If you’ve installed windows on a machine and the BIOS was set to ATA, SATA, or RAID mode upon install and then switch the BIOS to AHCI mode, Windows will likely fail to boot and you will see a Bluescreen. This is because Windows 7 and other versions of Windows do not enable the AHCI […]
If you receive the error message trying to activate Windows 10 after a refresh or rollback, you may have trouble using the Windows 10 Enterprise Product key, and receive the error “Windows cannot activate using the default key”. First try “slui 3” and then try slmgr from a command prompt as follows: Windows Key + […]
Windows 10 disables the traditional Windows F8 menu which allows a variety of options upon boot. In order to re-enable the classic or “legacy” Windows boot menu options you must execute the following with Administrator Privileges: bcdedit /set {default} bootmenupolicy legacy or use the following if booting from a Windows 2010 ISO in recovery mode bcdedit […]
UPDATE LATE 2015: In order to flash some OEM vendors such as a LSI/Avago 2308 IR controller on a Dell T7610 you wish to flash to IT mode from it’s default IR mode, you should use the downloads from Supermircro instead of trying to get them directly from LSI/Avago; Please note, it also behooves you […]
If you are currently using Windows 10 Build 9926, you may experience issues attempting to upgrade to build 10041 (10049). Some common issues experienced are as follows: Windows Update does not see any updates available, and says everything is up to date. In order to try to resolve this issue above, you should attempt the following: […]
Newer versions of Windows have new methods to repair Windows issues/corruption/etc. and these steps could possibly save you from a re-install. Starting in Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10, Windows 2012 R2 and above include the ability to scan the system for corruption via two different methods. Before running any of the below commands you must open […]
For example after upgrading Windows 8.1 Enterprise to Windows 10, Windows 10 would not activate; Opening a command prompt as Administrator and running the following command, resolved this, and allowed the Windows 10 Enterprise Technology Preview to Activate. slmgr.vbs /ipk PBHCJ-Q2NYD-2PX34-T2TD6-233PK”
If you wish to access or repair the drive on a remote Mac that is year 2011 or >, then you can simple hookup a thunderbolt cable from your working Mac to the Mac you wish to repair, or access the drive from. Simply connect the thunderbolt cable and upon boot of the Mac on […]
If you want your Domain Admins to have rights on all user PCs the best way to accomplish this is to use GPO to push out local administrators across a domain. First start of by creating a Group on your Domain, for simplicity sake call it “Local Administrators”. Once you have created this group add […]
Start a long running process, e.g. “scp [email protected]:/largefile.tar.gz .“ Background the process with CTRL-Z Resume the process in the background: bg Disown the jobs from the current parent with disown %1. After that, jobs will not show the job any more, but “ps -a” or “ps -ef” will. Start your terminal multiplexer of choice, e.g. […]
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