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Alexi wrote:
Re: Wierd Stuff
From: Shawn Hogan
Date: Friday, September 25, 1998
Time: 11:14:14 am
>I'm running my FMPro Server on and NT4sp3 Dual Pro 128MB Ram Unit.
>Recently it seems to have been spontaneously rebooting.
>
>First, I'm thinking this might be corrupting the files of Optigold to be
>causing some of these problems.
>
>Next, does anyone have any suggestions for NT machines doing this? I'm
>starting to look more fondly at the Mac lines as even some of our
>workstations have been exhibiting some very strange behavior.
Well... after spending a good part of the day yesterday rebuilding my NT
machine on my desk, I'm a little irritated with NT in general... So you
know my answer. hehe
As a server it's so insecure it's like swiss cheese. And the robustness
of NT definately leaves something to be desired. And it always seems to
just "break" for no good reason... For example...
My NT machine yesterday all of a sudden (I didn't install anything new or
anything like that) started triggering random commands whenever I would
open a folder or double click on My Computer. I rebooted... no fix. I
ran the NT setup from CD and put it into repair mode (a total joke,
because it then proceeded to crash with the blue screen of death before
the setup was even done loading). So then I ran the setup in "normal"
mode thinking I would just wipe the whole thing... and still get the blue
screen of death... so I can't even load the setup program direct from CD
{cracking up}. The only thing I was able to do finally was make the
emergency boot disks, boot for floppy and then not let it detect hardware
(because it would crash then too), select what hardware I had, load SCSI
drivers from Adaptec, and THEN it would load the setup properly.
I know everyone really cares, but I just get pissed off because it seems
I have to rebuild my NT machines every 3-6 months for no good reason just
so they work right, and my Macintoshes... well... they "just work".
{shrug}
All I know is some people may argue that macs are 20% more expensive or
something, but I don't care... if I save $500 by buying a PC, I will
spend about 80 hours a year maintaning the stupid thing. :-)
- Shawn
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Shawn D. Hogan
President, Data Point Solutions
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