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SSD head / cylinder / cluster details
A customer of ours makes industrial robots that run on very old, but stable, hardware and software. The only bottleneck has always been the hard drive in these moving machines. Due to constant ...
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How to make my HP server boot faster?
I have an HP ProLiant DL370 G6 server that I am using as a workstation. It takes 60 seconds during reboot and cold boot before screens post with a discrete Radeon HD6xxx GPU. What can I do to make ...
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HP Compaq 8200 Elite SFF won't boot from USB drive
Can't get an HP 8200 Elite Small Form Factor to boot from USB. It's done so in the past & the USB boot drive works in a different machine (HP 8440p laptop).
Have tried upgrading BIOS (from 2.09 ...
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Why do server vendors always ship them with disabled hardware virtualization support? [duplicate]
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Enabling hardware virtualisation BIOS; anything to beware?
This, which seem to be common practice for all hardware vendors, has been bugging me for a while: why is ...
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What can I do about the 2 SATA harddrives no longer showing up even in BIOS?
I've been trying to setup Ubuntu but have been running into countless issues. Both the 500GB drives has now become undetectable and don't even show up in BIOS. I've detailed below the process I've ...
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Have I bricked my Sun V20z?
I have a small pile of Sun V20z computers. I was trying to update the SP and BIOS firmwares in order to bring them all up to the same standard -- mostly to get the updated (ie actually useful) SP ...
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Slow Boot After Changing Configuration
One of our company's IBM NetVista computers had a faulty CD-ROM drive. I replaced it with a new DVD-ROM drive and the start-up BIOS sequence started being very slow, up to 3-4 minutes, before booting ...