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Good advice from the previous poster.
Just to let you know, I have an NT 3.51 driver on a network card on my 2K box.
Drivers are very backwards compatible.
Truth is the subjection of reality to an individuals perception
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fat_boy wrote: Drivers are very backwards compatible.
Thanks, that's good to know. The owner of said machine has a driver CD that shipped with his installation of Windows Me. Hopefully that'll get him going (enough to get access to an updated driver).
"Approved Workmen Are Not Ashamed" - 2 Timothy 2:15
"Judge not by the eye but by the heart." - Native American Proverb
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Windows ME used a 'kind of' WDM (Windows Driver Model). It also used a lot of virtual device drivers (VxDs) and is still dos based, as was Windows 95 so there is a fair chance the Me driver wont work on 2K.
As the other poster stated, lok for the chip set on the card, and get an NT driver for that chip set, it doeasnt matter if it is an NT 3.51, NT 4 or NT 5 (Windows 2K) drver, they will all work.
An XP (NT 5.1) driver wont though, it is too recemt and will use the NDIS 5.1 model which 2K hasnt got.
As you might have noticed the NDIS version number is the same as the OS version number.
Truth is the subjection of reality to an individuals perception
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I installed a slave hard drive on my work system at home. It was working fine. Then all of a sudden the system started crawling. I ran a virus scan (latest Norton), and nothing was found.
I then tried to access my 2nd drive and it said it wasn't formatted. I yanked it out of that machine, and put it in a USB case. Plugged it in and the same error came up. I tried it on another machine, same error.
I have never seen a hard drive unformat itself. There were a few things on there, but nothing that's mission critical. But, I would like to verify this before reformatting it.
I tried fixing the MBR, but it didn't fix the problem.
Any ideas how I can restore the drive, or see the files on it?
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It's not really unformatted. It's more probable that the partition table has been corrupted. You can probably find out more with these[^].
Dave Kreskowiak
Microsoft MVP - Visual Basic
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Thanks for the tips. I brought the disk into work, and they used some recovery software and were able to recover the items I needed.
Thanks!!!
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Have you tried using frhed to look at the raw contents of the disk? Very low level I know, you'll probably need to understand a bit about the file system itself but at least it'll help you identify whether it's worth delving deeper.
I have no idea what I just said but my intentions were sincere.
Poore Design
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Hi
Can any help to know that :
1. Is Sound Blaster present on every sound card.
2. Is it like this if I wrote routines to access Sound Blaster it can play on every system.
hope i get some answers soon.
bye
pitchu
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No. It's a widely used card, but not everybody uses one. Many people have built-on sound cards on their motherboard, common known as AC97.
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Sound Blaster[^] is the trademark name of sound cards made by Creative[^]. You should use the hardware-independent sound routines provided by your OS to write code that works on any sound card. If you want to write multi-platform code, see SDL[^].
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Hi All,
We are starting a project (.NET/C# DB: SQL Server) and one of the main requirements is performance and reliability (the system is a "mission-critical" one).
Could you please indicate articles/books/sites that could help us on:
- Defining the minimum hardware requirements (how many redundant servers should be considered, RAIDs, etc.) based on the expected number of user/requests,ammount of data etc.
- Technologies that could be used in order to support the desired reliability ( distributed services, load balance for example)
Thanks a lot,
Sergio
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Hi,
I have implemented in the code for wmi. It works just fine for cimv2 workspace and Win32_OperatingSystem class.
It is not working for any other class (i need Win32_CDROMDrive) in cimv2 namespace. Not even working for root/wmi namespace.
Is there anything else that I need to do?
Please help.
Thanks ,
Manasi
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The connection is completely seperate from the class your requesting. Does the connection work? Then you execute a WMI Query on that connection. If the connection works on one class, it'll work for every class, so long as the client machine supports that class AND has an instance of it to return.
We'd have to see the code your using to request this class to make any more recommendations.
Dave Kreskowiak
Microsoft MVP - Visual Basic
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Thanks for your reply .My connection works. Please find a part of my code:
(uReturn value is always zero for any class other than Win32_OperatingSystem,for which it is 1)
IWbemServices *pSvc = NULL;
hres = pLoc->ConnectServer(
_bstr_t(L"ROOT\\cimv2"),NULL,NULL,0,
NULL,0,0,
&pSvc);
if (FAILED(hres))
{
AfxMessageBox(_T("Could not connect"));
pLoc->Release();
CoUninitialize();
return 1;
}
AfxMessageBox(_T("Connected to ROOT\\wmi WMI namespace"));
hres = CoSetProxyBlanket(
pSvc,
RPC_C_AUTHN_WINNT,
RPC_C_AUTHZ_NONE,
NULL,
RPC_C_AUTHN_LEVEL_CALL,
RPC_C_IMP_LEVEL_IMPERSONATE,
NULL,
EOAC_NONE
);
if (FAILED(hres))
{
AfxMessageBox(_T("Could not set proxy blanket"));
pSvc->Release();
pLoc->Release();
CoUninitialize();
return 1; }
IEnumWbemClassObject* pEnumerator = NULL;
hres = pSvc->ExecQuery(
bstr_t("WQL"),
bstr_t("SELECT * FROM Win32_CDROMDrive"),
WBEM_FLAG_FORWARD_ONLY | WBEM_FLAG_RETURN_IMMEDIATELY,
NULL,
&pEnumerator);
if (SUCCEEDED(hres)){
IWbemClassObject *pclsObj = NULL;
ULONG uReturn = 0;
while (pEnumerator)
{
HRESULT hr = pEnumerator->Next(WBEM_INFINITE, 1,
&pclsObj, &uReturn);
if (FAILED(hr)){
AfxMessageBox("Failed");
}
if(0 == uReturn)
{
break;
}
VARIANT vtProp;
hr = pclsObj->Get(L"Name", 0, &vtProp, 0, 0);
CString OS = vtProp.bstrVal;
AfxMessageBox(OS);
VariantClear(&vtProp);
}
if(pclsObj) pclsObj->Release();
My connection is made..in tha last step, after querying, uReturn value is zero, and loop breaks.
Where am i going wrong? I am a beginner in this. Please excuse if there is some silly mistake i did.
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My VC++ is very rusty. You should be asking this question in the Visual C++ forum.
Dave Kreskowiak
Microsoft MVP - Visual Basic
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I have a problem with my fairly new Asus mainboard, it's a P5WD2-E Premium. If I set the Bios to enable the usb ports to run at 480MBs then try to boot with my USB keyboard and mouse attched, the computer locks up on the initial windows boot screen. My step dad had a similar problem with his Asus mainboard. Is this a common problem and/or is there a fix to it. Please help if you can, it's really frustrating.
Posted by The ANZAC
p.s. My Bios is up to date, the problem has occurred before and after the update. I am using a microsoft wireless keyboard and a no-name optical mouse.
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I found a solution to my problem, I hope this helps anyone else with the same or a similar issue:
USB Configuration:
USB Function : Enabled
Legacy USB Support : Auto
USB 2.0 Controller : Enabled
USB 2.0 Controller Mode : HiSpeed
BIOS EHCI Hand-Off : Disabled
USB Mass Storage Device Configuration:
USB Mass Storage Reset Delay : 20sec
Emulation Type : Auto
Posted by The ANZAC
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Sir/Madam
I am Final Year Engineering student. I want to get information about connection of computers at different cites.
Actually if I want to computerize a department of any company which have its offices at several cities then what steps I should follow.
Means how I can connect that no of computers in appropriate manner to get desired output.
I want to make it just like railway reservation system through in which if I enter data at same time then database must be able to prioritize data in sequence to enter in database.
Which database & platform or language I should use to code this kind of project.
What hardware i need to do so.....
Thank You
Ashish Porwal
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You need a good consultant, this can go wrong in so many ways.
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hi , can any one tell me about goood link to deal with firewall , antivirus and POP blockers..systems.... i m network eng.(primary stage) and facing lot of problems b'coz of these....they are for protection of comps bt some time create a lot of issues while installing small office or home networks...
rituparn....
RST
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That's a VERY vague question. What do you mean by "deal with firewall , antivirus and POP blockers..systems"?? Are you trying to setup a network??
Dave Kreskowiak
Microsoft MVP - Visual Basic
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Grisoft is good for all PC security utilities. Grisoft
Trinity: Neo... nobody has ever done this before.
Neo: That's why it's going to work.
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Does anyone have one of these?
I need some help with something and would appreciate anyone with experience on such units.
Cheers
Gav
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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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