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This could go the bios as well. If you have a spare floppy drive, try replacing it and see what happens! Myself personally, I do not have a floppy drive I don’t see much point as CD's are so much quicker and relatively cheap or a USB data stick, although you may have a reason for using a floppy drive?

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Windows, for some strange reason, seems to look at the floppy drive occationaly. If there is a problem with the hardware, windows could be seeming something but is not sure what it is and so tries to access it. The problems sounds to me as if the read/write heads on the floppy drive have gone. For the £7-8($5) or so I'd just buy a new floppy drive. This is usually the case with when it tries to format an already formatted disk. Taggs

just looked, netop does do dial in aswell as dial out

you could try netop (although not sure if this works over adsl or dailup modem) http://www.richmondsys.co.uk/richmondsyste...rol/?wcw=google or PC anywhere http://www.symantec.com/pcanywhere/

This post may be in the wrong Section. Try Windows XP or Harware Hangout!

Has the PC been rebuilt? Does it then still continue to freeze? as boooggy says it may be a drivers problem. It could also be over heating, Check the temperature! It could be faulty memory. Try swapping the memory. Welcome to MSFN

Just seem all the posts on this Thanks. Here are the answers to some of your questions. @it_ybd we have about 100 intel servers running Windows 2000 running a variety of different applications, ranging from a citrix farm to Email (Fujitsu's Teamware) to GIS mapping to IIS to SUS... to RIS.....etc...etc....etc we have 50 or so Sun boxes ranging from v240's to v1280's running a variety of services from FTP file transfer to the mainframe to running open process for server monitoring to our housing applications(carefirst). We have 1 linux server running apche. We have 1 SAN EMC's CX400 and are currently purchasing a second SAN as this is now full (no we don't wont to upgrade it to a CX700! ) @ JPry565 I will have a look into Windows Small Business Server 2003. Thanks @ tguy I may get back to you in the near future, thank you for the offer.

If the system is blue screening, the first thing that springs to mind is drivers for the hardware! Are you installing 2003 server or installing using 2003 server, or maybe both !! Have a look at your driver set, inparticular the chip set and hdd (if using scsi disks) drivers. I dont think trying to stop the reboot will help! Taggs

http://perso.wanadoo.fr/doc.jm/WU5-ERR.htm Looks like the install data for sp4 is corrupt so it will not un-install.

@Sh4dow Did you try the util I found? Reset the password to nothing using

Sounds like it could be a virus of some sort. Have you tried updating your pattern file and running a full virus scan on all drives?

I've tried with MS Word and MS Excel files but it seems to find nothing.

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We are starting to look into a server consolidation project. Can anybody suggest any other software besides VMware and MS Virtual server. Thanks

Have you tried NT drivers? http://www.opendrivers.com/driver/215789/v...e-download.html

I always try and search google first, then search the forum, but sometimes I get too many misleading results and i can't be bothered to wade through them all so I post and new topic.

Put me down for RIS as well. I use it to build 4500+ PC's over 80 sites. (takes some time over a slow link but you could put RIS on a laptop and take it to site if you wanted). We have integrated SP2, latest patches and also installs all are standard apps (MS Office) and clients (Citrix, novel, e-mail, Java, anti virus....) We run both Novel and MS servers and it works great. http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=36833&st=10 Have a look here for my documentation for setting up the server.

I heard of XP2 causing problems with the install of some games. Chaser being one of them. Trying removing SP2 and then installing games. Then reinstall SP2! Taggs

You can d/l a linux util from the web that will reset any users password for XP and W2k. I use it on a regular basis and it works great for me http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/ I hope this helps.

A user has a problem where if you search for text in a document it never finds any documents! Start > Search > Documents > Use advanced search options > a word or phrase in the document. Enter a word here and start searching! The PC finishes searching but never finds any documents. Even with a test document set up. If you search for the document itself it finds it fine. This works fine on various other PC's. Any Idea's ?!?!? Thanks

@ Bâshrat the Sneaky http://www.rsasecurity.com/node.asp?id=2540

What method, if any do you use to reduce these? Cookies RSA etc.......

I have 2 X 200Gb SATA in 1 PC and 60Gb + 10Gb in another. Thats a lot of storage. I can tell you, back up is a nightmare! Mainly used for music and pictures!

@rion I already have the clients accessing a SUS server , but thanks for the link. @TiXer Thanks for the advice, links and shared experience. I'll dip my toe in the water and see how it goes. Taggs