Just looked at the patch, it appears that all it does is to convert
all
ATA100 disks to ATA66, not an ideal solution at
all.
Graham
-----Original
Message-----
From: Graham Howe
[mailto:graham@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 16 May 2001 09:49
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Important Information
for
Win2K - RE: [ukha_d] UPS batteries
This reminds me, a warning to those of you using
Windows 2000. There is a known problem with windows 2K on faster machines,
during shut down the machine can power off before the disk cache has been
fully
flushed. This results in a corrupt registry file and therefore an unusable
machine. This happened to me last week as my UPS shut down my windows 2k
machine during a power cut, I could then no longer fire it up and had to
reinstall windows. This was the first time since I built the machine that
it
has ever been shut down (I usually just do a restart) so I had never
encountered this problem before. This is supposed to be fixed in the SP2
for
win2k when it comes out but until then the solution for deliberately
shutting
down windows is to do a restart then power off as the machine starts to
reboot
(during the POST). Of course this is not possible when UPS does the shut
down
so I have now disabled the automatic shut down by my UPS. It seems better
to
just let the juice run out than to shut the machine down. I don’t
know if this
affects all motherboards and hard disks etc but it certainly happened on my
Abit KT7, 1Ghz Athlon, Promise controller, ATA 100 disks (all IBM from
memory).
Believe me, reinstalling win2k is not something you want to
do!
There does now appear to be a fix on the
Microsoft
site but I have not tried it yet:
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q260/2/33.asp
Regards
Graham
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