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Bill-MT
Guest
Background Info:
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"New" Terminal Server:
--Running: Windows Server 2003sp2. (32bit)
--HP DL380 – Two intel Quad(1.86), 4Gb memory, 150Gb storage, lots free.
Application Software installed:
--Office 2007 {Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Publisher}
IE Plug-ins/Add-ons:
--Alternatiff, Adobe Flash, Adobe Shockwave
Other installed software:
--McAfee AV, Firefox, Java.
Printer is installed on each Wyse V90 Thin-client (XPe) and connected though
via RDP (Remote Desktop Connection) client.
Connected to "new" Wyse V90 [512mb flash/256mb ram] Thin Client Lab (20
clients).
PROBLEM:
==========
New Lab of Wyse Thin Clients (running XPe) blue-screen at ‘unpredictable’
intervals – disrupting student’s work. [and it also scare’s the heck out of
them to see the Windows crash screen come up in the middle of working on a
document].
User Actions
==========
Which seem to cause the “observed” Issues (see next section).
-Touched, Scrolled or otherwise moved the Mouse {within IE, Word, Excel,
Access)
- Opening or while Saving a Document
-Copying or Pasting text to/from clipboard {generally from IE to Word}
-Printing a Document
Issues Observed
============
Problems:
-Blue Screen with message “IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR EQUAL
-Blue Screen with message “PAGE_FAULT_IN_NON_PAGED_AREA
--Image(s) referenced on Blue Screen: AFD.SYS, RDBSS.SYS,
--WIN32K.SYS, MSTSC.EXE, MSTSCAX.DLL
-Error in data encryption this session will end.
A “Working” Solution to above problem(s)
===========================
-Turn off Thin Client… Turn on Thin Client… Re-connect to session,
continue working on session where you left off.
--Sessions don’t close or end and always seem to be available for
reconnection.
--This process (thin client reboot) ALWAYS WORKS… but sometime the “blue
screen” issues continue for that student/session until the Thin Client has
been restarted up to 3 (three) times at which time the session settles down
or the student gets frustrated and walks away.
---Problems are intermittent…
----Sometime happen with only 3 clients (out of 20) active
----Don’t necessarily happen with 20 clients (out of 20) active.
Finally: Our regular XPsp2 desktops connecting via RDP (Remote Desktop
Connection) don’t EVER seem to have any of these problems. That is, their
sessions always seem to be trouble free. However we only have about 3 to 5
desktops configured to connect to this Terminal Server.
Does this sound like just a Thin Client issue or should I be looking at the
Terminal Server for the solution? The Terminal Server is NOT generating any
EVENTS in event viewer.
Could any of the Group Polices I set (note - I followed Technet May 2007
Deploying Terminal Server article pretty closely) be the cause? [Note I've
rebuilt the terminal server on different hardware to see if that helps, but
I've always used the same GP/OU each time].
Are there settings within the RDP "client" I need to be looking into?
Is the XPe Thin Client running out of memory (RAM-based OS, no hard drive)
and if so, why don't we get any errors indications.
Comments, Suggestions?
--
Bill
=============
"New" Terminal Server:
--Running: Windows Server 2003sp2. (32bit)
--HP DL380 – Two intel Quad(1.86), 4Gb memory, 150Gb storage, lots free.
Application Software installed:
--Office 2007 {Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Publisher}
IE Plug-ins/Add-ons:
--Alternatiff, Adobe Flash, Adobe Shockwave
Other installed software:
--McAfee AV, Firefox, Java.
Printer is installed on each Wyse V90 Thin-client (XPe) and connected though
via RDP (Remote Desktop Connection) client.
Connected to "new" Wyse V90 [512mb flash/256mb ram] Thin Client Lab (20
clients).
PROBLEM:
==========
New Lab of Wyse Thin Clients (running XPe) blue-screen at ‘unpredictable’
intervals – disrupting student’s work. [and it also scare’s the heck out of
them to see the Windows crash screen come up in the middle of working on a
document].
User Actions
==========
Which seem to cause the “observed” Issues (see next section).
-Touched, Scrolled or otherwise moved the Mouse {within IE, Word, Excel,
Access)
- Opening or while Saving a Document
-Copying or Pasting text to/from clipboard {generally from IE to Word}
-Printing a Document
Issues Observed
============
Problems:
-Blue Screen with message “IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR EQUAL
-Blue Screen with message “PAGE_FAULT_IN_NON_PAGED_AREA
--Image(s) referenced on Blue Screen: AFD.SYS, RDBSS.SYS,
--WIN32K.SYS, MSTSC.EXE, MSTSCAX.DLL
-Error in data encryption this session will end.
A “Working” Solution to above problem(s)
===========================
-Turn off Thin Client… Turn on Thin Client… Re-connect to session,
continue working on session where you left off.
--Sessions don’t close or end and always seem to be available for
reconnection.
--This process (thin client reboot) ALWAYS WORKS… but sometime the “blue
screen” issues continue for that student/session until the Thin Client has
been restarted up to 3 (three) times at which time the session settles down
or the student gets frustrated and walks away.
---Problems are intermittent…
----Sometime happen with only 3 clients (out of 20) active
----Don’t necessarily happen with 20 clients (out of 20) active.
Finally: Our regular XPsp2 desktops connecting via RDP (Remote Desktop
Connection) don’t EVER seem to have any of these problems. That is, their
sessions always seem to be trouble free. However we only have about 3 to 5
desktops configured to connect to this Terminal Server.
Does this sound like just a Thin Client issue or should I be looking at the
Terminal Server for the solution? The Terminal Server is NOT generating any
EVENTS in event viewer.
Could any of the Group Polices I set (note - I followed Technet May 2007
Deploying Terminal Server article pretty closely) be the cause? [Note I've
rebuilt the terminal server on different hardware to see if that helps, but
I've always used the same GP/OU each time].
Are there settings within the RDP "client" I need to be looking into?
Is the XPe Thin Client running out of memory (RAM-based OS, no hard drive)
and if so, why don't we get any errors indications.
Comments, Suggestions?
--
Bill