Have I made things worse? Bad display settings blinded me, loaded OS next to original to change settings, but how?
Boot into safe mode and uninstall the video driver. Reboot and let it reinstall. You could also use system restore to go back to a previously working date b efore you made the changes.
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| November 25, 2008 7:12 PM
Monitors, Windows XP
Boot into safe mode and uninstall the video driver. Reboot and let it reinstall. You could also use system restore to go back to a previously working date b efore you made the changes.
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| November 25, 2008 7:12 PM
Monitors, Windows XP
HP T-TR Status Client error
Check to see what is in the startup folder and the RUN key in the registry (startupcpl is a good tool for this). HP is known for lots of “crapware“. It sounds like maybe one of these programs has been incorrectly removed or some of the required files or settings are missing. ******* technochic Actually [...]
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| May 15, 2013 6:03 PM
CPU overload, CPU Utilization, Hewlett-Packard, HP T-TR
Check to see what is in the startup folder and the RUN key in the registry (startupcpl is a good tool for this). HP is known for lots of “crapware“. It sounds like maybe one of these programs has been incorrectly removed or some of the required files or settings are missing. ******* technochic Actually [...]
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| May 15, 2013 6:03 PM
CPU overload, CPU Utilization, Hewlett-Packard, HP T-TR
power safe
Did this get resolved? If so, what was the resolution please?
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| November 25, 2008 5:47 PM
Power management, Windows
Did this get resolved? If so, what was the resolution please?
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| November 25, 2008 5:47 PM
Power management, Windows
HA and Single Signon(SSO).
Hi Chris, Have you found a solution to this issue yet? We have encountered the same issue and cannot roll out SSO until we find a way to implement it when we are in a failed over mode. Thanks!!
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| November 25, 2008 2:56 PM
HA, HA High Availability, LPAR, Single sign-on, SSO
Hi Chris, Have you found a solution to this issue yet? We have encountered the same issue and cannot roll out SSO until we find a way to implement it when we are in a failed over mode. Thanks!!
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| November 25, 2008 2:56 PM
HA, HA High Availability, LPAR, Single sign-on, SSO
Installation of Windows and Unix operating systems
More information is needed here. Do you want to install both on the same machine (dual boot) ? What versions/distributions are you going to install ?
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| November 25, 2008 1:31 PM
OS installation/upgrades, Unix, Unix installation, Windows installation
More information is needed here. Do you want to install both on the same machine (dual boot) ? What versions/distributions are you going to install ?
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| November 25, 2008 1:31 PM
OS installation/upgrades, Unix, Unix installation, Windows installation
implication of upgrade in Hard drives to 72gb from 36gb on windows NT using RAID 5
This will all depend on your RAID card. Most RAID cards will allow you do use larger hard drives. It will simply use the first half of the 73 Gig drive leaving the other half of the drive free for other use later. You won’t be able to tell the RAID controller to make the [...]
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| November 25, 2008 5:19 AM
Hard drives, Hardware Upgrade, RAID 5, Windows NT
This will all depend on your RAID card. Most RAID cards will allow you do use larger hard drives. It will simply use the first half of the 73 Gig drive leaving the other half of the drive free for other use later. You won’t be able to tell the RAID controller to make the [...]
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| November 25, 2008 5:19 AM
Hard drives, Hardware Upgrade, RAID 5, Windows NT
Accessing a mirror database without main database failover
You can’t. Database mirroring doesn’t allow you to view the database which is acting as the mirror. Your only option would be to create a snapshot of the mirrored database and use that to look at the data. However this snapshot will not be update to date as the snapshot is a snap as the [...]
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| November 25, 2008 5:15 AM
Database Failover, Database mirroring, Failover, Mirroring, SQL Server database
You can’t. Database mirroring doesn’t allow you to view the database which is acting as the mirror. Your only option would be to create a snapshot of the mirrored database and use that to look at the data. However this snapshot will not be update to date as the snapshot is a snap as the [...]
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| November 25, 2008 5:15 AM
Database Failover, Database mirroring, Failover, Mirroring, SQL Server database
Combining HSM and Backups
A couple ideas from a vendor-neutral perspective on approach: Your original vision is a good one, but as you state, politics has confused things. What I am curious about is why your CIO wants MAID – if it’s not because your CIO favors a particular vendor/solution, then it has to be that your CIO wants [...]
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| November 24, 2008 6:26 PM
Apple, Apple Xserve, Backup, Backup software, Hierarchical Storage Management, HSM, MAID, Massive Array of Idle Disks, NFS, Tape Backups, Tivoli Storage Manager, Xserve
A couple ideas from a vendor-neutral perspective on approach: Your original vision is a good one, but as you state, politics has confused things. What I am curious about is why your CIO wants MAID – if it’s not because your CIO favors a particular vendor/solution, then it has to be that your CIO wants [...]
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| November 24, 2008 6:26 PM
Apple, Apple Xserve, Backup, Backup software, Hierarchical Storage Management, HSM, MAID, Massive Array of Idle Disks, NFS, Tape Backups, Tivoli Storage Manager, Xserve
Mainframe emulator set-up
Installation Procedure Building from source – Windows (without Cygwin) For building the MSVC version of Hercules on Windows (a version of Hercules that does not require Cygwin), Fish has instructions on his “MSVC Hercules Build Instructions” web page at http://www.softdevlabs.com/Hercules/hercules-msvc-build.html. Building from source – Windows with Cygwin For building the Cygwin version of Hercules on [...]
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| November 23, 2008 3:02 PM
Assembler language, COBOL, Emulators, Mainframe, Mainframe emulator, TPF Database Facility, TPFDF
Installation Procedure Building from source – Windows (without Cygwin) For building the MSVC version of Hercules on Windows (a version of Hercules that does not require Cygwin), Fish has instructions on his “MSVC Hercules Build Instructions” web page at http://www.softdevlabs.com/Hercules/hercules-msvc-build.html. Building from source – Windows with Cygwin For building the Cygwin version of Hercules on [...]
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| November 23, 2008 3:02 PM
Assembler language, COBOL, Emulators, Mainframe, Mainframe emulator, TPF Database Facility, TPFDF
ESX 3.5 Networking on IBM BladeCenter E
how many eth port do you have on each of your ESX hosts: I think four. if you have four I will do the following: vswitch0: eth0 and eth1 (active-standby) for service console. eth0 and eth1 (standby-active for vMotion) vSwitch1: eth2 and eth3 (all active) tagged vlan for all other networks you can do also [...]
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| November 23, 2008 10:06 AM
Blade servers, Cisco IGESM Switches, IBM BladeCenter, VMware, VMware ESX 3.5
how many eth port do you have on each of your ESX hosts: I think four. if you have four I will do the following: vswitch0: eth0 and eth1 (active-standby) for service console. eth0 and eth1 (standby-active for vMotion) vSwitch1: eth2 and eth3 (all active) tagged vlan for all other networks you can do also [...]
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| November 23, 2008 10:06 AM
Blade servers, Cisco IGESM Switches, IBM BladeCenter, VMware, VMware ESX 3.5
Getting it all to work together – Network design
Dear Patch Panel is used to terminate all the UTP cables installed for the users. You are going to install a CAT6 UTP cable from the users worksatation to the server room. All UTP cables in the server room are terminated in a patch panel. Do check this link it will be helpful for you [...]
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| November 23, 2008 5:10 AM
Network design, Network hardware, Patch panels, Routers, Switches
Dear Patch Panel is used to terminate all the UTP cables installed for the users. You are going to install a CAT6 UTP cable from the users worksatation to the server room. All UTP cables in the server room are terminated in a patch panel. Do check this link it will be helpful for you [...]
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| November 23, 2008 5:10 AM
Network design, Network hardware, Patch panels, Routers, Switches
Reducing CPU usage on a SQL Server application
Some things you can start by looking at are: Buffer cache hit ratio. Disk performance Recompiles Procedure cache hit ratio Your disk IO may be high which is driving up the CPU You may need more RAM which is causing the CPU and Disk IO to go up You may need to add indexes to [...]
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| November 21, 2008 6:47 PM
CPU usage, SQL Server 2005, SQL Server performance, Timesheet software, Windows Server 2003
Some things you can start by looking at are: Buffer cache hit ratio. Disk performance Recompiles Procedure cache hit ratio Your disk IO may be high which is driving up the CPU You may need more RAM which is causing the CPU and Disk IO to go up You may need to add indexes to [...]
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| November 21, 2008 6:47 PM
CPU usage, SQL Server 2005, SQL Server performance, Timesheet software, Windows Server 2003
How to capture CPU utilization efficiently in various Unix m/c’s?
Let me be specific in the above question. I need capture CPU utlization for a <b>process</b> in various env’s.
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| November 21, 2008 3:32 PM
AIX, CPU usage, CPU Utilization, Linux, Solaris, Unix
Let me be specific in the above question. I need capture CPU utlization for a <b>process</b> in various env’s.
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| November 21, 2008 3:32 PM
AIX, CPU usage, CPU Utilization, Linux, Solaris, Unix
Data Center Migration
Checkout my <a href=”http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/it-trenches/moving-a-datacenter-one-weekend-done/”>blog entry on moving a datacenter</a>.
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| November 20, 2008 7:59 PM
Data center design, Data center design and infrastructure, Data Center Migration, Data center moving, Data center planning
Checkout my <a href=”http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/it-trenches/moving-a-datacenter-one-weekend-done/”>blog entry on moving a datacenter</a>.
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| November 20, 2008 7:59 PM
Data center design, Data center design and infrastructure, Data Center Migration, Data center moving, Data center planning
hp server installation HP ML350T05 server with 4 quantity 146 GB SAS hard disk drives
With the HP servers there is a utility disk which will help you set up the RAID. If you need to know what RAID configuration to use <a href=”http://www.lascon.co.uk/d008005.htm”>read this.</a> Your HP utility disk will supply the RAID drivers and allow you to choose the RAID configuration you want. If for some reason you do [...]
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| November 20, 2008 1:37 PM
HP ML350T05 Server, RAID, RAID configuration, Server installation, Servers
With the HP servers there is a utility disk which will help you set up the RAID. If you need to know what RAID configuration to use <a href=”http://www.lascon.co.uk/d008005.htm”>read this.</a> Your HP utility disk will supply the RAID drivers and allow you to choose the RAID configuration you want. If for some reason you do [...]
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| November 20, 2008 1:37 PM
HP ML350T05 Server, RAID, RAID configuration, Server installation, Servers
Testing when primary and mirror SQL Servers are the same
Are you talking about using database mirroring back to the same SQL Server instance? If so, no, you’ll need to setup a second instance to mirror the data to.
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| November 19, 2008 6:22 PM
Mirrored Server, SQL Server, Testing
Are you talking about using database mirroring back to the same SQL Server instance? If so, no, you’ll need to setup a second instance to mirror the data to.
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| November 19, 2008 6:22 PM
Mirrored Server, SQL Server, Testing
Converter Solaris 8 p2v VMWare ESX
Unfortunately none of the P2V tools (Platespin Powerconvert, Vizioncore vConverter, Vmware Converter) support P2V conversions of Solaris systems, only Windows and Linux. Additionally Solaris 8 is not supported on ESX, only 9 & 10. You might be able to still install it on ESX even though it is not supported though. Check out the <a [...]
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| November 19, 2008 4:29 PM
P2V migrations, Solaris 8, VMware Converter, VMware ESX, VMware Infrastructure 3, VMWare Virtual Center
Unfortunately none of the P2V tools (Platespin Powerconvert, Vizioncore vConverter, Vmware Converter) support P2V conversions of Solaris systems, only Windows and Linux. Additionally Solaris 8 is not supported on ESX, only 9 & 10. You might be able to still install it on ESX even though it is not supported though. Check out the <a [...]
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| November 19, 2008 4:29 PM
P2V migrations, Solaris 8, VMware Converter, VMware ESX, VMware Infrastructure 3, VMWare Virtual Center
Adding local admin rights to a new computer when user has access on all other comps on the domain
You added the user correctly. I have no idea how else you would add someone to that local admin group. =============================== The only other way to accomplish this would be to create an A/D group with local admin rights and add your user to this group. The net effect is the same, however, and as [...]
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| November 18, 2008 10:35 PM
Active Directory, Domain, Local Administrators Group, Networking, Scripting, Server management, User accounts, User Permissions
You added the user correctly. I have no idea how else you would add someone to that local admin group. =============================== The only other way to accomplish this would be to create an A/D group with local admin rights and add your user to this group. The net effect is the same, however, and as [...]
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| November 18, 2008 10:35 PM
Active Directory, Domain, Local Administrators Group, Networking, Scripting, Server management, User accounts, User Permissions
VMWare ESXi RAID issues on installation. Dell 600SC server
ESXi supports a very limited amount of hardware and since that is an older server it probably does not have the driver for that array card. The Hardware Compatibility List (HCL) details all the servers, storage and I/O adapters that ESXi and ESX supports. You should use VMware Server instead which will support it as [...]
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| November 17, 2008 10:24 PM
Dell PowerEdge 600SC, RAID, RAID 2, VMware, VMware ESXi, VMware ESXi Installation
ESXi supports a very limited amount of hardware and since that is an older server it probably does not have the driver for that array card. The Hardware Compatibility List (HCL) details all the servers, storage and I/O adapters that ESXi and ESX supports. You should use VMware Server instead which will support it as [...]
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| November 17, 2008 10:24 PM
Dell PowerEdge 600SC, RAID, RAID 2, VMware, VMware ESXi, VMware ESXi Installation
RAID 5
Here is a <a href=”http://searchoracle.techtarget.com/news/article/0,,sid41_gci967561,00.html”>techtarget article</a> that might be useful to you. This <a href=”http://www.smartcomputing.com/Editorial/article.asp?article=articles/2004/w1510/14w02/14w02.asp”>article</a> was one I found handy, and it covers from the very basics to a few advanced concepts. Thos <a href=”http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO-5.html”>site</a> has info for setting up RAID under Linux. Good Luck! -Flame ************************************* This <a href=”http://searchsqlserver.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid87_gci1262122,00.html”>article</a> has some good information about [...]
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| November 15, 2008 9:08 AM
RAID, RAID 5, RAID configuration, Server blades
Here is a <a href=”http://searchoracle.techtarget.com/news/article/0,,sid41_gci967561,00.html”>techtarget article</a> that might be useful to you. This <a href=”http://www.smartcomputing.com/Editorial/article.asp?article=articles/2004/w1510/14w02/14w02.asp”>article</a> was one I found handy, and it covers from the very basics to a few advanced concepts. Thos <a href=”http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO-5.html”>site</a> has info for setting up RAID under Linux. Good Luck! -Flame ************************************* This <a href=”http://searchsqlserver.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid87_gci1262122,00.html”>article</a> has some good information about [...]
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| November 15, 2008 9:08 AM
RAID, RAID 5, RAID configuration, Server blades
