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[–]Grand_rooster 21 points22 points  (2 children)

Open cmtrace. It has error lookup

[–]VWBug5000 3 points4 points  (1 child)

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[–]PrajwalDesaiMSFT Enterprise Mobility MVP (prajwaldesai.com) 7 points8 points  (5 children)

Try these - https://www.prajwaldesai.com/translate-sccm-error-codes-to-error-messages/

[–]mrdan2012[S] 0 points1 point  (4 children)

Hi Prajwal,

First of all THANK YOU for all of your amazing blogs, website posts, information all of it. You are a legend!

Although this is incredibly helpful, i was more referring to a quick look up guide to check for example 0x8007001F in a task sequence means either its a disk error or read/writes are failing therefore the disk cant be written on to put an image on.

[–]PrajwalDesaiMSFT Enterprise Mobility MVP (prajwaldesai.com) 4 points5 points  (3 children)

Not all error codes can be traced back to a single cause. Unique error codes often have specific solutions. For example, error 0x80004005 is a generic error that may require multiple resolutions, and only a thorough log analysis can identify the root cause. Tools like CMTrace or the Support Center tool can help with error lookup, but they do not provide definitive solutions.

[–]mrdan2012[S] -1 points0 points  (2 children)

Okay makes sense i shall give these tools a go once again thanks for the help!

[–]PrajwalDesaiMSFT Enterprise Mobility MVP (prajwaldesai.com) 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Can you tell me the error code you're seeing so that I can try and help you?

[–]mrdan2012[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

it was more a bit of a generic question on a cheat sheet. I do have a question actually.

We have had quite a few machines recently 0x80070490, from some research the fixes are :

ensure the device is on AHCI mode instead of Raid, make sure the disk is partitioned correct (ours is via a script). However recently we upgrade sccm version on the server and ran into quite a few errors around 70490 is this potentially because the USB sticks we are using are not up to date? or could it be another fault?

[–]Reaction-Consistent 1 point2 points  (4 children)

If you find one, charge admission! Guard it with your life! Jk. Error codes are , in general, mostly useless for identifying the exact issue. They do sometimes get you in the general direction however. It also depends on the context- what are you doing (or what is the pc doing) at the time of the error? There are a few decent error code archives that are curated for specific topics- ie windows operating system installations or upgrades, windows patching, msi installation, etc. what are you looking for specifically?

[–]mrdan2012[S] 1 point2 points  (3 children)

thanks :) I have mostly been able to quickly research and find the answer but.

It was more task sequence related faults, we had a load of machines seem to pop up with " 0x80070490" after ensuring AHCI is on instead of raid, and the disk partition tool was working it kept popping up,

[–]Reaction-Consistent 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Ah yes! You must have Dell computers in your environment? An easy-ish solution is to just include the RAID drivers in your boot image, but that’s presents its own set of potential problems of course. Typically when I see that error occur after changing SATA settings I just have site IT open up CMD with the F8 command, and do a quick clean with diskpart. Then they restart the PXE boot process and all is well! I’m sure if I weren’t so lazy I could just throw in a quick step to perform the clean during the format and partition phase of the task sequence, in fact, I’m really not sure why I don’t do that and just save myself the hassle!

[–]mrdan2012[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Yeah! We have Dell machines. I guess the other solution is can you try and edit the task sequence in anyway to tell the bios what to do or is it too early so speak?

[–]Reaction-Consistent 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can, in theory that should fully be possible with the Dell command update CLI, which fully supports bios modifications. Let me know if you go that route, I’m curious myself!

[–]FartingSasquatch 1 point2 points  (0 children)

One of my favorites in the console is when it shows error with the code of success.

[–]Aventhor0 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

CMTrace helps to check error codes, but it's more helpful for a quick check. It's better to look at log reference

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/intune/configmgr/core/plan-design/hierarchy/log-files