[pchelpers] Re: WIndows NT 4
- From: John Durham <john.modec@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: pchelpers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 14:13:25 +1300
Does this version have all the necessary patches (try the obvious
first)? Any reason not to upgrade it? Do you know of any hardware
compatability issues with this machine?
John Bird wrote:
>
> Our firm supports our own software running on all flavours of Windows
> networks as well as Novell, SCO Openserver (Unix in other words) and
> linux. We have one client running a network with Windows NT4 which
> has
> more problems than all of the others put together.
>
> The sorts of problems are screens just falling out of our software,
> back to
> the WIndows desktop, sometimes with a general catch-all error
> indicating
> the program had trouble loading more of the underlying runtime system,
> or
> the running program file, or sometimes with no error. Also if it
> generates
> a command will crash the parent program sometimes (as example of
> command is
> executing a batch file that copies a number of very large files for
> backing
> up data - I suspect that copying large files has used some big memory
> buffers and made something go flaky), or sometimes freezing solid.
>
> I have always suspected there is an underlying network problem, e.g.
> involving brief network server outages or time-outs but have never
> been
> able to prove it. Other software on the same network (e.g. Word) also
> has
> similar occasional problems e.g. when saving files or printing, but
> not so
> intensely as our software, which is constantly reading and writing
> data on
> the server. The server event logs do not report any particular obvious
> faults. The cabling at this site is quite old (over 5 years).
>
> Question:
> Does anyone have any suggestions, or know of any software for
> monitoring if
> a network is having intermittent faults (e.g. due to lots of
> collisions, or
> the server freezing for short periods etc).
>
> John Bird
> Beyond Data Systems
> john@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Ph 64-3-3654656 or 025 367702
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