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In article <6YohRCAx9Jg5Ewr6@longley.demon.co.uk>, Charles Longley
<Charles@thakeham.demon.co.uk> writes:
>In article <QXeF0QB1MKf5EwHD@saska.co.uk>, Tony Wright <adw@saska.co.uk>
>writes

[large snip]

>>If you're not that sure about things, it's probably best to do backup
>>and a fresh install. Come to think of it *whatever* you do, it's best to
>>do backup.

>I spoke to DELL today after the "upgrade" over the original NT4 ended in
>a crash (BSofD). 
>
>They were puzzled is about as good as I can put it. I was advised to do
>a fresh install. Now that worked, but of course lost all the programs
>etc on drive C:
>
>I've decided it might we worth having a go with UPTOMP.EXE, so is there
>any chance of you e-mailing me a copy? I don't have the resource kit
>alas.

You are far better using the manual method, uptomp is extremely
unreliable, even if you update the SP after using uptomp and before
reboot. Problem with uptomp is that if it fails then you're knackered. 

Whereas the manual method is extremely reliable IME. It involves
installing a primitive copy of NT to another folder, expanding the SP
files of the actual copy of NT and then changing the hal.dll, win2ksys,
ntoskrnl and some others manually to avoid share violations. The good
thing about it is that, if you screw up, you've still got the primitive
copy of NT to boot into so you can fix things. I've never failed with
the manual method out of 4 boxes.

I will email you 2 articles that I wrote that explain how to do this and
reference the relevant Knowledge Base articles. The news articles
pertain to upgrading a single CPU motherboard to a dual CPU but the
principle is the same. Get the KB articles and the two posts and read
them a couple of times and you'll see how it works. You'll want the
halmps.dll from you SP level as hal.dll  

In the unlikely event that any other poor souls want the articles, they
should be on Deja and are:

Newsgroups: demon.tech.pc
Subject: NT woes - LONG
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 17:14:41 +0000
Message-ID: <XhynZ9BBm704EwJX@saska.co.uk>
 
Newsgroups: demon.tech.pc
Subject: Re: uptomp SMP upgrade
Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 21:41:30 +0100
Message-ID: <1$JxH7A61zD5EwRL@saska.co.uk>
-- 
Tony