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I have a RAID10 on an ICH10R, and have no sleep issues under Win7 either. However, I did have issues using newer drivers, but the RTM drivers work fine.

The restore7.exe fail is partially because it's poorly written, but technically it isn't built to handle running when the BIOS check for whether or not the recovery DVD is running on a system it's not designed to run on (I'll get to that in a second). The error you're getting is simply a programming error, and the .exe is trying to read from Virtual Address space (not memory like RAM) within the first 64K of the process space, which is marked PAGE_NO_ACCESS specifically to catch bad math. Ultimately, that isn't your problem. Your problem is the error "This PC is not supported by the System Recovery Discs" when you boot with them. The HP recovery software does a BIOS check to make sure the recovery is being done on a system that it is supported on, and for whatever reason it is failing. Have you upgraded the BIOS on this system in the past, or have you had any other BIOS issues on this box? Ultimately, to fix this you'll have to contact HP - and given that this is out of warranty, I'm not sure what you should expect. However, if the recovery software is creating DVDs that can't be used on the machine, and you haven't done anything to change the system so that the BIOS check would fail, I'm not sure they shouldn't still fix it for you anyway.

cluberti.com is the only one I work on personally - I do a lot of web dev for others, but I don't go posting my client list. One, my employer would probably not appreciate it, and two, it's really not relevant.

First, welcome to the forums . Second: Last: The only hint you'll get before I close this thread is that unattended installations using RunOnceEx work just fine from network shares, it doesn't need necessarily be a local install path. Other than that, please read the forum rules before posting. [Closed].

Agreed - when you build your reference machine, press CTRL+SHIFT+F3 when OOBE starts to boot into Audit mode, and do all of your customization work there if you want to have an image without a second user.

No, I'm saying that an external enclosure isn't going to gain you any speed (the iSCSI is potentially as fast as a single internal disk, but depending on the NICs at each end may end up only being as fast as the Drobo S). I'm saying if you want speed similar to that of an internal disk, you'll have to pay good money for it from an external enclosure (thousands of dollars at least, not a few hundred). Those enclosures you're using and/or thinking of using aren't meant for regular use, they're designed for storage. Speed is not one of their main goals.

Are you using Windows backup, or something else? Also, did you use diskpart on the SBS server to clean, format, and partition the drives under the SBS install, or something else?

In looking at the reviews for the thing, it's really only capable of sustaining reads and writes at around 70MB/sec, which is about 1/2 as fast as a non-RAID setup on the average internal SATAII drives in most machines (usually a little above 130 - 140MB/sec even on cheaper controllers), and an internal SATAII RAID controller (like the ICH10R) yields on average 200 - 350MB/sec (or higher, depending on the drives - mine are simple WD 7200RPM drives and I get just over 360MB/sec sustained to a RAID10). You'd have been better off with an iSCSI enclosure, honestly, if you wanted speed.

Task manager is a *horrible* way to track memory usage. Try resmon and perfmon instead - however, looking at the "Available" number, it says you have 1024MB free for use, although most of that is being consumed by cache (which is normal - cache will be dumped as needed if applications with pages not in the cache require memory). Given this, I would be suspicious of the fact games are unplayable - it's most likely not a system memory issue, although drivers would be a good place to start. Remember, task manager is a good quick overview of running tasks and windows, but don't use it for determining memory management - use resmon for a quick overview, and perfmon if you need to go deeper.

Store the elements in an array, and use a class to do the work of deleting elements of an array.

As someone who knows folks who've taken the certs, and talking to some of my network contacts about the certifications, they're not highly respected in the field because the tests are technically VERY easy (think NT4 MCSE easy). It really doesn't show a prospective employer much more than you're certified by someone for something (aka you can take a test), but not any proficiency. Given the ease of the tests and the lack of real groundswell in people taking the cert, it's only worth it to you if you think it's worth it (and can sell what you do to a prospective employer with your portfolio to go along with it). It's like any certification, really, in that it might maybe get you a spot in the interview room (although a college degree and a good history of your work experience is practically always worth more), but your skills and portfolio, along with your preparedness for the interview and your attitude towards your work is probably what actually gets anyone any kind of job, be it web dev or any other professional career.

Yes, I do.

Assuming a DVD or CD-based install, make sure the $OEM$ folder is NOT inside the i386 folder - it should look like this. If the folders are still not copying over (and your answer file is being used), make sure the $OEM$ folder on the disc doesn't have any trailing spaces, nor your unattend.txt / winnt.sif file either.

How about use a RAID controller and store them in a RAID1 for redundancy, and use the Windows backup tool to backup to an external network location, or at the very least another drive in the server? The way it's being done will not work with Server 2008, and this was documented on the web some time ago.

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If you're looking into a way to do this for multiple machines, and want help automating it, consider using MDT 2010 (free), which is an MS tool for doing this, and is licensed for use in enterprise/business environments. It's also not going to remove features or modify the Windows source in any way, which will be a problem for you if you ever try to get support from MS on the installations of Windows on those laptops (technically it violates the EULA, and they *will* deny you support).You are correct, however - similar to nLite/vLite, the RT7Lite EULA specifically states:

Unfortunately, that's the only way to do it. The quote is actually "stored" as a block element in the textarea inside a div on the new page with your post, and while it's probable that the site code could do this, it doesn't currently.

Looks like the page has these JS files in it's includes, so it's going to download them no matter what - perhaps removing them from the includes list would allow the page to work still?From the head of the base page: <script type="text/javascript" src="http://skeetabyte.com/wp-content/themes/premiumnews/includes/js/jquery.easing.min.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://skeetabyte.com/wp-content/themes/premiumnews/includes/js/jquery.lavalamp.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://skeetabyte.com/wp-content/themes/premiumnews/includes/js/tabs.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://skeetabyte.com/wp-content/themes/premiumnews/includes/js/superfish.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://skeetabyte.com/wp-content/themes/premiumnews/includes/js/jquery.bgiframe.min.js"></script> Technically, it's downloading these files because you've told it to.

I've merged these two topics, as they're quite similar in request. Also, I would strongly suggest using WinPE rather than Linux as your preboot environment for the reasons Tripredacus mentioned - it's far easier to get the "right" disk information from diskpart in WinPE than to trust that Linux will get the same info and disk order when it boots.

All versions of Windows use VA/VM, not RAM. The memory manager handles page translation - note that this has literally nothing to do with the paging file, so don't get Virtual Memory / Virtual Address Space confused with the paging file being "virtual memory". Might want to read up on Russinovich's Windows Internals if you want deeper details.

Got it .

Why not just install Windows Live Mail? I'm confused, considering they're almost the same app.

What specifically are you doing that imagex can't handle with XP? Are we talking about using the Ghost software to make backups that you're restoring (aka, not sysprep images)?

Are you viewing the site in compat view? If so, it sends the user agent for IE7, not IE8 - you might want to take a look at a network trace when visiting some of these sites to see what user-agent your browser is sending to these sites. If it's MSIE7.0, you're viewing the site in compat view (another hint is if the little broken page icon to the right of the address bar disappears when visiting a site - that's a possible indication that the site is being viewed in compat view).

It's amazing people don't read the rules before posting, and considering this is rule 1.a, it's even more amazing (and I guess sad, in a way). [banned].