Somethin' weird goin' on here

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We've been recovering from a full system crash in our school's network.
We're just about to get out of the digital crater but there's something going
on with some of the workstations I can't explain. These workstations are
running VIA chipset mb's with AMD processors of about 550Mhz speed, if I
remember correctly. Prior to the crash, last school year, the log off and
log on sounds would play at regular speed. Now they are running at least
twice that speed to the point of almost being comical. Could we be dealing
with some kind of infection here? We have Symantec's Corporate Antivirus v.
10 on the network and nothing is being detected.

Thanks.

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The only thing that was changed on these workstations was the domain. The
old profiles were copied from the previous ones to the new ones that were
created when I first logged them in to the new domain.

It's possible, I guess, that a new updated driver from Windows Update could
be a possible reason. I don't recall this coming up as available, however.
I'll see if I can revert the driver back to the old one.

Thanks.

"Trent SC" wrote:

> Sounds as though the installation has picked up the wrong sound card driver
> software.
>
> "DanaK" <DanaK@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:5AB6C242-E4B9-474D-AB3B-AB279C17F1D6@microsoft.com...
> > We've been recovering from a full system crash in our school's network.
> > We're just about to get out of the digital crater but there's something
> > going
> > on with some of the workstations I can't explain. These workstations are
> > running VIA chipset mb's with AMD processors of about 550Mhz speed, if I
> > remember correctly. Prior to the crash, last school year, the log off and
> > log on sounds would play at regular speed. Now they are running at least
> > twice that speed to the point of almost being comical. Could we be
> > dealing
> > with some kind of infection here? We have Symantec's Corporate Antivirus
> > v.
> > 10 on the network and nothing is being detected.
> >
> > Thanks.
>
>
>

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Yes, I've definitely had THAT experience, too. However, since I'm in the
U.S. it probably doesn't happen as much as it does to you out there in other
countries. Sorry about that. Hope the cold war will be over some day ;-).

Thanks.

"Yves Leclerc" wrote:

> Windows Update drivers do not normally automatically install. And from
> personal experience, most drivers from Windows Update horribly out of date
> and screw up your configuration.
>
>
> "DanaK" <DanaK@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:B64CCD36-C9EF-466A-922B-25E807340017@microsoft.com...
> > The only thing that was changed on these workstations was the domain. The
> > old profiles were copied from the previous ones to the new ones that were
> > created when I first logged them in to the new domain.
> >
> > It's possible, I guess, that a new updated driver from Windows Update
> > could
> > be a possible reason. I don't recall this coming up as available,
> > however.
> > I'll see if I can revert the driver back to the old one.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > "Trent SC" wrote:
> >
> >> Sounds as though the installation has picked up the wrong sound card
> >> driver
> >> software.
> >>
> >> "DanaK" <DanaK@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> >> news:5AB6C242-E4B9-474D-AB3B-AB279C17F1D6@microsoft.com...
> >> > We've been recovering from a full system crash in our school's network.
> >> > We're just about to get out of the digital crater but there's something
> >> > going
> >> > on with some of the workstations I can't explain. These workstations
> >> > are
> >> > running VIA chipset mb's with AMD processors of about 550Mhz speed, if
> >> > I
> >> > remember correctly. Prior to the crash, last school year, the log off
> >> > and
> >> > log on sounds would play at regular speed. Now they are running at
> >> > least
> >> > twice that speed to the point of almost being comical. Could we be
> >> > dealing
> >> > with some kind of infection here? We have Symantec's Corporate
> >> > Antivirus
> >> > v.
> >> > 10 on the network and nothing is being detected.
> >> >
> >> > Thanks.
> >>
> >>
> >>
>
>
>