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Hi,
I am trying to install windows 2003 Evaluation version on my laptop (Acer). The text setup works ok. When the system reboots, I can see windows 2003 logo for a little amount of time and then the screen goes blank; very similar as if I have shutdown my computer.
I tried flashing the ROM, but no joy. I think it has something to do with display. Can anyone help me out in this ?
I know there are couple of techies all round here...can anyone please guide me.
Thanks
Sameer
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Sounds like you installed the wrong video driver. Restart the computer and press F8 during the POST to get the boot menu. Pick the safe mode option from the menu to boot in VGA mode. From there you can install the correct driver.
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Thanks for the reply Mike. But that didn't work either.
Thanks
Sameer
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there are lot of things which might be wrong.
give some more info like.
are you able to install the OS completely?
if yes then
are you able to boot into safe boot if you restart?
if yes then
also try to boot by attaching some other monitor(CRT) also.
might be display is on some other device.
if still is doesnot work contact your acer vendor.
this might be the known issue for gfx driver on your platform.
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Hi DP,
Thanks for the reply.
Yes, I am able to install the windows 2003 text mode setup smoothly. The setup then reboots the system to start the GUI setup. I can see the windows 2003 logo for a short while and then the screen goes blank. However, the power button light continues to glow that means the system is still ON, but nothing comes on screen!!!
I searched for this case but nothing seems to work. I come to know that windows 2003 requires console redirection monitor but I didn't find any such setting in BIOS of my laptop.
I am unable to start in safe mode as well. I haven't tried using another monitor as I don't have one and I can't afford to buy one for this cause.
I tried using recovery console but even that didn't solve the problem. It seems like I may not be able to install W2k3 on my laptop.
The configuration of my laptop is Pentium celeron 1.2 GHZ. 512 MB DDR2 RAM. LCD Monitor, 40 GB HDD, DVD recorder, etc.
Any help will be highly appreciated.
Many Thanks,
Sameer
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Hi Sameer,
When the system reboots after text setup( I think you are using unattended installation )and you see the windows progress bar at that time your graphics driver also is getting started so that OS can bring the system to High Res mode from VGA mode.
If there was some problem with sys BIOS or video bios than you wont see the post or windows progress bar. And graphics driver are part of your OS installation. I think there is something wrong with the Gfx driver configured for your gfx chipset. It may have some issues with ACER shipped platforms. It would be really difficult to point the problem without actually debugging  . I work on gfx drivers, i've seen and worked on similar issues but there can be 'n' reasons for this problem. I would suggest you not to tweek a lot with system and take help from your vendor of Acer because they will definitely help you here.
Thanks,
Dhirendra
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Hi Dhirendra,
Thanks for the reply.
I will accept your suggestion and would consult a technician from Acer.
Thanks.
Sameer
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My DVD-Burner seems to have given up the ghost, but only partially.
I burnt an ISO of a movie to the disk, and the disk plays in an external DVD player but the drive will not see the disk it just burnt.
Anyone hear of this happening before. All the ones I had go in the past just went and would not read or write anything.
This is really odd.. The only thing I can think of is I am also using a new batch of blanks. Maybe the disks have something to do with it.
Do writers use different lasers for reading a writing?
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I had an old Plextor CD-R drive that I bought when 4x was the norm for CD-R speeds. It performed flawlessly until I got some faster disks (16x I think). When I tried to burn to such a disc, the drive would act like everything was ok, but the resulting disc was a coaster and unusable. I still have no idea WTF the drive wouldn't handle faster media. 
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Michael Dunn wrote: I still have no idea WTF the drive wouldn't handle faster media.
I bought a spindle of CDs once that had a warning in the package about using older CDRW drives and that they may need firmware upgrades to use the faster blanks.
These DVDs I am using do not have any speeds listed on them... Maybe I will try burning at a lower speed and see if that helps.
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Sound like cheap disks - I had that problem once and reducing the speed sorted it.
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I don't know about different lasers but definiely different power levels which could change the laser's behaviour.
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Hiii
For testing a NMS (network management system) , we need to create virtual networks of different types having different devices such as WinXp machines, printers, scanners etc.
There are softwares available to do this, but we want to develop our own.
Any hints on what needs to be done ?? 
i mean how can i create virtual systems by writing some code ?? which dlls , which APIs etc ??
If you know it , Please help !!! 
In God We Trust. Everything Else We Test.
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Please do not cross-post in multiple forums.
Dave Kreskowiak
Microsoft MVP - Visual Basic
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Plz Search Neural Network and Virtual network on codeproject search articles
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Hi All,
Hoping someone with some RFID experience can help me gauge an understanding of it.
Do the readers get the Co-Ords of the tag, or is the location based solely on which reader has picked up the tags signal?
I know some companies say they use it for stock control, so just wanted to get an understanding of how that worked.
Regards
Tony
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Most RFID tags have no locator capabilities. The location is determined by knowing where the reader is, not the tag. Since the range of an RFID tag transmitter is very short (usually within 10 feet), the tags location is the location of the reader antenna.
The tag passes through a field generated by the reader. This generates a small current in the tag which powers up and transmits its ID. The reader picks up that signal and reads the tag ID.
That's the basics of how it works anyway.
Dave Kreskowiak
Microsoft MVP - Visual Basic
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I like the "powers up" part.
Kinda makes me think of a huge robot, whose eyes begin to glow as it slowly gets on its feet....
Or a plant after an accident of some kind.
You know, with beeping, lights flashing about, strange smells of partly burned electronics...
Cheers,
Sebastian
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Contra vim mortem non est medicamen in hortem.
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Hello all,
As soon as I was able to get it into my computer I bought a Matrox card with dual head in order to increase the productivity.
Now I have a new computer and also I got a new matrox card with dual head. That computer came with an ATI card inside that now is not being used.
One coworker has a Pentium 4 with the 915G chipset that has an integrated graphics card. I was thinking on adding that other graphics card there in order to be able to use them both.
Do you think that this is possible? which things should I consider?
PS: I would like to be able to have two separate monitors working with the same computer, like the effect I get with the Matrox Millenium P650 that I have in my computer.
As always thank you in advance.
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yes it is possible but you can view same thing on both monitor, am i right?
SP
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Bugs can neither be created nor be removed from software by a developer. They can only be converted from one form to another. The total number of bugs in the software always remain constant.
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No, I don't want to see the same on the two monitors...
I would like to extend the windows desktop to the second monitor. In this way, you can have, for example, the MSDN in one monitor and the VC++ in the other one.
This is intended to improve the productivity avoiding to minimize and maximize continuously...
Thank you.
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Joan Murt wrote: One coworker has a Pentium 4 with the 915G chipset that has an integrated graphics card. I was thinking on adding that other graphics card there in order to be able to use them both.
This is VERY dependant on motherboard, but many (I won't say most, because although I have eval'd many, I can't even touch a decent percentage of 'all') motherboards will disable integrated graphics if you put in a graphics card (or worse, force you to disable it before it recognized the graphics card as a graphics card -- you can spend half a day before you realize that the motherboard if fighting you to not recognize the card).
The other part is slot type. You can have any combination of PCIe + PCI just as you could have AGP+PCI, and now you can have dual PCIe in parallel integrated (SLI or CrossFire) or parallel independant (for more displays). Windows handles this fine, **IF** the hardware supports it. I don't mix brands because drivers tend to fight each other, but I know several people who have got multi-brand working in multi-card/multi-monitor integration. But you will make life easier with same-brand and same driver situations.
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Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau.
Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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OK, after reading several notes from different people here, I've decided to buy a new card with 2 heads.
Thank you.
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Joan Murt wrote: I've decided to buy a new card with 2 heads.
that is the easiest way to do it. Not always the cheapest if you have left over equipment, but if you count your hours into the equation, it looks better on paper to just get a 2 head graphics card.
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Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau.
Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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Yes, it's a pity to throw hardware to the box of those old things that never are used again, but well, it happens so as you say about equations... it's better to spend time in other things...
And that graphics card is very cheap so this is not a big deal, it was more related to the fact that I wanted to make it work...
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