- Dec 31, 2007
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I really hope someone can help me here. I have been using a "evaluation copy" (the one found in Microsoft Training books) of NT4 Workstation for about a year now. I have probably installed & reinstalled this OS about 30 times (mainly for practice & fooling around). NT4 has worked absolutely flawlessly for me all this time. Believe it or not, my machine has never hung or blue-screened once.
So what's the problem? I bought a retail version of NT4 Workstation off ebay & received it last week. It came with all the official Microsoft propaganda/manual & a Service Pack 3 CD too. Both CD's are in pristine condition (not a mark on them). Since installing this retail version 3 days ago my machine blue-screens (memrory dump - "kmode exception not handled" or something) any time I use a media player (ANY media player too). If I try to watch a video or movie trailer I get a memry dump in about 5 seconds. Sometimes it plays longer but crashes the moment I click on the player to adjust volume/size etc (I CANNOT use task manager to correct either - machine is totally frozen & can only be restarted with power button). I have blown away & reinstalled almost a dozen times (3 times tonight alone) but still the same crap. I am running Service Pack 6a & have ALL the NT4 hotfixes/updates (as I did with previous evaluation version). I didn't touch mobo settings since switching to retail version, but have now tried system default & optimized defaults in mobo bios but still no luck. One peculiar thing I've noticed is that during install the file copying is a lot slower than evaluation version & also some files (some .gif & .ani) don't copy the first time & must be retried over & over before they copy (never had this problem once with evaluation version). I am at a total loss here people. I just finished low level formatting the hard disk & reinstalled (yet again).....same story.
I'm beginning to think that maybe I was sold a "fake" CD that may be corrupt or something. What do you fellas think? I'd gladly listen to any suggestions. Sorry for long post.
So what's the problem? I bought a retail version of NT4 Workstation off ebay & received it last week. It came with all the official Microsoft propaganda/manual & a Service Pack 3 CD too. Both CD's are in pristine condition (not a mark on them). Since installing this retail version 3 days ago my machine blue-screens (memrory dump - "kmode exception not handled" or something) any time I use a media player (ANY media player too). If I try to watch a video or movie trailer I get a memry dump in about 5 seconds. Sometimes it plays longer but crashes the moment I click on the player to adjust volume/size etc (I CANNOT use task manager to correct either - machine is totally frozen & can only be restarted with power button). I have blown away & reinstalled almost a dozen times (3 times tonight alone) but still the same crap. I am running Service Pack 6a & have ALL the NT4 hotfixes/updates (as I did with previous evaluation version). I didn't touch mobo settings since switching to retail version, but have now tried system default & optimized defaults in mobo bios but still no luck. One peculiar thing I've noticed is that during install the file copying is a lot slower than evaluation version & also some files (some .gif & .ani) don't copy the first time & must be retried over & over before they copy (never had this problem once with evaluation version). I am at a total loss here people. I just finished low level formatting the hard disk & reinstalled (yet again).....same story.
I'm beginning to think that maybe I was sold a "fake" CD that may be corrupt or something. What do you fellas think? I'd gladly listen to any suggestions. Sorry for long post.
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