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I've now tried installing Expression Studio 3 three times (downloaded via the WebSiteSpark) program. The first two I tried a mounted ISO, and for the third, I wrote the image to CD. With all three, a few seconds after booting, and a BSOD that requires speed-reading to comprehend, the machine restarts, ad infinitum.
I can start in safe mode and do a system restore to a checkpoint created yesterday, before the logged changes for today, which are "Installed DirectX". After the restore, everything is fine.
I'm running XP SP2 on an HP Pavilion dv9205us, but had to cheat and use drivers for another HP, as no XP drivers are available for this one. Any advice on how to diagnose or fix this issue will be greatly appreciated.
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Ah the lightning BSOD. Next time you install it and it starts with the BSOD, reboot and tap F8 and when the Windows Advanced Boot options come up select Disable Automatic Restart on System Failure. That will give you all the time you need to read the BSOD. If it works in normal Safe mode it appears that there is a conflict with some driver. If you have Windows debugger you can look inside the actual dump file to find out what the problem is. About 90% of BSOD's are fixable. If you don't have windbg you can download it from microsoft, or if you'd rather. You can email me the minidump files located at c:\Windows\Minidumps and I will debug it and let you know what I find. Maybe We can get it to work.
Zach
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Please do not post questions in more than one forum; read the guidelines.
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i have a problem on windows a dll always executing and causing error ...
i dont know what to do ..
i need help please ..and always appear > Error Loading C:\Windows\mcrdsvi.dll >> access denied.
syntax error
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Never heard of that .DLL. Are you sure you got the filename correct?
Anyway, you've got a process running that trying to load that .DLL. Does the message come up after you launch any particular app? Does it come up by itself without you doing anything? What are the circumstanaces that trigger this event??
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I am able to install the SQL Express 2005 using command line but I don't want to install any shortcut in the Program menu.
how can I do that?
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Hi
i need to buy a computer for multimedia studies i.e. 3d max etc
can anybody assist me by giving a system configuration for my studies.
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William,
Your best bet is to go to the mfg's website and look at the recommended system configuration for the application. You may find that it is much harder to build a fully qualified system than you think.
Just to give you an idea - I once built a system specifically designed for AVID video editing. For the real time editing components (renderless), it needed a firewire controller that had to use the Texas Insturments chipset. On top of that, the card itself had to have a dedicated bus segment to the system's chipset controller, and it could be the only device on that bus segment.
What am I trying to say?
Building a system for specialized application handeling is not a simple task. If you have never done it before, I would shy away from doing so.
However, if you decide you do want to try and tackle it, you need to know that this type of system building is kind of like installing Gentoo Linux - no one can do it for you. Here are a few things to keep in mind though: you need to pair everything for best possible performance - but this isn't always what you think. For example - when specifying RAM to include into the machine, you want the motherboard's front-side bus (FSB) to match the RAM's FSB and the chipset's FSB. This will insure there are no bottle necks on the processing side of the system (the GPU will have it's own thing going on for it's memory speed). You also want to make sure that the RAM is rated ECC and fully buffered (ECC stands for "Error Corection Codes", it simply means that the unit is error correcting). ECC RAM will make your renders out of any 3D application more reliable (they won't get to 90% and fail). I know from personal experience that 3DS Max and Maya are very particular about the hardware installed in the system (more so Maya than 3DS). Hardware compatibility issues at the application layer are very difficult to troubleshoot. You might bump up the lumens on a light in a scene or turn on Global Illumination and get all kinds of errors dumping to the output window.
Some other things you want to include in your research are operating system compatibility, architecture support (x86 vs. x64), video hardware support (don't use ATI, Nvidia will have much better support for your application), processor type (single core - single socket all the way through multi core - multi socket) and supported instruction sets (MMX, SSE, SSE2, etc.).
The plot thickens when you start adding other primary applications into the mix, like Photoshop, After Effects, AVID, etc. These programs have their own requirements and may create a whole new level of complexity when installed on the same system as the 3D applications.
If you have ever installed a Gentoo Linux system - the comment about it earlier may start to make sense. Building a custom system for tasks such as the one you described is your perfect balance of seriousness, budget, application usage, and speed.
If I have turned you off of the idea, look to a major hardware vendor like HP (not system builder like Dell) for a configuration designed for a particular industry (eg: DCC). You can most likely get a nice student discount for one of the said workstations. And the biggest bonus: it comes with support.
Sorry about the novel of a message...
-david
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Wasn't sure where to go with this one, hoping someone can help...
Is it possible to create folders within a folder using the names of the files already contained in the folder?
say what!?
Folder named: MainFolder
Mainfolder contains 300 pdf files each with its own name (acr901, acr906, pnt76, etc...)
Within MainFolder I'd like to create a folder for each of those files (acr901, acr906, pnt76, etc...) then insert the file into that folder.
What do you think?
I have several folders containing 300 or more files in which I'd like to do this.
Thank-you for your help.
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Sure, so long as you don't include the .PDF extension in the folder names, it shouldn't be a problem at all.
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Really? You think you have a minute to give me some sort of direction on how?
If you want.
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What's so hard about this? You use three standard methods on two classes in the System.Io namespace: Directory.GetFiles, Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtension, and Directory.CreateDirectory. I'll leave it as an excersize to you to figure out code required to do three simple steps, get the list of files from a folder, get the filename portion (no extension) of each filename, and create a new folder using that name. It's possible to do in three lines of code.
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Hi,
Paste this into a new batch file and execute it:
echo off
for /f %%a IN ('dir /b *.pdf') do mkdir %%~na
pause
It will make a folder for each PDF file while excluding the extension.
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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Hi, if I set an image with its size 2Mb or 5Mb as a desktop background, does this will impact the startup performance of windows xp?
Thank in advance!!!
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Mekong River wrote: Hi, if I set an image with its size 2Mb or 5Mb as a desktop background, does this will impact the startup performance of windows xp?
What happens when you try it?
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My system load very slow than usual when I logged on to my profile.
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Mekong River wrote: My system load very slow than usual when I logged on to my profile.
Does it load at normal speed when you revert to the smaller image file? If so you have found the problem, and the solution.
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We have got a requirement to deliver a redundancy solution using SAN. Let's say we are going to build two RAID 5 arrays and then mirror them to a RAID 1. I have a hardware solution that can build two RAID 5, but they cannot build a mirror on the top of them. I have a number of questions:
1) Can Windows Server 2003 build a RAID over SAN at all?
2) Can Windows Server 2003 build RAID 1 on the top of, in other words mirror, two RAID 5?
2) If I power off one RAID 5 and power it on again, can Windows 2003 rebuild the entire or part of this RAID 5 via the mirror?
Regards,
Best,
Jun
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First, if you're looking at a software based solution for RAID (i.e. Windows), you're screwing yourself performance-wise.
You should really be directing this question to SAN vendors to see what they can offer.
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Read this[^], specifically looking at RAID 1+0 and RAID 0+1, these seem to be doing what your asking, just not in software though generally.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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If you are looking at a SAN based solution - it probably means you have a lot of data and need lots of features (like iSCSI with pass-through write capability). Otherwise, you could use a NAS device with SATA disks. First of all (as mentioned in an earlier response) do NOT use a software based RAID solution. Secondly, if high-availability is important, go with RAID6 and not RAID5. If there will be a lot of I/O on the array, you need a performance boost. My overall advice: don't build one yourself. Purchase a NetApp (with their really cool RAID DP) or HP StorageWorks unit.
We purchased an HP StorageWorks MSA2012i. Our configuration has 2.7TB usable space and uses a RAID6 array with dual controllers. I think it cost just over $7000 (with an account manager).
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Hi Everyone,
I am looking for the exact meaning for Direct IP. Can anyone let me know whats exactly meant by DirectIP?
Tried googling a lot without luck.
Please help. Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Sharath
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