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Motherboard Choices: Asus or MSI?

If you talk about the main board of most computers these days, chances are you will be offered two boards that have good following. There are a lot of motherboard manufacturers today such as ECS and Jetway but the best bet for motherboard preferences today for middle-end quality would have to go to Asus and MSI.

Years back, these motherboard players were in equal footing but branding still has a great bearing on reliability. That is perhaps one reason why ASUS and MSI are leading the pack. They are known brands in the technology sector and apparently people do their research as well.

However, if you look at the boards, they provide practically the same features. The only thing different among them is perhaps durability and the life span of the parts used in assembling them. There will be defects at times but as long as they are discovered and occur within the warranty period, they can be easily replaced by the vendor concerned.

Apparently, most people today want to avoid these inconveniences. They are sure to be something that can leave a PC owner scratch his head for these inconvenient matters. But when you buy a computer, these are

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Written by PC Freak on June 27th, 2008 with no comments.
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How to Uninstall WSUS 3.0 after you have (removed/fucked up) the database manually

Well if somehow your wsus 3.0 database becomes corrupt.
Due to an Database administrator removing the instance for example.

I tried to remove through the Add/Remove programs dialog but all I got back was.

Event Type: Information
Event Source: MsiInstaller
Event Category: None
Event ID: 11725
Date: 25-09-2007
Time: 11:17:18
User: Domain\Administrator
Computer: WSUSSERVER
Description:
Product: Microsoft Windows Server Update Services 3.0 — Removal failed.
For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

Data:
0000: 7b 32 43 30 44 37 45 33 {2C0D7E3
0008: 35 2d 45 45 36 45 2d 34 5-EE6E-4
0010: 44 43 37 2d 42 41 31 33 DC7-BA13
0018: 2d 32 43 36 38 41 45 44 -2C68AED
0020: 45 42 35 39 44 7d EB59D}

And voila the program was removed from the ADD/Remove Programs dialog.
So I had nothing.

Inspecting the Wsus installation log at %temp%\wsus*.log
Reveals the following:

MSI (s) (8C:74) [11:17:38:402]: Product: Microsoft Windows Server Update Services 3.0 — Removal failed.

There you have it, you have absolutely nothing to…

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Written by Teus on September 25th, 2007 with 10 comments.
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