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I imagine you've sorted this by now, but we had this exact issue with a bunch of HP 450 G4s, and the fix for us was to update the BIOS.

We're currently installing about 90 new Ruckus APs in our school and so far we've installed about 50% of them. As it's the summer break, there are very few people in, mainly just us IT guys with a laptop or two and our phones. We've noticed that when we're using a device that's connected to the new wireless network, the connection will occasionally drop out for a couple of seconds, and it will then reconnect, and it can happen to one device while others remain connected. We established that it seems to be that a device will leave the 5GHz band in order to reconnect to the 2.4GHz band, or vice versa, or even drop its connection to an AP it is sitting underneath in order to connect to an AP in the next room (or two floors down in one case). Has anyone any idea what's causing this, and/or how to prevent it? We've only just started with this new system and already it's driving us a bit bonkers, and if we're feeling like this now the teachers will really let us have it upon their return!

I'd just like to throw my name in the hat and say that Impero is a complete shambles for us as well. Used to be a fantastic piece of software but over the past few years both the product and level of support we received has gradually gone down the toilet and I will certainly be looking to move away from it once our contract expires next year. To see Mic "proudly" state that most of his support cases are resolved on the first call makes my blood boil, quite frankly.

Tiny red sticky bean-shaped newborn mice embryo... things.

On one of my first jobs we found a mouse that scarpered, and further investigation revealed what at first appeared to be nasty old beans stuck to various pieces of gubbins. They were not beans. They had eyes.

Hi guys I have one user (and only one user) who is getting the above message whenever she attempts to log on to a PC. The logon then fails and she's stuck at the login screen. On one PC, I deleted her local profile and she was then able to log in, but only with a temporary profile. I've done some furious Googling, but most of the solutions I've found online deal with roaming profiles, and we don't use them. There's nothing accidentally in her profile field on AD either. Short of deleting her as a user and creating her anew, I'm not sure what to do, and even if I did that I'm not sure it would work (would a machine join her to the local profile that already exists, or create a new one in the form user.DOMAIN?) We're using Windows 7 and Server 2008, if that helps. Help :s

Hi guys I have a HP Laserjet CP1515 which prints colours with a kind of ghosting effect. Black seems to be unaffected. If it was an inkjet printer I would say that the ink cartridges weren't aligned properly, but I've never come across this before with a laserjet. Can anyone help? Pics attached.

Try using LikewiseOpen - I had the same issue as you for the longest time and it fixed everything for us in a heartbeat. Just make sure you're not bound to your Domain and that AD is not ticked in Directory Utility when you install it.

I don't suppose the Macs also dual-boot with Windows? That can cause problems with timekeeping in OS X.

Hi all Fog's printer adding function has worked for us before, but our latest image is giving us a bit of grief. Fog adds the correct printer for the group the imaged PC is a member of. However, the printer will not print. The reason for this appears to be that the port isn't being created correctly by Fog. If we look at the printer ports available on the imaged PC, the printer port we want doesn't exist in the list. If we try to add the port manually it won't let us, and tells us the port already exists. I've found that if we manually create a port before the printer is added by Fog, it will work, but this isn't ideal. I'm using Fog 0.29 and the image is of Windows 7. Any advice greatly appreciated!

What kind of number should I be aiming for here? Obviously as close to 0 as possible, but as I said, I have no real frame of reference here as regards what is a lot and what is acceptable as far as retransmitted packets go. For example, I just logged into my PC and I have the following: Active Opens: 169 Passive Opens: 0 Failed Connection Attempts: 8 Reset Connections: 15 Current Connections: 5 Segments Received: 3264 Segments Sent: 2384 Segments Retransmitted: 12 Thanks again for the help!

A lot of kids would have to be unplugging a lot of network leads for that to be the case, so I doubt it's that, even with our lot! I had suspected bandwidth issues to be honest, because we use SynchronEyes a lot here, which does a lot of broadcasting, but I'm unsure how to check available bandwidth. I've used Wireshark, but all that does is tell me what's currently going on, and I don't really have any frame of reference to say "yes, that's a lot" or "no, that's normal". Is there anything out there that will just say "holy cow, you have no spare bandwidth!"

Right now we only have one DC, too

Although each PC is identical to the next in each classroom, there are a couple of different Windows 7 images in use throughout the school, and this behaviour isn't limited to one particular image.

We have a bit of an issue here in that some of our Win7 clients aren't mapping drives correctly, which is done through a logon script, and also don't seem to be applying group policies. This means that students have unfettered access to the machine, but also can't get online because the proxy details aren't being entered. Some are working fine, and all machines have been imaged with Fog, so they're identical to one another. Also there seems to be no rhyme or reason to this, some sometimes work, and then sometimes don't. We enabled the 'wait for network to be ready at logon' setting in group policy in the hopes it would fix it, but it doesn't seem to have had much effect. Help!