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| messages@home.com 2003-08-26, 7:24 pm |
| You just installed a new sound card and drivers on a Windows NT 4.0
machine. When you reboot the machine, it locks up at the logon screen.
You take the cover off and remove the sound card, but it still locks
at boot up.
What is the first thing you should do?
A Boot to safe mode and remove the drivers.
B Boot to command prompt only and remove the drivers by hand.
C Use the ERD to repair the NT installation
D Press the space bar to enter the last known good configuration page.
E Re run the NT setup program and install NT to a different folder.
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| messages@home.com wrote:
> You just installed a new sound card and drivers on a Windows NT 4.0
> machine. When you reboot the machine, it locks up at the logon screen.
> You take the cover off and remove the sound card, but it still locks
> at boot up.
>
> What is the first thing you should do?
>
> A Boot to safe mode and remove the drivers.
> B Boot to command prompt only and remove the drivers by hand.
> C Use the ERD to repair the NT installation
> D Press the space bar to enter the last known good configuration page.
> E Re run the NT setup program and install NT to a different folder.
i'd say D, in real life, i'd do A
i don't like last known good, once i set something up, i don't go over it
again, it's a pain
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| Clint Kennedy 2003-08-26, 7:24 pm |
| Incomplete question.
F. Was this the first boot since you put the card in? Have you booted once
successfully with the card in the machine? If not, determine if it's a
legacy ISA card that is either jumpered IRQ / I/O Range / DMA. Take the
card out if it is ISA. Boot the system, determine which device is
conflicting with these resources, change the resources on the card to
something unused that the card supports. If the card is PCI and you were
able to boot with the card installed, and the only thing that's changed
since your last good boot was installation of drivers, Last known good
configuration will rollback the registry to the last state at which the
machine fully booted (without the new drivers). Assuming it's the driver
only that's causing the lockup, this should work. From these options, the
most correct answer is D.
Clint
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> You just installed a new sound card and drivers on a Windows NT 4.0
> machine. When you reboot the machine, it locks up at the logon screen.
> You take the cover off and remove the sound card, but it still locks
> at boot up.
>
> What is the first thing you should do?
>
> A Boot to safe mode and remove the drivers.
> B Boot to command prompt only and remove the drivers by hand.
> C Use the ERD to repair the NT installation
> D Press the space bar to enter the last known good configuration page.
> E Re run the NT setup program and install NT to a different folder.
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| mhaase-at-springmind.com 2003-08-26, 8:24 pm |
| On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 15:44:28 -0700, "Geoff" <fooooooool@hotmail.com>
wrote:
>messages@home.com wrote:
>> You just installed a new sound card and drivers on a Windows NT 4.0
>> machine. When you reboot the machine, it locks up at the logon screen.
>> You take the cover off and remove the sound card, but it still locks
>> at boot up.
>>
>> What is the first thing you should do?
>>
>> A Boot to safe mode and remove the drivers.
>> B Boot to command prompt only and remove the drivers by hand.
>> C Use the ERD to repair the NT installation
>> D Press the space bar to enter the last known good configuration page.
>> E Re run the NT setup program and install NT to a different folder.
>
>i'd say D, in real life, i'd do A
>
Except there IS no safe mode in NT4
>i don't like last known good, once i set something up, i don't go over it
>again, it's a pain
>
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| Linda 2003-08-27, 12:24 am |
| Its A, just remove the drivers. This sounds like a Windows question MS
likes you to use safe mode for lots of stuff. Removing the drivers
manually from the prompt might work but do you log all driver files
and their locations? What admin is that anal? Use safe mode, thats
what it is for.
Linda
MCSE,MCSA,CCNA,A+,Net+
On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 15:30:53 -0700, messages@home.com wrote:
>You just installed a new sound card and drivers on a Windows NT 4.0
>machine. When you reboot the machine, it locks up at the logon screen.
>You take the cover off and remove the sound card, but it still locks
>at boot up.
>
>What is the first thing you should do?
>
>A Boot to safe mode and remove the drivers.
>B Boot to command prompt only and remove the drivers by hand.
>C Use the ERD to repair the NT installation
>D Press the space bar to enter the last known good configuration page.
>E Re run the NT setup program and install NT to a different folder.
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| jumbojim12345REMOVETHIS@lycos.com 2003-08-27, 2:24 am |
| You can use last known good if you did not logon; which from the
description you did not.
On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 15:30:53 -0700, messages@home.com wrote:
>You just installed a new sound card and drivers on a Windows NT 4.0
>machine. When you reboot the machine, it locks up at the logon screen.
>You take the cover off and remove the sound card, but it still locks
>at boot up.
>
>What is the first thing you should do?
>
>A Boot to safe mode and remove the drivers.
>B Boot to command prompt only and remove the drivers by hand.
>C Use the ERD to repair the NT installation
>D Press the space bar to enter the last known good configuration page.
>E Re run the NT setup program and install NT to a different folder.
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| mhaase-at-springmind.com wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 15:44:28 -0700, "Geoff" <fooooooool@hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> messages@home.com wrote:
>>> You just installed a new sound card and drivers on a Windows NT 4.0
>>> machine. When you reboot the machine, it locks up at the logon
>>> screen. You take the cover off and remove the sound card, but it
>>> still locks at boot up.
>>>
>>> What is the first thing you should do?
>>>
>>> A Boot to safe mode and remove the drivers.
>>> B Boot to command prompt only and remove the drivers by hand.
>>> C Use the ERD to repair the NT installation
>>> D Press the space bar to enter the last known good configuration
>>> page. E Re run the NT setup program and install NT to a different
>>> folder.
>>
>> i'd say D, in real life, i'd do A
>>
>
> Except there IS no safe mode in NT4
mmm, years since i used it
does it havea VGA only mode or something ?
i forget
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| mhaase-at-springmind.com 2003-08-27, 4:24 pm |
| On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 11:57:21 -0700, "Geoff" <fooooooool@hotmail.com>
wrote:
>mhaase-at-springmind.com wrote:
>> On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 15:44:28 -0700, "Geoff" <fooooooool@hotmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> messages@home.com wrote:
>>>> You just installed a new sound card and drivers on a Windows NT 4.0
>>>> machine. When you reboot the machine, it locks up at the logon
>>>> screen. You take the cover off and remove the sound card, but it
>>>> still locks at boot up.
>>>>
>>>> What is the first thing you should do?
>>>>
>>>> A Boot to safe mode and remove the drivers.
>>>> B Boot to command prompt only and remove the drivers by hand.
>>>> C Use the ERD to repair the NT installation
>>>> D Press the space bar to enter the last known good configuration
>>>> page. E Re run the NT setup program and install NT to a different
>>>> folder.
>>>
>>> i'd say D, in real life, i'd do A
>>>
>>
>> Except there IS no safe mode in NT4
>
>mmm, years since i used it
>does it havea VGA only mode or something ?
>i forget
Yup....VGA only mode. It's usually a choice within the BOOT.INI file
(with the "/sos" option). It also dispays everything it's
loading/doing on screen.
A "Safe Mode" would have been nice...but that would make it too easy
<g>.
I resisted 'till I couldn't take it anymore.
(sigh) Address altered against Spam.
Replace the -at- and put the "spring-mind" in the correct order
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| Linda 2003-08-28, 12:23 am |
| The question says NT 4.0 ...Last Known in NT?
On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 22:38:59 -0700, jumbojim12345REMOVETHIS
@lycos.com
wrote:
>You can use last known good if you did not logon; which from the
>description you did not.
>
>On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 15:30:53 -0700, messages@home.com wrote:
>
>>You just installed a new sound card and drivers on a Windows NT 4.0
>>machine. When you reboot the machine, it locks up at the logon screen.
>>You take the cover off and remove the sound card, but it still locks
>>at boot up.
>>
>>What is the first thing you should do?
>>
>>A Boot to safe mode and remove the drivers.
>>B Boot to command prompt only and remove the drivers by hand.
>>C Use the ERD to repair the NT installation
>>D Press the space bar to enter the last known good configuration page.
>>E Re run the NT setup program and install NT to a different folder.
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