I worked today on a Dell Optiplex GX270 SFF (this should apply to other GX270 SDT, SMT and GX260) in which the CPU fan blew at full speed beginning when you would touch the power button (before the CPU was even used).RA Grani
I swapped the CPU fan with a known good one and the problem was fixed. It has CPU fan 9G180 in both the GX270 SFF and GX260 SFF I had on hand.
SUMMARY: A problem with ATI video card drivers and either KB2160329 or KB2079403 caused this problem. (If you narrow it down, please comment.)
I have a customer that called because his Dell Optiplex 745 with Windows XP SP3 computer would automatically reboot after the Windows splash screen, but before the Windows login screen appeared. The strange this was that I could not get it to show a blue screen, even after I verified the setting in Control Panel > System > Advanced tab > Startup and Recovery Settings and chose to Disable Automatic Reboot on System Failure at the Safe Mode menu screen.
The good thing was that it would boot to Safe Mode. I found that it did 14 Windows Updates prior to the last time it worked properly. I searched on Google to see if anyone was experiencing big problems with any of them, but nothing looked promising.
Here is the crash in the Event Log:
The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck. The bugcheck was: 0x0000001a (0x0004128b, 0x000052d0, 0x00000000, 0xbec00000). A dump was saved in: C:\WINDOWS\Minidump\Mini081310-02.dmp.
I didn’t find much on Google about that either, besides that it was a “MEMORY MANAGEMENT” error.
I started from the bottom of the list of updates and removed four (KB2183461, KB982214, KB2115168, KB981852), restarted, but still the same problem.
Then I removed KB2079403 and KB2160329, rebooted and Windows worked again! So the problem is one of those.
Using great software from Resplendence, called WhoCrashed, I found this as the culprit of my crash:
On Fri 8/13/2010 1:28:55 PM your computer crashed
This was likely caused by the following module: ati3duag.dll
Bugcheck code: 0x1A (0x4128B, 0x52D0, 0x0, 0xBEC00000)
Error: MEMORY_MANAGEMENT
Dump file: C:\WINDOWS\Minidump\Mini081310-03.dmp
file path: C:\WINDOWS\system32\ati3duag.dll
product: ATI Technologies Inc. Radeon DirectX Universal Driver
company: ATI Technologies Inc.
description: ati3duag.dll
It looks to me as though my video card drivers combined with the Windows patch caused this problem.
It has an ATI Radeon HD 2400 with 8.582.0.0 drivers from 2/3/09.
Then I went to ATI’s site to download an updated driver (today it is 8.753).
After rebooting, I installed all the Windows Updates and it rebooted fine!!
I received an HP TouchSmart IQ500 to fix, but I could not figure out how to open the stand! The slider was on the unlocked padlock, but it wouldn’t move. I searched online and read about forcing the switch, (which it popped off) but it just didn’t loosen it up. I would try to open it, but it felt like it was going to break.Visual Cage
After persistent Google searches, I found this video:
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlnD1UWeusI&hl=en_US&fs=1]
Just make sure the switch is in the unlock position and force it. Hopefully it works for you like it worked for me!
[UPDATE 9/19/10: I have included more information in a post about another letter here.] (See other posts here.)
Today I received a letter from Hamilton Gates telling me that I have qualified for an award of 2 roundtrip airline tickets. It says to call 866-391-0391. It looks like it was actually signed by Brittany Dale, the Vice President of the Travel Awards Division.
The www.hamiltongates.com website exists. Here’s the whois info: http://www.whois.net/whois/hamiltongates.com — registered July 6, 2010.
My envelope has a 44 cent actual stamp, postmarked from Phoenix AZ 852 on July 19 and my address is hand written (although on this one they were writing very quickly)!
Here are some things that seem to be related in some way:
An actual story: http://www.kgun9.com/Global/story.asp?S=12741861
Notice anything similar to hamiltongates.com with these?
Garrison Finley: http://www.garrisonfinley.com/
Sampson Phelps: http://www.sampsonphelps.com/
Burton Malone: http://burtonmalone.com/
Anderson Pratt: http://andersonpratt.com/
Morgan Stanfield: http://morganstanfield.com/
Maddox Wright: http://maddoxwright.com/
Strickland Penn: http://stricklandpenn.com/
Harris Fields: http://www.harrisfields.com/
Lexington Duke: http://www.lexingtonduke.com/
Hamilton Gates: http://hamiltongates.com/ (http://twitter.com/hamiltongates)
Madden Hall: http://maddenhall.com/ (http://twitter.com/maddenhall)
Davidson Powell: http://davidsonpowell.com/ (http://twitter.com/davidsonpowell)
Nicholson Barnes: http://www.nicholsonbarnes.com/ (http://twitter.com/nicholsonbarnes)
Warner Rowe: http://www.warnerrowe.com/ (http://twitter.com/warnerrowe)
Larson Keller: http://www.larsonkeller.com/ (http://twitter.com/larsonkeller)
Robinson Rhodes: http://www.robinsonrhodes.com
Stanton Carney: http://www.stantoncarney.com/
Foster Simmons: http://www.fostersimmons.com/
Swanson Carr: http://www.swansoncarr.com/
Morrison Banks: http://www.morrisonbanks.com/
Stanton Carney: http://www.stantoncarney.com/
Zimmerman Cain: http://zimmermancain.com/
Thompson Fuller: http://www.thompsonfuller.com/
Shelton White: http://sheltonwhite.com/
Gilbert Turner: http://gilbertturner.com/
Richardson Blake: http://www.richardsonblake.com/
Sutton Perry: http://www.suttonperry.com/
Chapman Lane
Sullivan Lang
Spencer Burns
Hammond Reed
Lambert Steel
Peterson Burke
Watson Brooks
Bradley Tate
Stevens Cole: http://www.stevenscole.com/
Hudson Stone
Hoffman Sims
Patterson Bell
Erickson Wade
Emerson Ross
Welsh McCormick: http://welshmccormick.com/
Jensen Sharpe: http://www.jensensharpe.com/
Jefferson Greer: http://www.jeffersongreer.com/
Henderson Gill: http://www.hendersongill.com/
Finn and Gilliam: http://finnandgilliam.com/
Brooks Spade: http://brooksspade.com/
I have found the answers to this mystery thanks to the great work of the folks at BBB in Tucson, AZ:
http://www.bbb.org/tucson/business-reviews/travel-clubs/southwest-travel-club-in-tucson-az-20007983
I am the proud recipient of a replica of this letter with the name of Madden Hall. See my earlier blog post about that letter.
Oh look what someone posted about me anonymously, of course: http://www.metacafe.com/watch/5201222/brian_morris_tech_fraud/
Here is the letter and envelope (click to see larger image):
TEXT:
I am pleased to inform you that you have qualified for an award of 2 roundtrip airline tickets. Congratulations. These tickets are valid for travel anywhere in the Continental U.S. The retail value of this award is up to $1,400.00. Certain restrictions apply.
We have attempted contacting you several times without success. This is our last attempt. If we do not hear from you soon, we may need to issue the ticket vouchers to the alternate.
Please call me today at 866-391-0391.
Regards,
Brittany Dale
Vice President, Travel Awards Division
info@hamiltongates.com — www.hamiltongates.com
AW-25473 at the bottom
I had a client that had Adobe Reader 9 installed (by the company automatically) and he suddenly lost the ability to print more than the first page of a PDF file. Other programs printed fine.
It is probably related to the copier’s printer driver being PostScript. I read of some users updating drivers to fix it, but here is the fix I used:
In the print dialog box, click the Advanced button, change the Font and Resource Policy dropdown box to “Send for Each Page.”
[UPDATE 9/19/10: I have included more information in a post about another letter here.] (See other posts here.)
Today I received a letter from Madden Hall telling me that I have qualified for an award of 2 roundtrip airline tickets. It says to call 866-390-9070. It looks like it was actually signed by Jacqueline Ball, the Vice President of the Travel Awards Division.
The www.maddenhall.com website exists. Here’s the whois info: http://www.whois.net/whois/maddenhall.com — registered June 7, 2010.
My envelope has a 44 cent actual stamp, postmarked from Phoenix AZ 852 on July 3 and my address is hand written!
I’m not going to write my thoughts yet, I’d be interested to hear your comments!
[UPDATE 7/6/10 10pm] I see that a few have searched for information about this letter. Please write your thoughts…
[UPDATE 7/7/10 4pm] I see some more visitors have been searching about this letter. Here are some things that seem to be related in some way:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgk7aFGO5pY
http://www.youtube.com/user/maddenhall09
[UPDATE 7/8/10 9pm] Here’s their Twitter feed: http://twitter.com/maddenhall
An actual story: http://www.kgun9.com/Global/story.asp?S=12741861
Notice anything similar to maddenhall.com with these?
Garrison Finley: http://www.garrisonfinley.com/
Sampson Phelps: http://www.sampsonphelps.com/
Burton Malone: http://burtonmalone.com/
Anderson Pratt: http://andersonpratt.com/
Morgan Stanfield: http://morganstanfield.com/
Maddox Wright: http://maddoxwright.com/
Strickland Penn: http://stricklandpenn.com/
Harris Fields: http://www.harrisfields.com/
Lexington Duke: http://www.lexingtonduke.com/
Hamilton Gates: http://hamiltongates.com/ (http://twitter.com/hamiltongates)
Davidson Powell: http://davidsonpowell.com/ (http://twitter.com/davidsonpowell)
Nicholson Barnes: http://www.nicholsonbarnes.com/ (http://twitter.com/nicholsonbarnes)
Warner Rowe: http://www.warnerrowe.com/ (http://twitter.com/warnerrowe)
Larson Keller: http://www.larsonkeller.com/ (http://twitter.com/larsonkeller)
Robinson Rhodes: http://www.robinsonrhodes.com
Foster Simmons: http://www.fostersimmons.com/
Stanton Carney: http://www.stantoncarney.com/
Swanson Carr: http://www.swansoncarr.com/
Morrison Banks: http://www.morrisonbanks.com/
Stanton Carney: http://www.stantoncarney.com/
Zimmerman Cain: http://zimmermancain.com/
Thompson Fuller: http://www.thompsonfuller.com/
Shelton White: http://sheltonwhite.com/
Gilbert Turner: http://gilbertturner.com/
Richardson Blake: http://www.richardsonblake.com/
Sutton Perry: http://www.suttonperry.com/
Chapman Lane
Sullivan Lang
Spencer Burns
Hammond Reed
Lambert Steel
Peterson Burke
Watson Brooks
Bradley Tate
Stevens Cole: http://www.stevenscole.com/
Hudson Stone
Hoffman Sims
Patterson Bell
Erickson Wade
Emerson Ross
Welsh McCormick: http://welshmccormick.com/
Jensen Sharpe: http://www.jensensharpe.com/
Jefferson Greer: http://www.jeffersongreer.com/
Henderson Gill: http://www.hendersongill.com/
Finn and Gilliam: http://finnandgilliam.com/
Brooks Spade: http://brooksspade.com/
[UPDATE 7/8/10 10pm]
I think I have found the answers to this mystery thanks to the great work of the folks at BBB in Tucson, AZ:
http://www.bbb.org/tucson/business-reviews/travel-clubs/southwest-travel-club-in-tucson-az-20007983
[UPDATE 7/24/10 10pm] I got another letter! This time from Hamilton Gates. See my new blog post.
[UPDATE 9/15/10] Oh look what someone posted about me anonymously, of course: http://www.metacafe.com/watch/5201222/brian_morris_tech_fraud/
Here is the letter and envelope (click to see larger image):
TEXT:
I am pleased to inform you that you have qualified for an award of 2 roundtrip airline tickets. Congratulations. These tickets are valid for travel anywhere in the Continental U.S. The retail value of this award is up to $1,400.00. Certain restrictions apply.
We have attempted contacting you several times without success. This is our last attempt. If we do not hear from you soon, we may need to issue the ticket vouchers to the alternate.
Please call me today at 866-390-9070.
Regards,
Jacqueline Ball
Vice President, Travel Awards Division
info@maddenhall.com — www.maddenhall.com
AT-91825 at the bottom
I sold a Dell Latitude D620 that intermittently would go into a terrible screen flickering or blinking when the power cord was unplugged. If I inserted the AC adapter, it was fine. After lots of time and headaches, the answer was to update the display driver.
It had Intel 6.14.10.4764 display driver, which was bad.
I updated it to Intel 6.14.10.4814, which worked.
I recommend going to www.dell.com/support and downloading the newest display driver from there.
Another source I found: http://www.notebookforums.com/post2616684.html
[UPDATED 2/16/2011] I am out of stock of the 2010 Pocket Tables.Aton mebel
These are a compact guide packed full of great tax and financial information. I work with many financial advisors and as a service to them.
Email me at brian AT brianmorristech.com (sorry you must type it in your email client) if you are interested, or just comment here.
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McAfee DAT file 5958 is caused a false positive in SVCHOST.EXE, it is thinking it is W32/WECORL.A. Disabling McAfee will stop this rebooting.Чесотка
Hit START > RUN > SHUTDOWN -A, hit Enter to stop the DCOM shutdown window. Many things won’t work at this point.
Here is McAfee’s solution page: http://vil.nai.com/vil/5958_false.htm
Confirmation from McAfee: http://home.mcafee.com/VirusInfo/VirusProfile.aspx?key=265240
McAfee forum: http://community.mcafee.com/thread/24056?tstart=0