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I tried installing Kubuntu on the same drive just now, and it jammed up with the partitioner during setup. Guess my drive is fragged.. Ill try installing longhorn on a different drive later on.. Mystery solved..

Yea, the HDD I was installing it on was 40gigs, and freshly formatted to ntfs before trying to install.

I burned the longhorn ISO "lh_usa_5048.050401-0536_x86fre_pro-dvd.iso" without any problems, but when booting it I get a machine_exception_error BSOD, this happens half the time. The other half of the time the setup starts and then freezes while copying files. I thought it might be the DVD I burnt, so I made a second copy and it had the same problems, I then downloaded the ISO again from another source and burnt it, and had the same problems. I tried installing Longhorn from inside windows onto another HDD, Longhorn installed succesfully, and rebooted and comleted the installation, however whenever I try to boot longhorn I get some bootloaded exception errors and it simply doesn't work. I've tried every combination I can think of (Im open to ideas), but it seems longhorn just refuses to run on my hardware, I cant think of why. My comp is completely stable and Ive ran prime95 for hours upon hours without any errors. My hardware is: Abit AV8 S939 motherboard Athlon64 3200+ CPU GeForce 6600GT 1GB of 2100 ram I'm really clueless as to why it's not working.

SP1 for Server 2003 will be out soon enough. And also, this is a f***ing retarded thread.

Open a command prompt and navigate to the install file (setup.exe probably) and add an /a command to it. should look something like this: C:/foldersetc/setup.exe /a Or grab an evaluation copy of Installshield X and edit the MSI's yourself. Installshield X is EXTREMELY user friendly, and will walk you through editing the MSI's. Here's a direct link to Installshield: X professional edition: http://mars.installshield.com/is/x/1002/wi...XSP2ProEval.exe Evaluation key is proteus2004. It's a little over 400 megs.

Fallowing These directions for installing Windows Media player 10 in the latest Longhorn alpha, which claims should also work in server 2003, I can't install any of the *.inf files because of Server 2003's strict driver signing/Logo testing bulls***. I try to manually turn off the driver signing/logo testing via system properties in the control panel, but no matter how many times I change it, as soon as I go back to it there’s no change. Anyone know of a solution? Or a way of manually turning off the driver signing with a registry edit or something?

If a piece of hardware will work with Windows XP, there's a 99% Chance it'll work with Server 2003.

It's real, here's some information on it: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default...._opk_saprep.asp

Games use DirectX and DirectX is now being made for the Server 2003 family OS's, meaning you will have no compatibility issues with games, at all. You won’t notice any real improvement in performance on a vanilla PC with server 2003, but you will notice a hell of an improvement on more exotic hardware (2GB+ of ram, multiple CPU's, etc). Once you fallow an easy guide to customizing Server 2k3 into a workstation, you'll be very happy with it.

I missed you too.. Me and you have so much in common... I hope we can get married someday.

Need more information, what games? what's your hardware? what drivers do you have installed? what version of DirectX do you have installed, etc.

I have a problem with an NT server in a 2000 domain where I work. Like some sort of fool I offered to set up new servers (no IT department) and they came with Windows 2003 preinstalled. Fine, I thought. Wanted to have a look at it anyway. So I read a bit and it became apparent that there were going to be some issues. I joined the server to the domain fine, then wanted to set it up as a backup domain controller (our PDC is a Win2k machine). I started to run the adprep utility, and got so far before it stopped with an error regarding an FSMO Role not being configured. Okay, I thought, this is a little harder than I expected. Please bear in mind I'm no network manager, just thought I could help out as I know a bit. There was an immediate problem when anyone tried to log on: it returned an error saying "There are currently no logon servers available to service the logon request". Resetting the DC cleared this up. I left it a while to do some more reading up on the topic, only to field several calls moments later from the finance department saying they had no access to one of their network shares. Each person in that dept. has their own M drive which is on our crappy NT server. I reset the server, and they could each access their M drives. For a while. Then the calls started again. I checked the properties of the share, and it recognized the names from Active Directory just fine initially, but I checked again when I took the calls I checked again, only to see Account Unknown in the share properties. I can ping machines in the domain from the NT server, but I can't browse the domain, and can't ping the domain controller. I cannot access User Manager in the Administrative Tools. The Domain Controller can ping everything, including the NT server except when I just use the server name. The client machines (Win XP) can ping both the DC and the NT server. What I've tried: creating the Lmhosts file on both the DC and the NT server. This did nothing. Changing group policy to allow anonymous SID translation. Bit of a security risk, but I was kind of desperate. Can anyone offer anything? I don't think I'm missing anything out, but question away. I'm no longer at work, but hopefully I'll be able to remember stuff.

Because I dont know how.. I have a FIC AM37 motherboard with a Cypress CY283410C clock generator. CPUFSB supports my PLL, but hard locks my sytstem whenever I make any changes, from what I've heard on various forums is that if CPUFSB jams your system then SoftFSB will work. Only problem is that SoftFSB was finished years ago and no longer gets updated, so it can't support newer PLL's, however you can just import PLL/IC files or create your own, I tried creating my own, but simply got lost. HELP ME! I have a ridiculously low CPU temperature, and my bios doesn't support any overclocking.

Tried that, same problem.

Running Server 2003 Enterprise Edition (professional) and I can't seem to remove my second hard drive. Whenever I do the computer hangs at the boot screen for a minute or two and then shows me an error saying unable to detect primary slave hard drive. It then either lets me continue or setup, when I continue it just goes to a blank screen. I tried searching the MS knowledge base to no avail, any advice is appreciated.

Manny business’s still use NT4 and install it on current top of the line hardware, simply because many insurance companies only have certain "certified" operating systems. Insurance companies are pretty picky about what they'll allow coverage for, though in this day and age, it's simply a matter of them being behind the times and ensured businesses have to suffer. There's also the age old "if it's not broken, don't fix it" ideology, NT4 isn't very common, but it's still going to be around for quite some time.

I haven't installed an OS yet, so I can't get more detailed system specs. -733 MHz AMD CPU (socket 7) -32MB SD-RAM (two slots, one empty, I'll buy more if I can do something useful with the machine) -PCI 2MB Video Card from around 1999, no AGP slot, the motherboard has onboard video, but I heard the onboard video was awful to the extent of being better off without it. -Standard D-Link Ethernet Card. -Old ISA soundcard. The motherboard has 3 PCI slots, one ISA slot, and one empty mini-riser slot (for a modem I think). The motherboard also has onboard video (as said above) onboard USB, Parallel and serial ports. It already has a floppy drive, and I'll borrow my main computers CDROM drive to install the OS with. I believe the machine was originally a Linux Router. I'm really only a Windows person, so I'm not interested in sticking a Linux distro on it. So there's my question, what OS is best suited for this machine? I'm pretty open to any version of Windows. And any idea what this would be useful for?

Your image isn't working?

In the 6 months of using Enterprise Edition I've never gotten a blue screen, perhaps its a driver/hardware problem? Also, the Enterprise and Standard editions arn't too different, as you can get a single CD that has all the versions of Server 2K3 on it.

So far I've been told that In WinXP and pre-SP3 Win2k, there was a bug that caused write-through flags to be ignored. This could cause possible data loss, in the event of a power failure or whatever. Microsoft fixed this bug, but in fixing it caused SCSI file copies to not be cached, thus causing slowdown. IIRC, enabling the advanced performance option in 2003 removes this "fix", so while the odds of data loss are much higher, file copies are cached on SCSI drives. This makes sense, only my hard drives are IDE, so I dont think it applies? Hoping someone can clear this up.

Was just using device-manager to disable the floppy drive I took out, and thought I'd check out the properties of my hard drives. While doing so I saw an option that peaked my curiosity. I attatched a screenshot to show what I'm talking about. What does this option do? What kind of performance gain will I get from using it? What dangers are involved? Do I look fat in this? Etc...

Next time, the first thing you do when you install Windows (or any other OS) is download the updates.

I'm running enterprise edition, and drag-n-drop works fine? maybe try turning on the theme service?

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After installing and running PartitionExpert, I have to say it doesn't work very well and would recommend against using it on Server 2003. I was working with an unformmated unpartitioned 60GB hard drive, after taking a quick look on Maxtors site, I found it makes alot more sense to use Windows built in formatting and partitioning tools, they have a user friendly GUI and looks about that same as PartitionExpert. Accessing Disk Management and partitioning the drive: 1. Right-click on "My Computer". 2. Select "Manage" 3. In the new window, Computer Management, select "Disk Management" and voila, your greeted with all the user friendly hard drive tools you need. I formatted and partitioned my second hard drive without any difficulty.