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Comment on SSD Freezing Fix by Chris Coulson

Chris Coulson — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 23:40:08 +0000

This was a LONG time ago (I’ve had two new laptops since this was posted). I sort of thought this issue would be solved with all modern hardware by now (I haven’t experienced it again with any other hardware i’ve had), but maybe not.

I do remember that this fix completely solved the freezing for me. I regularly ran the laptop plugged in, so I didn’t notice a change in battery life if there even was one.

Comment on SSD Freezing Fix by lacowi4161

lacowi4161 — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 20:20:59 +0000

Thanks so much for posting this registry fix! I’ve been dealing with a similar “ghost freeze” on my workstation and it was driving me crazy. That specific point about the Link Power Management (LPM) incompatibility is such a deep-dive catch; it’s one of those hidden settings that most users would never think to check when they just want their new drive to work.
I actually ran into a nearly identical issue recently while setting up a dedicated storage array. I was using a high-bandwidth HBA card paired with a PCI-E expander to manage a bunch of SSDs, and I kept getting these weird timeouts. It turns out that many enterprise-grade controllers and expanders have their own aggressive power-saving handshakes that just don’t play nice with consumer-grade drive firmware. It’s frustrating because you buy the hardware for speed and reliability, but these tiny “efficiency” features end up causing total system hangs. Disabling those low-power states is often the only way to get a stable connection when you’re using dedicated controller cards https://serverorbit.com/hba-and-controllers/pci-e/expander-card-en.
Have you noticed any significant change in your laptop’s battery life since disabling LPM, or is the stability improvement so great that the power trade-off doesn’t even matter?

Comment on Configuring Forms Based Authentication in SharePoint 2016 and SharePoint 2019 – Part 4 – Adding Users to the Membership Database by Chris Coulson

Chris Coulson — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 15:23:29 +0000

In reply to Kor.

I haven’t actually seen that error before. Are you using the SQLMembershipProvider? If you check the SharePoint logs they will probably have more details on the error.

The usual error if something’s not configured properly (and usually because of database permission issues) is:
“A Membership Provider has not been configured correctly. Check the web.config settings for this web application.”

Comment on Configuring Forms Based Authentication in SharePoint 2016 and SharePoint 2019 – Part 4 – Adding Users to the Membership Database by Kor

Kor — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 09:07:58 +0000

When I tried to create new user in ‘FBA User Management’, I got the error below and unable to create any new user. Any Idea to solve this, please?

‘The authentication provider returned an error. Please verify your entry and try again. If the problem persists, please contact your system administrator.’

Comment on Configuring Forms Based Authentication in SharePoint 2016 and SharePoint 2019 – Part 2 – Editing the Web.Config Files by Chris Coulson

Chris Coulson — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 21:33:23 +0000

In reply to Pedro.

The security token service should definitely have a web.config – I’ve never seen it without one. It’s the security token service configuration that is used during login, so if that’s not configured correctly that will be causing your issues. You should be able to use IIS Providers screen for the security token service to see if the membership providers are showing as configured there.

Comment on Configuring Forms Based Authentication in SharePoint 2016 and SharePoint 2019 – Part 2 – Editing the Web.Config Files by Pedro

Pedro — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 19:34:30 +0000

I found your article recently, very useful, thanks for sharing, I have a test farm, is subscription edition, only has 2 servers, WFE and APP, already configure the web.config files on the 2 servers, the WFE does not have the site of the CA and the security token does not have web.config, the APP server has all 3 and already edits them, when testing the access opens the site to log in, asks for the account but does not start, asks again repeatedly before sending error, already check that the connection strings and configurations are the same and have the correct data, What else could it be? , I thank you in advance for your support

Comment on SharePoint FBA: SSL Required by Chris Coulson

Chris Coulson — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 01:49:55 +0000

In reply to Phil Clemons. You shouldn't need to use IE mode. Check the console in the developer tools (F12) to see if there are some errors being logged when not in IE mode.

Comment on Configuring Forms Based Authentication in SharePoint 2016 and SharePoint 2019 – Part 4 – Adding Users to the Membership Database by Chris Coulson

Chris Coulson — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 01:45:59 +0000

In reply to Amit Verma. Are you accessing the site with HTTPS? Browsers have changed so that now the auth cookie only gets saved when running under HTTPS.

Comment on Configuring Forms Based Authentication in SharePoint 2016 and SharePoint 2019 – Part 4 – Adding Users to the Membership Database by MES

MES — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 17:40:52 +0000

In reply to Zac. restart sharepoint administration service and try to run deploy command again.

Comment on Removing Null Characters (0x00) From Values in SQL Server by Administrasi Bisnis

Administrasi Bisnis — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 02:27:47 +0000

Not really a solution for dealing with data in an international user environment.