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>I'm currently trying to rebuild a critical PC as it freezes up all the time. Debugging the issue is a nightmare. This shouldn't be a statement any IT staffer

>I'm currently trying to rebuild a critical PC as it freezes up all the time. Debugging the issue is a nightmare. This shouldn't be a statement any IT staffer can utter There should never be such a thing as "a critical PC" - single points of failure are an IT 101 no-no "freezes up all the time" indicates an application issue 99% of the time, not an OS issue "Debugging the issue is a nightmare": what are you doing to troubleshoot the issue? How are you isolating the problem(s)? Odds are exceptionally good that it's not a root cause analysis, but a root causes analysis. What logs are you checking? What is going on when it dies?

xupybd 5y ago
Yeah I would like to have more redundant systems. We run CNC machines. The PC attached has to be the right vintage. We have stand by computers and hard drive backups. I ended up rolling back to an old image. Each CNC machine is a step in a production process. One goes down the entire system goes down. Redundancy would be great but it has too many zeros attached at this point. Debugging was mostly looking at windows event viewer. While it could be an application it was freezing on file access. Even deleting a file in explorer would hang for half an hour. I've tried clean boots and shutting everything down. No luck and don't have the time to take everything down to debug the problem properly. Recovering from a backup throws a few things out, such as machine usage logs. So that's a last resort. I'm terrible at system admin on Windows and have a lot to learn