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9

Apr

SCCM OSD and Dell SigmaTel audio driver on Windows XP

Posted by danovich  Published in SMS / SCCM, Windows

Several Dell laptop models including the E6400, D630, D520 and D430 all require the Sigmatel audio drivers on Windows XP. While the ‘auto apply drivers’ and ‘apply driver packages’ features of SCCM OSD work well for all other device drivers, the Sigmatel audio drivers have been a constant pain. I have finally resolved this by [...]

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Tags: Dell, installshield, SCCM, SCCM OSD, Sigmatel, task sequence, windows xp

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23

Feb

Sysprep error – Setup was unable to change the password for user account Administrator

Posted by danovich  Published in SMS / SCCM, Windows

While using SCCM 2007 R2 to deploy a Windows XP SP3 sysprepped image, I was constantly getting an issue when the imaged machine starts up for the first time and runs the sysprep mini-setup – “Setup was unable to change the password for user account Administrator. Please enter the desired password again.“. After spending some [...]

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Tags: 0x0000007B, OSD, SCCM, scsi0.present, Setup was unable to change the password for user account Administrator, sysprep, sysprep.ini, windows xp

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11

Dec

CPU usage at 100% – svchost

Posted by danovich  Published in Tools, Windows

I’ve often seen enterprise workstations have their CPU randomly spike to 100% usage for a few minutes, making the machine completely unusable. A quick look at the Task Manager shows svchost.exe being the culprit. 95% of the time, the below process will fix your problem. Create a batch file and put the command shown below into it. Download windowsupdateagent30-x86.exe [...]

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Tags: cpu, cpu 100%, svchost, svchost.exe, windows xp

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