Ali Aboosaidi

Windows: Cannot team Broadcom NetXtreme adapters. Please select an adapter with NDIS 6 driver error.

Ali — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 21:04:01 +0000

This is most likely caused by software firewall, such as Symantec EndPoint Protection or Vipre Enterprise. Disabling them usually won’t help either. You will have to uninstall the firewall and then attempt to team your adapters. If that didn’t work uninstall both firewall and BASP, install BASP, team and then reinstall your firewall. Related posts: [...] Related posts:

Debian: Squeeze cannot load Broadcom LAN drivers bnx2/bnx2-mips-09-5.0.0.j3.fw

Ali — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 14:48:53 +0000

You may run into a window asking you to provide the bnx2/bnx2-mips-09-5.0.0.j3.fw package to continue installation. Don’t freak out, visit this link and download the deb package from a mirror. Copy the package to a USB drive AND DO NOT EXTRACT THE .FW FILES, COPY THE DEB PACKAGE ONLY. INSTALL WILL EXTRACT WHAT IT NEEDS ACCORDINGLY and then click continue.

VMware vSphere: Install ESX from bootable USB drive.

Ali — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 18:49:16 +0000

Google and download UNetbooin. Run, select Diskimage, ISO and browse to installation DVD. Select your USB drive letter and click OK. Boot from the USB drive and you’re all set. Related posts: VMware: Install Intel ET 82575 and 82576 drivers on ESX 4 vSphere VMware – Linux: OS cannot mount /dev/sd* after a virtual machine [...] Related posts:

Windows: Windows Media Player encountered a problem creating or saving the playlist.

Ali — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 18:06:20 +0000

Might probably happen in other situations too, but my situation was that I did not want to add a folder to my Music Library to avoid having WMP sift through tons of untagged stuff… and deleted my default folders. Therefore WMP did not have a default location to save the playlists to.

Simply add a default location. Good luck.

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Windows: Add, change, upgrade or remove your RAID controller without having to lose any data or start with a fresh OS install

Ali — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 20:07:20 +0000

Scenario:

You have single or multiple drives using your motherboard IDE, SATA or internal software RAID and want to add a RAID controller to your system.
Your drives are connected to a RAID controller. You are either trying to use a different card or give it up for an onboard controller.

but you rather keep your current OS installation, applications and files. You require no new OS installtion. All you have to do is to connect the RAID controller to your motherboard and power up the system, install the drivers and introduce it to your OS and restart. Once the card is visible to the OS simply image your current operating system, create your RAID arrays and restore the image to the active partition of your array. You can now boot from the new controller without having to do anything else.

I tested this once with Ubuntu and it didn’t work. Not sure about different distributions, though.