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  • 08-07-2005 5:47pm
    #1
    jor el
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,713 ✭✭✭✭


    This has popped up in the system tray a number of times for me now and I have no idea what it is. An exclamation mark in a yellow triangle, like this
    exclamation8zx.jpg

    When you click it, it just goes away, nothing pops up. Anyone know what it is or why it appears?

    Windows XP Pro BTW.


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  • #2
    lazygit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 624 ✭✭✭lazygit


    Windows Update prompt i think


  • #3
    jor el
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,713 ✭✭✭✭jor el


    Strange, Windows Update is disabled on the work PC. The little icon beside it is an updater that updates via SMS on the work PCs. But I've seen the exclamation when that updater wasn't active before.


  • #4
    Random
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,080 ✭✭✭✭Random


    It's not Windows Update. I get them a lot too. Sometimes it's down to a faulty hard drive or something, check your event viewer.

    Right click My Computer -> Manage -> Event viewer


  • #5
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,385 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    If you have a laptop it could be a low battery warning too.

    Does it say anything when you hover the mouse over it or have you checked in the event viewer ?


  • #6
    jor el
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,713 ✭✭✭✭jor el


    Not a laptop either. It doesn't say anything when I put the pointer over it. Either left or right click just make it go away. Nothing unusual showing in the taskmanager either.

    Strange one.


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  • #7
    Random
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,080 ✭✭✭✭Random


    Not task manager, event viewer.


  • #8
    jor el
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,713 ✭✭✭✭jor el


    Ah, of course. I'll check it out when I'm back at work.


  • #9
    jor el
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,713 ✭✭✭✭jor el


    It was a warning in the event viewer all right. Fastfat produced this error:
    "{Delayed Write Failed} Windows was unable to save all the data for the file . The data has been lost. This error may be caused by a failure of your computer hardware or network connection. Please try to save this file elsewhere."

    What exactly that was I don't know, probably don't really care either.

    Thanks ciaranfo.


  • #10
    Cabaal
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 28,508 Mod ✭✭✭✭Cabaal


    jor el wrote:
    It was a warning in the event viewer all right. Fastfat produced this error:
    "{Delayed Write Failed} Windows was unable to save all the data for the file . The data has been lost. This error may be caused by a failure of your computer hardware or network connection. Please try to save this file elsewhere."

    Sounds *like* a issue I had with my girlfriends PC, a scandisc used to fix it in the short term,
    However in the long term it appeared to be a ram problem


  • #11
    Stephen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,484 ✭✭✭✭Stephen


    Did you by any chance plug out a removable disk shortly before this happened? Or got a faulty hard disk?
    I got messages like that before, due to a faulty IDE cable. The hard disk itself was OK.


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  • #12
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,385 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    You say it happened at work, could also be a simple network error like drive disconnected.


  • #13
    scion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 156 ✭✭scion


    got that before, turned out the be one of my harddrives was nearly full.


  • #14
    jor el
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,713 ✭✭✭✭jor el


    Stephen wrote:
    Did you by any chance plug out a removable disk shortly before this happened?
    Bingo, it was a memory card that I plugged out of my card reader. Another message in the event viewer confirms this.

    Don't know what file failed to save though as everything is on it and OK.


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