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Yeah I did most of the work as local admin in safe mode, because I couldn't get on the domain because it kept freezing before the login box (but that ended up being the help desk services). Regarding deleting the local profile. What we used to do in my old work place that actually used roaming profiles, was just to reboot the machine (because their profile gets locked by the NTuser files if they'd logged on). Then just login as local admin, rename their local profile to .old and then let them login. So their roaming profile gets copied back down. Means you don't have to bother with removing the machine off the domain and re-add it. We'd rename it to .old in case there was something in that profile, documents, that they needed. Because someones the roaming profiles wouldn't sync properly and you'd find when the fresh, new, uncorrupted profile copied off the server, it might be missing some of their documents.

Fixed this now. Would like to be able to edit titles here so I can put FIXED on my threads. So if someone else has the issue they can see my fix. Machine wasn't able to get on the network due to the hanging so couldn't try my domain admin account. I've posted the fix on another forum, so this is lifted from there so don't have to type it again. ----------- Took all day from 8am to 4pm but did it :) gives you a buzz when you solved something like this, that had me :scratch: all day. Right. First problem (that ended up not needed in end) was to fix the GPEDIT issue, why wasn't Administrators in there. I think the GP was buggered, so asking over at Technet forums I got told about the secedit command (which I'm sure I've heard of before but long forgot). Got given this link http://support.microsoft.com/kb/313222 Being on XP I ran this on the machine at a CMD secedit /configure /cfg %windir%\repair\secsetup.inf /db secsetup.sdb /verbose Did what it had to do. Checked gpedit again and sure enough the Administrators group was back in the place it should be in the image in first post. But it was all still greyed out, but never mind as admin account was now able to remove devices. Also got told the icon means it's locked by Group Policy and can't be edited. The blue 1's and 0's means it's not locked and can be edited. So, now, why wasn't Process Monitor still working? It was still saying Admin wasn't in the Admin group but it was. On Technet they later said the Admin has to be in the debug group as well for Process Monitor to run, but I'd fixed it before then, so not sure if that was the issue. Anyway. To fix the admin account permissions I used Trinity Rescue Kit http://trinityhome.org/Home/index.php?wpid=1&front_id=12 Booted up from that, ran winpass To allow you to reset a local account, unlock or up it's privileges. I choose to up the admin accounts privileges as it was saying the admin account only had Normal rights. Booted into Windows and result, Process Monitor was now able to run :) However, the hanging issue (not sure if I mentioned that) was still a problem. I then used msconfig (which ain't great) but it's easy with that to hide all the Microsoft processes so that you can then disable all other, 3rd party ones. Did that and rebooted. No more hanging. Then had to re-enable them one by one till the hanging started again. What was it? Our Helpdesk software. It had two processes running as services at start-up and they were causing the hang. I'm about to look through the Process Monitor logs of it working and then not working. To see if what I suspect to be happening is happening. That is, now the PC is on a new domain, these two services are trying to talk or doing something with the old domain and can't. Causing explorer to then hang as they maybe just get stuck in a loop. Was a good feeling when it was all fixed and I had drilled it down to the exact two things causing the issue. Now in geekness I'm off to look through the process monitor logs. Forgot to mention that once I put the PC back on the domain the gpedit entry was no longer greyed out. --------------

Machine was migrated from the old domain the other day to the new one. The user then booted the machine and it would freeze and load personal settings I think it was before the login box. I'd remove the network cable and reboot and I'd get to the login box. But something in XP has become unstable as right click my computer and go to properties and it never loads system. Do gpupdate /force and it starts to do it but never appears to finish and seems like it's hung. So have to do everything in safemode. But doing gpupdate /force in safemode it modes it can't find file or something (can't remember the error as at home now). I found in C:\WINDOWS\security\templates the .inf files. So took the ones from my PC that is fine and shoved them in the not working PC. Loaded up the setup security.inf in the non working PC but appears to do nothing. Do gpupdate/force and get the file error. Do a reboot and they don't take effect or it doesn't seem to change anything. In the above picture I'm logged in as local admin, the blanked out bit is ourolddomainname\users but nothing else is in there, as you can see, and unable to add. I though the icon meant it was getting this policy from AD group policy. Removed the machine from the domain but made no difference.

Got a local admin account where this has been set Which I believe is preventing the admin account from removing or installing devices. This is causing an issue. Looks like it's AD GP as is greyed out and I can't add to it locally. The network team claim there are no AD GPs to limit the local admin account that they know of. Also, I'm trying to use Process Monitor on the machine but that needs admin rights and it keeps saying that the local admin account isn't a member of the admin group, but it is. Any ideas? Even if it's just fixing he Process Monitor bit? And looking at the picture can anyone explain what the icon means next to Load and Unload device drivers. It's different from the others and think this is related, maybe trying to tell me it's a AD group policy. I've spoken to networks, they said there are not AD GP's set for this. I've used the local admin account to create a new local admin account and put it in the administrators group. Logged into it and it also has the same issue. Any ideas?

Works fine on all the machines at work I've recently used it on. Only works on a local account not a domain account.

Just had a thought. Wouldn't be a firmware issue would it? Appears to have 3.1.1 r1 on it.

Sadly still nothing. Will keep trying but think it's a dead end. It's not bricked though as can still pick it up in Windows.

Tested new cable by jumping the pins. I get the echo back in Putty. I stick the cable into the Fon+ power off, still get the echo back. Power it on, get nothing just the orange light. Then wait for the green light, plug in the ground. Still nothing. So put the RX to where the TX is suppose to go and powered on. Nothing but orange light. But then when green light comes on I plug in the ground and then just get garbage. Any ideas?

Sorry to sound dense but just want to double check. When you say "nothing comes back" you mean as you're typing, nothing appears on screen? But when you short the pins, what you type appears on screen? That right?

Regarding the echo'd back. What actually do you see on screen? We tried to test the USB to Serial cable as well as we knew that was working. But we used Hyperterminal to test that. We weren't sure what we were looking for. However, we would connect to the COM port in HT and type a character. Would just display the character as you type it. We then noticed, when we then jumped the pins and as we'd type one character, that character would automatically get written again on screen. I assume this is the echo back behaviour we are looking for in Putty? As soon as we stopped jumping the pins nothing could even be written.

We had it on 9600, 8, 1 no parity or flow control. Still no display. At least we got the garbage txt so I would say half way there maybe.

Thanks. We checked your images again and realise the cable was either wired wrong or we were connected to the wrong pins. We've tried again. Connected to what we believe to be correct but get nothing. I've seen around here somewhere but can't find the thread, something to do with if the cables are crossed wrongly, you'd get garbage on screen. So we swapped the Rx and Tx around and then we get one character J Then I try CRTL+C and then I get a load of garbage on the screen. So I assume this means the cable is working but when we put the cable in correctly we get nothing. Any ideas? I'm taking photos as I go in the hope I can give something back. In a noob guide. I know there are a few, but would like to do one that has near enough has every step, step by step. I find doing this a quite interesting, seeing the cable being made and trying to understand the electronics side of it which goes over my head. I'm liking this thread as it's similar and is based in Windows (never gotten along with Linux). Surpised this thread hasn't been stickied or linked to in the guide sections.

Good guide so far. For a total noob guide I'd add a bit to the putty. When in Putty you need to go to session and change connection type to Serial. I wonder why I wasn't getting anywhere :) Right. Now stuck with a black screen and green cursor. I'm doing this in Windows 7 64bit. I do crtl C as the Fon+ is booting up but nothing happens on screen, stays black with green cursor. Someone made the serial cable for me and we assume it's right. Any ideas?

64Bit is supported http://www.piotrbania.com/all/kon-boot/ Works a treat. Used it at work the other day when had no network access so couldn't use my AD admin account and the local admin password was different to what it should be. I just have it on CD, haven't bothered trying to get it on to USB.

£1999.99 As overpriced as an Apple but biodegradable :) and upgradable. When the Banana goes bad, just buy another to pop on top.

But it's got a peel :)

Took a lot of hard work and graft. We finished this off today. Almost complete: Finally finished off by adding the aerial. Quality piece of kit, I'm sure you'll agree. We also got it working with Jasager. The BananaWifi Quality!

Ironic thing is, because money is involved these sites get shut down. Yet the other day, on Radio 4 in England, I was listening to Any Questions. A politician on there speaking about an Islamic extremist website based in the US "...I'd be very reluctant to go down a route that sees us banning websites and taking them offline." So you don't mind terrorist sites staying up. But "OH NOW, NAUGHTY BAD P2P. WE MUST SHUT THEM DOWN NOW!. And not because Hollywood or the music industry is giving me a big cheque to try and do so".

Hi Back to this. Been using this but now looking at a directional one. But we want to try and make one. The extend cable that I got with the above aerial, that sits on the magnet base. Is that coaxial cable?

How embarrassing. After months of just leaving this, I mentioned it at work and another engineer tried. They had same issue. But then I had the thought, why not just try to boot from it, even though Windows claims it's empty. Booting from it and works fine. So after all that and throwing about about 4 CDs that were probably fine. It was cause I was an idiot and didn't think to try to actually boot from the CD to test. Fool :)

Cool, thanks, so it is :)

So I have my site, that is currently running fine. I backup the SQL now and then. It's just a site I slap up IT notes to help me when out in the field, if I forget a command or something I can look for it on my site. Now created a local setup of Wordpress to mess about with the different themes as think I want to change my theme on main site. Trying to load my SQL database up, but despite having written the password down, not sure if it's right. Everything works on the main site but now realise, if I need to restore, I may not be able to. Is it easy to recover the sql password that was just simply setup via Cpanel, so nothing special? The Wordpress local setup is on Windows and I'm not a fan of Linux.

This is a first. Went into M&S today and on one till the chip and pin reader was broken. She said she'd have to swipe the card instead. I've been on that till before with it broken. But it was swiped and I still had to enter my pin. This time it was swiped and that was it. It went through without me entering a pin or signing anything. Her not being technical laughed it off saying "Lucky you're not a robber". Erm, how do you know I wasn't and that wasn't just a test? I told her it was odd, it should only go through with a pin. I was going to suggest they have that till etc checked out, but didn't want to be called an arse so left it. I then call Nationwide and they said "Oh that's normal for it to be able to do that". WHAT!!!! I then moaned "But you, the banks and building societies, all claim chip and pin is so secure, that you kick up a fuss if there is fraud on our card. You claim you must of given your details and pin to someone then. Bollocks. If all it takes is them to swipe it in the till instead of the chip and pin machine, and the till swipe meaning you need no pin. Then clearly it ain't secure.

Got an E71 on 3 network. Contract has run out. The knob jockeys gave me the wrong unlock codes so now the phone is permanently locked to them (on purpose some might say, to convince you to stay). Anyway, arguing with them I've finally got them to agree to cover the cost of getting the phone unlocked in a shop (as their 3 stores don't do it). I've changed flag on the phones firmware so marks it as a normal unbranded euro phone. Allowed me to put the latest Nokia firmware on it. Means it's not 3 branded, but it's still locked. Went in the shop today. Bugger. He said as it's got the lastest Nokia firmware on it he won't be able to unlock it now. The old firmware is fine but he said the latest has stopped it. Anyone know if it's possible to get the firmware without the Nokia updater and go back a few editions? I know I could set the flag back to 3 and then reflash it with the 3 firmware. Any ideas?

Thanks for the replies. That's what was happening. It would burn but refuse to work after burning.