Re: XP General question - wrong ng though?

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From: Pop Rivet (r91658_at_usadatanet.net)
Date: 03/13/04 

Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 07:39:09 -0500

Sharon,

   Thank you much; never thought about "parallel" installs before, but after
a little research, it sounds like a good idea to me. I DO want to learn,
but need to get things running again soon, so I think I"ll try it.
   I also have a spare NIC card - so I can try that too. Makes sense.

Thanks for sticking with me. That's just the kind of "general" advice I was
looking for and describing things wasn't an easy task. It's hard when one
can't even figure out which question/s to ask.

One final question if I may:
   The boot delay is so long and pretty obviously waiting for "something" to
time out, are there any machine logs I can look at to see if there are any
error or warning messages that might point to what the delay is waiting for?
I have all the logs except packet monitoring turned on & set to default
sizes; 512k if I recall, but it's sort of an information overload since I'm
new to them all except Event Viewer.

By the time you read this I'll have already installed, parallel or not,
something, but I have archived all the logs I can find for later study and
analysis. I'd really like to figure out what's up and how to "see" the
problem as though I knew what to look for!

Pop

"Sharon F" <sharonfDEL@ETEmvps.org> wrote in message
news:%23kinhO6BEHA.464@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 13:47:44 -0500, Pop Rivet wrote:
>
> > What do you think? I'm not afraid to do a clean install - the time will
be
> > wellspent compared to waiting for this tentative boat anchor to get
rebooted
> > every time!!
>
> The start up problems indicate a possible hardware problem. Since the
> network printers and the LAN have exhibited troubling symptoms - I think a
> new NIC card is an inexpensive experiment. It may even end up being a
> possible solution. Have seen a lot of good setups go wacky due to a
> problematic NIC.
>
> If you decide to bite the bullet and try a clean install, you could do
> what's called a "parallel" install first. It means running two copies of
XP
> on the same hard drive. Not something you want to do permanently but if
> that install works without a hitch than you know the problem is something
> in the old configuration. If it's flakey too, then you would concentrate
> more on hardware solutions.
>
> --
> Sharon F
> MS MVP - Windows XP Shell/User

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