[dba-Tech] Determine the hard drive type without opening the box

Guys: 

This is an excellent product for finding problems on your home business
servers. The amount of information that it gives back can be a bit
overwhelming so, if you do not have to, do not allow it to run more than a
few minutes. If you are hunting for an intermittent problem make sure you
have a few GB free for the log file.

The app did point out, that in certain condition both MS Outlook and IE6
bleed like stuck pigs and have to be terminated using Task Manger.

Jim 

-----Original Message-----
From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Rocky Smolin at
Beach Access Software
Sent: Saturday, June 21, 2008 5:34 AM
To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Determine the hard drive type without opening the
box

Tine:

I just found this one yesterday, but it looks like maybe a sub-set of yours.
I had a svchost process taking 50% of the CPU cycles and came across this
trying to google what was going wrong.

It's a bit too technical for me but maybe somebody will like it.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx
 


Rocky Smolin
Beach Access Software
858-259-4334
www.e-z-mrp.com
www.bchacc.com
 
 

-----Original Message-----
From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Tina Norris
Fields
Sent: Saturday, June 21, 2008 4:30 AM
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Determine the hard drive type without opening the
box

Bill,

The site is www.gtopala.com.  You have an extra "r" in there.

Tina

Bill Patten wrote:
> Arthur,
>
> Download a free program called SIW from www.gtropala.com or Google 
> SIW. Run the program and then on the left tree click on Hardware/storage
devices.
> Then highlight the hard drive on the top of the right hand window and 
> you will find more information about the hard drive than you can ever 
> want to know in the lower pane.
>
> You will then find that SIW will give you all kinds of data about your 
> computer including some passwords, license codes and on and on.
>
> If you are using Vista you will get can't load a dll but most things 
> work anyway if you keep on going.
>
>
> HTH
>
> Bill
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Arthur Fuller" <fuller.artful at gmail.com>
> To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" 
> <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 11:41 AM
> Subject: [dba-Tech] Determine the hard drive type without opening the 
> box
>
>
> A while back I started a thread about determining the CPU type without 
> opening the box, and received several good answers. Now I'm wondering 
> whether I can determine the type of hard drive(s) installed -- maker, 
> size, rpm, IDE or SCSI or SATA, etc.
>
> Anyone know?
>
> TIA,
> Arthur
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