cluberti

I have to third 3ware - they're slightly more expensive, but they are also higher quality hardware and the drivers are TOP NOTCH (which I can't say for Adaptec, although LSI drivers are usually quite good).

Well, a kernel issue, an nvidia driver issue, a Silicon Image driver crash, and a win32k.sys driver crash. The only thing they all appear to have in common (according to the very basic output) is memory corruption (and not RAM corruption before someone yells out "check your RAM!!!" <sigh>), I mean virtual address space or page frame corruption. The first thing I'd do is upgrade every video, audio, disk/chipset, and antivirus driver you've got on the box, and then go from there. If it's page frame or memory corruption when gaming I usually blame the video card (especially with 50% of the crashes related to the Nvidia card or graphics subsystem).

Hate to say, but trying a reinstall would be my suggestion. Your install on that disk is horribly broken, it seems. Assuming you don't have hardware problems, that's my only real, viable suggestion.

NP. I'd say the best thing to do (especially if you're under warranty) is to give ol' IBM/Lenovo/whomever a call to the support line. The CD BIOS update on my T series doesn't work, I've always had to use floppies, so you may have to get a floppy disk ready to go .

I'm not sure where it is in an R31, but I have a T series that doesn't have any options for that so you may not have any. Are there perhaps any BIOS updates available for your model since the one you're running? You may be stuck with a reinstall, though...

While your points are..... interesting....., was there a question in there? I think there was, but it wasn't quite clear...

Hmmm - I'd like to see what happens with an RDP 6.1 client, but if the same failed with XP SP2 that would indicate a problem with the listener at the server end. I hate to say it would be time to contact Microsoft for help, but you do get some free support with that Server 2008 license. Since it might be a bug, you'd probably want to contact them directly at this point, since you know the client side of things did indeed work...

Well, I'm not going to get into a p***ing match about the console session, but /admin doesn't do exactly what you think it does - it's only for allowing admin connectins to a TS in non-Admin mode, a full TS server, without consuming a TS or device CAL. The switch also allows connections when a TS is in drain mode. All sessions in Vista and 2008 are virtualized, there is no more "console" session that you can log into. However, it's not relevant to your problem, so I'll drop that now. As to the sound, you at least know that the sound is working over RDP from the Vista box - is this Vista SP1 or RTM?

Merging your two topics. Do NOT double post.

Well, /console in RDP to a Vista or 2008 box does nothing, because there is no console session anymore. That seems a little odd, and I'd expect it to work if it does at the console - if you redirect audio to YOUR box over RDP, does that work? Probably worth finding out if the audio channel over RDP is broken or not...

Hmmm - that error is "URL_E_UNREGISTERED_PROTOCOL". Did you modify the installation media in any way?

'cluberti, this is what I'm trying to do as I use my home computer as a media center and all my audio files are located on it. Unfortunately, no audio is available when I connect via RDP which prevents me from playing any music which I was able to do when I used XP. Also, I've verified that VNC does work perfectly but unfortunately it is a much slower interfce than Microsoft's RDP. I'm not sure what else this can be. Maybe this is a Server 2008 bug with RDP or even an issue when using the 64bit version with RDP? Does audio work on that box when you're at the console?

Note that while the 3008WFPs are around $2000 USD right now, the older generation 3007WFPs are around $1000 USD, and provide basically the same display (it isn't hardware scaling, nor does it have the extra ports/cardreader/kitchen sink the 3008 does). You can also find decent 28" displays for around $600 - $800 USD too, which may be a cheaper/better option.

I don't know - to train a brute force password program, with known "similarities" amongst all the 'strong' passwords, perhaps? Again, hard to say, but I'm not going to be a part of this social engineering project ./tinfoil hat back on/

Also, if you have a network share in your path statement or set as a homedrive, etc, that is unavailable, this can occur. Do you have a process monitor log that you can review of trying to save the file, just to see what the system is trying to do during this time?

In device manager, under Network Adapters, what driver is installed (and what version)?

Moving to the correct forum, this doesn't belong in Windows XP.

Are you meaning to play the sounds on the Server 2008 machine? Because these steps (this one in particular) will ensure that is what happens...

Well, I'm not sure I want to type my password into a form on some website in clear text over the internet registered to domains by proxy - the proprietor obviously wants to remain anonymous, and while I applaud that, I don't like not knowing anything about the proprietor of a web site where you VOLUNTARILY give it a password. Just my 2 cents... Registrant: Domains by Proxy, Inc. Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. (http://www.godaddy.com) Domain Name: PASSWORDMETER.COM Domain servers in listed order: NS1.DREAMHOST.COM NS2.DREAMHOST.COM NS3.DREAMHOST.COM For complete domain details go to: http://who.godaddy.com/whoischeck.aspx?Domain=PASSWORDMETER.COM

To those of us who have horrible audio problems under 2008 Server by default (crackling, skipping, hissing, etc) and it worked fine in Vista, consider making the following registry change: Key: HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\multimedia\SystemProfile Value: SystemResponsiveness Type: REG_DWORD Radix: Decimal Data: 20 This makes Server 2008 behave more like Vista SP1 when scheduling CPU for audio/multimedia threads.

That error is a standard error meaning either "ERROR_INVALID_NAME" or "STIERR_INVALID_DEVICE_NAME", and in your case I'd say it's probably coming from stierr.h and is the latter error (Windows can't validate the hardware matches the activation, so it might think you've moved to another machine for some reason). Best bet is to either remove any newly installed hardware (if any) and retry, or contact Microsoft's activation hotline at 888-571-2048 and see if they can get it working for you...

Use break mirrored volume - remove mirror is destructive, whereas break simply makes these drives two separate (identical data) volumes. See the Microsoft article on this exact situation.

http://www.msfn.org/board/Vista-unattended-Guide-t95462.html

All RC bits expire 180 days after release, so 5508 was published as a release on 3/6/08. I'm not sure the exact date of expiry due to the package potentially being built a few days before, but that puts expiration on or around the first week in September, 2008. RTM will be available by then, so I don't think this is an issue.

Not sure why you're seeing that, but the error code and resulting error message means somewhere along the line you received "ERROR_NOT_FOUND" during some phase of the setup. I would suggest running process monitor during the install to see if you can pinpoint the failure.