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| 1215076 | 2011-07-05 10:41:00 | Hi Team Please excuse the new thread, this is useful but if I'd posted in in my old thread I doubt that many would have ever seen it . I did some more web searching and found This Site ( . com/node/16" target="_blank">winhlp . com) which has a lengthy technical disussion of the problem and offers several solutions . I chose the easiest one, which was to go to My Network Places and on the left pane, choose to Hide UPnP devices . This operation does not disable the service . To see this choice, you have to have Tools, Folder Options, Show Common Tasks selected . A quick restart and up came my missing Raid icon plus a few others (like the volume control) that I hadn't noticed were missing . I still don't have expansion arrows but what the heck . :D As a bonus, my boot time is now back to normal, it had been taking two minutes for the MSE icon to go from red to green and that was annoying . Cheers Billy 8-{) :thumbs: Patience is a virtue, possess it if you can, never found in women, and rarely found in man . |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 1215077 | 2011-07-28 02:11:00 | Well, The Cat Came Back . :badpc: I noticed a slowdown in boot time and MSE not being enabled for a further minute or so after the desktop appeared, so I went back to Network Places again and sure enough, it had reverted to the old setting . I reset it and everything is now OK again . I have not been playing under the hood or anything like that, in fact was about to start a post to ask how I could find out what new issue was slowing my boot time again when I noticed the volume control missing from the tray and thought "Uh-Oh, not that again" and shot off to NWP . Any ideas on why or how that setting would have reverted back? Cheers Billy 8-{) :confused: |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 1215078 | 2011-07-28 03:38:00 | What has been installed since the problem began again ? Things like updates, programs etc. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1215079 | 2011-07-28 06:46:00 | What has been installed since the problem began again ? Things like updates, programs etc. Nothing has beren installed other than the usual auto updates for MSE, MWB, Spybot, and probably Adobe. I don't give auto update rights to many programs at all and I'm not into adding programs willy-nilly so nothing much changes from month to month. I did have a strange hang a week or so back that required a hard reboot via the on/off button, but I put that down to a possible erroneous mouse click when my fingers got ahead of my brain. I'm not adventurous and I don't try demo programs or cute applets etc either. It is all a bit puzzling really. Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 1215080 | 2011-07-28 07:36:00 | Being lazy Now :D -- Is this the XP machine or was it 2000 ? | wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1215081 | 2011-07-28 09:14:00 | It is the XP-Pro job, the one with the twin Raid-1 array that spits out WD Caviar Blank 640GB drive like olive pits in a Cocktail Bar. I'm currently up to No 5. Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 1215082 | 2011-07-28 11:10:00 | Probably doesnt like WD hdd's | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1215083 | 2011-07-28 11:21:00 | While the systray problem could be something complete unrelated, The WD black edition drives have a high failure rate, a lot higher than the blues for example - personally I wont touch the blacks any more - seen and had way too many fail in a very short period of time . A while back I brought 5 ( from memory) WD blacks, all different batches, 4 failed within a month . ( not impressed, neither were the customers) Also seen 3 WD external drives in a two month period, all with failed black drives . Secondly, the standard Desktop HDD's are not best run in a any sort of RAID configuration, they aren't really designed for it and can cause lots of problems . WD make drives especially designed to run in RAID . Full story from WD own site ( . custhelp . com/app/answers/detail/a_id/1397" target="_blank">wdc . custhelp . com) So basically running WD Blacks in a RAID configuration could be asking for trouble - and it looks like you may be getting it, or could be part of the cause why there are so many problems . |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1215084 | 2011-07-28 11:32:00 | Probably doesnt like WD hdd's It is actually the Intel RAID Matrix Manager that is supposedly at fault, there is a massive thread on the Intel Forum all about this problem and later versions have cleared the problem apparently, but my disks report as dead so who am I to argue? I did get one to rebuild in the early days but that was definitely by good luck, not good management. I am comfortable now with the rebuild process and it only takes me a few minutes to swap the drive out and get the rebuild started. Rather wisely for me, I actually bought a spare disk at the get-go so that I could do just that. Which reminds me, I dropped the 'crook' disk into Computer Lounge a week ago now and haven't yet received the replacement so I'd better rev them up in case I get another drop out. I have to arrange a time for CL to update the software but that may prove difficult to do unless I can schedule a day and time with them. I can't leave the computer there for days as I have to work. Cheers Billy 8-{) |
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