Archive for December, 2008

Unable to access nVidia Storage software through the nVidia Control Panel

Published at December 17, 2008 in Random Fixes. 2 Comments

SO I’m at work working on this client’s computer.  The computer is using an ASUS M2N-32 SLI Deluxe motherboard.  Obviously onboard RAID sucks but I never knew how badly it truly sucked.  This guy’s initial RAID1 array died and both drives went with it.  I fixed him up with two new hard drives and reconfigured them for RAID1, again.  I then imaged one drive and tried to get the other drive to rebuild the array and copy all the data from the drive that has all the data to the drive that is empty.  I realized that this could not be done through the nVidia SATA RAID BIOS.  I booted into Windows and tried looking for an nVidia RAID utility which usually is a software based tool that should help with the recreation of the RAID1 array and population of data from drive to drive.

I looked long and hard and could not find the software.  I did a Google search and came up with something called MediaShield.  That looked familiar as I’ve seen it come up when installing nVidia drivers.

Lo and behold I found out that the RAID utility is actually a part of the nVidia Control Panel.  If you have the nVidia drivers installed, right clicking on the desktop and clicking on nVidia Control Panel should take you to the right place.  In my case, it didn’t.

In the left hand panel there should be something related to storage.  There was nothing at all.

I did a little more searching and figured that many people have this issue but there was no fix.  I was stumped.  I literally sat there with a blank stare and did a face palm a couple of times since I could not figure it out.

Then, just for good measure, I looked in device manager and saw that the IDE/SATA drive was a basic nVidia SATA driver.  I then looked in the nVidia folder that is created when you install the nVidia software.  I saw a folder called IDE and in it I saw a sub folder that was titled sataraid.  I then, through device manager, updated the IDE/SATA driver with the driver that was located in the sataraid folder.  Sure enough, after a reboot, I could now see the storage portion in the nVidia Control Panel.

So if you’re having problems, here’s hoping this will help you.

Internet Explorer 8 Partner Build released

Published at December 10, 2008 in Random. 0 Comments

IE8 Partner Build which is somewhat newer than IE8 Beta 2 was released.

I installed it and immediately found a problem when scrolling through long web pages.  I noticed that if I kill the IntelliPoint software though the problem goes away.  This may be an issue with the IntelliPoint’s scroll quick/faster feature.

I notice IE8 still has problems with Netsuite.com.  This is a big fix that they have to do otherwise I will and most of my colleagues will never use IE8, even in the final build.  I guess I should get started on filing more bug reports.  Hope you guys have a great Christmas!

Microsoft .NET framework setup failed.

Published at December 5, 2008 in Random Fixes. 1 Comment

If you encounter this while trying to install the standalone .Net Framework 1.1 or even 2.0 or 3.0, try doing this:

Go to your start menu.

Click on Run

Type in msiexec.exe /regserver

Hit Enter

Now try it again.  It should work.

Blank Device Manager window + Apple iTunes iPod Service Module keeps crashing

Published at December 4, 2008 in Random. 0 Comments

If you are having problems syncing your new iPod to your iTunes software and are experiencing this specific error: “iPodServiceModule has encountered an error and needs to close” then you’ve come to the right spot for a fix.

Go here and download the Microsoft patch.  You will have to run this patch in Safe Mode otherwise it will not work properly.

In order to get into Safe Mode, go ahead and restart the computer and continuously hit F8 on your keyboard.  You will eventually be prompted with a list of different options.  Highlight with the keyboard arrow keys, “Safe Mode.”

Once you you have your desktop up, go ahead and run the fixccs.exe.  It will run and do its job.  Restart the computer and you should be good to go.

iTunes error: There is a problem with this windows installer package.

Published at December 3, 2008 in Random Fixes. 3 Comments

If you receive this error while trying to install or upgrade iTunes, please download this file.  This is the Microsoft CleanUp Tool.  It will remove all of the various left over things that iTunes has somehow corrupted or could not remove.

Install the program.

Run the program and look for iTunes or anything related Apple as well as QuickTime.  Remove those items and try the installation again.  This should fix the problem.