Windows XP Bluescreens Again

Author: Bayo Oyekole
Posted in X-Files on April 14th, 2007 
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Three blue screen errors in one day is just too much. I visit a client who gets blue screen of death (probably due to a power surge and resultant corruption of boot files). Another one gets a random bluescreen error after installing yahoo messenger . And to cap it up, my PC decides to emit its own blue screen. I had to fix the client number one’s PC. Turned out that it just needed a disk check run on it

Hardware Failure: a Network Admin’s Nightmare (part 2)

Author: Bayo Oyekole
Posted in Hardware on April 7th, 2007 
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I think my Access Point is dead. And that is a BIG deal. One of my clients called on Saturday afternoon to say she couldn’t access the internet. After describing the problem, i concluded a cable had slipped again.

I came to the office to meet a total disaster: the Ethernet LED on the AP was not on. Which meant there was no data. Which meant the AP was off! (it uses Power-over-ethernet). The equipment was made by Demarctech, a Reliawave RWV 802.11a/b/g Access Point/Bridge. It was mounted at the top of an 80ft mast (phew!). And now i have to climb. The day is particularly windy, and my heart is in my mouth as i move from rung to rung on the rather narrow mast.