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http://yourbrowsermatters.org/#/home I wanted to add while this would be a cool idea, it seems to rely too much on browser detection. As an example, i get a 2 with Firefox 7 and NoScript allowing access from the site. But if I disallow scripts from the site, I still get a 2. And some of the "failings" aren't fails, such as: Actually it does, because I have it enabled. It does with NoScript. Although Photobucket has gotten annoying lately with the XSS they started using about a week or so ago. Of course IE9 tests with a 4 out of 4... If I change my User Agent in Firefox to IE8, I get 3 out of 4. It would be better if it actually did test browser security, rather than just reading User Agents and returning static info about them.

My Win7 PC gives me the ability to "eject" my video card... Is this drive connected to the motherboard or an expansion card? What is the model of the board or card? Is that HDD your boot volume?

You can get to all of these drivers using WinRar with the exception of the Intel Chipset. In order to get that one, I will install it on a PC. When it installs, it will extract the drivers out and put them in a temp folder. The ones you will probably need are in the folder called "ALL" however if you install it on an XP system you can check the log file to see which ones it uses. MSI is usually a couple versions behind, you may want to get the 1030 Chipset driver from Intel.com. You can find it by looking for drivers of any 6 series board in the download section.

If you are going to use these updates and drivers every time, you can just put them into the image using DISM. DISM Add or Remove Packages Offline DISM Add and Remove Drivers Offline Hotfixes are not redistributable.

An x86 boot image can install both x86 and x64 using Setup for both Vista and Windows 7. You can also use an x86 WinPE to capture and deploy x64 images using Imagex. Anyways, just try a 32bit one. The only reason I ask is because of your server. I don't know if it has anything to do with it.

Maybe if I can see some device details or INFs. Sometimes a name may change with just a hardware revision.

Vista RTM was a shock since most people were buying cheap PCs at that time. Cheap PCs = low end hardware, which didn't mix well with Vista. The Service Packs have helped it out greatly.

Are you using a custom app for deployments, MDT LTI/ZT PEs or Windows Setup?

Shizuo vs Shizor - The Duty

Its worse on non-technical forums. I have given up trying to help people there. The commonly accepted answers are - you have a virus - reinstall windows - some other nonsense - none of my answers

Maxthon, a custom IE shell, supports SOCKS5 Proxy Authentication. Website: http://www.maxthon.com/ Documentation: http://www.bpsocks.com/maxthonmanual.pdf I used to use Maxthon back in 2005. I don't remember why I don't use it anymore. I'm sure there was a reason for it.

Starting your PC on fire... Easy way: have a certain part of the HDD touching the chassis and turn the PC on. Like touching one of the chips. Did that once by accident. As far as the USB issue... Not all case manufacturers are the same. I can't remember which one it was... it was either Chenbro or Inwin... their budget line didn't have their USB headers keyed. While most would say "OK i'll have to match up the colors in the book" which is fine... for older MSI boards this was a problem. Take your average assembler (who isn't technical which might also seem strange) and a non-keyed connector and a fault that spans all boards. Normally, if you hook up the USB front panel backwards on the board, USB should just not work. This is true on Intel boards. But on MSI boards it causes a short. The end result is the USB chip starts on fire (pretty colors come out of it) and also your USB key pops. We got real careful about doing it right and I haven't heard about it in awhile. Either way it gets annoying especially when your expensive HASP keys pop and melt on you.

The guides for setting up a PXE for WIM deployment (WDS) vary depending on what the server is. There are guides for Server 2003, 2008 (R2 is the same as RTM) and even Linux. Also, need to know what OS you are capturing images of?

Back to this again? If you want to keep your HTA on the network drive, that's fine. Try copying it to the RAMDISK and run it from there.

What media did you use to create the capture image? Try creating a 32bit capture image instead.

Many corporations will wait until the last possible minute to upgrade, when support runs out. I know a few companies that always wait... they waited for 2000 support to go away before moving to XP, and are waiting for XP support to end before going to Windows 7. For OEMs, the support ends WAY earlier than for Enterprise. As an example, Windows XP support ended in April 2009. So its partially true that OEMs drive people to upgrade, but its really a partnership with Microsoft. It might seem like OEM doesn't have a choice (well want to stay in business? ) but the partnership really shows during the alpha and beta period of a new OS.

What's all this jibber jabber?

Welcome to the MSFN!

Manowar - Warriors of the World

WTF?! It was one of the MSI P4M800 boards, their first rev. I can't remember the p/n for it atm. After they came back those 1000 dead boards we RMA back to MSI. They had remanufactured them as they came back with the same serial numbers, but has a resistor soldered to the board. Those went out as the replacements and then they all failed again. On the second RMA, the client was getting pretty angry about it and we switched them to an Intel board. It was quite soon that MSI came out with a replacement board that didn't have that problem. Although, its quite possible that you can still start your motherboard on fire by hooking the front-panel USB up backwards and plug a USB 1.1 (or higher) device into it. I'll save that story for tomorrow.

I tried to use personal experience for my answer, but being in IT (both as support and production) I've seen just about everything go bad... except heatsinks... Alas some of these "bad things" are due to less technical people trying to do things that either "sound like it should work" or "can't do any type of math without a calculator. CPU: Defective CPUs out of the box are quite rare. Defective people... not so much. Two times I recall: - One time an assembler did a brain fart and didn't match up the "golden arrows" to install the CPU. Seen it both on ZIF and the newer Intel sockets. Doesn't matter if they are keyed. - Sometimes outside forces can cause problems for your CPU. Such as the janitorial staff at a college that decide to close the ventilation doors to the server room and then turn off the internal fans. This would result in the only time I've seen an admin running about the building freaking out... and the only time I've seen a CPU melt. Motherboard: Caps are big issues, but sometimes the error is in the design. The worst case was shipping 1000 PCs which got a 100% DOA rate on install. All were returned, all boards replaced and shipped back out. Then all got 100% DOA again! We then switch to another board manufacturer... no problems there! Except... sometimes people like to spill their coffee in the PC and send it back as "it just stopped working, don't know why" in the RMA notes. ODDs: Lasers going out aren't as common. I've had much more problems with the drive mechanism that opens and closes the door. Lite-On is really bad in this regard. Modems were really weak against electricity. Of course, moreso in products like WebTV. It seems any time there was a thunderstorm, you ran the chance of getting your modem fried, but that was probably due to the telephone system more than the modem. But strangely, you'd never hear about such a casualty rate for telephones.

What is a WIF file? Do you mean WIM file? P.S. Forum rules apply to the PM system as well as the public board.

I can't find anything like that. You may need to use a reg file.

Is the DNS role on the DC or is it on another server? My DC here passes all except the FORW, which isn't strange since it has no access to the internet.

Not many of those for me. Of all the hardware I've owned, the only ones that haven't kicked the bucket have been HDD, Video Card and Sound Card. Everything else in that list I've had fail on me. Of course, I don't have some of those anymore... some due to no fault of the product themselves. There is plenty of hardware out there that is old (in this industry I could be talking about something from last quarter) but does the question about whether or not that hardware is still useful in some way even today? Well back to my idea (at least... your post isn't very specific about what you're looking for) I can say this about my own experiences. As stated earlier, I have multiple pieces of hardware from over 10 years ago that are still used to this day. Hard Disk: Hard to believe that this the case, but I won't jinx it, especially when we even have a sub-forum that was created just for people with broken hard disks. The 20GB IDE HDD in Shiva (my Windows 98 PC) is by far the oldest one I own. It still works and has only had Windows 98 on it. I am fuzzy about the actual age of the drive itself as I know for a fact that it isn't the same HDD that was in Hive City (I name my computers btw) since that computer got recycled by mis-informed family members whose houses I was using for storage when I was in college. I have actual knowledge of it being used in 2002 and I know I had purchased it from CompUSA (now defunct) for $100. Come to think of it, it is one of those sub-grade Maxtor drives that they would have in the "bargain bin" that wasn't even good enough for remanufactured drives. Video Card: I have owned a bad video card, however I had gotten it for free so I'm not even sure that should count. That particular one was a 1MB Tseng Labs PCI video card that was originally used in Shiva during initial setup. Shiva, being my second computer at the time. Hive City was the first and had a 6MB Voodoo Rush. Hive City had ceased to be my main PC for some time (reason why it was in storage) once I got a Voodoo 3 for Shiva. That ended up getting traded to my friend for a GeForce MX in 2000. That particular GeForce was then sold a couple months ago in a Dell system to a neighbor. Supposedly it is still working fine, since I haven't heard any complaints. Shiva's main video card (which I still have but can't use) is the Voodoo 5500 AGP. I had been using it up until 2 years ago when Shiva's motherboard kicked the bucket. The new motherboard had a different AGP slot, so I had to get a new card. While my success rate with video cards hasn't been a problem, that trend may finally end very soon. I have the cheapest MSI nVidia card in my Win7 PC at home and the fan is acting up, amongst causing all sorts of other problems, such as locking up the PC. Sound Card: The sound card story is similar to the video card one, except that I never traded any of them. Of course I lost the one in Hive City, an oldish SB that may have even been an ISA card. Speakers aren't so lucky for me, but all my sound cards are fine. The one in my Win7 PC was purchased in 2000 and has been in 2 PCs. The one in Shiva is from shortly before that period, maybe by a year. It is an SB PCI as well. Prior to Shiva having this, there was another that came from somewhere... Guillemont (sic) or some such, but the quality wasn't as good as SB. I still have that card packed away as well. I'd probably also say that I have not had a failed CPU at any time... And its presumable that the 486 DX CPU I found in the garbage likely would still work properly. Everything else on the list I've had fail on me, but seeing as we are all different, I'm sure others have had good experiences with different types of things as me. And potentially there is some sad fellow that has had everything fail...