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Is your hardware compatable with XP? Is it a fresh install of XP or an image you intstalled from? Have you checked the event log for information on the crashes? Is it an overheating problem? - those Athlons are notorious for overheating - you need a beefy fan on there to keep it happy.

On 10 machines it isn't really too much trouble to turn off the firewall on each machine On a network with 2003 server/2000 server with current .adm's - you can specify firewall settings for the machines using group policy.

I thought maybe the staggerred beeps were a sign of the RAM being bad Flashing the BIOS would be a good idea too I think. As long as you follow the instructions carefully you should be ok. Backup just in case .

Slightly off topic: IMHO Minors can never be left unnatended on the internet. No matter what filtering option you use, nasty stuff will get through. How about getting a live linux distro [runs entirely from bootable CD], dunno if you'd really have to unplug your HDD [but you could!]. You could even save anything she wanted to on a flash drive or similar - then anything she does whilst connected to the internet will be lost when you power off that session. [there's always one!! ]

Goolgling that board tells me it has an Award BIOS. Consult the Award beep codes [see here: http://bioscentral.com/beepcodes/awardbeep.htm ] - though for this very popular BIOS annoyingly there are a very limited number of diagnostic beeps. Award let manufacturers tailor thier own extended codes. Searching the Soyo website knowledgebase I came up with the following: search string: KT400 BIOS BEEP 1. Q: I got a beep sometimes 2 or 3 beeps when I turn on my Dragon board. A: Well, this is normal for the Dragon board to behave this way. When the sysem boots up, it will check the onboard devices and each time it detects a device, it will beep to indicate that the component is functioning. 2. Step through troubleshooting guide: http://www.soyousa.com/kb/kbdesc.php?id=229 select: continuous short beeps A: I get continue short beeps To resolve this issue: 1.This is indicating a memory issue. Please reseat your memory modules or change your memory to a different slot or replace your memory. Try use one sitck of ram at this time for troubleshooting purposes 2. If the above does not solve the problem try pull the board out and test it on the bench, inspect the motherboard between the cpu and memory slot area for physical damgage due to inproper cpu fan installation. There are loads more answers on there to check this out further if you need to, rather than me fill up this post. HTH

this is the same problem right: navigating to my shares using UNC path, the destination displays fine, but when you click down into child directories the files may appear momentarily, then dissapear. I found that backing up then back into the directory the files then show. I have had the same problem since installing XPSP2 on my network, not that I think this is the problem. My shares haven't changed in some time, one is 3+ years old so there's definately no permissions problems that caused any problems pre SP2. Shares are on W98 & XPSP1, and i'm sure with other SP2 PC's. Then I also notice the same problem on my home network, again - working flawlessly pre SP2. I have found that without manually specifying the DNS server address the machines refuse to connect at all. If you successfully connect using IP - does that make every subfolder behave as well? I hope this is the same problem because i'd love to fix it. [unable to check right now]. Cheers [edit] Oh yeah - there is a limit to the number of connections to a share in a desktop O/S - and not with server O/S's [such is my limited understanding]. Into my XP box it refuses to connect after about 10 simultaneous connections. [must move the share to a server ]

So you're saying that's not possible then soulin?

I have the same problem - network installation point - imaged installations tho', and Office 2K. I read a while back - I think there's an MS KB on it - that there are permissions settings to make this go away. Just had a search but not able to find anything. Will try again. What about setting a default profile in the GPO user [as described here: http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/wind...1/rmng_usr.html ]. If that worked it might be useful in speeding up initial profile creation, if like me all your users need to be identical. You could log in as a test user - set up everything as you want it [configure programs as they're run 1st time], then copy that profile to the GPO default. I realise it's just a theory but it'd be good if it worked.

GPO Loopback Processing ...just in case anyone is interested...

We originally only had a Terminal Server setup, but now have 'normal' PC's as well. so half and half The start menu is re-directed from the server to two groups of users: staff and kids. So I have 2 shared start menus on the server that all users pick up. Re-direction doesn't seem to be flixible enough to assign a start menu based on the PC a user logs on to. Yeah - that scrip maybe the way to go. Can you point me to a good place to sort one out [crap at it myself]. I use kixcript here for assigning printers by room name - maybe I could adapt/ add to that.

oioldman thanks My problem is: Library - 1 PC with 6 singly licenced apps visible to other 220 machines - all users likely to use Tech Block - 20 PC's with unique image - again, all my users are likely to use that at some point Which logon script?? I'm not currently using the local start menu at all. I've no idea how to script seperate start menu's per machine - but that may be the answer. Cheers

Yeah - in the Group Policy for all the users I re-direct the start menu to a folfder on the server. Trouble is, all my users can use any of 220 machines on my site. What I did was remove this re-direction, created an OU each for the different sets of PC image, and set a Group Policy on those with a redirect to a Start Menu for each, then set "apply to user" in the Policy Permissions. That didn't work! How do I do this?? Aaargh!

Does anyone know how I can do this? I want to re-direct start menu's per computer. All my users can potentially use all [220] computers [High School], and I want to set a few standard start menus for different software images - about 4 - so that the users don't have redundant Icons on thier Start Menus'. I tried creating an OU for computers, and setting a Policy on that OU to redirect the Start Menu to a particular folder and disabling re-direction on the student's OU. Is there any way that I can achieve this? I can't see that there's any way to script re-direction. Setup: Win2000 AD Domain, mixed XP & 2000 Clients. Thanks for your help.