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July 30th, 2001, 07:54 PM
#1
 Help with Windows 2000
I actually have a few questions that I'll just put all together.
First I got a windows 2000 machine that's generating errors in solatire. Yeah I know solatire, but the customer is a pain in the *** and all he does is play solatire. Solatire just stops and we get the sol.exe has generated errors and will be closed message. The same system has just been freezing lately to. He'll be doing different things and the computer will just freeze and you finally have to turn it off and back on. It's a new system PIII 1 Ghz, 256 MB Ram, 40 GB hard drive. We've built plenty like it with no such problem. All the hardward seems to check out fine with Microscope and they don't have that much loaded on it.
Last question, I promise. I have a business customer (The kind I don't mind dealing with) with a network of several computers. The network use to be lantastic (before I got a hold of it), but now it's Windows. One system pops up with a blue sceen that says it can't load Lantastic ModemShare. You press enter twice and it goes on just fine. Checked msconfig, win.ini, system.ini, config.sys, autoexec.bat, & registry. I searched the reg with regedit and everything pertaining to lantastic is now deleted. I can't find anywhere else to look. Sorry for so many questions, but I hadn't been on here in a while and I forgot how much fun it was.
Thanks for the help.
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July 31st, 2001, 11:38 AM
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Nothing new happening I just wanted to bump my message back to the top. Thanks.
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July 31st, 2001, 12:54 PM
#3
did you install sp2?
did you get the latest updates from M$?
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July 31st, 2001, 03:10 PM
#4
Yep they got a dsl modem so pretty much everything on Microsoft's product update page has been downloaded.
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July 31st, 2001, 04:42 PM
#5
out of the blue, but did you try reinstalling win2k and then the sp2?
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Do you leak any fluids, do you have any bumps on your rear, do you have any unpleasant odors?
If you answered yes to any of these then you are not qualified to own a new AMD ATHLON XP.
If someone ask you if you are running the all-new fastest AMD ATHLON XP, just turn around and reply "WHY YES, AND ITS CERTIFIED"
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July 31st, 2001, 05:07 PM
#6
Actually I have, but still they get the solatire has generated errors message & it still freezes. They have an HP officejet t45XI and I feel like that might be causing problems. I guess I'm just saying that because I had a hell of time setting it up. Has SP2 on the computer and it wouldn't see the printer, so I had to uninstall SP2. Now HP has the bug fixed and I reinstalled SP2. Plus the customers are no help and it's hard to find out what exactly was going on when the system froze, but solatire is having problems. I've never seen solatire crashing like that, but wouldn't you know it would be the one thing he uses it for.
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July 31st, 2001, 11:07 PM
#7
i didn't know WIndows 2K have a Blue Screen of death. <IMG SRC="smilies/eek.gif" border="0"> im using windows 2k now but i dont have that problem for 9 months.
Ahmm ... about your problem ... what is in the error? is it a VXD type or others ?
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August 1st, 2001, 03:28 AM
#8
I'd check for anything overheating, video drivers and what's running in the background. As you probably already know some utilities like Norton crash guard(and other like programs) cause crashes.
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August 1st, 2001, 07:48 AM
#9
I'm sorry if I mislead, but I've never actually got the blue screen. It just freezes sold (mouse cursor doesn't move) and you just turn the power off. On the other hand solatire just generates an error and shuts off, everything else is fine. Nothing other than norton anti-virus and that damn thing for the printer is running in the background. Which makes me wonder about the printer. I spoke to HP tech support because it loses connection with the computer sometimes and they said that I need to change some options in Norton because it was pinging the parallel port and causing the printer to lose connection. I will check on the overheating thing. Appreciate the help.
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August 1st, 2001, 08:50 AM
#10
What happens if you disable Norton? As stated before, it causes a few glitches sometimes...
Also, for the network problem, that error happens in IE I assume? Check the connections option, make sure you are set to connect over the LAN rather than dial a default connection of some sort.
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August 1st, 2001, 12:53 PM
#11
I'll try changing a few of the Norton settings. For one change the scan all files to just program files.
The other system I metioned gets the error messages about Lantastic when it boots. Somewhere something is making it look for some Lantastic files that I'm sure have been deleted. I don't know where to tell it not to look for the files at. Thanks again.
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August 1st, 2001, 04:22 PM
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Originally posted by Randolph:
<STRONG>i didn't know WIndows 2K have a Blue Screen of death. <IMG SRC="smilies/eek.gif" border="0"> im using windows 2k now but i dont have that problem for 9 months.</STRONG>
Oh yes, she still lurks there in the background in all of her blue beauty waiting for you to make a mistake...just try restoring a Win2k installation onto new hardware... <IMG SRC="smilies/eek.gif" border="0">
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