Backup2 drive disappears and Marvel missing driver appears in Devices

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Reinstall drivers for the SABERTOOTH X79 board SATA Marvell_V1201014_XPVistaWin7. Then don’t just reboot, turn off the PC and reboot.

I believe that control is hot swappable and in the process of copying something to the drive, then running sysinternals SYNC at same time, forced the drive to disconnect possible in hot swap mode, not sure. Made drivers go funny. Installing drivers and rebooting made no difference. Turning machine actually off then on again, kicked the drive back to life. I think because restart is just a soft restart is reason it never came back up then.

TPM issue on Dell laptops (may work on others) and Bitlocker

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TPM is on in the bios and you know full well the laptop has a TPM module.  Yet Windows keeps claiming one doesn’t exist.

Tested on a Dell Latitude E6320.  Using a standard build rolled out via SCCM.

Possible a driver issue.  No security module option appearing in Device Manager.

Go to System Devices in Device Manager and if you see the Broadcom TPM there, if so uninstall and make sure to tick the box that says remove the software, otherwise when you reboot it will just silently reinstall.

Once removed, I rebooted and all was fine.  The proper Security section in Device Manager appeared.  Then Windows 7 was able to Bitlocker the drive.

VMware ESXi 5 – Locked Disk

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Cloned a VM.  The clone is off and trying to copy the clone disk to another VM on another datastore.

Complains the disk is locked, despite the VM being off and the name being different to the original VM.

So for example original VM hdd is “Mine.vmdk”

New clone is “clone-mine.vmdk”

Seems even though these have two different names, if the original VM is still running and live, it locks the clone disk as well.  Odd.

Turned off the original, now able to copy the clones VMDK.

Lenovo ThinkPad W530 WiFi Issues

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Wifi being enabled and saying connected.  Visiting a site and then it pauses, never loads and Wifi says limited connected.  Latest drivers makes no difference.  Connecting to a Draytek 2850.

 

Turns out issue with Wifi n.   Despite the router being capable either the laptop is having issues with it or its an issue with the setup of the router.  Changing laptop wifi back to g and works fine.

Time out on server 2003

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net time \\<computername> /querysntp

To query where it’s getting it’s time from.  Can compare to a working machine if possible.

If all looks fine, check Windows Time service.  My case, this was disabled which meant the time kept jumping 2hrs ahead every few mins (if I set it back).

w32tm /query /status

On a Windows 2008 R2 and newer server

http://newforma.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/453/~/how-to-tell-from-what-server-a-computer-is-getting-its-time

Or in the registry
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\W32Time\Parameters\NtpServer

Also could be related to vsphere overriding the Windows time.