Recent content by ColinC77

I have a Dell Optiplex PC with 1 Gb Ram & Intel 3.4Gb proc, I've been using it with a Microsoft wireless K/B & mouse. Every day or so, the PC freezes up - mouse & KB unresponsive, cannot be re-energized & cannot be shut down orderly- must power cycle the box. Has anyone run up against this...

Thanks for the tip, Andy. I was able to get past the CTRL+ALT+DEL obstacle by using "GoToMyPC". We use this to connect from the road to our office PCs. One of its tools is the ability to send "CTRL+ALT+DEL" to the client machine. Once past this, I d/l new drivers for the keyboard & mouse...

OK here it is... the remote registry hack as well as most of these other machinations is because I can't CTRL+ALT+DEL on that machine. The Recovery Console part is a working method if I can find how to introduce the correct driver. I followed the procedure before & renamed the keyboard driver...

Thanks for the tips. I will probably have to get a USB keyboard since the USB mouse still works. I used the recovery console but there's no difference. I then tried the registry fix but I couldn't use regedit32 only regedit. I then tried to go thru the registry using REGEDIT.EXE but when I...

I have a Dell Optiplex with 512mb ram & 1.8 P4 - We used a Microsoft Wireless Desktop Elite (keyboard - PS2 & mouse USB & PS2. I upgraded the machine to Windows XP Pro - now, only the wireless mouse works on bootup. The wireless KB freezes & you cannot perform CTRL+ALT+DEL. The mouse...

Hey, I just got the same problem. This is a brand-new Dell Optiplex - Win XP Pro - 2.4 Gb chip - I re-booted because my mouse stopped working. As the machine shut down, I got 20-30 "Windows - Delayed Write failed" each message noting a different file that has been lost. What goes...

My friend has a Win98SE Gateway Select PC with an AMD 650 processor, 384 MB ram a DVD & a burner. Because we had 2 digital cameras to D/L from, we got a Lexar Media USB 2.0 card reader and a Belkin USB 2.0 PCI card. After installing the PCI card, we connected the card reader & D/L pictures...

Question: Does this machine have a separate NIC along with the stock NIC that Dell installs as part of the system board? If so, there may be a conflict there. Uninstall all NICs & start from scratch. If there is still a "driver not installed" message from the event viewer, you may...

Using Server Manager does not work. The domain membership is unchanged. I have had to go to each machine & remove it from the domain then bring it back in - it then remains in Network Neighborhood for a few hours then disappears. It can be contacted thru Server manager but if I want to map a...

Thanks I'll try this & let you know what happened. CC

I have a small network (70 users) Win NT 4.0 Primary domain server - 1 backup domain controller - main work is thru SQL 7.0 using tcp/ip - Cisco 2524 for internet - Cisco pix-515 firewall. All workstations are thru tcp/ip (most by DHCP) with an ODBC connection to the SQL server. Apologies for...

I have run Inoculan-IT then Panda Software's online scanner & I cannot find anything wrong. No virus in the floppy nor on my machine. Also, there's the fact that when doing this download on an NT machine, I am able to complete the download with no trouble. Thanks, CC

Sorry it took so long to get back - I tried to d/l to the hard drive & both copy & paste and "send to......3.5 floppy drive a:" rebooted the workstation & advanced server. Can it be that the Win2000 is trying to read the file? Thanks, Colinc77

I have 5 NT 4.0 servers, 1 W2k Advanced Server & a Win2K workstation in my immediate area. Every time I download a NT 4 or Win98 file from the Web saving it to drive A: on either or my Win 2000 machines (Workstation or Advanced Server), that machine reboots with no warning and the downloaded...

I have Arcserve 2000 installed on a Win NT 4.0 Dell Server with Arcserve SP 2 installed & Win NT SP 6 - I connect Arcserve thru the Client agents to several servers & use SQL Backup agent to connect to SQL but I get this error just from Server4: E3150 Unable to connect to network drive...