We need to run standard Solaris 10 on a few development servers (Dell 530s) because we can't get a commercial application running on OpenSolaris (we're still trying). However, we are finding that sometimes when Solaris 10 goes to do the install, after setup screens, it can't find the SATA drive. We tried the BIOS setting described here: BigAdmin
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I have a little question, I'm actually studing in IT in France, and when looking on alternative on the very [...] very expensive Cisco equipment, I've found Juniper and DELL PowerConnect pretty attractive on features and price, but I rarely see something else than the classics Cisco/LinkSys, HP Procurve and Netgear..
Why it's so rare to…
When my iPhone is connected to my home wireless network, the internet is unusably slow. I installed the speedtest.net application; here are some results from tonight:
Down: 0.0kB/s, Up: 0.0kB/s, ping: 2230ms
Down: 2.5kB/s, Up: 40.5kB/s, ping: 2182ms
Down: 0.0kB/s, Up: 20.0kB/s, ping: 197ms
For comparison, here is the result from my iMac to…
I recently purchased a Dell Vostro notebook with Ubuntu Netbook edition 10.04 pre-installed. I tried adding a partition and installed Windows XP but it didn't work out due to too many partitions in the system already.
Now I have restored the laptop to factory setting using Dell Utility partition and the Windows partition is completely…
We are a small company that provides solutions for ventilation systems. Part of the solution is a "controller" which communicates with the ventilation equipment.
These controllers are simply Dell computers that come with our Windows 7 system image on them and sometimes some special hardware.
We typically do a batch of 10 controllers at…
I am aware of this very similar question:
But I have tried with 3 different mouses and everyone of them exibit the same behavior. Simple enough, 1 out of 3 times I get a double click when single clicking).
I searched the net a lot about this problem and have yet to find a solution.
I have tried:
1- switch to another mouse
2-…
I'm running Windows 7 32-bit on a mid-2010 15" MacBook Pro Intel Core i5 under Boot Camp. I've had trouble getting it to work with my second display and searching Google for an appropriate answer has failed me.
I'm on the latest version of Boot Camp - 3.2 - and have updated the drivers for the NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M.
The monitor…
I have enabled Jumbo Frames (9000) in ESXi for all my vmNICs, vmKernels, vSwitches, iSCSI Bindings etc - basically anywhere in ESXi where it has an MTU settings I have put 9000 in it. The ports on the switches (Dell PowerConnects) are all set for Jumbo Frames. I have a Dell MD3200i with 2 controllers, each with 4 ports for iSCSI.…
I bought Dell Vostro 3360 notebook with Windows 7
It has 128 GB SSD hard disk, it is already has 4 partitions:
Dell partition, Recovery partition, OS partition, Hibernate partition.
Here is screenshot (Russian language, but I made some marks):
I want to split OS partition, because I need c:\ and d:\ . Reason is that I have a…
I'm using a Dell Inspiron laptop with Windows 8 Developers Preview.
I've connected a second screen (some Dell 22 inch one) and have been using it with 'Extend these displays' options in the Screen Resolution settings. It use to be all fine but yesterday I changed my VGA cable to the 2nd monitor and since then the resolution of…
I have a Dell xps M1330 which originally ran Vista, but I upgraded to Windows 7. When I try to run a Win 7 game like spider solitaire I receive the following message:
"The game is running in software rendering mode. Hardware acceleration is either disabled or not supported by your video card driver which could slow down game…
I've got an oldish D820 that's got a 100% dead battery.
I know that I could, in theory, take it apart and replace bad cells in the battery. I'm not really comfortable with doing that.
I also know that there are various places that sell replacement batteries for 20% to 80% of the cost that Dell would charge.
Does anyone…
I just recieved a shipment of equipment orderd by my predicessor that includes brand new Dell Optiplex 990 computers, with standard mice and keyboards. Also included were Black Box ServSwitch Secure KVMs.
I've worked with KVMs before and hypothetically they should be the easiest thing in the world to deal with, plug it…
I ordered a new battery for my faithful XPS M1710. I'm not sure of the voltage of the battery I have now, but the new one that the Dell rep got me (after 3-4 times confirming my phone number and laptop model number) is 14.8v. I was a bit concerned about potential incompatibilities (as most of the other compatible batteries…
so I wake up this morning and my mother drops the Dell laptop.
She starts it up and no desktop icons appear. I take a look (mind you I'm not totally awake yet), go to start menu, click a button (I forgot which one) and a window box pops up saying something a bout the hardrive (I think it might have said cannot be…
So I have a Viewsonic VG2427wm, which supports max resolution of 1920x1080 and I had it working at this resolution from both windows and linux PCs. Now, I need to connect it to my Dell XPS17 (L702x), which has only DP mini and HDMI, so I'm trying to connect this monitor via HDMI-to-DVI adapter (doesn't work at all)…
I recently did an in-place upgrade from Vista to Windows 7 RTM. For the most part, things have went brilliantly. The only issue I've been facing is regarding my bluetooth headset, a Dell BH200. The laptop is an Inspiron 1720.
I can get Windows 7 to pair with the headset, and even get the bluetooth settings to…
Connecting a Dell Studio Slim to a Dell ST2210 21.5" monitor. The PC has a ATI Radeon HD 4350 video card. The video card has DVI and HDMI connections. When I connect with the DVI everything works fine. When I connect with the HMDI the image doesn't fill the screen, i.e. there's a approx 1 inch black border…
I'm having a problem where my computer is getting a blue screen. I have noticed that the BSOD happens after the PC has been running for about 2 days. The BSOD's seem to be an error with atikmpag.sys with an error code of 0x00000116. The problem started about a month ago.It has happened all five times that I…
I have a new Windows 8 Dell XPS desktop computer at work. It has a Dell Wireless 1703 802.11 b/g/n (2.4ghz) wireless adapter.
sporadically throughout the day I lose internet connectivity. When I click on the wireless system tray icon, my companies router does not appear in the list.
No other computer…
I have a Dell Inspiron 15r se 7520. I have upgraded my system to Windows 8.1 few days back. After the upgrade, my Intel HD 4000 graphics driver stopped working.
I have downloaded the latest driver from Dell website but during installation it said that my graphics driver is not compatible or validated and…
Last year my Dell laptop caught some pretty nasty viruses; I saved all my important stuff on an external hard drive. In an unrelated turn of events, I replaced my Dell with a Mac and have been able to retrieve data from the hard drive without trouble.
The problem is, I'm sure the hard drive has a few…
I have a Dell XPS 1640 laptop (aka Dell Studio XPS 16), running Vista. Whenever the laptop wakes up from sleep, my Broadcomm LAN card immediately dies. Any attempt to access it completely locks up whichever program I use to access it. There appears to be no way to re-awaken the card, other than…
The setup:
Windows 2008R2 Ent on two machines.
The roles on each server will include File Servers and DC's.
The machines come from two different vendors (Dell/HP)
The Dell is an Athlon and the HP is an Intel.
Both have roughly the same speed CPU and 8GB of RAM.
They have different Raid…