Using a Disk Drive from a Dimension 2350 in a 4600
I had to move a disk drive from a Dell Dimension 2350 to a Dell Dimension 4600,
because of a problem with the processor on the 2350 motherboard overheating.
Unfortunately, Windows XP doesn't react well to a change of motherboard
and the process or repairing Windows XP, so that the system was usable again,
took me many hours.
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Ghost 2003 Internal Error 36000
After running
chkdsk /f
on all drives in the system,
I started an image backup of a Windows Small Business Server (SBS) 2003 system
from a Norton Ghost 2003 boot CD. I was attempting to backup an internal
IDE drive to a double-layer DVD in the system's internal DVD writer.
When I attempted to backup drive C (the second partition to a double-layer DVD,
I got a "File Name ? (546)" error message. The backup aborted shortly after
it started with the current file being backed up listed as "0 $MFT".
When I hit enter for "OK", I then received the following error message:
Internal Error 36000
An internal inconsistency has been detected
If this problem persists, contact Symantec Technical Support
at http://service.symantec.com
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When I hit enter, I saw the following:
ABORT: 12020, Write to CD/DVD disc failed
ABORT: 36000, A generalException occurred
I rebooted and hit F8 prior to the system booting from the Ghost boot
disc to choose what entries in config.sys and autoexec.bat should be
processed. I chose not to execute "Ghost.exe" from autoexec.bat. When
I got a command prompt, I entered
ghost -fni
instead, as suggested
by
How to troubleshoot the error: "Internal error 36000 . . . ".
I then proceeded with the backup of the second partition, excactly as before.
This time the backup completed succcessfully.
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Visual Basic Script to Check CPU Utilization
A user of a Windows 2000 Professional system was complaining that his system
has been running very slow. He has stated that when he is typing in a Word
document or an email message that the time between when he types characters
and when they appear on his screen can be quite lengthy. I've seen problems
on his system before with high CPU utilization and wanted to use a script
that would monitor and record CPU utilization on his system.
I found a script posted on TechRepublic at
CPU Utilization Script1.
I modified the script so that I could
specify the time interval between CPU utilization checks through an argument
to the script when it is run. The modified script is available at
CPU_Use.vbs
2.
The script can be run with csript /nologo CPU_Use.vbs
or
alternatively cscript /nologo CPU_Use num
where "num" is the
number of seconds to wait between CPU checks, e.g. csript /nologo CPU_Use
300
to check every 5 minutes.
The output is placed in C:\Processor.log; the output location can
be changed by modifying the value of the strLogFile
variable in the script. Output will look similar to the following:
9/22/2007 09:43
9/22/2007 09:48 19
9/22/2007 09:53 17
9/22/2007 09:58 17
9/22/2007 10:03 35
9/22/2007 10:08 14
9/22/2007 10:13 15
The first two columns list the date and time the script was run while
the third lists the CPU utilization at the time the script was executed.
There is no value for CPU utilization for the first entry in the log.
The script requires Windows XP or later. It will not run on Windows 2000.
If it is run on Windows 2000, you will see
CPU_Use.vbs(48, 1) Microsoft VBScript runtime error: ActiveX component
can't create object: 'WbemScripting.Swbemrefresher'
3, 4
Most of the systems I support are Windows XP systems, so the script will
still be useful to me, but I can't check the system I wanted to check
in this case, since that system is a Windows 2000 system.
References:
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CPU Utilization Script
By: neilb
Posted: January 4, 2006
TechRepublic
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CPU_Use.vbs
By: Jim Cameron (modifications to script written by neilb)
MoonPoint Support
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ActiveX component can't create object: 'WbemScripting.Swbemrefresh
Posted By: Daniel
Date: April 19, 2005
Ureader.com - Microsoft community
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SWbemRefresher Object
Microsoft Developer Network
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