Win98SE or WINME hang on startup with 875P - Resolved !

I asked in this forum if WinME can manage IDE native mode - nobody answered !
But now, after long debugging and searching through Microsoft knowlege bases I found on Intel homepage the answer: (enhanced by Intel is the same as native from MSI)
http://support.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/d875pbz/bz_windows.htm
The ATA/IDE option can be configured as either "Enhanced (default)" or "Legacy" in the BIOS configuration. Windows* 98SE and Windows* Me operating systems do not support Enhanced mode IDE/Serial ATA resources for more than four devices. If the ATA/IDE option is set to Enhanced mode, the operating installation will not be able to recognize the drive, and the installation will fail.
875P is compatible to Win98SE and WinME - but with these restrictions !!!
Thanks to the MSI spezialists for your great help. haha
Max

there are other issues with win 98se and msi 875p neo,
these consist of 1. non sound playback, or patchy missing or fast speed playback through win 98se and me.media players.
2. no ht function.
3.reduced ram allowance
4.hdd only 120gig with latest 98 updates.(37gig without)
5.fat not ntfs, so your drive is displayed to the whole world which means hackers may target you.
6. agp8 is not recognised by some drivers.
i did install 98 on my system and did not suffer any problems,apart from latest software compatability and sound, this was while i was waiting for xp pro to be delivered.
and there are also a number of xp problems which windows themselves are at fault for.
all msi have done is create a high performance board which is verry good.but o/s software is letting the hardware down.
it doesn't look like 98 will be put right before it's demise sometime in 2004 but ME should be.so hang in there, i liked ME and some parts of XP, but i still wonder if linux would be so slow to repair/patch and make use of the hardware which i have.
unfortunately, not all things are down to hardware and "it's their fault" is an easy excuse for the reason that something doesnt work.
hang in there bro, you still have a superior brand name under your belt, and they give more help than a few others which i have had dealings with..

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Disk: /dev/disk0
geometry: 62260/255/63 [1000215216 sectors]
Signature: 0xAA55
         Starting       Ending
#: id cyl hd sec - cyl hd sec [     start -       size]
1: EE 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [         1 -     409639] <Unknown ID>
2: AF 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [    409640 - 725443856] HFS+
3: AB 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 725853496 -    1269536] Darwin Boot
4: 0C 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 840058920 - 159894112] Win95 FAT32L
sudo gpt -r -vv show /dev/rdisk0
gpt show: /dev/rdisk0: mediasize=512110190592; sectorsize=512; blocks=1000215216
gpt show: /dev/rdisk0: Suspicious MBR at sector 0
gpt show: /dev/rdisk0: Pri GPT at sector 1
gpt show: /dev/rdisk0: Sec GPT at sector 1000215215
       start        size index contents
           0           1         MBR
           1           1         Pri GPT header
           2          32         Pri GPT table
          34           6
          40      409600      1 GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
      409640   725443856      2 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
   725853496     1269536      3 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
   727123032   112935888
   840058920   159894112      4 GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
   999953032      262151
1000215183          32         Sec GPT table
1000215215           1         Sec GPT header
I can confirm that partition 4 is indeed my windows 8 installation.
When I run the validation test within gdisk i get:
Warning: Devices opened with shared lock will not have their
partition table automatically reloaded!
Partition table scan:
MBR: hybrid
BSD: not present
APM: not present
GPT: present
Found valid GPT with hybrid MBR; using GPT.
No problems found. 113198045 free sectors (54.0 GiB) available in 3
segments, the largest of which is 112935888 (53.9 GiB) in size.
I am have hit a wall in regards to this issue. Why can I boot from my bootcamp partition using VMWare, but not directly from it like when I restart my computer?

Okay solution found found a solution finally... i followed the steps outlined in this article: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4144252?start=0&tstart=0 . After i did this my windows bootcamp partition showed up again, but my osx and osx recovery disks became unbootable. Luckily I have an extra enternal harddrive with osx installed on, so ran disk utility and repaired the affected disk where osx had become unavailable. Then rebooted and all disks now shows up and work perfectly again.

Adobe Reader 8.1.2 (linux) hang at startup

We have a number of users who have reported hangs when trying to start Adobe Reader on our CentOS 4.5 linux workstations (CentOS 4.5 is a RedHat Enterprise Linux 4.5 rebuild). When this occurs, the X-server is locked for a minimum of 10 seconds, sometimes longer, until the Reader window finally comes up.
I was able to duplicate this behavior on my desktop workstation; of course, once I tried to run the program through strace I no longer saw this behavior.
Have any other users here seen this behavior? Any idea what is causing it, or is there a workaround to mitigate the problem?
John Perkins

I was finally able to get an strace of a delayed acroread startup with the Xming xserver (displaying on Windows). I can't use XManager or Exceed (or similar products) when trying to display on a linux desktop.
The strace output I've collected suggests Adobe Reader is trying to
stat() all the font files available at startup time. We run with an AFS filesystem here, and some fonts are in AFS...so those fonts get cached on local disk when Adobe Reader first runs, and stat()'ing the font files goes much faster the next time around.
It may be necessary for us to move these font files to the local disk at some point to improve performance with Adobe Reader, and maybe with other apps.
Some detail as to how fonts are found could be helpful...does Reader try to generate a list of paths from the X-server somehow? Or does it find font paths some other way?
John

Mac Pro 3,1 (early 2008) RAID card hangs at startup

Hello,
I have a Mac Pro 2.8Ghz Quad Core (early 2008) with 10GB RAM and 512MB VRAM.
I have noticed that the Mac Pro RAID card hangs at startup for RAID volumes.
It seems to start okay with a single boot drive (have used both WD Raptor 150GB 10K and Seagate 'factory' 320GB 7200rpm as boot drives...)
But the RAID 0 array using two factory 1TB WD 7200rpm is what seems to hang at startup. I have run Disk Warrior, Disk Utility and RAID Utility and found no major errors...
Any suggestions? Have already replaced the RAID Card battery with OEM part.
Thanks!

Say good-bye to the Apple Pro RAID card. It started its life as a $999 card to support SAS/SCSI and/or RAID5.
Then the problems with 2.5TB drives, battery, and does it really do something and add to your system.
I would use SoftRAID and create a 3-drive mirror of 2TB drives instead.
And an SSD for the system.
Seems like those are some very old drives.
I have a lot of the 150GB 10K VR drives, and some 300GB along with older 74GB and a couple of the Raptor series. Loud and while solid I would use for spare boot drives, clone only.
Backup your data, pull the RAID card, and restore to the drives. And clone the system onto a 250GB $109 SSD. $139 buys a 400MB/sec writes and 800MB/sec reads Samsung PCIe-SSD XP941. None of my SCSI 15K drives would come close.

Database Hangs on Startup

Hi
We are using Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.1.0.6.0 .
We Restored the database on Test server from Production by using RMAN .
The problem is when we startup the database it hangs after Mount phase.
In alert log file We saw the following eror
ERROR, tran=19.10.20602, session#=1, ose=0:
ORA-03113: end-of-file on communication channel
We removed all the DBLINKS as we thought that could be the problem but the problem was same.
We found some Pending transactions in DBA_2PC_PENDING and purged all of them (19.10.20602 in the above error was part of Pending transaction)
But the database still hangs on startup .
The last entry in alert file inow is
Wed Aug 17 16:05:12 2011
QMNC started with pid=19, OS id=2803
If we leave the database in this mode it will finally comes up with "Database opened" but this is after 6 to 7 hours.
Ocassionaly we will see the following error in alert log file
Fatal NI connect error 12170.
VERSION INFORMATION:
TNS for Solaris: Version 11.1.0.6.0 - Production
Oracle Bequeath NT Protocol Adapter for Solaris: Version 11.1.0.6.0 - Pr
oduction
TCP/IP NT Protocol Adapter for Solaris: Version 11.1.0.6.0 - Production
Time: 12-AUG-2011 15:12:37
Tracing not turned on.
Tns error struct:
ns main err code: 12535
TNS-12535: TNS:operation timed out
ns secondary err code: 12606
nt main err code: 0
nt secondary err code: 0
Please help
Thanks

The strange thing is that it hangs on Database mount for long time
Total System Global Area 584761344 bytes
Fixed Size 2090792 bytes
Variable Size 159389912 bytes
Database Buffers 415236096 bytes
Redo Buffers 8044544 bytes
Database mounted.
and last entry in log file is :
Starting background process QMNC
Thu Aug 18 11:13:34 2011
QMNC started with pid=19, OS id=18043
But if I use CTRL+C
it gives me the following in sql
^CORA-01013: user requested cancel of current operation
and in alert log file now I an see "Completed: ALTER DATABASE OPEN"
Please help.

Powerbook Pismo Hangs on Startup HELP!

I have a G3 pismo that hangs on startup, no matter what I've tried!
I have tried to reset the pmu. zap the pram, change out the hard drive with another one with OS 10.3.9, boot from an external hard drive with OS 10.3.9, and external cd drive with an OSX Panther install disk.
I get the "You need to restart your computer" message in the background, and what looks like a kernal panic message in the front.
The kernal is version 7.0.0.
At the bottom of the page it says "We are hanging here..."
Has anybody been through this? Am I missing something?
Any help is greatly appreciated!

Glen:
Take a look at these two articles and see if you find anything of help:
What’s a kernel panic.
Resolving Kernel Panics
Post back with further questions or comments.
Good luck.
cornelius

Indesign CS5.5 hangs on startup

Hi,
My Indesign CS5.5 (I'm running Macosx 10.6.7) hangs on startup and gets this crash log: http://pastebin.com/xDXmdrt4
I've tried removing the recovery folder, the settings prefs and the FontExplorer plugin... nothing helps.
Anyone?
/Erlandsen

Mikkel, if the problem goes away with a new account, it is almost certainly a problem with your ~/Library folder, and reinstalling InDesign does not touch that, so it is no surprise the reinstall did not help.
If you truly removed all the folders I specified, then I'm quite surprised it didn't fix it. Sometimes it is a permissions problem -- you
might check the permissions on those folders with Get Info in the Finder, and maaaaaaaybe try running Disk Utility's Repair Permissions (usually a waste of time).
If not, well, try moving *everything* out of your Library/ folder, and then putting it back bit-by-bit (well, half-by-half). This may be a somewhat unpleasant and potentially destructive process.

Firefox hang at start with ntdll.dll error

Ciao a tutti! (Hallo everybody!)
My system run W7 Ultimate sp1, whit PrevX 3.0 free edition and McAfee VirusScan Enterprise 8.7.0i.
Firefox hangs at startup, reporting the error below.
I've tried vary support thread:
- complete reinstallation
- safemode startup
- remove profile
in crash report folder i've found only a file:
InstallTime20121119183901
I've also tried:
- memory check
- antivirus check (also with Kaspersky)
- Microsoft system check (command sfc /scannow)
- Microsoft Fix.it
no way to solve the problem.
any suggestion?
thanks in advance

How To Fix Ntdll.dll Errors
Try the below solutions one at a time.
* Unplug removable devices
* Restart your computer. The ntdll.dll error you're receiving could be due to a one-time, temporary issue and a simple reboot may resolve the problem completely.
* Reinstall the program if the ntdll.dll error only displays when you use a specific program.
**If the software program has any updates or service packs available, install them too. The software's programmers may have identified an issue with the program that caused the ntdll.dll error and then issued a patch for it.
**Note: Third party software programs that have been installed on your computer are almost always the cause of ntdll.dll errors. The remainder of these troubleshooting steps resolve ntdll.dll issues only rarely.
* Check the Windows service pack level you're running and then check Microsoft's support site to see if there is a more recent service pack available for installation. Some issues that caused ntdll.dll errors have been corrected in these service packs from Microsoft.
* Selectively disable Internet Explorer add-ons. If your ntdll.dll error is displaying when you start, run, or close Internet Explorer, an add-on may be causing the problem. Disabling each add-on, one by one, will determine which add-on is the culprit (if any).
**Note: As a workaround, assuming the ntdll.dll error really is Internet Explorer related, install and use a competing browser like Firefox.
* Rename the NLSPATH system variable. If your Windows system does not have this environment variable, skip this step.
**Note: This is a troubleshooting step for this issue only. Be sure to set this path back to its original name if this does not resolve the ntdll.dll issue.
* Disable Data Execution Prevention for Explorer.exe. As in the previous step, this is for troubleshooting the ntdll.dll issue only. If this doesn't resolve the problem, return the Data Execution Prevention settings to their previous settings.
* Update drivers for any hardware in your computer where updated drivers are available. Outdated drivers sometimes cause ntdll.dll errors.
* Test your memory for damage. If you're receiving ntdll.dll messages, one possible cause could be a bad memory module in your system. Testing your memory will either identify a problem or clear your RAM of any responsibility.
* Replace your memory if it fails any of your tests.
* Ntdll.dll errors could occur if you have an Iomega Zip drive on the same IDE cable as the hard drive inside your computer. If so, move the Zip drive to a dedicated IDE controller.
* Replace the IDE cable connecting the hard drive to the motherboard. If this cable is damaged or malfunctioning, one symptom could be the ntdll.dll error you're seeing.
* Repair your installation of Windows. If individual software reinstallations fail to resolve the problem, a repair installation of Windows will replace the ntdll.dll file.
* Perform a clean installation of Windows. A clean installation will completely remove Windows from your PC and install it again from scratch. I don't recommend this option unless you've exhausted all previous troubleshooting ideas and you're comfortable that the ntdll.dll error is not caused by a single program (Step #2).
**Note: If a single program or plugin is causing the ntdll.dll error, reinstalling Windows and then reinstalling all of the same software may lead you right back to the same ntdll.dll error.
* While extremely rare, if everything else has failed, including the clean installation from the last step, you could be dealing with a hardware issue with your hard drive.
**If so, replace the hard drive and then perform a new installation of Windows.

IMac G5 hangs on startup, won't boot from disc

Hello,
My brother's computer has been acting up and I've been unable to fix it for him...so I was hoping I might be able to get some advice here.
Problem: hangs on startup. It goes to the gray screen with the Apple logo and the spinning progress wheel like it normally would, but never gets past that. You can hear the hard drive working and eventually the fan comes on.
What I've done:
1) attempted to boot from OSX disc, same result
2) attempted to boot from Apple hardware test disc. this brings up an open firmware terminal style prompt but does not boot from the disc. using the prompts i reset pram and did the "reset all" command which restarted the computer but it continued to hang
3) opened it up and pulled the only ram chip out and put it in the other slot. Unfortunately we don't have another chip to test out, but if you guys think it is a likely culprit I'll go buy him one to see if that fixes it.
Any advice will be appreciated. Thanks!
-Alan

Do you hear the drive spinning up? Have you tried a safe bootAfter the startup tone, hold down the <shift> key until you (hopefully) reach the desktop, it will be longer than normal, because Disk Utility's "repair" is invisibly run; it also will bypass any login items. If the system gets to the desktop OK this time but stalls when the shift key is NOT held down, the problem may be some login item that will need to be removed, using the Accounts panel of System Preferences and its Login Items section.
You could try to repair the machine using Target Disk Mode to access it.

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