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[Martin_1962]

Came back from dinner to find a server down.

I was running windows update but not reboot.

Got that working but my PC would not connect.

Rebooted and could not connect to any of them.

Device manager said error 10.

Got onto internet on another PC, ound driver issue.

Did a roll back. Rolled back from 2007 MS driver to a 2009 Realtek driver.

WTF

Just what I need when I am the only one in work today and cannot run my code for testing!

[TheBoy]

Hmmm, quality PCs if they have Realtek NICs

I doubt any server ever made has Realtek NICs either, for the same reason



What could have caused it? Are the Realtek drivers WHQL? How do the version numbers align with the MS version numbers?

[TheBoy]

Still, I got as far as getting my new works laptop out of its box (only had it a month), as she managed to poor a cup of tea over the box this morning

Keep looking at it, really should strike up enough enthusism to at least turn it on and see if it actually works, even if I can't be bothered to put our required build on it (XP, yuk, in this friggin day and age. And I'm gonna end up going around the world twice looking for drivers for it)

[Martin_1962]

Sorry it was my work PC - Win7 64bit Q8300 which had the NWC problem.

I think the UPS failed on the server but it is up now

[pscocoa]

Still, I got as far as getting my new works laptop out of its box (only had it a month), as she managed to poor a cup of tea over the box this morning

Keep looking at it, really should strike up enough enthusism to at least turn it on and see if it actually works, even if I can't be bothered to put our required build on it (XP, yuk, in this friggin day and age. And I'm gonna end up going around the world twice looking for drivers for it)

Talking to my lawyer  today about some work to be done - he has "trodden on his computer" and needs to buy a new one. That has to be a first surely !! [smiley=2vrolijk_08.gif]

[aaronjb]

Still, I got as far as getting my new works laptop out of its box (only had it a month), as she managed to poor a cup of tea over the box this morning

Keep looking at it, really should strike up enough enthusism to at least turn it on and see if it actually works, even if I can't be bothered to put our required build on it (XP, yuk, in this friggin day and age. And I'm gonna end up going around the world twice looking for drivers for it)

Talking to my lawyer  today about some work to be done - he has "trodden on his computer" and needs to buy a new one. That has to be a first surely !! [smiley=2vrolijk_08.gif]

You'd think, but .. certain members of the sales team at my place would return their laptops to IT with 'broken screens' and suspicious stiletto-heel-looking dents in the case..

[pscocoa]

must be on board web cam positioning problem?

[aaronjb]

must be on board web cam positioning problem?

[TheBoy]

Still, I got as far as getting my new works laptop out of its box (only had it a month), as she managed to poor a cup of tea over the box this morning

Keep looking at it, really should strike up enough enthusism to at least turn it on and see if it actually works, even if I can't be bothered to put our required build on it (XP, yuk, in this friggin day and age. And I'm gonna end up going around the world twice looking for drivers for it)

Talking to my lawyer  today about some work to be done - he has "trodden on his computer" and needs to buy a new one. That has to be a first surely !! [smiley=2vrolijk_08.gif]

Back in the nasty NT3.5 days, one of the servers I supported (out of hundreds) was a Proliant 2000 (or was it a 1500, age is getting to me). Its job was a PDC for a domain of 10s of thousands of people.

I started getting lots of calls from the support managers that people couldn't change their Windows password, so immediately went to log on to this PDC, unsuccessfully. So jumped in the car, and pointed towards Milton Keynes.

Eventually, whilst on the way, I got hold of a support guy in the building, and he went to look...

"Its fallen over", he reports back, "but I need a hand if you're nearly here".

I arrived, we go to the comms room, sure enough, it had fallen over....   ....where the builders had knocked it too close to the edge of the suspended floor, and it had toppled

Brings a new meaning to "the server has fallen over"



Same server, probably the same week, I caught the builders using it as a sawing horse


Same building, different comms room, the builders had finished one half of the comms room, so we were moving the equipment to there, so they could finish the other half.  Anyway, we were moving a DEC VAX, quite a big beastie on wheels, for those that know their VAXs. DEC didn't allow anyone but themselves to move stuff, so we were trying to do on the quiet, so nobody would notice.  All was going well untiil we got it to the new floor, which turned out not to be stable enough for the weight. Opps. 6 strong blokes trying to lift a VAX out of the floor .

Same day as the VAX incident, one of the guys was connecting one of the Cisco Catalysts up, and as the sparkies hadn't arrived, plugged it into the mains....  ....but across 2 phases. Jeez, everyone dashed out for fresh undies.  Sent the catalyst back as early life failure, Cisco had a new one there within 48 hours

[Teebee]

My home desktop has a realtek nic <spit>, W7 has unhid it 3 times now from the optional list, each time I tried it and had to roll it back.

[Martian]

Hmmm, quality PCs if they have Realtek NICs

Realtek seem to get everywhere these days, they even managed to get their foot in the door with regard my notebook, although that was only for the soundcard.
Pretty much everything else on it is Intel, except the Wi-Fi which is Broadcom.

One thing is for sure, Realtek is definately a cheap tat solution.

[TheBoy]

Hmmm, quality PCs if they have Realtek NICs

Realtek seem to get everywhere these days, they even managed to get their foot in the door with regard my notebook, although that was only for the soundcard.
Pretty much everything else on it is Intel, except the Wi-Fi which is Broadcom.

One thing is for sure, Realtek is definately a cheap tat solution.

Realtek audio cards do have one advantage - you can (kind of) have multiple audio endpoints under Vista/Win7 (not sure how they get them WHQL certified, as that breaks MS' rules(to appease the film/music peeps, rather than simply to peeve off the end users).

Still rubbish though

[Martian]

Still rubbish though

I wholeheartedly agree.
I spent the best part of a week trying to track down why I was getting a mains hum buzz every time the OH's laptop was plugged in and the audio out was connected to another device (eg, Portastudio, standard amplifier, tape deck, anything really).

Turned out it was because her PSU has an earth connection (3 pin cloverleaf mains lead) and it was creating some kind of loop that the external device took exception to.
Chopping the moulded mains plug off and rewiring the plug without the earth connection cured it, but what a palava.

[TheBoy]

Still rubbish though

I wholeheartedly agree.
I spent the best part of a week trying to track down why I was getting a mains hum buzz every time the OH's laptop was plugged in and the audio out was connected to another device (eg, Portastudio, standard amplifier, tape deck, anything really).

Turned out it was because her PSU has an earth connection (3 pin cloverleaf mains lead) and it was creating some kind of loop that the external device took exception to.
Chopping the moulded mains plug off and rewiring the plug without the earth connection cured it, but what a palava.

Double insulated PSU pack, surely, so why the earth  :-/

[Kevin Wood]

Still rubbish though

I wholeheartedly agree.
I spent the best part of a week trying to track down why I was getting a mains hum buzz every time the OH's laptop was plugged in and the audio out was connected to another device (eg, Portastudio, standard amplifier, tape deck, anything really).

Turned out it was because her PSU has an earth connection (3 pin cloverleaf mains lead) and it was creating some kind of loop that the external device took exception to.
Chopping the moulded mains plug off and rewiring the plug without the earth connection cured it, but what a palava.

Double insulated PSU pack, surely, so why the earth  :-/

They have started to add earth connections to meet EMC requirements. Allows them to implement a better mains filter in the PSU.

Kevin