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[Kris]

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Hey all! =)

I am relatively new to the position of an IT Technician, as I recently
completed my A Level exams and was plunged into full time employment
immediately afterwards! So far everything is going smoothly and I am
currently migrating the network and its users from a Windows NT based
operating system to Server 2003/Windows XP Pro.

To do this and save time I use RIS, which uses a previously made image and
installs onto the desired machine. However with a minority of workstations
the installation process is haulted by the error: "Kernel thread terminated
while holding a mutex". From looking at the error codes it seems to be
graphics card related, although the motherboards located in the machines
utilise on-board graphics and are of the same specifications as the
workstations next to them, which work perfectly.

Are the workstations that receive this problem required a BIOS flashing to a
newer version? If anyone can help out, give advice or let me know how to
flash a BIOS correctly it would be much appreciated!

Thanks in advance!

Kris

 

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Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics (More info?)

| "Kris" <Kris@discussions.microsoft.com>
| news:0F02BE40-DF6A-4321-8B84-13123F98AA10@microsoft.com...
| <SNIP> A Level exams <SNIP> migrating the network and its users
| from a Windows NT based operating system to Server
| 2003/Windows XP Pro. <SNIP> I use RIS <SNIP> "Kernel thread
| terminated while holding a mutex". <SNIP>

If you don't get any replies to this (IMO)
not-so-windowsxp.basics question...

You can find peer-to-peer support for Windows XP setup and
deployment issues in the Windows XP: Setup and Deployment
Newsgroup.

The following page has links you can click to access the
newsgroup with your Web browser, or with a Network News Transfer
Protocol (NNTP)-based newsreader such as Outlook Express.

Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Management Technologies Newsgroups
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/community/newsgroups/management/default.mspx

And you can find peer-to-peer support for Windows Server
Migration, and Server Setup, in the Operating Systems Newsgroups.

The following page has links you can click to access the
newsgroup with your Web browser, or with a Network News Transfer
Protocol (NNTP)-based newsreader such as Outlook Express.

Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Operating Systems Newsgroups
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/community/newsgroups/operatingsystems/default.mspx