Thursday, October 31, 2013

Dell 9020 3 displays

I have a customer that would like 3 monitors, for whatever reason.
The Dell 9020 is capable of this, and this is how I got it to work.
No additional video cards.
Using VGA and both display ports.
The customer has VGA monitors (as opposed to DVI)
So first, I bought two displayport to VGA cables:



I found it cheaper on their website: http://www.monoprice.com/Product?c_id=102&cp_id=10246&cs_id=1024609&p_id=6019&seq=1&format=2

Its running the latest BIOS (A03) and the intel 4600 video driver from Dell:
http://www.dell.com/support/drivers/us/en/04/DriverDetails/Product/optiplex-9020-desktop?driverId=1PRMJ&osCode=W864&fileId=3281932246&languageCode=en&categoryId=VI
No other changes were done in BIOS.

I had originally tried to use a PCI dual monitor card and the on-board, but this wasn't possible.  So I had to remove the display driver and reinstall the Intel driver.  After the reboot it worked and I now have display on all three.

Tada ( I tried to get the monitors cables and computer in the same pic)

Thursday, October 17, 2013

Outlook 2007 Can't display the dialog box when access the Print Dialog box

Got a new one today. 
When access the print dialog box, a user was getting an popup saying "Can't display the dialog box"
I initially did my regular fix all for outlook deleting the .ost and any other non-.pst files, and I could get to the dialog box one time, but the error came back after that.
Through some searching I found it is tied to a file called OutlPrnt.
Outlook 2003/XP file location:
\Documents and Settings\(user)\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook 
Outlook 2007/XP file location: 
\Documents and Settings\(user)\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook 
Outlook 2007/Vista/Win7 file location: 
\Users\(user)\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Outlook 
Outlook 2010/XP file location:
\Documents and Settings\(user)\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook 
Outlook 2010/Vista/Win7 file locations: 
\Users\(user)\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Outlook 

Monday, October 14, 2013

Removing an entry from boot loader

I had a workstation setup with Server 2008 that I was running some testing on, somewhere along the line the computer became confused and thought multiple OS's were on the computer, but when looking at their partitions they were empty.  So I wanted to delete them.  Come to find out there is no boot.ini file, and that I have to go in through something called bcdedit.
So after some googling, I found the command I needed.
Bcdedit /delete {boot loader identifier}
Enter CMD as admin, and type BCDEDIT, this will give you the list of your boot loadersThe loader you're currently in is listed as {current}, if this is the load you want to keep, don't delete that one.
Located the identifiers and type them into the boot loader identifier portion of the above script.   Rinse and repeat as necessary.
Boom, all done.

Getting RTL8812au passed to Virtualbox VM (Ubuntu)

There are no guarantees, I just write these notes so I can come back to them. First, get the dongle working on the host OS. After going thro...