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OK I have a little update, and a question because the behaviour on the network seems to have some adverse affects on the domain controller. Now that all switches are updated to gigabit, there is still a problem. Any clients with the D945GCLF board in them, even tho the spec for the onboard nic says 10/100/1000, they will only run at 100 max. I can tell this because the switch indicates orange (100) lights for those ports instead of green (gigabit). After prolonged use of these machines on the network for imaging, say 2-3 days, one of the other segments loses connectivity. The main switch that the Server connects to indicates an interesting blink pattern for that particular segment. Something like: 5 blinks, then lights out for 2 seconds, then repeat x infinity. At this point, that particular segment loses DHCP services, and connectivity to the Domain Controller. However, if any clients on that segment (its called Server Island) already have an IP address, they can still access the file server, but not the domain controller. After their leases expire (DHCP is set for 3 hour lease time) those clients then lose all connectivity with the network. Then after a period of time, the second segment (called Gilligan's Island) will go through this process as well, and eventually the entire network loses connectivity. Neither of the servers indicate any errors in the Event Viewer, except the Domain Controller which only has Kerberos warnings, which I ignore because Kerberos auth is not used. Also, the DHCP log has no errors or warnings either, no NACKs, only lease cleanups, and expiry messages. Here's the strange part. If I reset the main switch (or any of the switches on any affected Islands) they still do not regain connectivity. The only way to regain connectivity is to reset the main switch and reboot the Domain Controller. Another strange this discovered early on is that if you reset the main switch, DHCP will not function (there will be no errors reported either) until you reboot the server. It will show no link issues either. So it is possible that the presence of these clients running at 100 cause enough of a lag time so that the Server loses communication with the main switch for a split second, but this is enough time for it to stop being able to provide DHCP? Also when these 10/100 clients are active, the rest of the network slows down incredibly, even to a standstill. Any ideas about this behaviour?

First I would recommend you uninstall one of your antivirus programs. It is not wise to use two. You have listed Avast and Prevx! Also, run a scan for Malware, not sure about compatibility with your locale settings, but take a look here: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=119786

Where did you get this download from? Try installing the WAIK instead and use it's DISKPART http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...a5-5b50c657de08

Good luck and try not to invoke the swear filter anymore.

That term makes me shudder every time someone refers to it. Too bad I'll have to use it for the next three years of university... I remember those classes well too. Not sure if I was fond of it. Fortunately it gets very easy once you are in school, but I can't remember most of it anymore. Its been too long. It sucks for me because when I was in college, the program was in a transition period. All courses were geared for mainframe programming, and I remember we were supposed to take two semesters about UARTS. Then they dropped the second semester course and I was so disappointed.

Isn't MSN EOL anyways?

Hmm. I wonder about this. We build servers here and they are really loud already, because of the fans. I wonder if they would run better without fans, or at least some sort of passive cooling system.

Typically, I do not encounter issues of Windows having major problems when I go about my business of approving images. But this time, Explorer.exe and drwtsn32.exe crashed by doing the following: Click Start -> Control Panel -> Switch to Classic View So I installed the Debugging Tools for x86 and the Retail Symbols (the Classic Symbols download said it was corrupt) and went about to get Explorer to crash again. Except now I can't get it to crash by doing the same procedure. I imagine that getting a dump file with this tool is similar to using the IIS Debugger, which means you need to replicate the error. Since I can't, the files it is creating might not even be helpful? For now, here is the information gathered from the initial crash: -Error Sig: Explorer.exe, Module: shell32.dll, Offset: 0002b284 -DrWatson Postmortem Debugger Event Type: BEX P1: drwtsn32.exe P2: 5.1.2600.0 P3: 3b7d84a2 P4: dbghelp.dll P5: 5.1.2600.5512 P6: 4802a0b2 P7: 0001295d P8: c0000409 P9: 00000000 In addition, three of these errors happened over the weekend, all at 6/29 @ 1:30AM (this morning). Source: MPSampleSubmission ID: 5000 EventType mptelemetry, P1: 8024402c, P2: endsearch, P3: search, P4: 1.1.1593.0, P5: mpsigdwn.dll, P6: 1.1.1593.0, P7: Windows Defender, P8: NIL, P9: NIL, P10:NIL EDIT: Attached the drwatson log file. NOTE: the exception happened (friday) and the symbols were not installed until today (monday). So I don't know how much help this will be. EDIT2: the customer has decided against using the image based on other problems discovered. Closed

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I know sometimes its hard to navigate TechNet. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library...053(WS.10).aspx

Normally, i just listen to music on random. Not this time. Pantera - Cemetery Gates

I know. It hit me by surprise. Everyone knew he wasn't healthy, I mean look at him. Then again, I can see him pulling off a "back from the grave" tour, can't you? He was so out there. I've worked in the music industry and I'm still shocked.

I'm hoping this is false. If not, all hail the King of Pop one last time. You don't have to be one of his fans to respect what he did in his Music career. Yes he had a lot of other things that happened, I won't contest. I remember his music from the 80s very well because they remain as songs I grew up on. http://www.latimes.com/news/la-me-michael-...0,6083460.story

Possible things that use that port: rFactor http://portforward.com/english/routers/por...eed/rFactor.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RFactor F1 Challenge http://www.portforward.com/english/applica..._99-02index.htm I can only find these racing games that use that port.

The answer is in the link I posted. Go there then click the following: - Deployment Walkthroughs - Walkthrough: Deploy Windows by Booting from a DVD

Welcome to the MSFN!

Welcome to the MSFN!

You can probably make Firefox the default browser, but you can't really remove IE from Windows.

The street view dates for my neighborhood appear to be around August/September 2007. I can tell this by an election sign posted on a house.

I posted the wayback link as an example. I wasn't prepared to go digging through all the available versions (going back 13 years) of the site to find a file that I know nothing about. Sometimes you get lucky with Wayback and they cache downloads on some older sites.

This is a google issue, not an MSFN issue!

Check to see what HAL you are using. Also did you make any changes to the BIOS? This could cause the Power Management error with the CPU. Also check your Suspend State in the BIOS too.

Does this happen to be the nForce NIC that is a virtual device? Can those of you who are having problems with this NIC post what the Hardware ID is of the NIC in Device Manager?

I have found that even if you inject drivers for a device, if the PE can get away with using one of the default drivers, it won't use the ones you injected with PEIMG. The only thing it seems to use are Mass Storage and NIC drivers. I've had tried to PEIMG video drivers, but the PE doesn't use them for the video driver, it uses whatever standard VGA controller drive, the same that Vista has. And Driverload will give you an error if you try to update the driver. I don't have better tools to be able to get a Device Manager like interface to see what drivers are actually loaded. Its kinda difficult using just the command prompt.

Cell phone pics = BAD! But here they are, I will try to get better ones later. See the "my servers" link in my sig for details. 7Server Unclesocks + Amp collection I know its hard to make out, but the two labels on the front say "UNCLE SOCKS" and "CHINESE WARLORD" respectively. This server was named after a background randomly placed on all the image servers. This one got characters from this series: http://www.gallimauphry.com/clarence/clarence.html I can't remember all of them, but one was called "moocow" and had an up close shot of a cow's mouth licking a camera.