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Def Dave · Post by **Def Dave** » Wed Jun 30, 2004 12:42 am

My machine number has changed three times today on my Thinkpad? Any ideas what could make this happen?

Dave

jules · Post by **jules** » Wed Jun 30, 2004 8:34 am

Have you been adding/removing disks or reinstalling Windows?

Def Dave · Post by **Def Dave** » Wed Jun 30, 2004 10:30 am

jules wrote:Have you been adding/removing disks or reinstalling Windows?

No! This would be an obvious reason... Is it possible that an nearly empty CMOS-battery causes number changes?
Another weird thing is, that my Desktop PC an my notebook share the same number since last night! It is exactly the same number that is shon when I hit "about".

Dave

EDIT:
Wait... I have a "network drive" installed so that I can directly access a shared folder on my desktop. But I don't have the network cable attached all the time, so windows might think that drive has been removed. Could this lead to my problem?

PLEASE EXCUSE MY ENGLISH!

jules · Post by **jules** » Wed Jun 30, 2004 12:27 pm

er.. don't know then - maybe if your system clock is messed up, then the OS is getting confused about file times and dates, but that's very odd..

Def Dave · Post by **Def Dave** » Wed Jun 30, 2004 12:31 pm

jules wrote:er.. don't know then - maybe if your system clock is messed up, then the OS is getting confused about file times and dates, but that's very odd..

Hm... Seems like I found a patchwork solution. Hibernating seems to be better than shutting down. But maybe it won't ever happen again. I will ask for help when it happens again.

Dave

Thank you very much for your support and help Jules!

Karbon L. Forms · Post by **Karbon L. Forms** » Wed Jun 30, 2004 12:36 pm

Carefull Jules! There might be evil ones out there very interested in your machine number system.

rpc9943 · Post by **rpc9943** » Wed Jun 30, 2004 1:12 pm

hmmm its good to see jules around again!

RonC

l0ss · Post by **l0ss** » Wed Jun 30, 2004 1:17 pm

Just a shot in the dark here, but are you running any low level hardware emulated devices? For instance, some software will install virtual devices (like network interfaces) that may not retain an identical hardware profile from boot to boot. Also, depending on your motherboard settings, you could have a PCI or USB bridge that is reconfiguring itself at boot. Like I said, just a shot in the dark. Getting the identical machine number on two different computers seems a little fishy though.

Def Dave · Post by **Def Dave** » Thu Jul 01, 2004 5:49 pm

thx for the help... but the problem seems to be gone.

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My machine number changes without any reason