There goes 3 hours of my life

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• Reply 1 of 13

  luca Posts: 3,833member

  September 16, 2002 11:13PM

  I agree with you.
• Reply 2 of 13

  hmurchison Posts: 12,425member

  September 17, 2002 12:04AM

  Reinstalling 2000 Server. There goes another hour <img src="graemlins/hmmm.gif" border="0" alt="[Hmmm]" />
• Reply 3 of 13

  brianmacos Posts: 548member

  September 17, 2002 7:20AM

  isn't Win2k Server cool <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" /> right now I am setting it up at school on 2 servers for class. Between all the stuff you have to do it is a big pain in my butt setting them up. It is a learning experience but every day I go to school and work on those computers makes me want to try out OS X Server and see what that is like. My instructor got 2 old servers from his old job for only 5 dollars each. I was like damn lucky. The one I am working on now has over 900gigs of hard drive space in it. I am trying to convience him that we should do a little napster project in class but he won't go for it. <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" /> Any way I feel your pain <img src="graemlins/bugeye.gif" border="0" alt="[Skeptical]" />
  
  
  
  [ 09-17-2002: Message edited by: BrianMacOS ]</p>
• Reply 4 of 13

  neye_eve Posts: 34member

  September 17, 2002 9:14AM

  that's really weird. I've set up 5 Win2k Servers (2 of which run advanced server) in the past few months. I've also updated 40 machines to sp3 without any hitches. Is there anything "special" about your install that you might consider to be out of the ordinary?
  
  
  
  Also - one thing about service packs... You never know when you'll need them again, so it's usually a good idea (if possible for you) to dowload it once, then burn it to cd so you don't have to go through all of that again.
  
  
  
  If you have specific questions, arstechnica.com message boards can be extremely helpful in getting things going. I don't check these boards too often, but if you have a question, I may be able to help as well.
  
  
  
  neye
• Reply 5 of 13

  hmurchison Posts: 12,425member

  September 17, 2002 12:06PM

  [quote]Originally posted by neye_eve:
  
  <strong>that's really weird. I've set up 5 Win2k Servers (2 of which run advanced server) in the past few months. I've also updated 40 machines to sp3 without any hitches. Is there anything "special" about your install that you might consider to be out of the ordinary?
  
  
  
  Also - one thing about service packs... You never know when you'll need them again, so it's usually a good idea (if possible for you) to dowload it once, then burn it to cd so you don't have to go through all of that again.
  
  
  
  If you have specific questions, arstechnica.com message boards can be extremely helpful in getting things going. I don't check these boards too often, but if you have a question, I may be able to help as well.
  
  
  
  neye</strong><hr></blockquote>
  
  
  
  Thanks. I've identified that it's not SP3. I reinstalled since I had no 3rd party apps anyways and it did the same thing so I'm eating crow on that one.
  
  
  
  The weird thing is that it is triggered by something Browser related possibly. My mouse cursor works fine until I hit something in a site that just scrambles everything. I looked to update my Bios for my Asus CUSL2 MB but Asus' site was whacked. I thought it might be the Kensington Mouse driver but the same thing happened with a Logitech mouse on PS2. I'll keep whackin' at it to see what's going on. It's really strange though because the system just grinds to a halt and even the Task Manager is difficult to pull up to see what's causing the slowness.
  
  
  
  I don' think I have much that's out of the ordinary. 3com nic, SBlive, old 3dfx Vid that works fine under Win2k Desktop.
  
  
  
  I'll be glad when I get things working though.
• Reply 6 of 13

  smithjoel Posts: 240member

  September 17, 2002 12:18PM

  [quote]Originally posted by hmurchison:
  
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  I don' think I have much that's out of the ordinary. 3com nic, SBlive, old 3dfx Vid that works fine under Win2k Desktop.
  
  though.</strong><hr></blockquote>
  
  
  
  Why are you running Win2k Server?
• Reply 7 of 13

  anders Posts: 6,523member

  September 17, 2002 12:36PM

  Its hard enough to learn all aspects of my own trade so I haven´t time to learn some elses. Thats why I´m using Mac.
  
  
  
  Hey if you worked a little bit on that sentence it could be a killer Apple commercial.
• Reply 8 of 13

  hmurchison Posts: 12,425member

  September 17, 2002 2:51PM

  [quote]Originally posted by smithjoel:
  
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  Why are you running Win2k Server?</strong><hr></blockquote>
  
  
  
  I'm trying to get into Net Administration. Learning Windows puts me on an equal plane with the other MCSE shills but my hope is to bounce over to learning Unix so OSX is really going to help. I want to investigate getting an ACTC also.
• Reply 9 of 13

  smithjoel Posts: 240member

  September 17, 2002 8:24PM

  Ah, best of luck to you.
  
  
  
  Last year I bought an extra computer as a hobby box. It was the best $100 I spent on computer epuipment in a long time(mostly becasue it had a 3com NIC, the parell processing kind -- a $50 value). But any way it has save me countless hours when tring a new OS(linux for me). You don't have to worry about backups and you still have your regular computer when it's down.
• Reply 10 of 13

  neye_eve Posts: 34member

  September 18, 2002 11:02AM

  interesting. Once sp3 goes in, it updates the "software update" thing. I wonder if perhaps it's doing it's own thing in the background when IE starts. It doesn't very plausible to me, but it's a related possibility.
  
  
  
  Can you verify that if you don't use the browser, then everything's ok? What about using NS or Opera...? I'll fully admit, I'm kinda at a loss here, and the arstechnica people would probably be more helpful.
  
  
  
  One last quick question - have you dcpromo'd it to be an Active Directory Domain Controler, or is it sitting as a stand-alone server?
  
  
  
  neye
• Reply 11 of 13

  hmurchison Posts: 12,425member

  September 18, 2002 12:10PM

  neye_eve
  
  
  
  I haven't yet enabled AD. I want to but I want to fix this litle issue. You know it's something in a Browser that seems to trigger it. If I'm just clicking through the system it's fine. The problem exists in both IE and Netscape. Could this be some sort of javascript error? It's just strange becaue the mouse cursor just goes wild and loses all tracking..I move the mouse right..the cursor goes left. It's a nightmare.
• Reply 12 of 13

  i am monkey Posts: 324member

  September 18, 2002 5:29PM

  I haven't heard or read one good thing about SP3. I'm glad I didn't jump the gun and put it on the network. Woooooooooo!
• Reply 13 of 13

  giaguara Posts: 2,724member

  September 18, 2002 7:29PM

  i have lost * ten years *
  
  
  
  <img src="graemlins/bugeye.gif" border="0" alt="[Skeptical]" />
  
  
  
  i used windows...
  
  
  
  
  
  ...
  
  
  
  cmon??
  
  you could have chosen to install any other server.. a linux for example. ..
  
  <img src="graemlins/hmmm.gif" border="0" alt="[Hmmm]" />
  
  
  
  [ 09-18-2002: Message edited by: Mulattabianca ]</p>