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Here is one that might help someone.I have a HP Media Center PC 7160n that would not turn on. Not even power up the fan.I tried all of the standard things like holding the power button for 10 seconds removing the cmos battery and then put it back switching the small red power switch back […]
This one got the better of me for an hour or so before I figured it out. I was trying to sync my cell phone with my desk pc to get my calendar and contact items. I had previously synced my phone with an Exchange server but I removed that sync relationship. I then tried […]
This one seems that it wouldn’t help but I have to post a quick note about Cat6 Cables verses Cat 5/5e cables. I have been fighting with a server that has a Gb network card attached to a Gb switch barely reaching 100Mb/sec network speeds. As it turned out the cables that were connecting the […]
This article will hopefully help someone using a Linux server with dual network cards.I have an HP DL380 server that on a nightly basis copies large amounts of data across my network to a backup server. The copy was averaging over 8 hours to complete. To increase my network throughput I was able to install […]
Here is another useful tip. If you are running Picasa and you find that the thumbnails icons are not matching the images most likely your database is corrupted. The most common way to repair this is to uninstall Picasa completely and then reinstall the software. I have come across a manual method of repairing (rebuilding) […]
This mini how to may be helpful for someone. I came across another Arcserve Backup 11.5 server that for some reason lost its caroot password. I needed to reset it to something the backup server administrator could remember. Here are the steps to reset the password for caroot. From the folder where Arcserve is installed […]
As a relatively new blogger I have been searching for ways to increase my blog traffic. From the many searches I have done that turned up literally thousands of tips and suggestions, I have put together a small list of what I have done to increase my blog traffic. I must say that I am […]
Here is another post in my “Itfixed” it for me! series. I have a server that basically used for storage space. It is attached to the network with about 2TB of disk space that is used for system backups and Oracle database backups. As my Oracle machines are Linux based I installed the Windows Services […]
In testing out the new Windows 7 -beta in Virtual Box I came accross my first issue. The default NIC driver that Virtual box adds to the guest VM was not working for me in Windows 7. During the install of Windows 7 I chose the option of “Windows Server 2008” as the OS Type.Once […]
Here is another article under my “ItFixed” it for Me series.I had a user with a laptop come to me this morning complaining that her laptop would not start with the following error Windows NT could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: Winnt_rootSystem32Ntoskrnl.exe Please re-install a copy of the above file. […]
