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A real head-scratcher, this one.
I have a Dell Precision 530, twin 1.7Ghz Xeon server running XP, at home. The server runs headless, and I access it via TS from my laptop (or remotely from work). It's used as a torrent server, and also as a music server for streaming choons to my Soundbridge.
It's been running fine since I set it up a couple of months ago. To save a bit of power, and because it's noisy as hell and keeps me awake at night, I have it set up with an AT job to hibernate it at 22:30 each evening, and the BIOS wakes it up again at 8am each day. Again, that's been working just fine for the last 8 weeks.
However, last week, it suddenly started shutting down for no apparent reason. It seems to start up, works for 3-4 minutes, and then hibernates, after which it's inaccessible (remotely) until I physically power it up again (not practical when I'm in the office ).
Question is, why?!?!
I've checked the event log sometimes the last thing in the event log seems to be a message saying ".NET Runtime Optimization Service (clr_optimization_v2.0.50727_32) - Completed all work. Shutting down.", which implies that this service is completing and causing the machine to shutdown or reboot. However, after some investigation it seems that the 'Shutting Down' comment refers to the CLR optimisation process, not the PC itself, so this may be a red herring. (see here: http://discussion.autodesk.com/thread.jspa?threadID=521502). I've tried uninstalling the .Net Framework v3 to see if it's that which is causing the problem, but no joy.
I've also played with the power-saving settings, to see if they'd got corrupt, but again, not change (I have them set to 'Never' hibernate). I installed AVG last night, no viruses or other crap which might be causing it.
The PC seems to stay alive when I'm connected to it, but shuts down a few minutes after I disconnect. I ran the AVG full scan, which took about half an hour, and at some point after that did the machine hibernate, so it's like it's doing it when the machine is idle.
I have no idea why it's behaving like this, but it's driving me nuts - and is particularly irritating as I'm currently trying to initial-seed a 23GB torrent at the moment, which isn't going to happen if the machine's only up for 4 minutes at a time.
If I disable hibernation, the machine stays awake and it's not a problem.
So, any other ideas?
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The machine is a TS, right? Is it even possible to change PowerSaving settings like that?
I find it hard to believe that someone logged in to a TS session would be able to change the effective hibernation settings.
If I was you, I would try logging in on the machine's console as Administrator, then checking the PowerSaving settings again. Maybe the hibernation is active there. If it is not, and that is a stab in the dark, try changing to installation mode and changing the settings again.
Additionally, one of my old computers actually had BIOS Power Saving options (which only worked with Windows). Even if PowerSaving was disabled in Windows, the machine would still switch to Stand By if the BIOS decided the machine had been inactive for too long.
Sorry for the late reply.
Cheers,
Sebastian
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"If it was two men, the non-driver would have challenged the driver to simply crash through the gates. The macho image thing, you know." - Marc Clifton
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The machine is just a standard XP pro box. I use TS to access it via my laptop so I don't have to have a screen attached to it.
Nobody other than myself accesses the box, so it's something that couldn't get changed by somebody else.
I see where you're coming from with the comment re: the Bios - the only weird thing is that it only hibernates the box, and it wasn't happening 2 weeks ago!
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Oh. I totally missed the "XP Pro" part and concentrated on the mention of "TS". Sorry about that. With a XP Pro box and the Remote Desktop Client, everything SHOULD work as if you were logged in locally.
Do you have any programs that offer their own "power saving settings"? I remember seeing software offering to "hibernate, after all downloads are complete" or similar mumbo-jumbo.
That is pretty much all I can think of right now, sorry. Hope it helps.
Cheers,
Sebastian
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"If it was two men, the non-driver would have challenged the driver to simply crash through the gates. The macho image thing, you know." - Marc Clifton
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Dear All,
I am looking for a way to monitor network traffic, such as total number of bytes have been upload / download.
Could anybody give me some clues of doing this? Either using SDK (C++) or .NET Class (C#) would be nice.
Many Appreciates!
Best regards,
Chris G.
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Please post in the programming forms.
Trinity: Neo... nobody has ever done this before.
Neo: That's why it's going to work.
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Hi all
m using XP Proffessional SP-2, here when i send net send alert to all it dosent get to other workgroup (having same OS) can u tell solution.
also
i want a code by which i check internet connectivity after every 5 min and give alert is net is disconnected
SP
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Bugs can neither be created nor be removed from software by a developer. They can only be converted from one form to another. The total number of bugs in the software always remain constant.
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S.. P wrote: i want a code by which i check internet connectivity after every 5 min and give alert is net is disconnected
Open Command Prompt (Start Menu -> Run -> "cmd") and type ping www.google.com.
Trinity: Neo... nobody has ever done this before.
Neo: That's why it's going to work.
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Any sysadmin worth their salt will have the messenger service disabled in the workstation build - indeed I believe that XPSP2 has it disabled by default. No messenger service, no net send.
Net send is a lashed-together, poor solution for communication to other machines across the network.
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Net Send depends on 'Messenger Service' in Windows. (Do not confuse this with Windows Live Messenger Service).
Due to a large number of security faults, this might have been disabled.
There was one utility called 'RealPopup', a freeware. You can have a look at that.
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I have a remote system that I am responsible for maintaining. It sits in the corner and does its thing - it is not used to web surf, email or anything else. A few months ago, the on-site sys admin decided it needed norton antivirus on it, which promptly began interfering with my application.
How do I get rid of this "virus"? 
Charlie Gilley
Will program for food...
Whoever said children were cheaper by the dozen... lied.
Overheard in a cubicle: "A project is just a bug under development."
Seeking to rise above the intelligence of a one eared rabbit...
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Oh this is just ripe.... first, it's my system, I'm the sysadmin, I have the power to install, uninstall, reboot, you name it. So, I go to remove Symantec, and Symantec requires a PASSWORD to remove it.  
Unbelievable.
Charlie Gilley
Will program for food...
Whoever said children were cheaper by the dozen... lied.
Overheard in a cubicle: "A project is just a bug under development."
Seeking to rise above the intelligence of a one eared rabbit...
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Ask Symantec
I had a DELL that wouldn't boot because of a weird interaction between the SATA DVD-+RW device and SAV, so I had to look in the Symantec knowledge base to work out a way around this.
You need Recovery Console to do this, and you may find listing the state of the drivers and services *first* is a good idea [hint]
Steve S
Developer for hire
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Symantec Antivirus is very inefficient and I see it has a lot of memory leaks. As the system boots and once you logon, you can not do anything for at least 15 minutes till the Antivirus finishes its startup scan activities.
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Well, setting aside this fact that the enterprise edition has issues, apparently, the people that installed it don't remember the installation password. I don't need it, I don't want it, go away
The part that annoys me the most, is they admins have been told this box is special, no touchie. they didn't listen
Charlie Gilley
Will program for food...
Whoever said children were cheaper by the dozen... lied.
Overheard in a cubicle: "A project is just a bug under development."
Seeking to rise above the intelligence of a one eared rabbit...
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hi i have to read the keys pressed in keyboard and send that to a drive. how to receve the keys pressed using c code. pls help me
Arise Awake Stop Not Till ur Goal is Reached.
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first convince us you're not writing a malware keystroke logger.
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You have to explain to them [VB coders] what you mean by "typed". their first response is likely to be something like, "Of course my code is typed. Do you think i magically project it onto the screen with the power of my mind?" --- John Simmons / outlaw programmer
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Hi,
When we open a Word document as a link in a secure (https://) area of our website, we get a "Choose a digital certificate" window which pops up when i try to open the Word document. The message says "The Website you want to view requests identification. Please choose a certificate." However, there are no certificates listed in the window below the message. The certificate is not expired. I only get the error on Word documents (not PDF or Excel documents) and it only happens the first time you click on a link. If I reopen a Word document which just gave me an error, I will not receive the error the second time around. Our browser security is set to Medium and I did add our secure website to the Trusted Sites. Pls sort out this issue.
Regards
Vijay.
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There is an option, I guess, like 'Require Client Certificates'. I think that is selected for the virtual directory/website right?
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hi
i just want to download the files from PVCS (webbased) directly from the command line..
any utilities available for that?
Please help me in this regard.. i need to finish this work asap... My client wants Files to be downloaded from the PVCS by running the batch file only..
how to do it...
I ll be greatful to you, if you give the solution.
Regards
Suganthi
Chennai, India
suganthi
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With the client version of you can use the PCLI tool that ships with the workstation version of PVCS. I don't know if that works with the web version.
a programmer traped in a thugs body
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Hi
I tried by using the PVCS thick client and running the Nant. Still im getting teh below error... i could not find whats the problem. can you pls help me to solve this.
extractSource:
[mkdir] Creating directory 'D:\ETC'.
[pvcsget] Starting process: pcli.exe -nb get -id"snatarajan:!snatarajan" -sp"D
:\ETC" -bp"D:\ETC" -z -pr"http://pvcs/ETC" -pp"/ETC" /
[pvcsget] PVCS Version Manager (VMGUI) v6.7.11 (Build 915.11) for Windows NT/8
0x86
[pvcsget] Copyright 1985-2001 MERANT. All rights reserved.
[pvcsget] 21:23:08 Jun.20.07 [Error] An invalid command line flag: "-nb" was e
ntered.
[pvcsget] An invalid option was specified for the command.
suganthi
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Hi,
I have a problem concerning the startup on a embedded XP system.
It seems the services needed are not yet started before my application runs.
The application needs the services and is placed in the startupfolder, so i thougth all services were started then..
Anyone any idea how i could solve this problem?
if i can hold the application from starting until all services are started then this should do.
Thx in advance.
Kurt
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You could query the status of the services you require, and see if they have started. If you can modify the application, this is probably easiest...
Steve S
Developer for hire
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