RE: Black blocks appearing on TS connections

[Oliver Marshall]

Thats what I thought it may be, but so far all the connections are set
to max colour support.

Dont really know what to do about a thin client that has low free gfx
memory. I mean, we can't upgrade them, and we can't reduce whats running
(XPe and RDC only)

-Original Message-
From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: 07 February 2008 18:32
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Black blocks appearing on TS connections

I see this frequently on TS sessions to our Win2k TS server.

On Win2k, it's an inherent limitation in the depth of the color
palette, but I wonder if perhaps in your case if the TS clients are
specifying a limited color palette (16 bit, IIRC).

Otherwise, I'd go with video memory starvation as suggested by the
other responses.

Kurt

On Feb 7, 2008 7:31 AM, Oliver Marshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> We have been hit with a spate of reports of black blocks appearing on
users
> terminal server connections. We have two TS boxes, both the same, both
> running 2003. The last few days have caused users to see black blocks
on the
> screen, sometimes in place of toolbar icons, sometimes covering entire
> windows.
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> There doesn't seem to be an pattern, happens on multiple machines,
over two
> servers etc. My worry is that it's going to be down a hardware fault
or
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> Anyone seen anything like this before?
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> Olly
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Re: Black blocks appearing on TS connections

[Kurt Buff]

I see this frequently on TS sessions to our Win2k TS server.

On Win2k, it's an inherent limitation in the depth of the color
palette, but I wonder if perhaps in your case if the TS clients are
specifying a limited color palette (16 bit, IIRC).

Otherwise, I'd go with video memory starvation as suggested by the
other responses.

Kurt

On Feb 7, 2008 7:31 AM, Oliver Marshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Hi chaps,
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> We have been hit with a spate of reports of black blocks appearing on users
> terminal server connections. We have two TS boxes, both the same, both
> running 2003. The last few days have caused users to see black blocks on the
> screen, sometimes in place of toolbar icons, sometimes covering entire
> windows.
>
>
>
> There doesn't seem to be an pattern, happens on multiple machines, over two
> servers etc. My worry is that it's going to be down a hardware fault or
> something.
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>
> Anyone seen anything like this before?
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> Olly
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RE: Black blocks appearing on TS connections

[Miller Bonnie L .]

Used to see this back in the Win3.x/9x days when video memory was low.  Not 
sure in this case if that would be your clients or the TS servers, but maybe 
start with looking at memory?

-Bonnie

From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 7:32 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Black blocks appearing on TS connections


Hi chaps,

We have been hit with a spate of reports of black blocks appearing on users 
terminal server connections. We have two TS boxes, both the same, both running 
2003. The last few days have caused users to see black blocks on the screen, 
sometimes in place of toolbar icons, sometimes covering entire windows.

There doesn't seem to be an pattern, happens on multiple machines, over two 
servers etc. My worry is that it's going to be down a hardware fault or 
something.

Anyone seen anything like this before?

Olly













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RE: Black blocks appearing on TS connections

[Benjamin Zachary]

Is it all black like the login screen and such? I have seen this a few times
and you have to modify the registry in default user for backgrounds and
stuff its documented on mskb.

 

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From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 10:32 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Black blocks appearing on TS connections

 

 

Hi chaps,

 

We have been hit with a spate of reports of black blocks appearing on users
terminal server connections. We have two TS boxes, both the same, both
running 2003. The last few days have caused users to see black blocks on the
screen, sometimes in place of toolbar icons, sometimes covering entire
windows. 

 

There doesn't seem to be an pattern, happens on multiple machines, over two
servers etc. My worry is that it's going to be down a hardware fault or
something.

 

Anyone seen anything like this before?

 

Olly

 

 







 


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RE: Black blocks appearing on TS connections

[gsweers]

We have seen this on workstations and its usually attributed to memory.
Not physically, but memory allocation.  A reboot almost always fixes the
issue and it seems to be very sporadic when it was happening.  We have
not had any reports for quite some time.

 

From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 10:32 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Black blocks appearing on TS connections

 

 

Hi chaps,

 

We have been hit with a spate of reports of black blocks appearing on
users terminal server connections. We have two TS boxes, both the same,
both running 2003. The last few days have caused users to see black
blocks on the screen, sometimes in place of toolbar icons, sometimes
covering entire windows. 

 

There doesn't seem to be an pattern, happens on multiple machines, over
two servers etc. My worry is that it's going to be down a hardware fault
or something.

 

Anyone seen anything like this before?

 

Olly

 

 





 


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Black blocks appearing on TS connections

[Oliver Marshall]

Hi chaps,

 

We have been hit with a spate of reports of black blocks appearing on
users terminal server connections. We have two TS boxes, both the same,
both running 2003. The last few days have caused users to see black
blocks on the screen, sometimes in place of toolbar icons, sometimes
covering entire windows. 

 

There doesn't seem to be an pattern, happens on multiple machines, over
two servers etc. My worry is that it's going to be down a hardware fault
or something.

 

Anyone seen anything like this before?

 

Olly


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