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Re: Wierd Stuff
From: Trish Kleuskens
Date: Friday, September 25, 1998
Time: 11:32:16 am
At 11:12 AM 9/25/98 -0700, Shawn Hogan wrote:
>Alexi wrote:
>
>>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
>
>-------------------------------
>Shawn D. Hogan
>President, Data Point Solutions
>http://www.data-point.com
>(619) 452-3696
>ICQ: 8319647
>
>
Tricia Kleuskens
Director of Admin.
(619) 565-SURF x 111
trish@inetworld.net
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