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I would have said RAM faults, but memtest passes it. You could try Microsoft's Windows Memory Diagnostic[^].
Check that your hard drive cables are seated correctly and aren't damaged. Ensure that you're using the right sort of cable - I'd now recommend that all IDE/parallel-ATA cables are of the 80-way type. Saving a few pennies on 40-way cables is a false economy, IMO.
Since you had an 80-way cable that wasn't being detected, it's quite possible that the data on the disk has become corrupted. In that case you probably will need to reinstall.
If any component is overclocked, revert it to its correct clock speed. See Raymond Chen's post on overclocking[^] for details on the problems this can cause. If your new motherboard has 'dynamic overclocking' features turn them off.
Problems could also be caused by either faulty drivers or faulty add-in hardware. Remove every non-essential card and connected device, and see if the problems go away. If they do, add devices one at a time until the problem resurfaces. Look for an updated driver for the device you added last, or replace the device.
Stability. What an interesting concept. -- Chris Maunder
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Mike Dimmick wrote:
You could try Microsoft's Windows Memory Diagnostic[^].
Thanks for the link - I may try that as well.
Mike Dimmick wrote:
Check that your hard drive cables are seated correctly and aren't damaged. Ensure that you're using the right sort of cable - I'd now recommend that all IDE/parallel-ATA cables are of the 80-way type. Saving a few pennies on 40-way cables is a false economy, IMO.
After the first time this happened, I replaced IDE the cable with the brand new one (80-conductor) that came with the new drive, and took extra pains to be absolutely sure it was seated right.
Mike Dimmick wrote:
If any component is overclocked, revert it to its correct clock speed.
Nothing overclocked. 
Mike Dimmick wrote:
Problems could also be caused by either faulty drivers or faulty add-in hardware. Remove every non-essential card and connected device, and see if the problems go away. If they do, add devices one at a time until the problem resurfaces. Look for an updated driver for the device you added last, or replace the device.
I have 2 cards connected - a NIC and an AGP graphics card. I have a graphics card of the same model in a different computer, and haven't had any problems with it, although it could perhaps be a problem with this particular card. When I changed the mainboard (the 2nd time the problem occurred), I used an alternate NIC just in case.
I have 2 USB peripherals (other than my keyboard and mouse) that were connected during at least one crash - a USB wireless NIC, and a memory card reader. The NIC was connected the 2nd and 3rd time but not the 1st. The card reader was connected the 1st and 2nd time but not the 3rd.
When I did a repair install of Windows after replacing the mainboard, it should have wiped out any bad drivers, so unless the drivers on one of the CDs were bad, or some drivers stayed in the driver database, I don't think it would be a driver problem.
Thanks for your help!
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I had soem really dodgy HD problems liek this and it turned out to be related to heat.
I was running 2 IBM 200GB drives in my case with only about .25 inches between them and mounted sideways (really stupid case design) tot he cases air flow. Both drives would go bad after about 20 hours of use. Just enough to get windows installed and have them sit overnight. Once bad the drives would not boot any more nor would they get detected. A few times I had them boot and then the machine just would reboot on it's own or lock up.
I used a thermometer on the new drives I got and watched them run idle @ around 90c. The drives themselves weer rated gfor an upper op temp of 110c. Once the drives were under use they temps rose to just around the upper limit.
I ended up getting a set of fans to mount right on the drives to keep them cool (down to around 65c) under use, changed my case to allow for better airflow, and never had a problem again.
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Can I have 2 virtual directories with same name in an app pool?
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Sudhakar wrote:
Can I have 2 virtual directories with same name in an app pool?
nope
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cheers,
Alok Gupta
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How can you tell the number of parallel ports a PC has and the address of each.
Are they a test program?
I can find info on LPT1 via the device manage, but as only one show is that the only parallel port on this PC?
I can read 255 for both LPT2/3 but are they there?
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Use the system component and browse to Component\Port\Parallel
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hi
I tried to play some files in a Media( CD )using a VC++ application.
The very first time, it takes considerable time to access the large files. But the next time onwards its very fast. And I seemed, OS not accessing the Media for that file in the later times.
When I eject the CD and again insert.Now its takes time for the 1st access
Can U please say what is the logic behind it?
Thanks in advance
Shijuck
shijuck
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This is normal cacheing behavior. The file is cached in memory, which is much much faster than a CD drive. When you eject the CD, the cached files are discarded because the original files become inaccessible.
--Mike--
Visual C++ MVP 
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Strange things are afoot at the U+004B U+20DD
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Whether its not accessing the Media from the second time onwards?
The Media is not rotaing while acessing from the second time.
shijuck
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Hello i am using windows XP as administrator. The problem is that the exploerer does not save the pages offline. That is you can view them offline. I have tried the method told in the "f1" help to synchronize the web pages before offline but i do not like it and it sometimes does not work.
Is there any way the exploer behave as in windows 98 and 2000 where u can see previous webpages by going to histroy .
Is there some problem with installation?
Plz help me out
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Try to read here[^] and here[^]. Or use google to search for it.
A thousand mile of journey, begin with the first step.
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I have to convert a program written for linux to windows. I am a complete novice in this field and require some help. The current code involves system level programming and uses a large number of linux header files including
module.h, moduleparam.h, kernel.h, fs.h ..
Are there any suggestions as to what would be a good starting point for such a conversion? Also, what would be a good resource to find windows equivalents to for these header files?
Thank you very much!
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It sounds like you're trying to convert a kernel-loadable module. The closest Windows equivalent is a device driver: to develop one, you'll need the Driver Development Kit[^]. You aren't going to be able to port the code - you'll need to do a complete rewrite. By my understanding, the Linux kernel development model is very different from the Windows driver model.
What are you actually trying to achieve? Windows may provide a facility to achieve this in user-mode code.
Stability. What an interesting concept. -- Chris Maunder
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I looked it in c:\windows\security and in c:\windows\systeme32 But i did not find it.
Where the passwords stored.
Thanx indeed.
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What security reasons??
ARSALAN MALIK
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Ask yourself what would happen if account passwords were kept somewhere. Would you want any old program (like, say, a virus or spyware) to be able to read your passwords?
--Mike--
Visual C++ MVP 
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Which password, are you talking about?? Windows logon??
ARSALAN MALIK
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Yes windows logon password.
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On Xp they are in
WINDOWS\system32\config\SAM
WINDOWS\system32\config\system
No I won't tell you how to extract the passwords!
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Ted Ferenc wrote:
No I won't tell you how to extract the passwords!
So... could you tell us the resource article that would eplain on how to extract the password???
A thousand mile of journey, begin with the first step.
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Save Children Norway-Cambodia Office
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If I did that I would be flamed 
I was asked to break the password of a laptop, the owner had died, so I did some research, as a test I created a new account and password on my XP bix and managed to get the password.
But to give you a clue, I am sure you would find it eventually, use rainbowcrack http://www.antsight.com/zsl/rainbowcrack/
I think you will find it takes far too long to make the tables for this to be an easy soluion, but it is possible! Also you need to be able to get these two files to crack the password
BTW in the end breaking into the laptop was so easy I did not need to do the above.
"An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't." - Anatole France
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Thank you very much for your information. I will have a look at the information that you provide for me and let you know if I have any problem.
A thousand mile of journey, begin with the first step.
APO-CEDC
Save Children Norway-Cambodia Office
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