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

[mpeters6@rochester.rr.com (Marc Peterson)]

Had a similar issue with Win2000...when the system shuts down Windows writes
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 Windows
dumps the data out to the drive, and then kills power.  However, the drive
has not finished writing the data out of the cache when Windows kills the
power to the drive, which results in a corrupt file.

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.

In short, disable write behind caching on all drives...it's not needed, and
can cause data corruption.

In your case, it looks like a reinstall is in your future.

Computer dorks, unite!

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.....


> Hey everybody......sorry for the OT post, but this is the second time this
> 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....
>
> I was wondering if by any chance anyone else might be getting the same
> aggrevating shit from Winders XP.
>
> 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 shut
> down in 60 seconds. (RVCHOST had prematurly stopped). Then, when I try to
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 always
> get a blue mem dump screen.
>
> 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.
>
> Any help appreciated.
>
>
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