The mission if you choose to accept is to install Windows 2000 on an HP ML310 G4. Sound simple, except that HP does not support this configuration. To make things even more interesting, onboard SATA RAID!
PCI-e and PCI-X
PCI-E or PCI-Express is the smallish version whereas PCI-X is the larger and older cousin. Most definitely not physically compatible. Recently I was asked to install a tape drive and its SCSI card into a server. The server specs list…
Automatic Updates does not work
Recently I found out the hard way that you need to regularly install the patches downloaded by Automatic Updates. Strangely when I decided to click on the yellow shield to install, it kept stuck at “Initializing installation”. I have seen…
A tip on troubleshooting a very sluggish computer
Recently my computer suddenly became very slow. The SVCHOST service will start and consume some 80 to 100% of CPU and RAM shot up to 80K++