If you’re old enough to remember tweaking your Autoexec.bat and tackling IRQ conflicts, days when launching Windows required typing “win” at a command prompt, prepare for a blast of nostalgia. YouTuber Andrew Tait (aka “TheRasteri”) took a freshly minted VMWare instance and spent what looks to be a full day running through every version of Windows starting with DOS 5.0 and Windows 1.0, which was basically just Explorer paired with one heck of a crummy text editor. From there he dutifully leads us on a crazy upgrade path all the way up to modern times, charting interesting things like how long a version of Doom installed in DOS ran (failed in Windows 2000, but worked again in Windows XP) and when color settings made in Windows 2.0 were finally overwritten (also in 2000). It’s 10 minutes in length and is probably the most interesting video you won’t watch today.

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Well I just got the email this morning regarding the Dell Latitude 2100 Mobile Computing Station.

The price was a little more than what I expected at around $4,500.00 AUD.

I was thinking more around the High 2′s up to mid 3′s however for your money it has everything integrated such as push image SW updates remotely, power without touching cords and no cord damage over time.

Some media for your below:

Catchya round – Phil

I must say it looked like a toy a first glance however after having a play with it the whole kit is a well balanced machine.

You notice there are no exhuast holes anywhere so if you manage to put the laptop on water or other type of moisture you are sure not to get it wet inside.

Rubber in all the right places and utilizing a touch screen the LatitudeTm 2100 was something I can see being used in a school.

The touch screen was responsive and unlucky for me only manage to play the physic game, so I’m not sure how it will perform on the network.

The keyboard was nice to use and I didn’t feel like I had to change my comfort zone just to type something, unlike the Dell Mini 9.

Now these are not final pricing however just a quick quote it was gestimated around $600.00 AUD for basic model which includes 1GB Ram no webcam and 1 year warranty from memory.

Moving up to 2gb RAM, webcam and extended warranty probably around $800.00 AUD – Please don’t quote me.

We couldn’t get a price on the managed trolley so as soon as I hear what we are looking at I’ll post something up.

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Cheers

Phil

I tried for weeks to figure out why machines would not run stable, looking at Fix 1 in my opinion would be an acceptable solution.

Similar problems appeared when running Clickview Manager on a Dell 755 with a Hauppauge video card, just BSOD’s all the time.

These fixes below worked for us and applied to Dell Optiplex 745 [BIOS version 2.0] and 755 [BIOS version A10, A3/A4 should work as well]

Version of Ncomputing software/drivers I am using which didn’t pop up with errors on install was “NCX 2000-XP Version 4.03.081 [05-05-2007]

Version 4.03.0098.1 of software came up with CRC fail errors on install:

win32k.sys;
kmserv.exe;
kmmm.dll;
kmupdate.exe &;
kmlogon.dll

Common symptoms:

Blue screen of death on “win32k.sys” and dumping of physical memory;
NTDLR or some form of system file being corrupt after the install of Ncomputing software/drivers after restart;
Machine running slow;
Snap in console for Ncomputing + Administrative tools disappearing, error loading modules.

Fix 1 applied:

X300: Dell Optiplex 755: System will not boot / Stations will not start

There is a known issue in Optiplex 755 hosts, caused by a shortage of IRQ’s. This issue manifests in a failure to boot on the host computer, or some or all of the terminals. This can be resolved by disabling the serial and/or parallel ports in the BIOS to free up IRQ’s.

Fix 2 applied:

Incompatible Module win32k.sys / MS update KB941693 Incompatibility

Although this error message may or may not affect our product functionality it will continually prompt you with this “Module” error whenever the system starts up.

To remove this error message, you have to uninstall the Microsoft Security update “KB941693″ through add/remove programs in the Control Panel. Make sure you select “Show updates”, scroll to the “KB941693″ update and hit “remove”. It will prompt you stating that other updates may be dependent on this update. Disregard this, and finish the removal. The system will need to be restarted and the update should then be successfully removed. Make sure you turn off Auto installation of updates through “Automatic Updates” so that the update will not be reinstalled inadvertently.

last options tried but wasn’t essential:

1. X300 – Dell Optiplex 755 Desktop form factor – No sound when 2 X300 cards present. To resolve this issue, please downgrade the BIOS to revision A03. When the BIOS is then reset to default settings, sound works with 2 PCI Xtenda cards installed. To find the A03 BIOS revision, please visit the following website http://support.dell.com/ and search their database by model, specifying the Dell Optiplex 755. Once there, you can find previous versions of all downloads available for the Optiplex 755, including the A03 BIOS revision;
2. Using sfc /scannow and checking of windows system files.

Note if you have problems with “sfc /scannow” asking for windows CD and keeps asking no matter what you do, try copying ‘i386; folder to C:\

* Open the registry editor and go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Setup
* Highlight the Setup folder.
* On the right pane, locate the SourcePath.
* Double-click the SourcePath and replace the drive letter in the box to C:\ (if you copied the files to your C:\ drive). Make sure it’s C:\ and not C:\i386.
* Close the registry editor.
* If the system ever needs files from the i386 folder, it will automatically look in the C:\i386 folder.