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PostPosted: Sat Dec 16, 2006 2:17 am 
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When I run the audit, some dell 620's get a blue screen and continually reboot. After a while the script ends but the computer continually reboots. Any ideas?


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PostPosted: Sat Dec 16, 2006 2:56 am 
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[quote="sirhcchris"]When I run the audit, some dell 620's get a blue screen and continually reboot. After a while the script ends but the computer continually reboots. Any ideas?


YES! its probably the device drivers for the NIC, and I have seen this before, so I am 99% certain this is the issue. (BTW you may find even attempting to Manage a computer using MMC and then browse the WMI is enough to blow the box out of the water, thats how I tripped over the issue.)

Go to the Dell Web site and get all the latest drivers for one of the boxes, instal them.

Then audit just that machine (cscript audit.vbs {machinename})

If it doesn't go foom(*) then do the rest.

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Restau ... e_Universe

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Is there any way to change this in the script? We have so many of these computers it would take a ton of time.


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First off, have you confirmed this is the cause of the problem by updating the drivers on one or more of these machines.

Secondly, if this fixes things, the script is not the issue. The only fix is to fix the drivers, sorry.

BTW if it is the problem I had, then it can sometimes even throw a wobbler if you simply try to remotely manage the boxes concerned, from another windows box using the MMC, but this was not always repeatable, and caused a lot of head scratching.

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Sorry for the slow reply. I'm not sure if it was Windows updates that took care of it or what but the 620's can get audited just fine now. Just did a lab of about 30.


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Never mind this post. FIgured it out.


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[quote="sirhcchris"]Never mind this post. FIgured it out.


Just for the record, what was it?

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I didn't find out what fixed the 620's but I had posted a question about having to click OK for every computer but by doing CSCRIPT before the audit.vbs it worked just fine. A little confusing I know!


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[quote="sirhcchris"]I didn't find out what fixed the 620's but I had posted a question about having to click OK for every computer but by doing CSCRIPT before the audit.vbs it worked just fine. A little confusing I know!


If the default scripting engine is wscript (and it nearly always is), then simply running audit.vbs will cause it to use windows interaction (and all of those annoying OK buttons will appear) if you run cscript audit.vbs then you will use the command line version, without the pop-up dialogs. (I thought that the script checked to see how it had been run, and then ran itself using cscript... but maybe that is wishfull thinking, I will have to check when I am back in the office on Monday).

Glad you have it all working now.

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