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BattleField 3 Beta 5850 Crossfire Problems (stutter / slow fps)

I was getting mega stutter and low fps in battlefield 3 beta, It was stopping me from playing at all. Best after loads of playing around, I ended up following this guide and it worked.

 

Clean it with Atiman Uninstaller v.6.0.0.msi. Download LINK

Run it with administrator privilege. Some antivirus software will give false alarm but it is just a false positive.

Then install Catalyst 11.9 + ( Catalyst 11.8 CAP5 http://www.overclock.net/ati-drivers…11-8-cap5.html only if you are crossfire).

Disable ULPS http://www.overclock.net/amd-ati/667…ling-ulps.html

During Catalyst install, if you get any error messages, ignore it and let it complete. Restart PC, then go to folder where the files extracted/unzipped to, find in CCC2 **.exe then perform repair.

 

After rebooting and finallay loading the drivers, Battlefield 3 worked perfectly!

Thanks!

RSCLIENT Installation

I needed to deploy reporting services print client to my domain, so I found you need to manually do it.

Here is the batch I used

if %PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE%==x86 (

copy \\SERVERNAME\deployment\AppDeploy\Tools\rsclient\x86\*.* /y %windir%\system32\
regsvr32 /s %windir%\system32\rsclientprint.dll

) else (

copy \\SERVERNAME\deployment\AppDeploy\Tools\rsclient\x64\*.* /y %windir%\system32\
regsvr32 /s %windir%\system32\rsclientprint.dll

)

You need to extract the rsclient cab from the reporting server (see image) to a network share, then you need to use admin rights to install (either psexec, sccm or some startup script)

Nexus S Water Damage – Poweron

Basically, I ended up in the pool and my phone was damaged (nothing showing up) So far I have it in “download mode” as I have no power button (fell off)

These are the steps to get it to power on at least (not complete)

  1. Disassemble phone
  2. clean all parts with some electronics cleaner (I actually used alcohol)
  3. let dry
  4. reassemble
  5. I could get it to detect in ADB but then when I attempted to reboot it, it got stuck in download mode and then the power button broke.
  6. to get past the no power button, press both volumes and insert barrery (download mode)
  7. still trying more now…

XBMC – live (10.1) logon prompt (not autostarting)

I installed xbmc on a Revo 3600 (from usb drive) and although it took a bit to get working (including creating a loop device for to mount the iso to actually install it)

I had an issue with xbmc not actually booting into xbmc. It was just booting into the logon prompt (shell)

running

aptitude reinstall xbmc-live

 

Seems to have fixed it..

Exchange 2010 SP1 – Remove emails from queue (journaling)

We had 10,000 emails in queue that were destine for a journalling database that was off-line, the emails were not too important so I just wanted to clear them down.

 

Remove-Message -filter {MessageSourceName -eq “journaling”} -WithNDR $false

easy

-WithNDR $false

Exchange 2010 – Outlook prompting on startup

I had an error today that was causing most of my clients to get password prompts as soon as outlook (07/00) was opened,

the issue was related to the address book service not running.. It took my ages to find this out also!

I knew it was related to OAB by the way it was failing..

Japan Rail Pass – Dont leave home without it!

I recently went to Japan, To my surprise you need to buy the Japan Rail Pass before you leave your home country!

So I ended up spending much more seeing much less. SO MAKE SURE YOU GET IT BEFORE YOU LEAVE!!!!!!!!! :)

www.japanrailpass.net/eng/en003.html

Exchange 2010 – CAS + MBX + OutlookAnywhere

I had a real problem getting good information on the ports required for the servers.

Here is what I have (you can confirm)

All 2008 R2 X64 fully patched (IPv6 Disabled)

MBX Server
TCP    0.0.0.0:6001           0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING
TCP    [::]:6001              [::]:0                 LISTENING

CAS Server
TCP    0.0.0.0:6001           0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING
TCP    0.0.0.0:6002           0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING
TCP    0.0.0.0:6004           0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING
TCP    0.0.0.0:6005           0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING
TCP    0.0.0.0:6006           0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING
TCP    0.0.0.0:6007           0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING
TCP    0.0.0.0:6008           0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING

TCP    [::]:6001              [::]:0                 LISTENING
TCP    [::]:6002              [::]:0                 LISTENING
TCP    [::]:6004              [::]:0                 LISTENING
TCP    [::]:6005              [::]:0                 LISTENING
TCP    [::]:6006              [::]:0                 LISTENING
TCP    [::]:6007              [::]:0                 LISTENING
TCP    [::]:6008              [::]:0                 LISTENING

Active Directory Domain Controller

TCP    0.0.0.0:6004           0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING
TCP    [::]:6004              [::]:0                 LISTENING

Samsung Galaxy s Froyo + Exchange 2010 error

Basically you need to disable the activesync policy sync the phone and then re-enable it.

see this : http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=11177#c56 ( I only did part 2)

1) Remove the Android mobile devces affected from each users mailboxes.

2) Remove the Default (and any other ActiveSync) policy using EMC  -- Remove-ActiveSyncMailboxPolicy -id <Default>

         Note: this will set all user to no activesync policy (this is what we want temporarily)....

3) Setup the Andriod phones to sync and let them get past the initial syncronization.

4) Recreated the ActiveSync Policy and set it back to default - (this will reapply the policy to all mailboxes).

Build & Capture Windows 7 + Custom Default Profile

Ok After a lot of searching, I have finallay found how to capture Windows 7 & The custom profile settings. Its not as intuitive as Windows XP.

You need to read this: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2101557 but essentially its a process of:

  • logging in as local\Administrator
  • Customising Windows (start menu, desktop etc)
  • Creating an “unattended.xml” using WAIK (for windows 7) and placing in the sysprep folder
  • Running the “Capture Media”
  • Deploying Windows 7 using the xml created before.

I rough guide here.

  1. Install Windows 7
  2. Choose any default username & login
  3. Goto Computer Management & User Accounts
  4. Enable the local\administator account
  5. Delete the user accounts except local\Administator
  6. Reboot
  7. Apply all the customisations
  8. Save the Unattended.xml to %windir%\system32\sysprep\unattended.xml
  9. Insert SCCM Capture media & capture
  10. When deploying, Make sure you apply the XML as part of the TS

Links:

http://www.windows-noob.com/forums/index.php?/topic/2224-how-to-copy-default-profile-during-sccm-sysprep/

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2101557http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/configmgrosd/thread/8869ebaa-15ec-4e6d-a0f2-e476d1ae66dc#cd98f098-b397-4be6-9637-f0e848d3693a

http://www.leinss.com/vistadeploy.html

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