is that CD volume names are ignored, instead the DVD is always "Audio CD" and ther CD-RW is always "YR1" (Yuri's Revenge, a game), which ahsn't been in the drive for weeks.
There is no problem reading from CDs once you use explorer to get to their root.
What on earth is going on? 
All contributions towards my world domination plans are appreciated. (link)
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Any idea how to check if that's it, and if so turn it back on? It did start happening just after I installed Red Alert II (from memory anyway).
All contributions towards my world domination plans are appreciated. (link)
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