WU reset?

bothered

I was doing a wu yesterday, it was at 38\500 at some point last night. I've just checked and now it says 0\500. why would it do that?

profdlp

Could be instability in your system or simply a bad WU. Check the log and it should tell you. (Right-Click on the cog, then go up to "Status" then across to "Log File".) Reading from the bottom up look for something like "EARLY_UNIT_END" or "LINCS..." something or other.

If it happens only occasionaly I wouldn't worry about it. If you start getting them over and over you'll need to do some more investigating.

Straight_Man

A computer that spontaneously reboots can do this with only one entry in the log, and it will be a sigterm entry IF XP and computer BIOS do not agree on PM details AND where XP is doing a sleep the BIOS is not set up for OR it will be a client restart with NO sigterm in Folding log if BIOS does a suspend and XP does not expect it. Even XP Pro can do this if one user is defaulted and XP is set to autologon defaulted user. If you see a sigterm entry when box should not have shut down, look in the services and events logs in XP Pro, and see if you have entries for all services shutting down and then starting up that default to AUTO in XP or are set that way.

Bonus Hint\Trick set:
The fastest way to pull up the full management stuff in XP Pro is to right-click My Computer in start Menu (or on desktop if you CTRL-Dragged the My Computer to desktop to give you a two-click total access entry(one right click if you have the My Computer icon COPIED from Start Menu onto Desktop, then click Manage menu option on popup context menu) into the management subsystem), then if starting in in Startup Menu, click Manage.

Generalized BIOS<->XP integration option specs, for desktops only:

For XP, let BIOS set up PMS 1.4, S3 suspend, user defined details, video either always on (or sending V+H sync and blank screen if PMS 1.1 is used on older Windows like 98 SE or Me, which also likes S1 mode and is not really fully S3 compatible in those versions of Windows), video power eventing ON (let BIOS monitor video and with some cards, you will need a video BIOS call or to have video BIOS cached), HD never powered down, and in Xp's Power Management applet set the type to server or desktop, HD never off, Video off at 5 hours or more, and XP will not conflict with BIOS. I also set the power switch option in BIOS to Instant off on my Barton box, and on the Intel P4 box, not to autostart. My XP NEVER hibernates on my tower type desktops, the PM events keep it always live-- and folding app events keep box from sleeping since BIOS is using the power event classes to determine power off and power up.

John D.

bothered

Cheers Prof.
Cheers ageek also but you vastly overestimate my computer saveyness. Sorry but I haven't a clue what you're talking about. You obviously have FAR greater knowledge than I.