Windows 2000 Workstation
Windows 2000 Professional help and discussions.
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can't dual boot
by Guest promicro- 8 replies
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hi all, i have Win2K Pro on the 1st partition of my hard drive and XP Pro on the 2nd partition. Win2K is my regular system and XP was just added. in order to boot into W2k i need to use the ntdetect and ntldr from W2K, it doesn't work with the XP version, and of course i can't boot XP with these. what am i missing or what can i try ?? thanks and happy holidays to all rob ps:my partitions were created with PartitionMagic
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Downgrading an XPmachine...need utility...
by Guest TestTurtle- 5 replies
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That analyzes the hardware and sets pathways to manufacturers. I have a damn gateway product that keeps rebooting after a bugcheck with XP. eMachines model W3118 I used to use Aida32 and used it to get the proper nVidia video driver for W2kP but aida is an older product and the author has gone commercial, going to the Everest team. There is HWiNFO32 but it is shareware. Being older aida32 can't identify all components,placing 'unknown' it catagories where it doesn't recogize the hardware. Isn't there a freeware solution out there anymore? Thanks.
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Were are the install files for Win2K?
by Guest misterrogers@no-email.com- 4 replies
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When I bought my computer it came with a registered version of Windows 2000 installed. I did not want to use Win2K at that time. I have always used Win98 and I just unplugged the Win2k harddrive, which was only 10 gigs anyhow, so I had no need for it. I installed a larger harddrive and installed 98 on it. Recently I was having some hard drive problems, so I plugged in that Windows 2K drive to determine if the problem was my hard drive, or something else. It was the hard drive, so I was stuck using Win2k for a few days until I got things repaired. In the process, I got to like Win2k, but I also want to keep using Win98. Thus, I want to make a dual boot …
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Win2k discs
by Guest bonkers2c- 2 replies
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I'm setting up a donated PC for my mother-in-law who is the administrator of a private day school. It was loaded with Win2K Pro from the factory (I have the product key) but upgraded to WinXP. Unfortunately, the donators did not (and do not have) the original install discs or anything. I'm not going to use my own install CDs for XP, and if I had a copy of win2K, I could use the product key assigned to the box. Is there any place (or user) that can sell/can donate a copy of Win2K? E-bay is running them for $150+, and honestly, the PC isn't worth that cost; however it is a definite upgrade from the Win98 AMD K62 that she is using now.
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Mixer Device
by Guest Roger Fink- 4 replies
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I'm having a problem with an application, but I suspect it's an OS or hardware problem, so hopefully this is the correct place to solve it. On my W2K desktop computer, I have a program for digitally recording and cleaning up analog audio sources such as cassettes and vinyl ("Golden Records" from NCH Swift). At the start of a conversion, a wizard appears. In the box where the record level is set there is a click bar, "Open Windows Record Mixer". But when I click the bar I get an error message: "There is a problem with your sound hardware. You may install mixer devices from the Add/Remove hardware wizard in the Control Panel". Trying to follow through on the…
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Administrator Privileges and permissions when in a User account
by Guest vdp3r@hotmail.com- 3 replies
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I'm trying to get Eraser to erase the folder left behind when I close a sandboxed apllication - such as Firefox - in a User account. However, I get a popup stating that Administrator privileges are required. Obviously, I don't want to browse in an account with Admin priviliges, so I experimented altering permissions to finally give Everyone permission on both the Eraser file and the folder I want to erase. But this has had no effect and still the message comes up that admin privileges are required. I thought that by giving Everyone full control both over the file doing the erasing and the folder I want erased, that would effectively give Admin privileg…
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We have a small lab network with a Windows 2000 (SP4) server. There are about 15 machines on the network, most running Win2000 (SP4), a couple of XP machines, and 4 Linux boxes. About a week ago, some users were unable to access the shared drives in the server. In the event log was the following: No license was available for user lab\MrUser using product SMB server 5.0 Event 201 The product view tab of the licensing tool displayed the following: Product: Windows Server Per seat purchase: 0 Per seat allocated: 0 Per server purchased: 24 Per server allocated: -105 (yes, negative 105) MS KB 103138 seems to address this issu…
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Win2000 Pro Networking Issues (and driver issues)
by Guest freaky- 1 reply
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Hey there, a computer of a friend is experiencing some weird issues. He said he removed some spam filter. Anyways DHCP service immediately assigns an APIPA (169.254.x.y) address (other computers work fine on the LAN), when assigning fixed IP I can ping computers, but not resolve DNS (not through ping/IE nor nslookup, nslookup will immediately report there's no response from the server). Also can't connect on IP with IE. Tried removing TCP/IP, but then I can't reinstall it. There's an error stating there are no drivers at the given location (can't choose a location). Got TCP/IP back on the card by installing the extra TCP/IP service (time/finger etc). If I…
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Computer reboots on Shutdown, locks up on Stand By Am working through various KB articles troubleshooting an APM issue with my Win2K computer. Two problems occur: 1. When it's powered down via Start/Shut Down..., Shut down, the shutdown proceeds normally, Windows closes out and the power goes off, but as soon as the fans stop spinning (~3-4 seconds after screen goes black), the motherboard fires up again and reboots, back into Windows. 2. Standby mode: computer appears to go into standby mode successfully (popup reports going into Standby, screen goes black, disks stop spinning, and CPU fan shuts off. But then the CPU fan and disks fire up again, the fron…
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TCP IP Settings on W2K Server
by Guest damienm- 2 replies
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Probably very basic I know, but have not encountered it before. I have 2 W2K Servers running AD and DNS. In the TCP / IP static settings do I need to put anything in the DNS Primary and Secondary or leave it empty. If I leave it empty will they default to themselves for DNS? Currently they have their own IP's as primary and the secondary is pointing other DC. We are having policy & replication problems and I am curious as to whether or not these settings would have any impact. Thanks in advance. Damien -- damienm ------------------------------------------------------------------------ damienm's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/member.php…
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function address 0x4f65a5aa caused a protection fault
by Guest michele.pardini@gmail.com- 1 reply
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Hello, i have a Windows 2000 Adv Server SP4 running cluster with Printer Server resource. From 2days every pc connected to the printers receives function address 0x4f65a5aa caused a protection fault when selecting printer and cannot print. Not KB908506 issue, already tried.... Printers are HP 2420 and P3005, already changed driver version, problem persists... HELP!!!
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2000 advanced server sp4 memory max with sql 2000 enterprise
by Guest SPiderman- 1 reply
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I have been reading conflicting info on the max memory for 2000 adv server memory. I know MS mentions that it is 8gb, but then I have found some sql articles that reference it can go up to 16gb. Is there a way to get this to work or am I stuck with upgrading to 2003 or 2000 datacenter? The applicaiton won't work on 2003.....
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Get current external IP
by Guest JP Bless- 8 replies
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I need to connect remotely using WinXp remote desktop. Currently the computer I wish to connect to is connected to a router that obtains dynamic "external IP" from the ISP. So the eternal IP address changes any time the router connects to the ISP. I am wondering if there is any paid or free website that could enable me check the current IP address before connecting. I tried some thing like this a few years ago; then there was a free website one could register at and be able to obtain the current IP of the local machine. I lost info on that site when my machine crashed. I would appreciate your help. Thanks in advance.
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Skipped Drive Letters / USB related
by Guest joshmerringo@nopams.com- 1 reply
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I have always used Win98se. I just bought a used computer with Win2k on it. I know 2K is similar to XP. so maybe someone can help. On my Win98 computer I had a C: drive that was my boot and programs drive. Then I had a second slave drive that was all my storage of pictures, music and dwnloads. It was split in 3 partitions (one for each catagory I just mentioned). I was using Win2k and had my camera card reader and a flash memory stick plugged in, which were listed as D: and E:. When I plugged in this storage harddrive, I thought it would end up being D: E: and F: (like it was in my old computer). Instead it became F: G: H:. Because those USB devices wer…
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Kernel32.dll
by Guest Silgol- 0 replies
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I presented the following problem when running an application, a file Exe. "There is the inlet procedure FT_Exit 20 in the Library links dynamic Kernel32.dll " Then run the program, but it repeats many times. Any thoughts? Thanks now .-