[OT] WindersXP sucks, then crashes.....please help if youcan.....

[scirocco@macslut.org ('84 Scirocco)]

Don=B9t reinstall, there is a much simpler workaround:

Open your front door, and toss the windows box onto the lawn and/or
pavement.  Be careful not to hit your Scirocco.  Then, surf on over to
store.apple.com and buy a real box  :-)

Greg


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'84 VW Scirocco
'01 Ford Focus
St. Louis, MO

> From: "Marc Peterson" <mpeters6@rochester.rr.com>
> Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 09:20:32 -0600
> To: <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
> Subject: Re: [OT] WindersXP sucks, then crashes.....please help if you
> can.....
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> Had a similar issue with Win2000...when the system shuts down Windows wri=
tes
> the current configuration to the registry and then turns off the computer=
.
> What is happening is that the HDD is using a write behind cache, so Windo=
ws
> dumps the data out to the drive, and then kills power.  However, the driv=
e
> has not finished writing the data out of the cache when Windows kills the
> power to the drive, which results in a corrupt file.
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> Win2000 originally had a bug where in write behind cacheing was enabled
> automatically, and couldn't be disabled, the setting reverted itself back=
 to
> enabled every boot.  We lost close to 25 machines in the field to this
> before we realized what it was.  After bothering MS for a week we got a
> temporary patch that worked. One of the Service Packs fixed this issue
> permenantly.
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> In short, disable write behind caching on all drives...it's not needed, a=
nd
> can cause data corruption.
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> In your case, it looks like a reinstall is in your future.
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> Computer dorks, unite!
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> Marc
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "dan" <danws69@earthlink.net>
> To: <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
> Cc: <amalventano@comcast.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 10:01 AM
> Subject: [OT] WindersXP sucks, then crashes.....please help if you can...=
..
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>> Hey everybody......sorry for the OT post, but this is the second time th=
is
>> shit's happened and it's getting old quick. Unfortunately I have to run
> some
>> form of Winders at work or you can bet I'd be using LINUX.....hell, a
>> commadore 64 would probably be more stable than this shit....
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>> I was wondering if by any chance anyone else might be getting the same
>> aggrevating shit from Winders XP.
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>> I shut down last night, everything's fine....I bring it up this
>> morning.....nothing. Gets to the black screen with the bar at the bottom
> and
>> freezes at the end. So I try safe mode. Safe mode crashed and had to shu=
t
>> down in 60 seconds. (RVCHOST had prematurly stopped). Then, when I try t=
o
> go
>> back in, I get the same fucking error I got a month
>> ago.....Winders/System/Configuration.sys is corrupted or
>> missing......So.....I try the install cd so I can 'repair' it and I alwa=
ys
>> get a blue mem dump screen.
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>> This is really pissing me off. Is this some kind of covert anti-piracy
> shit?
>> Has it happened to you (yet)?
>> Any ideas? I'd like to repair rather than format/reinstall as I JUST got
> all
>> my programs installed and configured AGAIN. Luckily, I didn't loose any
>> important info because I've got it all on physically seperate HDs.
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>> Any help appreciated.
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