Re: SYSTEM DISK FREEZES WITH HEAVY IO ON DISK

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Hi,

If the life os an application server is 5 years you will have to change
hardware to keep up with obselence and efficiency. Many times with XP and
VIsta the only remedy to solve issues a restore or re-install.

With servers a re-install is a major task -- and I would assume Microsoft
designed their softwar so its life expentancy is at least 5 to 7 years with
multiple hardware changes during the seven years. To assume every time you
change hardware you need to re-install is redicoulous.

With a car, you don't expect to change engine every 2 years.

I know statements made that a re-install will fix your problems, but we all
know it is unrealistic with OS's. If it is Microsoft OS don't meet at least
mininum requirements, it's expens over it's life expentancy is enormous.

In my casethe migration using Ghost was easy and un event full. No I have a
problem, an dno one can identify why?? It lasck expertise to this what is so
common.

We need to be smart enough to realize that upgard of hardware is normal, and
that OS needs to be able to meet that requirements.If not, because of it
complexity, we miss the boat completely.

May be we are not all that smart, and have Microsoft leads to very in -
efficent systems and very low expenctations.


Look, I have another post, asking for help wht SP3 server update fails. Even
with the log file displayed, no one knows why. Very disturbing. Microsoft as
whole is mssing it's mission. And its supports can only say "we don't know
why?", so re-install at a very high expense is the only wise
solution.Whoh!!!


"Leythos" <void@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:MPG.22ac6ad4f292065598988d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In article <4842189e$2$4256$4c368faf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
WouterKCS@xxxxxxxxxxx says...
Still, I had no such problems on an AMD system. When I migrated (copied)
to
Intel, the problem started. I can not copy large files from or to the
drive - it freezes. I installed XP on this machineand it was fast!

Some how the drivers or setup are not compatible when I switched to Intel
and SATA. Maybe I need to move back to an IDE drive?

Re-installing SBS is a lot of work. Maybe wait till the new SBS 2008
comes
out?

Thanks,

PS: Was surprised that the move from AMD to Intel was even possible. In
the
past and XP, this was not possible. Also, with 4GB of RAM, it uses 4GB --
not 3.1 with XP.

The simple fact remains that you may/will have problems as you change
platforms, it just happens. Yes, you can get away with it many times,
most in fact, but there is always some problem, some crappy driver that
loads an extra hidden task that runs improperly in the background,
waiting on you, like Jason with his hockey mask....

You can't just "Copy" and expect things to work properly, and with a
very limited system like yours you can't expect much performance either.

Find anything AMD or related to the old motherboard, remove it, make
sure that you've downloaded all the INTEL Drivers from the intel
website, install them, reboot, if it still works then you should be
better off, but you would have a sure fire solution if you just did a
swing migration.

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