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RE: Important Information for Win2K - RE: UPS batteries


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  • From: "Keith Doxey" <ukha.diyha@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 10:06:45 +0100
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There is also a Windows Update which I believe applies to all Win OS for fast machines shutting down before all data is written to the hard disk. It introduces a 2 second delay to allow data to be saved before shutdown.
 
Keith
-----Original Message-----
From: Graham Howe [mailto:graham@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 16 May 2001 09:49
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxxSubject: 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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