Thursday, March 04
Voodoo Computer Maintenance
The Windows 2000 file server here at work, the only server that we have running anything other than Linux, the server that I know absolutely nothing about and have never touched (which is why it is still running Windows and hasn't been quietly, um, upgraded), just died. Died as dead as a very dead thing.
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The Windows 2000 file server here at work, the only server that we have running anything other than Linux, the server that I know absolutely nothing about and have never touched (which is why it is still running Windows and hasn't been quietly, um, upgraded), just died. Died as dead as a very dead thing.
I poked and prodded it, power cycled, pulled the little BIOS battery, all to no avail. I called the person responsible for the server (who is, of course, not in the office today), also to no avail.
I pulled out the memory, and stuck it back in a different slot.
It works.
The moral of this story is: Us experts don't know what we're doing either. We're just methodical in our ignorance.
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You have no idea how many times methodical ignorance has saved my butt. Just make sure you do everything quickly and occasioanlly switch to a console view for effect if anyone is watching...
Posted by: Rob at Thursday, March 04 2004 06:11 AM (kXZI6)
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Err, doesn't the solution just imply a bad memory slot on the mobo? And that if mem slots are going, you might want to replace the mobo before worse things start happening?
Posted by: Chris C. at Thursday, March 04 2004 07:13 PM (8LBIx)
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Maybe.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Thursday, March 04 2004 09:23 PM (jtW2s)
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