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Update: Mr Snrub you hit the nail EXACTLY on the head. I installed that update yesterday evening and the BSOD went away. At first I thought it wasn't going to work, but sure enough it did. I'm gonna keep it over the weekend, run updates, double check a few things, etc. before returning it to the owner. Thanks again guys, and thanks Mr Snrub for the link to the patch download.

I've had this problem before too, apparently you have something either running from the drive or writing to the drive in the background, and when you tell it to shutdown the first time it kills the task and allows it to shutdown the second time around. I don't really know anyway of fixing this bug.

John, AS far as the "Send To" feature, there's a way of setting that up to add your new drive as an option but I can't remember how to do that, it's been soo long since I've done it, and as far as sending apps. that way when you install an app. and it asks you where do you want to install it to, that's when you point it to your new drive, although SOME apps. won't give you that feature and install to Windows directly. If I happen to run across on how to add your new drive to the "Send To" folder I'll let you know.

Thanks Mr Snrub, I downloaded the patch and will install it this evening, I'll keep you all posted as to my results.

What exactly are you wanting to place on your new drive, documents, apps. or both? If you wanting to run apps. on there then you'll need to reinstall them and point them to your new drive, if you want to place just documents and pictures, stuff like that then all you need to do is cut and paste your files over.

Here's the dump files you requested. Hopefully this will tell us something. dump_files.zip

Yes there's two ways you can do this, you can either run the entire show manually and click when you want to change the slide, or if you are going to let the show change auto. then tell it give a couple second delay before moving on.

I've ran Fedora because it was what I was taught on when I took a Linux class last fall in college. It seems pretty reliable and stable.

I say pull out all your cards you have attached and/or disable all onboard ports except the essentials, video, mouse, keyboard, then test for a little while and see if it hangs, if it doesn't then add the devices back one at a time and test until it starts to hang again then more than likely you've found the culprit.

I've used a firewall from Zone Alarm for a couple of years now, I haven't downloaded the latest ver. but I know the previous ver. work out pretty nicely and it's pretty secure, the best part is just the basic firewall is free, now I'm not sure what features you'll have to check into that but if all you need is a firewall try there and see. The most you'll be out is your time.

I say go for the Pentium 4, yes it may cost a little more but well worth it in the end. The only time I see you should use Celeron is if the pc is only going to be used to get on the internet and basic uses like word processing, if that's the case then go for the Celeron.

I'll look for the file this evening and post if needed. One question though, I've never searched for the file that contains the info. always before I'd run across the problem causing the BSOD and fix it without issue, so where is the file located and what is the file called?

Update: I hooked up the system and at shutdown here's what the BSOD says IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL. What's that mean, and how do I fix it?

Yes. The combination is possible, I know at work we use a client VPN software which when connects we can use RDP to connect to our pc's. Now to answer your first question I'm not sure but I figure you can't go wrong w/ a VPN if going from the outside in.

Thanks for the tips guys, I'll remember this if I run into it again. To give you an update, I talked it over with my boss the same day and she said to not worry about it because we're replacing that server in two weeks, so the server should be here any day now, and for now I have rerouted the backups to one of our other servers for time being. Thanks again guys for all your work.

I'm at work right now, when I get home I'll look at it and post the BSOD. Thanks tripredacus.

I'm working on a PC and have run into a brick wall, BIG TIME. The system boots up and runs just fine, but when I go to shut it down I get the blue screen of death. It doesn't do it while the system is running, just when the system is shutting down. I tried messing with the hardware and found that when I unplug the DVD drives it will operate and shutdown just fine. I thought it might have been the DVD drives so I tried new ones and that didn't work, so I tried SATA DVD drives rather than IDE and still doesn't work. So I've narrowed it down to the DVD drives but don't know how to get it to work from here. Any thoughts?

It is a sad day. I thought he was a good comedian, his bits made sense, he talked about stuff that most people only thought about. My fav. standup of his work was his Jammin in New York.

I picked Guitar Hero. Gotta stick with the original's in my opinion.

I know what you mean Nois. I had the same thing happen to me a couple of years ago. I got a new PC with a card reader/writer built in, and when I installed Windows it set my Windows partition to H: as well.

First thing I'd check would be his account settings on the pc. Check the server settings and make sure the mail client is pointed to the correct servers.

Were you trying to use Vista on that? If you were then you need to use vlite not nilte.

Yes zxian I remember that, that's why I said hopefully over time it will be more user friendly, meaning it becomes more stable and easier to operate like XP did, and Microsoft not push it under the rug and forget about it like they did with ME.

I agree with you crahak on the SP1 part, since I installed SP1 on my home laptop I have noticed a difference, it does seem to be more stable than before, so hopefully with enough time Vista will be made a user friendly OS and not turn into the next ME incident like it looks like right now.

Since you brought up a good point crahak I'd like to bring up a counterpoint. I've ran Vista as soon as it hit store shelves and here's what I've experienced. From the get go I had problems for two months my system just dropping network connection, both network and dialup. After a patch I haven't had a problem since. I had a driver issue with my modem which STILL isn't resolved today. I booted up my system one day and it just loaded a default profile over my profile for some odd reason, luckily a reboot cleared that up, and I'm running Vista at the office and I still can't get SP 1 to install. I understand your opinion and don't deny it a bit I just want users to know that there are some of us that have worked with it since day one and have issues.