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RE: Win2k is driving me nuts! Help!


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  • Subject: RE: Win2k is driving me nuts! Help!
  • From: "Phil Harris" <phillip.harris1@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2001 18:11:56 +0100
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"...take off and nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be
sure."

And we all thought Sigourney was talking about Aliens ... little did we
know
she was ahead of her time and was talking about diagnosing Windows
problems!

Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark McCall [mailto:mark@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 09 October 2001 17:10
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Win2k is driving me nuts! Help!
>
>
> My brand new Athlon machine is doing something wierd in Win2K too!
>
> You know when you boot into Win2K there's initially a white progress
bar
> along the bottom of the screen?  Well...on initial startup it
> goes past this
> part fine and boots OK.  However, if I chose "Restart"
instead of "Shut
> Down" the system gets to the end of this white bar then re-boots
> itself!  It
> just sits there in this loop until you turn off and on again then away
it
> goes.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> M.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Phil Harris" <phillip.harris1@xxxxxxx>
> To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2001 4:59 PM
> Subject: [ukha_d] Win2k is driving me nuts! Help!
>
>
> >
> > I've just done a complete fresh install of Win2k Server on my
> main server
> > PC - I have applied Service Pack 2 and have a nice clean machine
with
> > nothing but Office 2000 and Seagate Backup Exec 8.0 installed.
> >
> > Each time it boots up I get the "At least one service or
driver failed
> > during system startup. Use Event Viewer to examine the Event Log
for
> > details." *HOWEVER* I have no error reports (or even
warnings) in any of
> the
> > three event logs (Application, Security or System) only just the
usual
> boot
> > up system reports.
> >
> > Anyone got any ideas on why Win2k could be reporting errors and
> how I can
> > try to stop it?
> >
> > Phil
> >
> >
> >
> > For more information: http://www.automatedhome.co.uk
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