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News posted 19th February, 2006 by David Newton (DavidN)
The site's been having a few problems with its backup server recently. Hopefully the intermittent downtime has now been fixed, as über-admin Clubsoft has informed us that the server has now had its OS reinstalled and had some more RAM thrown at it. There are still two main issues: The GOTW Everyone's probably noticed the distinct lack of a GOTW this week. The update script certainly saw Shab coming, as it's completely failing to recognise that he's doing anything. Again, Club is working on getting the site back to the real server as soon as possible, so with any luck we'll get it sorted in a couple of days and work things out from there. New Users (Updated:) Club has now fixed the registration script, so new users should be able to register once more. Additionally, my computer is refusing to boot up unassisted after an install of some ATI graphics software completely corrupted my system32 folder. It's times like these that Macs look almost appealing. Tweet

Posted by Dr. James MD

19th February, 2006

Grab yourself one of those Live Linux DVDs. They're brilliant for when Windows plays awkward. What about that System Restore thing? Doesn't that work?

Posted by Klikmaster

19th February, 2006

Well he said he cannot boot, unless maybe safe mode would let him?

And I predicted the gotw would mess up under the hands of Shab

Posted by Dr. James MD

19th February, 2006

the beauty is there should be ATI drivers on the DVD already so if its only Windows thats affected then at least he could enter some flavour of Linux and tinker about.

Posted by DaVince

19th February, 2006

I'm glad this stuff is found out, so it can be restored for a better TDC.

Yeah, a Live Linux CD/DVD is useful for situations like this. It doesn't install on the computer and they are often optimized to support most hardware.

Posted by David Newton (DavidN)

19th February, 2006

My computer was going through some sort of electronic Groundhog Day, as it wouldn't work unless I system restored it to the 24th of January every time I turned it on.

It's now been improved to the state where it'll work if I always use Last Known Good Configuration. Why it still doesn't work the next time it's started up after that is a mystery.

Posted by Knudde (Shab)

19th February, 2006

Hey! It's really truly and honestly not my fault.

For once.

Posted by tdc052621

20th February, 2006

When is the search going to be fixed? Honestly these things can be fixed in a matter of days(I have my own server). Come on everyone, make donations if you want a better website, im tired of the google ads.

Posted by Clubsoft

20th February, 2006