October 19th, 2009
There are many reasons of Windows XP keeps rebooting.
Usually, when windows keeps rebooting, there are some options you can choose:
- Safe Mode
- Safe Mode with Networking
- Safe Mode with Command Prompt
- Last known Good Configuration(Your most recent settings that worked)
Unfortunately, most of time none of them works, it looks like you can’t do anything with them. While windows is rebooting, you may press F8 to get more options, they are:
- Enable Boot loggin
- Enable VGA mode
- Directory Service Restore Mode(Windows domain controllers only)
- Debugging mode
- Disable automatic restart on system failure
- Reboot
- Return to OS choices menu
What can you do? Try “Disable automatic restart on system failure”, you will get some detail information.
Here is an one example:
Blue screen
UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME
STOP:0×000000ED(0×8A2CA9E),0xC0000006,0×00000000,0×00000000)
Microsoft has given an answer:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555302
Let’s try chkdsk /r
After one and half hours, computer showed message:
CHKDSK found and fixed one or more errors on the volume.
then type exit, the computer restarted.
It worked!!! So, this one can be a case of why Windows XP keeps rebooting.
TODO: Will wirte more different cases for Windows XP keeps rebooting.
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October 17th, 2009
- Firewall(config)# ip address ip_address subnet_mask
- Firewall(config)# route if_name foreign_network foreign_mask gateway[metric]
The line 2 above is the key, without it, you can not access the firewall from outside.
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October 13th, 2009
Symptom: Open Outlook express, it is frozen (mouse become hour glass shape when hovering on it).
Work around:
- Second repair windows, does not work
- Uninstall/Reinstall Outlook express through “Add/Remove Windows Components”, does not work
- Looking for the file location, there is no “Identities” folder under ” Documents and settings/{User}/Local Settings/Application Data”, I guess, it is the culprit.
Because the outlook express is frozen, I could not check the configuration through it. So, I opened the Registry to find out the file location.
- Start->run->regedit
- To “\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Identities\{some numbers}\Software\Microsoft\Outlook Express\5.0″
- On the right hand side, look at “Store Root” I found the file location is not default.
Now,here is the solution:
- Move all the files under the folder which from “Store Root” above to one backup folder.
- Open Outlook Express, no more frozen, great!
- Check the folder, 6 new files are generated, they are:
- folder.dbx
- inbox.dbx
- offline.dbx
- outbox.dbx
- pop3
- pop3uidl.dbx
because the computer is connected to Internet, new emails are coming …
Last but not least, in Outlook Express, File -> Import ->Messages…
next, select “Microsoft Outlook Express 6″
next, select “Import mail from an OE6 store directory”, don’t forget check the box besides “Only import mail that was downloaded or created in OE6 … ”
next, brows to the backup folder mentioned above
next, select “All folders”
next, bingo!
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October 13th, 2009
When start the computer, it says:
Windows XP could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: \WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM
I found this article from Microsoft Knowledge Base is useful to solve this problem.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307545
I just followed the instruction and solved the problem.
NOTE: The original article said to delete these files before copy them from c:\windows\repair:
system
software
sam
security
default
But I found you can just copy & over write them to save time. It works
UPDATE: After I copied these 5 files mentioned above, the system told me to do:
- reactive the windows
- reinstall some drivers for motherboard (For this case, motherboard is Intel D945 Gtp)
UPDATE: Actually, it is not necessary to copy all these 5 files. Only the SYSTEM file is corrupt ,why should you recover all of them? And the other 4 files control other functions for Windows XP, if they are overwritten, the corresponding functions would be changed.
TODO: Will add detail information for these 5 files.
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October 9th, 2009
http://technet.microsoft.com/zh-cn/magazine/2008.10.higha.aspx
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October 8th, 2009
I tried install CentOS 5.3 on Hyper-V Version 2 before, it DID NOT work, I googled and found this was very useful:
http://www.jules.fm/Logbook/files/win2008_linuxic_rc2_rhel.html
However, the author said the method did not support CentOS 5.3. When Windows 2008 R2 came out, I tried it again, it worked fine.
The installation is very easy:
- Download the CentOS 5.3 ISO file from www.centos.org
- Create a virtual machine on Windows 2008 R2 Hyper-V system.
- Install CentOS 5.3 on the virtual machine.
- yum update (When I do “yum update” on Hyper-V Version 2 system, the CentOS 5.3 will die on boot up with error message of “kernel panic”)
- Download Linux_IC from Microsoft Website and install it to the installed CentOS 5.3.
- Setup Mouse driver
- UPDATE November 19, 2009: Make sure add Legacy Network Adapter, otherwise, you can not see the network card when you use setup utility.
That’s it. All done!
TODO: I am going to write the details for this topic. Before I finish it, if you encounter any problem during the installation, please leave me a comment, I will try my best to answer your question.
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September 26th, 2009
MOSS stands for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, here the version is 2007.
Our system is built on Windows 2008 Datacenter Server R2, following are the steps:
Install Windows 2008 Enterprise Server R2. This is very easy, no special problem.
Install SQL Server 2008,something need to be aware of:
- Install .NET Framework 3.5.1
- Setup the firewall: Http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkId=94001
- Under “Reporting Service Configuration” select “Install SharePoint integrated mode default configuration”
- Don’t forget Install SQL Server 2008 SP1 before running it.
Now, All the preparing job are done. When start install MOSS, you will get
You must install Office SharePoint Server 2007 – Please read Microsoft knowledge Base article:962935 with the most recent service pack. Office SharePoint Server 2007 – Please read Microsoft knowledge Base article:962935 without service packs has a known compatibility issue with this version of windows.
However, you can not find where the article 962935.
After doing some Google, I find the link below tells how to solve the problem
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc261890.aspx
for my case, it is just as:
- Create a folder C:\moss_setup
- Copy all stuff from MOSS setup DVD’s x64 folder to C:\moss_setup
- Download officeserver2007sp2-kb953334-x64-fullfile-en-us.exe
- Run officeserver2007sp2-kb953334-x64-fullfile-en-us.exe /extract:C:\moss_setup\Updates under DOS command window, if you run it under PowerShell, you need add “.\” in front of the command.
- From C:\moss_setup, click setup
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