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How to crash win2k
Stage one get two cheepo demo realtek 8138 pci cards from work.
Stage two slap em in and piss around getting the network working.
Everything seems fine apart from the odd lost print (one in ten) and the network drives being disconnected when using the internet connection sharing.
Stage three Recent birthday time brings excuse to buy an p800 and dreams of a 1ghz.
Stage four get pissed on your birthday but wake up the next day without a hangover and it's your the day off so lets get the case off.
Stage five can only get it up to 920 mhz everything seems okay shame the big heatsink didn't fit although you were told it would. Send heatsink back and get the replacement weather station installed on roof (another story).
Stage six Wake up on saturday and discover you've also be given another birthday present a cold. Thanks Pal, Scan a colour image and send it to the printer it disappears. Try again same thing. For some reason click on the mapped network drive and the machine hangs.
Stage seven. Reboot the machine and notice that the my network places is acting funny.
Stage eight Pratt around for hours only to find that server has had a wobbly as well and cannot see itself on the network. Feeling shit and give up for the night win2k crashes again to give a goodnight send off.
Stage nine Next day. Come on you Basterd Clock machine back everything works at 864mhz. Clock back to 872 and everything is borderline with the odd crash. Increase the CPU voltage still the same. Use the network diagnostic program it says okay. Mmm This reminds of a problem had before on the University network and look at the network card with suspicion.
Now the cure.
Stage 1 Return to work feeling shitty and borrow another sample card a 3com 905 and another card.
Stage 2 slap the 3com in and viola everything works. The machine even switches off striaght away without a 4 second pause. Network drives are available while on the internet the printer prints in colour happily and the machine is clocked back at 900 + mhz.
Now the server still has the odd wobbly so I think it's realtek card is going to have to go as well.
So if you want to crash win2k slap in a cheap network card map a few drives share a printer and overclock and it will happily crash.
Stage two slap em in and piss around getting the network working.
Everything seems fine apart from the odd lost print (one in ten) and the network drives being disconnected when using the internet connection sharing.
Stage three Recent birthday time brings excuse to buy an p800 and dreams of a 1ghz.
Stage four get pissed on your birthday but wake up the next day without a hangover and it's your the day off so lets get the case off.
Stage five can only get it up to 920 mhz everything seems okay shame the big heatsink didn't fit although you were told it would. Send heatsink back and get the replacement weather station installed on roof (another story).
Stage six Wake up on saturday and discover you've also be given another birthday present a cold. Thanks Pal, Scan a colour image and send it to the printer it disappears. Try again same thing. For some reason click on the mapped network drive and the machine hangs.
Stage seven. Reboot the machine and notice that the my network places is acting funny.
Stage eight Pratt around for hours only to find that server has had a wobbly as well and cannot see itself on the network. Feeling shit and give up for the night win2k crashes again to give a goodnight send off.
Stage nine Next day. Come on you Basterd Clock machine back everything works at 864mhz. Clock back to 872 and everything is borderline with the odd crash. Increase the CPU voltage still the same. Use the network diagnostic program it says okay. Mmm This reminds of a problem had before on the University network and look at the network card with suspicion.
Now the cure.
Stage 1 Return to work feeling shitty and borrow another sample card a 3com 905 and another card.
Stage 2 slap the 3com in and viola everything works. The machine even switches off striaght away without a 4 second pause. Network drives are available while on the internet the printer prints in colour happily and the machine is clocked back at 900 + mhz.
Now the server still has the odd wobbly so I think it's realtek card is going to have to go as well.
So if you want to crash win2k slap in a cheap network card map a few drives share a printer and overclock and it will happily crash.
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