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Thanks for the suggestion, I did that, it passed, and then I got the following message: “Disk group has no valid configuration copies.”

Learn something new every day. I made this a dynamic disk for no particularly good reason and the problem seems to be in the configuration table (?) on the failed disk. The back-up machine cannot add it to its configuration and the machine where it once worked will not welcome it back.

I sure hope somebody can tell me how to recover failed configuration tables.

Thanks for the suggestion, I did that, it passed, and then I got the following message: “Disk group has no valid configuration copies.”

Learn something new every day. I made this a dynamic disk for no particularly good reason and the problem seems to be in the configuration table (?) on the failed disk. The back-up machine cannot add it to its configuration and the machine where it once worked will not welcome it back.

I sure hope somebody can tell me how to recover failed configuration tables.

This is a wierd one. I went back and checked every installed program. Most ran, two were “shut down by Windows” before launching, and Office crashed the OS with both Outlook and Publisher (new with 2003?) although Excel, Word, and Access ran OK. I had slipstreamed SP4 into the original W2K install to make a new install disk and built the OS into a clean partition on a new drive.

The easiest fix appears to be starting over so I wiped out that partition and am re-installing as I write this. I’ll let you know.

This is a wierd one. I went back and checked every installed program. Most ran, two were “shut down by Windows” before launching, and Office crashed the OS with both Outlook and Publisher (new with 2003?) although Excel, Word, and Access ran OK. I had slipstreamed SP4 into the original W2K install to make a new install disk and built the OS into a clean partition on a new drive.

The easiest fix appears to be starting over so I wiped out that partition and am re-installing as I write this. I’ll let you know.

Bingo! Woody’s Wonders win again!

My sound card is integrated into the motherboard and I rarely use it so i rarely think about it. When I removed it from the hardware profile the pop-ups went away (at least so far).

This makes a certain sense because a video adapter is also built in and when I put a video card into the AGP slot, the one on the MB disappeared. I had to dust off an old S-3 card that fits a PCI slot to get the other monitor to work.

Thanks for the help.

Dan Lynch

Bingo! Woody’s Wonders win again!

My sound card is integrated into the motherboard and I rarely use it so i rarely think about it. When I removed it from the hardware profile the pop-ups went away (at least so far).

This makes a certain sense because a video adapter is also built in and when I put a video card into the AGP slot, the one on the MB disappeared. I had to dust off an old S-3 card that fits a PCI slot to get the other monitor to work.

Thanks for the help.

Dan Lynch