Deep Insights in Microsoft .NET

This has caused me quite a lot of grief before, even to having to format the server indavertently. Looks like if the server has an NVIDIA motherboard and you plug in a ATI video card then for some weird reason the BIOS setting for RAID gets reset. It tries to boot from the individual hard disk instead of the virtual RAID volume and throws this error. Simply, go back into the BIOS settings and enable RAID again, and it will boot properly. Go figure! Btb this video card is weird. In VGA it gives a resolution of 1280 X 1024, but in DVI mode, only 1024X 768. Could be a monitor limitation too, as I had never before seen this monitor give me this resolution.

If you define an enum with the Flags attribute, you expect that when you do an "&" operation with an enum value, you will get back the enum value you are "&" with, only if it contains within the value. Wrong! If you have a enum value with its numeric value set to "0", and you do: value & zeroValue == zeroValue You will always get zeroValue back, even if the actual enum value never had the zero value specified!!

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/eu/winserverTS/thread/460c8059-4be4-4147-b0b2-907d017cd0b4 If like me, you use remote desktop extensively, and have multiple monitors, etc - you need to read this. I RDP from a RDP session, and now the quality of my RDP session is noticeably better than what was previous. Like the monitor is directly connected to the DVI on the remote server. However, if you do crank up the settings, you will need a gigabit switch between the servers you RDP into. I have one between my server, laptop and desktop. Substitute Remote Desktop Services under the Windows Components tab if you are using server 2008 r2 Enjoy!