2-2-05

On startup, you receive a black screen with the following message, “Error loading operating system”. On startup in Safe Mode, you receive a blue screen stop 0X000000ED. Boot the system from a Windows XP install CD, choose Recovery Console, run chkdsk /r from the Command Prompt. If that doesn’t work, run fixboot, then run chkdsk /r again.

Groupwise does not allow you to move e-mails to another folder if it is open on the secondary screen of a 2 screen system.

After creating a new task in the Task Scheduler, you receive the following message: “The new task has been created, but may not run because the account information could not be set.” The specific error is: 0X80090016: Keyset does not exist. – “Protected Storage” Service must be started.

To get Windows XP to auto logon to a user with a password, from the Run command, type Control userpasswords2 to get the Windows 2000 logon setup screen.

To determine what version of Direct X is on a machine, go to a run line and enter dxdiag

To silently map a drive in Windows 2000, run the following line from the registry:

wscript.exe c:\yourpath\nvisible.vbs DriveMap.bat

in nvisible.vbs, put:

CreateObject("Wscript.Shell").Run """" & WScript.Arguments(0) & """", 0, False

and in DriveMap.bat, put:

net user username password

net use y: \\thunder\e password /user:username /persistent:no

While trying to do a Microsoft Windows Update, you get the error “Your current security settings prohibit running active X controls”, even though active X controls are set correctly and the site is a “Trusted Site”. Go to a run command and execute these commands:

regsvr32 Softpub.dll

regsvr32 Wintrust.dll

regsvr32 Initpki.dll

regsvr32 Mssip32.dll

If that doesn’t work, execute this list of commands:

regsvr32 wuapi.dll

regsvr32 wuaueng.dll

regsvr32wucltui.dll

regsvr32 wups.dll

regsvr32 wuweb.dll

regsvr32 atl.dll

To add “My Computer” to the security settings tab of Internet Explorer, go to HKEY_Current_User\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Internet Settings\Zones\0 and change the Flags DWORD from 21H to 47H (71)

SuperMicro X6DAL-TG Startup sequence LED’s on MB:

If machine has been powered up & down & the power cord has remained connected:

Before power up, DS9 is orange (green & red LED’s on together)

On power up:

1) DS5 blinks green until DS7 comes on green & DS8 comes on orange

2) DS8 goes out

3) DS7 goes out & DS8 comes back on

4) DS8 goes out

5) DS5 stays on green

6) Video Out is generated & fans slow (if set in BIOS to slow)

If the machine was just plugged in before the startup:

Before power up, DS9 is orange (green & red LED’s on together)

On power up:

1) After a few seconds, DS5 comes on green, DS7 comes on green & DS8 comes on orange

2) DS8 goes out

3) DS7 goes out & DS8 comes back on

4) DS8 goes out

5) DS5 stays on green

6) Video Out is generated & fans slow (if set in BIOS to slow)

When one of the CPU’s was bad, DS8 stayed on, no video was generated, and the fans stayed on full speed.

Western Digital 80GB SATA drives were intermittently not recognized by the Intel RAID controller

12-13-05

To start a new cmd command line shell: (from http://blogs.msdn.com/adioltean/articles/271063.aspx )

1) Get the local time (through the TIME shell command, for example)

2) Add one minute to this time

3) Run the AT command with this new time.

4) Wait one minute for the command window to appear.

E:\Documents and Settings\Adi>time

The current time is: 16:29:00.96

Enter the new time:

E:\Documents and Settings\Adi>at 16:30 /interactive cmd.exe

Added a new job with job ID = 1

OR

E:\Documents and Settings\Adi>sc create testsvc binpath= "cmd /K start" type= own type= interact

[SC] CreateService SUCCESS

E:\Documents and Settings\Adi>sc start testsvc

[SC] StartService FAILED 1053:

The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion.

Note that this time, the SC START immediately creates a new CMD window, even if the original CMD window failed to start with error 1053 (this is expected since CMD.EXE doesn’t have any service related code in it).

In the end, I would like to mention one more thing. You can use this new service to start as many CMD windows as you want, and you will get a new CMD window as soon as you do a “sc start testsvc” again.

To remove a file that Windows says it cannot find:

Use renamer.exe to rename it, then delete it.

Navigate to the folder from a command line cmd.exe and use del *.* in the folder or

Use DIR /X to see the 8 character DOS name if needed.

Go above that folder and type RMDIR /S to remove the folder without the OS caring what is in that folder.