You know when you start something....and you really wish you hadn't..?
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That's me, tonight.
My XPP machine has been running flawlessly for ages, now all of a sudden I can't update windows, I have DCOM errors left right and centre, I can't access the Logical Disk Management to correctly reassign drive letters, I can't get to the computer through the components section in the admin panel to manually check the DCOM entries and System Restore doesn't work...basically it's a mess. I'm currently scanning to check all the windows protected files are correct and present.
Rather than having to faff about reinstalling xpp again and getting it set up how I want, I thought i'd whack W7 on. Nope, crashes at 'Setup is starting...'. Damned thing. I'm just going to go and buy a new, quieter case, mobo, cpu & ram tomorrow I think. I'll build a new machine and dump the old drives in one-by-one. Suffice to say this was not how I envisaged spending my evening.
My XPP machine has been running flawlessly for ages, now all of a sudden I can't update windows, I have DCOM errors left right and centre, I can't access the Logical Disk Management to correctly reassign drive letters, I can't get to the computer through the components section in the admin panel to manually check the DCOM entries and System Restore doesn't work...basically it's a mess. I'm currently scanning to check all the windows protected files are correct and present.
Rather than having to faff about reinstalling xpp again and getting it set up how I want, I thought i'd whack W7 on. Nope, crashes at 'Setup is starting...'. Damned thing. I'm just going to go and buy a new, quieter case, mobo, cpu & ram tomorrow I think. I'll build a new machine and dump the old drives in one-by-one. Suffice to say this was not how I envisaged spending my evening.
Funk said:
That's me, tonight.
My XPP machine has been running flawlessly for ages, now all of a sudden I can't update windows, I have DCOM errors left right and centre, I can't access the Logical Disk Management to correctly reassign drive letters, I can't get to the computer through the components section in the admin panel to manually check the DCOM entries and System Restore doesn't work...basically it's a mess. I'm currently scanning to check all the windows protected files are correct and present.
Rather than having to faff about reinstalling xpp again and getting it set up how I want, I thought i'd whack W7 on. Nope, crashes at 'Setup is starting...'. Damned thing. I'm just going to go and buy a new, quieter case, mobo, cpu & ram tomorrow I think. I'll build a new machine and dump the old drives in one-by-one. Suffice to say this was not how I envisaged spending my evening.
sounds like a malware infectionMy XPP machine has been running flawlessly for ages, now all of a sudden I can't update windows, I have DCOM errors left right and centre, I can't access the Logical Disk Management to correctly reassign drive letters, I can't get to the computer through the components section in the admin panel to manually check the DCOM entries and System Restore doesn't work...basically it's a mess. I'm currently scanning to check all the windows protected files are correct and present.
Rather than having to faff about reinstalling xpp again and getting it set up how I want, I thought i'd whack W7 on. Nope, crashes at 'Setup is starting...'. Damned thing. I'm just going to go and buy a new, quieter case, mobo, cpu & ram tomorrow I think. I'll build a new machine and dump the old drives in one-by-one. Suffice to say this was not how I envisaged spending my evening.
I ran a boot-scan for viruses which has come back clean, I'm about to attack it with anti-spyware. Other than a bit of Youporn though, I don't 'run the risk' by surfing dodgy sites. I can't see it being software-related, but weirdly it's running fine in every other respect. It's just certain bits that aren't working.
Re. W7, there appear to be no drivers for my mobo for it, so I'm assuming that there could well be a compatibility issue there. It's an Asus M2N32SLI-Deluxe Socket AM2 running an AMD 6000+ with 4Gb of RAM. I might rebuild it into a smaller, quieter case and use that as the basis for a little media server under the TV.
Re. W7, there appear to be no drivers for my mobo for it, so I'm assuming that there could well be a compatibility issue there. It's an Asus M2N32SLI-Deluxe Socket AM2 running an AMD 6000+ with 4Gb of RAM. I might rebuild it into a smaller, quieter case and use that as the basis for a little media server under the TV.
Edited by Funk on Tuesday 9th March 07:56
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