Stop Mac Screen Dim When on Battery
Jun14

Stop Mac Screen Dim When on Battery

Mac Screen Dim KB ID 0001876 Problem I work primarily on a macbook, (it’s usually perched on my lap while I work). My current (and my first) macbook had magsafe charging, which is a nice feature, but when you work with a laptop on your knee you are constantly knocking the magsafe charger, which results in an annoying ‘I’m NOT charging, and now I AM charging  again’ noise (I can cope with). But as soon as it’s...

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Event ID 1206 and 1204
Nov17

Event ID 1206 and 1204

KB ID 0000125  Problem Event 1206 and 1204 Solution  Drive Array Accelerator Battery Failed. The array accelerator board attached to the array controller in Slot 3 is reporting a battery failure. and / or Drive Array Accelerator Status Change. The array accelerator board attached to the array controller in Slot 3 has a new status of 4. (Accelerator status values: 1=other, 2=notConfigured, 3=enabled, 4=tmpDisabled, 5=permDisabled) The...

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SBS –  Alert – ‘The following disk has low idle time’
Nov17

SBS – Alert – ‘The following disk has low idle time’

KB ID 0000583  Problem I got this alert forwarded to me, from a client that I’d put in new hard drives for a few week ago. Alert: The following disk has low idle time, which may cause slow response time when reading or writing files to the disk. Disk: {Number} {Drive Letter}: Review the Disk Transfers/sec and % Idle Time counters for the PhysicalDisk performance object. If the Disk Transfers/sec counter is consistently below 150...

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