windows-ios

[polar cargo]

I’ve tried going thru the advanced options > command prompt and running some bootrec commands. Still nothing. It couldn’t find two commands however that were recommended. bootrec /fixmbr and bootrec /fixboot. In the BIOS it sees the harddrive just fine

Also just put it back in the PC I set the SSD on and it booted fine. I attempted to just reinstall windows on the other computer but no partitions were listed

[sonic rose]

https://youtube.com/shorts/h1BizRTOqPk

[tawny cobalt]

newegg where is the windows 7 support hmm or are the furry crisper devs lazy and cant code drivers exposed

[vestal ibex]

Your obvious attempt at trolling will fall flat here

[tawny cobalt]

newegg will you drop support for windows 10/11 then because of the esu program exposed 2025

[vestal ibex]

Newegg never supported Windows because it's not Microsoft

All Newegg provides is a license to use the operating system, which you can choose to buy or not

[sullen karma]

Wheres the windows vista newegg special edition

[arctic verge]

real

[languid plank]

Bro wheres my templeOS support

[vestal ibex]

That's simply incorrect. The FEATURE is called Recall, but the "AI" is still called Copilot.

Ok folks the troll is gone, back to your lives

[languid plank]

He didn't even go to Apple/IOS

[arctic verge]

everybody knows there's absolutely no flaws whatsoever that anybody could ever complain about with apple/ios

[languid plank]

Clearly that's why he didn't go there

Let's put the power button underneath the PC though yeah?

And the charging port goes underneath the mouse too

[sullen karma]

Go ahead and put the scroll wheel down there too

[arctic verge]

Where else could you have possibly put those though, it's just so convenient to have the usb port on the bottom of a computer mouse

[sullen karma]

Gotta put the usb port on the bottom of the 200 dollar monitor stand

[vestal ibex]

(not included so it's useless without it or the $300 vesa adapter)

[languid plank]

Can't possibly think of a better place for it

What, it goes on top of the mouse??

Ridiculous

[vestal ibex]

Why would anyone need to use a mouse while it's charging?

[languid plank]

That's just poor planning! Obviously!

[tall wraith]

Is there any way I can break wife’s old Chromebook and get it to install windows OS?

[last gorge]

ummm probably not. or at least it wouldn't run well. From most chromebooks I've seen you can't even due to storage restrictions

[arctic verge]

linux is the most those pieces of crap can run

[tall wraith]

It won’t even run Linux

[vestal ibex]

No drivers

[viral eagle]

then why even bother with windows lol

[tall wraith]

[arctic verge]

ChromeOS is really just idiotproofed Linux

So technically it would have been running Linux previously lmao

[last gorge]

Ive gotten linux to run on 1 or 2 chromebooks but once it was installed you could install nothing else since there was no storage free lol

[arctic verge]

just dont install a gui

also damn how small would that storage be to not have any storage left after a linux image

well, tbf, even if you didnt need to install an OS, if the chromebook only had like, say 64gb of storage, it's not like you could do much with that anyways

you could... get a web browser

but then you're back to basically a chromebook lmao

i guess you could connect some extra storage to the usb and then use it as a crappy ish nas

[vestal ibex]

emmc moment
32GB of effectively SD card storage

[last gorge]

The ones I had only had 16gb emmc lmao

[arctic verge]

damn

less than even the most budget smartphone

[languid plank]

chromebooks are literal ass that's terrible

[arctic verge]

this was a lower bar than i expected

my expectation was 64gb with a low of 32gb

i didnt even dare imagine 16gb storage

💀

[languid plank]

Even the LCD steam deck has 64GB of emmc storage

But it's miles better than the chromebook

[arctic verge]

hell, i give my sbcs a minimum of 64gb storage

[brittle heart]

How does one bypass this?

[vestal ibex]

Bottom left, offline account

[brittle heart]

Oh 😭 i thought that was for sum else, Ty

[sullen karma]

Dont blame you for not being able to tell, typical scummy microsoft

[patent shadow]

anyone know where to get a windows key lol

thats not $130 dollars

[arctic verge]

Not really anywhere that is technically legal
Maybe you'll find someone selling their retail key on eBay or such

OEM keys sellers might be selling stolen keys on the grey/black markets

[vestal ibex]

I think they got it covered via a dm

[arctic verge]

Perchance

[sullen karma]

https://tenor.com/view/out-of-the-past-robert-mitchum-jacques-tourneur-film-noir-rko-gif-23354747

Me with my entirely legitimate copy of windows walking to my next target

[languid plank]

Obviously to sell them a legitimate copy of windows

[glass vapor]

Alright so

Hey yall ive got a problem.

My laptop stopped booting into windows and only booted into the UEFI boot selection menu. I got a usb drive with a w11 installer/repair tool to fix it but after trying to use startup repair, my laptop's acting like I never had a windows install ever.

I know I have to install windows, but can I keep all of my important files? Some of these files are an absolutely need for work and school. I literally might have to drop projects and lose money 😭

[arctic verge]

most surefire way to recover files would be to use a live linux usb to boot into linux on the usb, then access the files to make a backup

if your drive was formatted correctly, technically you could just reinstall the windows OS, but if something aint quite right, you might accidentally wipe the whole drive

[glass vapor]

It already had windows before

I never really had any problem since I switched to win11 until now

But when I select "install windows 11," I've got to check a box that reads "I agree everything will be deleted..."

[glass vapor]

Nvm figured it out on my own I just had to use the old style installer instead of the simplified one

[dawn socket]

Anyone have experience using Pi-Hole? I want to set it up after work (unless there is something better?). I looked into it a little bit this morning, but I see things like downstream and upstream. Maybe some other things. I was wondering if someone could explain to me what those things are/mean and why I need them. Possibly how I need to set it up as well. Any help would be appreciative.

[arctic verge]

pihole is very easy to setup; you just run the installation script and input a few parameters

[vestal ibex]

All you really need to do is run the setup, follow the instructions, and set your router to use it as your DNS so all your devices use it

[dawn socket]

I see. I thought I read somewhere that some people have issues with latency in games and have to set certain settings to combat that

[vestal ibex]

You'll get a little bit of latency the first time you access a site or service but after that it'll be cached automatically

[dawn socket]

sounds simple. Looked at the website. Something about needing to install docker.. clicked the link, takes me to github with a ton of mumbo jumbo that I have no idea about.. still don't know how to install docker. LOL

github always confuses the heck out of me

[idle dragon]

i just got my used surface laptop 3. previous owner has set up windows 11 Pro (24H2) and activated it with a key. this required the owner to add a ms account which they gave me data for, including password.
i would like to know if i can use the key to activate windows 10 pro (yes i prefer 10 over 11) and link it to my own ms account (or just store they key for another time since i have others). so basiacally install windows 10 and get that key only linked to me and none of their data

[arctic verge]

license might be bound to the laptop so it might remain activated after reinstall
or you can check for the key in the windows activation settings if they used a retail key or whatever
also i wouldnt really reccommend windows 10 anymore due to it being quite close to eol

[vestal ibex]

Nope. Keys only go forward, not back

You might be able to retrieve the key with something like magical jellybean

It will definitely read the key but whether it works to activate again is unknown

[idle dragon]

i know keys can be retrieved from activated windows installations but if I cannot use it for w10 ill just keep it for later. is the key not linked to the account? is it microsoft just asking you to set up one because yes?

[vestal ibex]

The key is account linked but it's not a hard requirement

You can still use local accounts only and be activated

The account just makes it easier to reactivate

[arctic verge]

tfw forget to write down the activation key and the key is lost

[vestal ibex]

That's when you whip out that magical jellybean

[arctic verge]

(assuming you threw out the retail packaging with the key in it)

[idle dragon]

win 11 always asks for a ms account when installing unless you know how to bypass that. so i guess ill get the key in case i upgrade to 11 on this same laptop

[arctic verge]

lost a key once when i was a kid and reinstalled windows 7 without knowing that windows needed to be activated

[vestal ibex]

2 words: unattended installation

[arctic verge]

well, technically not fully lost

[vestal ibex]

Bruh I knew Windows needed to be activated when I was 10 using windows 98

[arctic verge]

there was thankfully a license sticker on the pc

though i didnt know about that lmfao

so to me it was lost

[arctic verge]

you dont walk up to class and the teacher would be like "hey class today we're gonna learn about windows activation"

or at least that never happened to me lmfao

[vestal ibex]

Fun fact: that sticker isn't the original key but basically a spare key. They install an OEM key at the factory but the sticker is retail.

[arctic verge]

interesting

[vestal ibex]

Also you used to be able to use that spare key 3 times

That was intended for just in case you needed to reinstall a few times

[idle dragon]

i recently got myself an original windows 2000 installation dvd with the activation key sticker "required to be affixed to the exterior of the pc"

still sealed in perfect condition

just to give it a try

or keep it as an ancient piece of windows history

[vestal ibex]

The activation server is long dead but you can use tricks to do a "phone activation"

[idle dragon]

i did that with xp a few times
just feels so strange to activate for free via a phone call

[languid plank]

"I don't need you anymore"

(I already bought an activation key)

[onyx mica]

https://search.app?link=https%3A%2F%2Fjalopnik.com%2Fpokemon-go-was-a-plot-to-use-your-data-to-fast-track-an-1851706279&utm_campaign=aga&utm_source=agsadl1%2Cagsadl4%2Csh%2Fx%2Fgs%2Fm2%2F4

[arctic verge]

No shot

LMFAO

[sullen karma]

cant even say im surprised lmao

[arctic verge]

In hindsight it's so obvious

[idle dragon]

apparently downgrading to windows 10 pro kept it activated with that same key. btw it is an oem key so afaik it cannot be used on a different pc

tbh the latest version 24H2 of 11 pro is not that bad, they got many problems fixed and added (back) a few nice features

however that 3.5gb idle ram usage is just crazy, and I don't understand where that extra gb compared to win10 is going

[vestal ibex]

It's going to all the apps they install by default

You can debloat it pretty good, just leave the xbox related stuff like game bar and the xbox app since that's related to the thread scheduler

[viral eagle]

Alternatively you could just, not care. If you're running an application that needs the ram the system will reallocate it

Though windows deboat is pretty easy with the script

[pastel snow]

i have a problem with downloading directx12 where everytime i use the dxdiag tool the page is blank

[vestal ibex]

Directx 12 isn't a thing you have to download

If you did then you probably downloaded a virus or spyware

It's built into Windows 10/11

[pastel snow]

i meant just directx

every time i try to launch a specific game to test dx12 it says that my gpu drivers need to be updated but they already are

[vestal ibex]

Right, directx 9-12 is built into Windows and requires no download.
Have you tried ddu yet?

?ddu

[velvet mauve]

DDU (Display Driver Uninstaller) Guide by Pato
https://github.com/NeweggTechie/Graphics-cards/wiki/How-to-use-DDU

[dusty mural]

my pc won’t connect to wifi even with wifi antennas

[vestal ibex]

Have you installed the drivers?

[languid plank]

My WiFi antennas don't need to go anywhere

[queen crater]

Not sure how to word this, but I have a non boot drive (internal ssd) I want to replace with a upgraded drive (internal ssd) I bought, when I go to install it, it can't find the os. I made sure to point it towards my c: but it says I need to install windows, I plug in the original ssd, and it will boot up, but there's nothing in that drive

Edit: I installed a boot OS on my flash drive to install windows, connects the new drive and the new ssd does work, but brings me to the install window, with the option to reinstall windows on my current plugged in drives or the new ssd, which I don't want to do

[last gorge]

I am a little confused, if this was only a data drive the only thing you need to do if swap drives with the system powered off, boot the pc into windows and initialize the new drive with the drive management app. On the off chance it doesn’t boot into windows you may have to go into bios and double check the boot priority. A windows usb install disk would not be needed

[arctic verge]

i wonder if the bootloader got put onto that drive

[last gorge]

Ye

[queen crater]

hi

sorry for the late response

any way to confirm that?

[vestal ibex]

Yep it's like they thought

EFI is the partition the BIOS looks for when it tries to boot

[queen crater]

sorry for the cursing

[vestal ibex]

Understandable in this case

[queen crater]

is there anyway to idk, change the efi system.. to the C:?

last thing i want is to format

[vestal ibex]

Windows like to install the bootloader to a different drive for some reason, it's done this since Windows 7 and everyone hates it

[queen crater]

????

why is windows like this

[vestal ibex]

What you can do is copy the first 2 partitions to the new SSD

[queen crater]

any guide on how i can do that

[vestal ibex]

You can put the new drive in and copy them with macrium reflect, it's pretty self explanatory in the program

[queen crater]

oh like a drive reader

there's a problem bob, i can't do it cause i don't have the i/o for the ssd lol, my psu thats connected to the drive is on it's life line right now

once unplugged, i get no OS lmfao

[vestal ibex]

I see 3 SSDs (and an external drive) on that system, you'd be able to boot without your F drive at least

Unless that's using a different interface, which is something I can't tell from here

[queen crater]

different interface, thats a nvme

[vestal ibex]

Right, so without installing Windows all over again I do have a workaround, but it's not easy to do and will require you to go into the windows installer to run commands.

[arctic verge]

This is why Linux users hate windows
It's just inexplicable some things that it does

[queen crater]

sighh

ok lets rip this bandaid off

give it to me fal'cie

[vestal ibex]

Do you have a USB drive with the windows installer on it already?

[queen crater]

yes sir

[vestal ibex]

Good, so go ahead and switch the new drive in and load up that installer

What we're going to do is tell Windows that the boot files are corrupted so it tries to recreate them where we want them

[queen crater]

That's actually really good explanation

Ok I'm about in the installer

[vestal ibex]

When it loads up select the language and proceed to the next page

[queen crater]

Done

Repair or install

[vestal ibex]

Neither, press shift+F10

[queen crater]

Kk

[vestal ibex]

It should open a command window

[queen crater]

Yep

[vestal ibex]

enter diskpart

list disk

[queen crater]

Kk

[vestal ibex]

Find the new drive if you can, if it's in the same place as the old one it'll probably be drive 0 again

[queen crater]

I see it

[vestal ibex]

select drive 0

list partition

Is anything on there?

[vestal ibex]

Whoops,
select disk 0

[queen crater]

Nothing

[vestal ibex]

Perfect

One sec I want to make sure the syntax on this next one is correct

[queen crater]

Sure

[vestal ibex]

create partition primary size=100 id=c12a7328-f81f-11d2-ba4b-00a0c93ec93b

[queen crater]

What the heckk

[vestal ibex]

That tells it to create a 100MB partition that will be identified as the EFI partition

That's why it took a second lol

[vestal ibex]

Forgot one thing

convert gpt

Then enter that command

[queen crater]

👍

Good

[vestal ibex]

It worked that time?

[queen crater]

Yes

[vestal ibex]

Great

[vestal ibex]

format fs=fat32 quick

[queen crater]

Done

[vestal ibex]

assign letter=X

Then exit

But leave the window open for the next commands

[queen crater]

OH

[vestal ibex]

Pick a different letter then

[queen crater]

Lol I realized

[vestal ibex]

As long as you remember which one you use, I fogot the installer mounts as X

[queen crater]

Done

I used v

Typed exit

[vestal ibex]

mkdir V:\EFI\Microsoft\Boot\

[queen crater]

Done

[vestal ibex]

bootrec /fixboot

[queen crater]

Access denied

[vestal ibex]

That's an old bug, surprised it's still there

We can work around that

[queen crater]

I'm the lucky one to get it

[vestal ibex]

Nah it's every install that would have it, you're just the lucky one that needed to use the command

[queen crater]

[vestal ibex]

Did you happen to catch which letter your Windows partition is on

[queen crater]

C

[vestal ibex]

Even in the installer? Because it sometimes gets recognized as D with multiple drives

[queen crater]

Ohh yea, D

That's the drive I'm taking out and replacing with the new one, right?

[vestal ibex]

Nope the one where Windows is installed

If you're not sure then go back to diskpart
list volume

[vestal ibex]

Yep looks like C

Ok go ahead and exit

[queen crater]

Always good to make sure

[vestal ibex]

bcdboot c:\Windows /s v: /f ALL

The spaces matter a lot here

then
bootrec /rebuildbcd

[queen crater]

Add install to bootlist

[vestal ibex]

Y

[vestal ibex]

isdgsauvbnoausbn

I hate windows

[queen crater]

Lmao

[vestal ibex]

"Oh I found this, add it? PSYCHE"

[queen crater]

[vestal ibex]

Let's see what it's done so far with the boot partition

dir V:\EFI\Windows\Boot\

That should list any files located there

If the files are there, maybe it did work after all

[queen crater]

Best case scenario

Let's see

[vestal ibex]

Hmm

dir V:\

[vestal ibex]

dir V:\EFI\

[vestal ibex]

dir V:\EFI\Microsoft\

[vestal ibex]

dir V:\EFI\Microsoft\Boot\

Should be the last one

[queen crater]

Didn't I do that one?

[vestal ibex]

I think we did Windows instead of Microsoft lol

[queen crater]

Oh

[vestal ibex]

My bad there

[queen crater]

Sorry for the poster, can delete image after

[vestal ibex]

Well the files are definitely there

[queen crater]

Does seem like it

So when we go to restart, shouldn't say there's a missing os

[vestal ibex]

It's worth a shot at this point, we can always come back to this point if it doesn't work

[queen crater]

Fingers crossed

Uh oh

https://tenor.com/view/thats-why-hes-the-goat-the-goat-gif-27042841

Ok, so it worked

Got scared for a sec cause it went to the installer, but I had to take out the flash drive

So all I gotta do now is map a drive to the new ssd, when I do that tho, does it have to be the V drive we did earlier or can it be any letter?

[vestal ibex]

That only applied that that instance of the installer, you can use whatever letter

You'll need to make a new data partition first, which you can do from disk management in Windows

[queen crater]

Already ahead of u on that

Could kiss u dude/ma'am, if there was a tip option on discord, you get the max tip (20%) in my country

[vestal ibex]

lol just happy to help

I can't tell you how many times I've done this but I definitely learned it the hard way

[queen crater]

Lemme guess, accidental format?

[vestal ibex]

Nope, Windows 98 upgrade to XP

Did not go well

That was the first time

The commands haven't changed a whole lot since then, just the syntax and bugs involved

[queen crater]

I'll try to remember this in the future if I need to actually upgrade my c drive to a bigger storage

But thanks alot u saved me time and stress by giving yourself time and stress. Sorry, but I really appreciate it

Want my 120gb ssd, lol

[vestal ibex]

I would have a use for it at least but no thanks

[queen crater]

Oh, cause I have 0 use for it now

Was used as a singular drive for fortnite, but that game just keeps on getting bigger

[queen crater]

Probably a good idea to check when I'm back, but stupid epics has it so that file migration is next to non existent for egs so I have to reinstall the whole game

[sullen karma]

does anyone have any experience with salad mining? im tempted to try it but idk if its even worth it

[arctic verge]

it is not worth it

they package it like "oh it's easy to use" (which tbf it is) but you get way less than you probably actually mine

[sullen karma]

im just looking for some way to get use out of my pc when im not home tbh

[arctic verge]

do folding@home

you dont earn any money but it supports medical research

uses cpu/gpu cycles to simulate protein

bunch of people promoted it back during covid to help with covid research, but you can also decide if you want to do simulations for other areas like cancer research

[sullen karma]

might look into that

[arctic verge]

https://foldingathome.org/

current research

[sullen karma]

Im curious how much its actually helped medical research

[arctic verge]

probably a fair bit

it's been around since 2000

https://foldingathome.org/papers-results/

[vestal ibex]

I've been folding instead of running my heater, I was going to use that electricity for heating anyway so might as well make it useful

[arctic verge]

fr

[sullen karma]

Not bad

[arctic verge]

i normally only fold during the colder months

and stop during the summer

[vestal ibex]

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10398258/

[sullen karma]

And i assume you can fold and stop folding as you please? Say run at night and the morning but turn it off in the afternoon

[vestal ibex]

Yep you can pause it at any time

[sullen karma]

Ill try it tonight then

At least be a bit less of a leech on this planet LMAO

[vestal ibex]

You can even tell it to pause after it finishes the work it's currently doing

So if it's a "I want to use my gpu but it's not urgent, I can wait 30 minutes" thing they have you covered

[arctic verge]

i think they let you pause your work unit for like over a day iirc? so if you want to do some gaming with some buds for a while, you could resume after like a day or 2

i remember seeing an exact number in the past but i dont remember what it was

but i do remember it was a fair bit of time before they assume you arent resuming

[vestal ibex]

It's about a day before your work gets reassigned yeah

[sullen karma]

Do yall run your pcs 24/7 for this or?

[arctic verge]

yeah

well, not just for this.... well, actually only for this nowadays

used to run a few private game servers for myself and friends but they're dead so they're offline

[vestal ibex]

I've just been running overnight mostly when it gets cold. Set the thermostat to 62 and let the PC do the heating. It can get me from 64 to 70 in 8-10 hours at night.

[arctic verge]

what the hell

idk why it suddenly started happening but i keep trying to disable this (since i use fancontrol for the fan curve) but it keeps turnint itself back on like 5 seconds later???

https://tenor.com/view/why-persian-room-cat-guardian-but-why-trendizisst-anyaboz-gif-2156104475561014590

[sullen karma]

Almost finished my first fold

Hope to do more in the future

[arctic verge]

if you go in the settings cogwheel you can also enable gpu folding as well

[sullen karma]

Will do, was wondering why it was cpu only

Oh shoot i can use both my integrated and dedicated

[arctic verge]

damn

well, integrated will be pretty slow

just use the dedicated one lmao

[sullen karma]

Lol true

[vestal ibex]

Integrated takes forever so make sure you have the time to commit on that

[sullen karma]

Yeah theres a pretty hefty difference loll

Id only do integrated overnight

Also whats the point in joining a team

[arctic verge]

those are ID numbers not the amount of time lmao

fun

[sullen karma]

Oh lmao

[sullen karma]

Then idk which one to pick

[vestal ibex]

leaderboards

[sullen karma]

Just for credit?

Eh im fine doing anonymous

[arctic verge]

just for sense of acomplishment

also "free advertising" kinda if somebody looks at the leaderboard and sees your company or whatever on it lmao

like a few people have done there

[sullen karma]

Then whats the point of charity if youre just doing it for attention 😭

[vestal ibex]

Some people need that little extra because they aren't as selfless as you

[arctic verge]

that's the thing

alot of companies arent doing it out of the goodness of their hearts

it's for tax write offs and PR

and people as well

no matter what the intention, at the end of the day it's going for a good cause so it's fine whatever your goals are

actually, we do have a team for newegg, forks made it

lmao

[vestal ibex]

I'm on a team from a different server

Which is the team that rommy moved to as well

[sullen karma]

Damn 😭

Idk if id say selfless

[sullen karma]

Ofc

I guess yeah it still does help in the end

[vestal ibex]

There's degrees to selflessness. Some will always put others first, others will only help when it's convenient. Both are fine.

[sullen karma]

I guess ill make a user just so i can track points lol

Would be nice to know how much ive helped

[arctic verge]

gah factory reset didnt work, i'll try reinstalling drivers next because what in the hell is going on

lmfao

[polar cargo]

Does anyone know if there is any kind of usb switch I can connect to my monitor and use it to switch between inputs? I have my work computer running thru the display port, and my secondary gaming PC running thru the HDMI port on the same monitor

[arctic verge]

KVM switch

there are USB only ones, or usb and display ones

[polar cargo]

Thank you I will look that up. Every google search has just been returning results for a usb to hdmi cable of some kind

[arctic verge]

USB only ones are considerably cheaper

if you have a large budget, the l1tech kvm switch is very good and supports displayport 1.4

[polar cargo]

USB 3.0 switcher 2 Computers Keyboard and Mouse Switch for Two Computers USB Switch USB-A3&USB-C1,USB kvm Switch 1 Keyboard 2 Computers Switch USB switches,with Desktop Controller and 2 USB Cables https://a.co/d/b1K9FEl

Something like this?

My work setup is 3 monitors and I use this one for outlook. For my gaming set up it will just be used for miscellaneous

[arctic verge]

yes, that could work

[arctic verge]

the display type is specifically for setup that want to use the same monitors for both (or more) computers

[polar cargo]

So it’s basically I run the displays thru that to the monitor and press the button to switch

Maybe not, it only has USB ports on the device

[arctic verge]

yeah the one you linked is just usb switching

[polar cargo]

Ok thanks I think I found what I need! Thank you again

[cyan pulsar]

so ive been having an issue with my desktop the past week where whenever i restart my PC and load into windows windows says i have an ethernet connection but as soon as i try to do anything that requires internet it doesnt work and it continues to not work until i unplug the cable and plug it back in any ideas?

[viral eagle]

Not a big networking guy but it soounds like maybe the port is going to sleep or being shutoff somehow

[arctic verge]

Try another cable, and also check for driver updates for the nic

I somewhat doubt it's the switch's port shutting off for some reason

[midnight silo]

yo can any1 help me i downloaded new nvida driver off geforce app and it restarted my pc and then it turned on and just gave me a black screen and ever time i restart it it gives me a black screen

[spice beacon]

try this, its a guide to start in safe mode, if you can get in, i would recommend running DDU, if you can get in with internet, if not open control panel and just uninstall the drivers, then reboot back into windows and you can install the drivers again https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-us/000124344/how-to-boot-to-safe-mode-in-windows-10

[sudden yacht]

blue screen of death, we did sfc in command there was a file corrupted was told to send this I did not see anything that says corrupted in cbs log do you want my friend to run sfc again

[sullen karma]

if only i could fold laundry this good

[arctic verge]

interesting

you have done way more work units than me but we have a similar amount of score lol

i wasnt logged in until the 3rd so this is from the last 2 days

[sullen karma]

It put me on like a rapid fire of mini tasks and then some larger ones

[frail reef]

Dumb question here, but can't find the straight answer im looking for. If I have a prebuilt pc that came with windows 11 22h2 and I've upgraded all the way to 24h2, will doing a clean wipe and reinstalling windows keep me on 24h2 or revert me back?

[arctic verge]

It would put you in the version of windows that you made the installation media of

[polar cargo]

Hey @arctic verge so I bought a KVM switch to connect my two different machines to and that does work. However, when I swap it turns off the other monitors. I am sharing one monitor between 2 setups.

Work setup (2 monitors + the Shared) and gaming (1 monitor + the shared). Do I need to get a different switch? Or is there a setting?

Ok looks like my 2 non-shared work monitors stay on when I hit the switch to swap to my gaming set up. But my gaming monitor goes black

[arctic verge]

interesting

i'm not sure why that's happening

maybe because you switched inputs on the shared monitor?

[polar cargo]

Ahh I had Black Ops 6 up and that went black. Only that goes black

I wonder how I fix that because I usually have it up and play games between emails and meetings. But I just need my main gaming monitor going and not the secondary

[arctic verge]

if you're ok with single monitor, i'll probably keep the gaming pc with just the one monitor and no shared monitor

i have a suspicion that switching the inputs on the shared monitor is causing something to bug

might have been fine if the kvm switch also switched video inputs onboard, but i dont think it's worth it for your case

[polar cargo]

The only thing it messed up was the Black Ops 6 game. If i didn’t have that open, it left my gaming monitor alone but moved any windows I had on the second monitor over to the gaming one. It doesn’t do that on my work computer

I might try an adapter to plug it into the display port in the monitor instead of the HDMI

[modest meadow]

hello how can i fix this driver error otipcibus64.sys can anyone help me with this please

[candid flume]

can anyone help me set up new pc please

I am trying to download windows 10 on new pc

https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/software-download/windows10

I used this link and created the media tool

I got an error when installing to my usb drive

[lavish sigil]

bad usb drive maybe try a different one

[shadow jay]

Too vague

[lavish sigil]

or maybe try to format the USB drive and try again

[shadow jay]

Show us error

[lavish sigil]

that's all the advice I can offer without the actual error

[candid flume]

yep, running it again to show error

i cant upload pics?

error code 0x80070005-0xA001B

[lavish sigil]

turn off antivirus

[shadow jay]

Try rufus method..

Its either anti virus or media creation tool hate ur usb

[lavish sigil]

something was denied permission somewhere

[candid flume]

i did

[candid flume]

ok

[candid flume]

you have guide for it?

[vestal ibex]

You basically just run the media creation tool again, but this time tell it to download an iso instead of installing. Then you load up rufus (from rufus.io) and tell it where the iso you downloaded is and what drive to install to. Super simple.

[candid flume]

Ok thank you

[candid flume]

so I logged into microsoft, my sync settings are off, but my new pc keeps creating "FDM Downloads" folder, which is a folder on my laptop. Why?

[last gorge]

Sounds like either onedrive or an app that requires the folder

[candid flume]

Deleted one drive already

[candid flume]

I just started downloading apps.

The fdm folder is downloads using FreeDownloadManager, so weird

[arctic verge]

You might be able to switch the folder that app is saving things to so the folder doesn't get recreated

[candid flume]

But I havent even downloaded freedownloadmanager on the new pc

Just old laptop has it

[arctic verge]

that certainly is interesting

[candid flume]

Indeed

It’s a fresh os install too (on the pc) i didnt transfer or sync any files

What’s a good temp tracking app instead of hwinfo? Hwinfo is too cluttered for me

[arctic verge]

how is it cluttered?

you can collapse the sections you dont need

or even hide them completely

[candid flume]

I just wanted an easy graph tbh

[arctic verge]

right click a value and click show graph

there's also an OSD for and such, but that also requires a little bit of setup

[candid flume]

Bro what the hell

I never knew you can do that

Thanks man

[arctic verge]

lol

np

[candid flume]

Now the FDM folder is the only issue that remains. I deleted it last night, powered on pc rn and it’s back again

Omg ik what it is

Firefox is auto creating it cus I just copied my firefox profile over

So it’s auto creating that folder cus that’s where I told it to save files to

[arctic verge]

💀

i have mine set to "ask every time"

so i can rename or save in different locations depending on the file

[candid flume]

it was driving me crazy

[harsh flare]

How do I fix this?

Nevermind fixed

[queen crater]

@vestal ibex appreciate you, just wanted to pop in and say that

no issues lol

[candid flume]

Gay as hell

[queen crater]

damn crazy how my appreciation to someone is considered gay

[candid flume]

I appreciate you bro

[candid flume]

is this discord? I looked everywhere cant find how to turn this off

[shy harbor]

Looking for a good free/cheap software to sync specific folders between my PC, laptop, and back up drive. Not cloud based. Any recommendations? Thanks!

[arctic verge]

turn off discord overlay

[arctic verge]

you could try syncthing (open source)

https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing

[shy harbor]

Thanks! I’ll check it out over the weekend!

[quartz crescent]

Was wondering which program(s) you guys would recommend for stress testing a "new" system? I replaced the cpu,gpu, and RAM and enabled the DOCP profile in the BIOS, but just want to be sure it actually works under load.

[arctic verge]

prime95, 3dmark, cinebench, aida64, furmark, the applications you plan to use

[viral eagle]

Yeah my goto's are cinebench for cpu and 3dmark for gpu

[mighty root]

anyone have any ideas why whenever i open a clip in movies and tv its just a black screen with audio? i have to go into task manager and close "photos" and then its fine. im at a loss

[vestal ibex]

Try VLC media player, it's got much better compatibility with encoding types

[idle dragon]

My main PC has recently started turning on on its own from sleep mode. WoL is enabled and i have connected it w the alexa skill as well as the WoLon app on my phone. For some reason whenever i put it to sleep (usually during the night) i find it on the next day. it has happened at least 10 times, checking event viewer i notice it usually turns on a few minutes or hours after i put it into sleep. any clues?

i need wol to be able to use it remotely. the other 2 wol pcs in my network dont have this problem

im know im being paranoid but this pc seems to be doing things when im not using it for a while

[vestal ibex]

Turn off wake on USB. I had that issue before and any little bump on the table or just the building vibrating a little would be enough to trip the mouse sensor and wake it up.

[idle dragon]

you mean in windows as well as bios?

iirc i removed everything usb wake related unless windows reinstalled the devices and the configs got lost

that might make sense when i close the door and it does vibrate the desk a bit

[opal venture]

I have "somprued.co.in" generating obvious pop-up scams on my aunt's PC

[vestal ibex]

malwarebytes

[opal venture]

Not norton?

[vestal ibex]

NO

Norton is so bad they had to make a separate tool to remove it, it becomes the virus

[opal venture]

What about trend micro?

[vestal ibex]

Most antivirus programs aren't going to be better than Windows Defender

There's only like 3 paid ones that beat it (and even then it's like 1% more detections)

And no free ones

Malwarebytes is a specialized tool for adware, spyware, pups, etc

AV covers mostly just viruses

[inner fern]

😆

[prisma radish]

Wdym btw, is Nortan not a good antrivirus?

[vestal ibex]

It's fine as an antivirus but it's everything else it comes with that's the problem, such as a crypto mining scam account, numerous popups for ads and useless notifications, and performance problems as it eats your system resources. I've also heard of Norton blocking Internet access completely after it had been uninstalled.

[prisma radish]

Tbh I see that

Sometimes I swear it like redownloads itself

[viral eagle]

For most people there's zero reason to use anything other than defender + an occasional free malwarebytes scan

Oh and an adblocker / popup blocker

For a non-technnically-inclined person like an older family member, an adblocker will help a lot

[pine slate]

Which windows 11 version has a virtual machine feature? One source says pro and another source says home.

Windows 10 calls it sandbox. What's it called for windows 11, if it does have a similar feature.

[vestal ibex]

Sandboxing is more of an antivirus term, which is included in all versions (Defender). You might be thinking of the Hyper-V VM software, which is included in Pro and above. Unless you need that software specifically for some sort of business reason, it's not a good reason to pay extra for Pro.

[arctic verge]

windows sandbox (which runs on hyper-v) is a thing

it's only on pro afaik

[eager beacon]

What is one?

If not a virtual environment then what ARE the good reasons for someone mostly casual to have a pro version?

[vestal ibex]

Ah it's a feature within hyper-v. They really need another name for that to avoid confusion like this.

[vestal ibex]

1. You run a Windows Server Domain environment and need seamless integration of everything
2. You are importing images from someone else already using Hyper-V and don't know how to convert them

[eager beacon]

Fair

[vestal ibex]

The only other reason for getting Pro would be Bitlocker, but there's free alternatives for that too that arguably work better and more secure without the TPM requirement

[arctic verge]

Also I would like to point out that VMware workstation is free for personal use after Broadcom acquired it

Which I never thought Broadcom would do after they acquired it

But VMware workstation works way better than hyper-v imo

[pine slate]

alright. thanks, ill look into that

[sterile drift]

I updated to 24H2 not knowing how awful it is, and my case + CPU fans are constantly running at max speed even though my temps are below 40c idle for both my GPU and CPU with very little utilization going on. It seems to just be completely ignoring the fan curves I set in my BIOS, so I got annoyed & I started reading things and apparently this is kind of a common issue with this version?

I'm not sure what to do about it though. I saw one recommendation to roll back the update, which I seem to be able to do, but is there any risk in doing this? I've never had to do this before and don't want anything more screwy going on

[sterile drift]

Like it gives me this pop-up but I don't know what to really make of this? What apps and programs might I have to reinstall?

LIke is it gonna uninstall games lmao??? I have no idea how worried I should be about this warning

[languid plank]

Rolling back windows updates hasn't uninstalled anything for me

[sterile drift]

Ok good to know, I was wondering bc of that warning if it might be similar to using system restore to return to prior windows states, where you lose any recent downloads, newly created/altered files or documents etc

[languid plank]

oh yeah no not that

Might be whatever programs or stuff that it installed with the update

[sterile drift]

Oh that makes a lot more sense

[sterile drift]

Amazing, back on 23H2 now and my fans aren't tweaking the hell out anymore. Beautiful, peaceful silence has returned

Can I delay 24H2 indefinitely, or will it auto-install after this 5 week delay option lol

Because I'd love to hope it'll be fixed in 5 weeks, but it sounds like it's been absolutely cursed since it released in October lmao

[languid plank]

I've been putting off the update without pausing them so

For now yeah you can

[vestal ibex]

It'll never update if you make your PC technically incompatible with windows 11 by disabling TPM

[viral eagle]

I rolled back 24H2 because I was getting directX errors some games like cod and just straight up crashes in a couple other games

[vestal ibex]

Yeah that'll be the anti cheat

It's a known issue, and Windows will even block the update if it detects easy anti cheat installed

[eager beacon]

Yeah Microsoft forced some Defender settings off because of it too

[brittle heart]

My bluetooth isnt working and ive watched a few vids to try and fix but im running into this issue when trying to change it from manual to automatic

[spice beacon]

cod doesnt use easy anti cheat, idk the name but its about less effective than a txt file that says "pls dont cheat"

[spice beacon]

your driver is probably borked will probably need a reinstall

[vestal ibex]

I know, it was just a severe and common example of the same issue

Almost all of the (kernel level) anti cheats have some sort of inherent issue

[brittle heart]

i dont think i have any drivers in the first place

Is it like GPU drivers where i just need to search up and run?

[spice beacon]

it depends, what motherboard do you have/do you have a laptop?

[brittle heart]

Asrock B450

I have a asus wifi card in it

[spice beacon]

do you know which wifi card?

[brittle heart]

Asus AX3000

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07XLP199J/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_image?ie=UTF8&th=1

[spice beacon]

ah perfect one sec

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/intel-driver-support-assistant.html

you can use this

should auto detect the wifi/bt driver

[brittle heart]

Alright ill try it now

[spice beacon]

press download now install and then refresh the pagew

[brittle heart]

oh 😭 i thought it was an auto scan

[spice beacon]

it is but it cant gather what hardware youre running from a web page

[brittle heart]

ohh alright

Downlaod all?

[spice beacon]

huh weird

it should also pick up a bluetooth one

sometimes with those cards you need to connect a wire from your card to the usb 2.0 header or something for bt to work, was that done/has it come loose?

[brittle heart]

It didnt come with one

All it had was a antenna

[spice beacon]

its an internal wire

connects to here on the card

then connects to a usb 2.0 header on your motherboard

[brittle heart]

oh

I dont think i have a wire for it so ill order one, Thanks for the help

[spice beacon]

should have came in the box if you still have it

hopefully that fixes things for you anyway

[brittle heart]

Probably not 😭 i bought this almost 3 years ago

[brittle heart]

Hopefully

[spice beacon]

ahhh

it never worked i assume?

if it worked before its not that then :/

[brittle heart]

i didnt even know it had bluetooth lol

i bought it for the WIFI aspect

Now that i have ethernet i just need it for the bluetooth

[spice beacon]

yeah id imagine that missing wire is the key

[brittle heart]

If i cant find one whats the name of each end?

[spice beacon]

Honestly no idea maybe someone might know if not I'd google something like cable for Bluetooth on wifi card or something

[brittle heart]

Alright thanks

[vestal ibex]

@brittle heart Does it look like the pic pato put above? If so this is the cable - https://www.ebay.com/itm/225533592738

[brittle heart]

Yes that would be it

Thanks

[young sequoia]

anyone use mouse without borders? I just updated and now it's not working

[viral eagle]

I used to use it sometimes but it was janky at times

[young sequoia]

any alternatives? I can't ping between my PCs so maybe why

[viral eagle]

Not sure. I've been remote connection-ing to my laptop from my desktop for some tasks (I have a second monitor that the laptop virtual gets showed) on but that's a slightly different usecase

[languid plank]

I use parsec and Google's quick share

[arctic verge]

I've been using quick share so much

[potent geyser]

broo

i need to speak with a tech guy its very urgent

[arctic verge]

https://dontasktoask.com/

[vestal ibex]

Define "very urgent", we can't help much if we don't know the problem

[potent geyser]

my pc has shut off with no warning 3 times in the past 20 minutes

[vestal ibex]

Any other symptoms? Going slower than usual etc?

[potent geyser]

no its just shut off

a few times

i already scanned with malware bytes, it said my pc was fine

but it happened again after that

[vestal ibex]

That can be anything from overheating to a short circuit

Not likely to be a software issue for this

How are your CPU temps?

[potent geyser]

how do i see cpu

i can see gpu

[arctic verge]

Hwinfo

[potent geyser]

how do i check that

[vestal ibex]

With the hwinfo64 program ideally

[potent geyser]

hwinfo.com?

annddd it just shut off again

……

we’re joking right

it’s not turning back on

[vestal ibex]

Give it a few minutes, if it's heat related then it'll stay off until it cools down

[potent geyser]

my gpu is averaging 50 celsius

[vestal ibex]

Also switch off the power supply, wait 10 seconds, and switch on again

That'll reset the power supply in case of short circuit or other protection tripping

[potent geyser]

ok

my cpu package is 51-58 celsius

Is that good?

[vestal ibex]

Yeah that's fine

It doesn't shut off until after about 110

So if it's not heat that leaves power

[potent geyser]

Alright I'll let you know if it happens again

thanks

Goofy_Thumbsup

[young sequoia]

weird but my mouse without borders works from one pc but not the other

that is, if I connect to laptop 1 I can move freely between both. but if I connect to laptop 2, I can't move to laptop 1.

[viral eagle]

Check admin perms maybe?

[idle dragon]

why does file transferring between devices still have to be so difficult in 2024?!?
especially windows.

connect to pcs together with an ethernet cable, easy... you just set up two thing and you're good
getting a folder to share files between the pcs? absolutely not. setup is rather unintuitive and stressful. will it ever work? hell nah

[arctic verge]

you could use google's quick share

though you do need a wifi card on the pc

or bluetooth?

tbh the main way i transfer files between pcs is via a usb nvme enclosure

[viral eagle]

LocalSend is great for airdrop-esqe file sharing between PCs on the same network

Though your issue sounds less like file sharing and more like folder/file syncing

OneDrive maybe?

[arctic verge]

depending on the size of the folder, onedrive isnt the best

tbh i prefer using a NAS for networked storage

[languid plank]

OneDrive just sucks

Hate it

NAS works

Or using a public file share on your network

[sullen karma]

Gofile works if you have competent internet

[idle dragon]

I have to transfer files between two windows machines, possibly over the already existing Gigabit etherent (since it's well over 100GB of files) otherwise it takes forever.
it feels like file transferring technology for windows devices hasn't improved a bit in the last years

[vestal ibex]

That's a major flaw in Windows itself. Everything else around it has drastically increased in speed.

[idle dragon]

I'm setting up a computer that I have to sell, i originally installed windows 10 in English US but now I changed the language to IT, display, input, format, region and everything else is set to italian/italy. however, some elements, apps, and settings still show up in english.
I'll run the oobe thing before the buyer receives the pc, but I'm not sure if this will fix the current language mix.

maybe I should test on a vm and see what happens

[idle dragon]

I got it mostly fixed from the control panel, and there are still a few system apps that kept the original name, not a big deal anymore. I'd really appreciate it if anyone knew a complete fix... other than reinstalling windows entirely

[woeful zenith]

any idea what these two things could be that appear on my startup apps but I can't open file location of properties of either

[vestal ibex]

You can probably get more details from a program like ccleaner, which can also be used to delete them

[idle dragon]

just got my hands on 1999 pc with some interesting hardware that has been there longer than I did
it initially had no hdd but I found it (likely its old original one) in a drawer, some days ago I checked it and I found windows 98 related stuff. I'm not familiar on how 98 is structured but got some files like boot screen logo and everything else that makes me think it might by a bootable drive.
I plug it in (set as master on its own primary ide cable), gets detected but gets stuck on ide-0.. ok

sure I have to change a few things in the bios but I don't think these older ones allowed to manually chose a bootloader/file

[vestal ibex]

Did you set the jumper on the drive to primary master as well? Make sure that the drive structure matches what's on that screen exactly.

It's highly probable that the drive is bad too

[idle dragon]

I couldn't find the jumper for the hdd, but don't most hdds default as master when no jumper is used?

[vestal ibex]

I would not assume anything of the sort

[vestal ibex]

CMOS battery is likely dead as well

[idle dragon]

it is

should I change it?

[vestal ibex]

yes

These old systems aren't exactly known for being smart about that

[idle dragon]

I guess I only encountered once a mb that wouldn't boot without a cmos

let's hope this is the 2nd time

anything here?

it started beeping nonstop so I restored bios defaults

still nothing

[idle dragon]

I went through all settings in the bios but it always hangs on searching for boot record ide-0.
so I guess it's either corrupted or somethings wrong with the boot things on the drive

I'll try booting something else tomorrow

[vestal ibex]

Got a floppy? You might need one

Windows 98 CD's aren't bootable

Alternatively you can get an IDE/PATA to USB adapter and clone an installation

[idle dragon]

I have the usb to sata + sata to ide as well as the Floppy drive from the pc

I should have one empty 1.44 floppy

[idle dragon]

do I place the file in the floppy and set it as first boot option?

[vestal ibex]

No you need to write the image, it's like an ISO

[idle dragon]

ok, then I boot from the Floppy and I'll be prompted with...?
does it give me a command line interface to manage the hdd?

[idle dragon]

uuuh... how do I write the image on the Floppy if I cannot get into windows on this machine

I thought the Floppy drive was ide but it's smaller...

I have other ide hdds, hopefully one boots and I can troubleshoot the win98 one

[idle dragon]

👍

[vestal ibex]

What model is the PC? I'll see if I can find a compatible HDD image you can clone. Worst case I can make one for you, but that'll take a lot of work.

To use the boot floppy you'll at least need to be able to open the drive on a working PC to copy the files inside the image

Ooh you could use a DOS installation now that I think about it

Or a Linux distro designed for old PCs

[vestal ibex]

@idle dragon You can burn this to a CD and try to boot from it. It's a 50MB distro meant to run on very old PCs. http://distro.ibiblio.org/damnsmall/release_candidate/dsl-4.11.rc2.iso

[somber berry]

i think this is the best channel to ask this in, whenever im using my bluetooth earbuds and i hop on some games like forza 4, gta or others the audio completely stops as if they turned off, and it only affects my earbuds, if im playing with a controller the controller will stay on but my earbuds will stop completely until i get off the game, is there any way around to this?

[vestal ibex]

Sounds like it's a simple audio routing issue. Make sure the buds are set as the default audio device in settings.

[random stag]

Dose anyone know any info on BTHPS3 Bluetooth Driver?

[vestal ibex]

Why do you ask? What info are you trying to get?

[random stag]

I read that I can Connect my PS3 Controller to my PC thought Bluetooth an I have no clue on how to do it an that info said to get BTHPS3 Bluetooth Driver.

[vestal ibex]

Steam has native support for the PS3 controller, and you can just have that running in the background to use it in other applications

If you prefer to do it the hard way, you can install these
https://github.com/ViGEm/BthPS3/releases
https://github.com/ViGEm/DsHidMini/releases

[random stag]

My Microsoft Surface Pro 6 Cant install Steam

[vestal ibex]

You just need to switch the OS out of S mode to use regular installers

You'll need to do that for these drivers too

[random stag]

I dont have S Mode its in Regular Mode

[vestal ibex]

Then it should work, no real reason for it not to

You don't even need ARM packages since it's a standard Intel processor

[random stag]

ARM?

I never heard of it

[vestal ibex]

It's a different instruction set from x86, your phone probably uses it

[somber berry]

they should be

[vestal ibex]

Windows is always doing whatever it wants with audio devices so it's good to check and not assume

[somber berry]

its in windows settings right

[vestal ibex]

For example if my monitor goes to sleep it switches the audio device to my controller

[somber berry]

to check which one's the default

[vestal ibex]

Yeah settings

[somber berry]

😭

[somber berry]

yeah they were on default

i had to switch to my headset to play fh

[vestal ibex]

There's also per app settings that can override the defaults too

[somber berry]

im pretty sure forza doesnt have audio settings to select the outputs

[vestal ibex]

You can find the per app setting under the volume mixer

[somber berry]

let me connect them and check if it changes to the earbuds

it does change, spotify is playing on the background but i still cant hear anything

[vestal ibex]

Weird, according to that there's no audio playing from forza

[somber berry]

oh

thats because im tabbed out

it stops playing audio when i tab out

either way i cant hear it 😭

[idle dragon]

I just found a USB floppy drive. should I try with the .img file you gave me? or do you recommend the other solution with the dvd

[vestal ibex]

Whichever route you want to go

Either use the floppy to boot a Windows 98 installer CD or install Linux instead

[random stag]

Thank You it work 100%.

[opal venture]

I have fake virus popups on my aunt's computer. Malwarebytes free trial hasn't detected anything

I made a collage

[vestal ibex]

Seems like a malicious edge extension

Go to this address in edge:
edge://settings/resetProfileSettings

[viral eagle]

It might even just be a site that somehow had popups turned on

cause they're all showing as from somprued.co.in

Go to edge://settings/content/notifications in the address bar and disable Ask before sending (recommended). If there are any entries in the Allow section, click on the ⋯ menu and select Remove for each one.
https://www.reddit.com/r/antivirus/comments/vk4zy5/is_this_malware_or_a_virus_i_keep_getting_these/

[opal venture]

We got rid of them by turning on Block potentially unwanted apps

in Edge

But perhaps it's like Fal'Cie says, a malicious extension, and that is only suppressing the problem instead of removing it

[viral eagle]

I'd reccomend going through the edge extensions and seeing if any look sus. Also grab ublock if it isn't on already

[gray yarrow]

Is the latest version of windows broken?

Or is it usable

[arctic verge]

it's fine for non-gaming use at least

havent had issues with my usage (not gaming)

[vestal ibex]

There's issues with some games, specifically ones using easy anti cheat

It's a known issue and until it's resolved, Microsoft is blocking updates to 24H2 if it detects a problem game

[spice beacon]

I have easy anti cheat and a 13600k and have no issues with it although it was a pain in the ass to upgrade

I had to uninstall epic games launcher and then delete the EAC folder manually (because the uninstall doesn't do that) then upgrade to 24h2 then restore the eac folder from recycle bin

[viral eagle]

24H2 broke cod bo6 (and maybe other games) for me and I had to roll back

[vestal ibex]

Mostly issues with games that have kernel level anti cheat yes

Microsoft is trying to stop companies from getting their hooks into the kernel because, surprise, it's a security issue when multiple programs have access to the deepest parts of the system

[random stag]

Is there a Site that I can get Windows 7 Updates. I cant Find my Internet cord for a Laptop that I just got done Fixing for my Mom

[vestal ibex]

Windows update should still be working, so all you probably need is the wifi driver. You can get that from the manufacturer site.

[random stag]

I tryed that an Hour ago an they dont have anything for the Laptop

[vestal ibex]

What's the laptop model? I'll give it a go

[random stag]

ACER ASPIRE: 7741
S/N: LXPXA020980490001E2000
SNID: 04900310220
MODEL: MS2309

[vestal ibex]

32 bit or 64 bit windows

https://www.driverscape.com/manufacturers/acer/laptops-desktops/aspire-7741/387

[random stag]

64 bit

[vestal ibex]

Select windows 7 64 bit from the drop down and scroll down to "network and wireless"

adblock highly recommended

[random stag]

All 3 Correct?

[vestal ibex]

Just the first 2

The third is an older version of the second

[random stag]

Ok Thank you very much for the Help. Im getting the 1st 2 right now on a USB an then get it on the Laptop.

[vestal ibex]

If that wireless driver doesn't work then there's a different one listed under the windows 7 32 bit page. It looks the same but links to a different file.

That one also says it's compatible with both 32 and 64 bit

[random stag]

Atheros AR5B97 Wireless Network Adapter ( For 32 & For 64 bit ) failed.

[vestal ibex]

A couple more drivers to try
https://drivers.softpedia.com/get/NETWORK-CARD/INTEL/Acer-Aspire-7741Z-Intel-WLAN-Driver-13-0-0-107-for-Windows-7-64-bit.shtml
https://drivers.softpedia.com/get/NETWORK-CARD/Broadcom/Acer-Aspire-7741Z-Broadcom-WLAN-Driver-5-60-48-35-for-Windows-7-64-bit.shtml

[tall shoal]

by chance would anyone know why my pc keeps crashing in marvel rivals bc it says i need 10gb of ram, but i have 32 gb and around 22 is being used while playing then crashes and says i need 10?. Does it mean I need like 10 extra gb of free ram or something like that?

[vestal ibex]

That would be 10GB of video memory, as in on the GPU

Turn down your texture detail settings

[tall shoal]

i have a 3090 tho

and the game would crash when id run all ultra settings at 1080p

[vestal ibex]

Oh.
Would you happen to have an i9 processor?

[tall shoal]

and also when id have an onshape tab open, but it should be fine tho since that doesnt use much processing power besides ram when idle

[tall shoal]

i7 10700k

[vestal ibex]

Oh phew

It was starting to sound like the intel instability issue

Because that's an unreal 5 game

[tall shoal]

im prob gonna troubleshoot a little bit later

its just weird tho

[vestal ibex]

Alright when you get back to it go ahead and give it a DDU

?ddu

[velvet mauve]

DDU (Display Driver Uninstaller) Guide by Pato
https://github.com/NeweggTechie/Graphics-cards/wiki/How-to-use-DDU

[tall shoal]

thanks

[vestal ibex]

Looks like only the latest version of the nvidia driver from dec. 5 has the optimizations for that game too

So my second usual suggestion of using an older driver version is out

And here it is in case you need it https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/drivers/results/237719/

[tall shoal]

it seems whenever i close my onshape tabs the crashing issue goes away

its really weird tho

but when i run onshape on microsoft edge it seems fine

[random stag]

I'll Download them Right now on a Flash Drive an see if it work's when I get home from work tonight

[random stag]

Thank you it work.

[idle dragon]

yay got dark mode on tiny11

[wild valley]

Greetings, I'm finally assembling my new PC build and I fully intend to dual boot Linux Mint and Windows 11. I plan to move all my work and utility stuff to Linux and just keep Windows on the side for video games and perhaps the odd piece of software that I can't get working in Linux.

I've played around a little with Linux Mint on some old laptops, and I'm debating how to actually execute the dual boot. I'm not sure whether I should use the grub boot loader or just configure it to default to the BIOS boot menu and select my appropriate disk from there.

I will be running several storage devices (Two NVME drives, one SATA SSD, and possibly a large HDD or two) with Windows and Linux having separate ones all to themselves and I further plan to give Windows a separate partition on its drive so I don't have to wipe out hundreds of installed games in the event I need to reinstall the OS.

If it's possible, I'm also curious about configuring one of the HDDs to be readable by both Windows and Linux and possibly storing games that can be accessible by both OS'es on it, but I don't know how feasible that is as I'm still very much a novice with Linux.

[last gorge]

if you use a format like exfat instead of ntfs for your drives (except for the Windows partition) it could be readable by both OS' for games, files etc

but that requires formatting the drive if it is already ntfs and wiping all data in the process

[arctic verge]

You should use grub
Do note that you may need to fix it occasionally due to windows updates sometimes causing issues, but grub is the preferred method

Linux might be able to access NTFS drives

You might need to install a package to do so though

[wild valley]

Why Grub and if I'm going that route which OS should I install first? With the laptops I only experimented with installing Linux after Windows.

[arctic verge]

Order shouldn't really matter? I'm not 100% sure since I don't dual boot
Grub is the preferred method usually from what I've seen at least

Not sure about the reasons why or why not you should use grub, but pretty much every dual boot setup I've seen used grub for boot selection

[wild valley]

I'm going to put Windows on a 4TB NVME. How big of a partition should I give the OS? I intend for that partition to be dedicated exclusively to windows.

[arctic verge]

I'd give it 100gb

Maybe 200

[wild valley]

Cool. I expect this will be a learning experience as I learn better how to use Linux and manage a multi-boot. I'm going to all the trouble because I'm sick of the invasiveness of Windows, but I don't want to give up the ability to still enjoy AAA games that use modern anti-cheat and such.

[last gorge]

Gaming has definitely gotten better on linux in recent years

[vestal ibex]

It's only going to get better now that Steam is allowing more devices to ship with SteamOS

[deep cosmos]

why does my activate windows watermark sometimes disappear then reappear in a bold font then when i move it goes back to normal?

[vestal ibex]

Microsoft wants to annoy you into buying it

[deep cosmos]

damn

[vestal ibex]

If it's annoying enough I have a few options for you if you want me to DM you

[deep cosmos]

yea if you dont mind

[real tree]

Okay just disablee xmp hopefully I can get into my system

Nope

[dawn socket]

I know you typed in a lot earlier, but you'll want to put it here so that way people know what the issue is.

[real tree]

I FIXED IT

thanks tho

idk what the issue was

i changed its to 2133MHz

and after a couple of restarts it let me in

then i risked 3600MHz again, and it just worked

idk how it got fixed but yeah...

[opal venture]

I missed the memo about saving wordpad files before the update, now I have a bunch of bricked .rtf files on my desktop. What now?

[vestal ibex]

Install libreoffice, it's free

https://www.libreoffice.org/download/download-libreoffice/

[candid flume]

is there a way to reset my pc but keep the settings

also my laptop too

[vestal ibex]

Windows 11 backs up your settings to your microsoft account and automatically sets them again when you sign in after a reset

Pretty sure 10 does too now

[random stag]

Is it Safe to Disable or Uninstall Internet Explorer?

[vestal ibex]

On which version of Windows? Generally speaking no, not without making a ton of other modifications

[random stag]

Windows 11

[vestal ibex]

File explorer depends on that to be able to open your local files

You can easily brick your windows installation if you did it wrong

What file explorer really is, is a mini webpage with custom formatting

[random stag]

I think your getting the 2 mix up

[sullen karma]

they likely didnt see your edited message

you kinda gotta mention that

[random stag]

The OG wasnt about File Explorer at all I for got to add in Uninstall.

[sullen karma]

ah i gotcha

also the period is menacing.

i swear when people use a period on discord it adds like an intimidation layer

[vestal ibex]

I know it wasn't originally about file explorer, the point is the 2 cannot be easily separated

Disable or uninstall internet explorer, and file explorer stops working unless you take an additional 10 steps that are easy to screw up

[random stag]

I'll just take my Microsoft Surface Pro 6 in to Best Buy an have em do it

Internet Explorer is Dead an Gone an it was replace by Microsoft Edeg

[vestal ibex]

Correct, but elements of it are still used throughout the operating system, including within edge (it retains a "run in internet explorer" mode last I checked)

[arctic verge]

i found out why my fans were acting strange in the drivers (i think)
it seems to have been from fan control and adrenaline trying to take over than fan speed

[arctic verge]

context

[dire lodge]

After playing marvel rivals and crashing in 10 minutes in-game my pc is bugging out. It feels very laggy after restarting and cpu utilization is at 100% with just wallpaper engine running which normaly below 5%

What should I do?

[arctic verge]

Check task manager

[dire lodge]

Just tried reenable my gpu in device manager and got this

[vestal ibex]

?ddu

[velvet mauve]

DDU (Display Driver Uninstaller) Guide by Pato
https://github.com/NeweggTechie/Graphics-cards/wiki/How-to-use-DDU

[hexed tangle]

Anyone got an optimisation guide for fresh windows anywhere? Just a site or vid would be appreciated, thank you

[vestal ibex]

What are you optimizing for? Generally just debloating using the script in the pins is enough, and if you're gaming make sure to leave the Xbox related apps intact for game mode, core parking, and thread assignment to work correctly when gaming. If you need a little more out of it, you can disable some of the security features like core isolation memory integrity. I shouldn't have to say this can be risky.

[hexed tangle]

Optimising for Fortnite. Yep used the script in the pins but didn’t change anything for performance. Will try disabling some security features now. Do you know if there’s a script for some more advanced tweaks for performance such as power mode etc?

Was just told everything I need for optimising can be found in this server, that’s why I’m asking

[vestal ibex]

There's no script because there's no "one size fits all" solution. You can try following this guide, though. It's tailored for Fortnite in particular. https://www.reddit.com/r/FortNiteBR/comments/162qi0i/the_ultimate_optimization_guide_for_fortnite/

[idle dragon]

ill keep asking a thousands questions here from what i left off in #storage-devices
I'd like to get 95osr2.5, 98se, 2000pro and XPproSP3 to work on the thinkpad r40, using multiboot on the same hdd (possibly w grb4dos).
I successfully installed 98 and xp individually, but they lack all basic drivers.
my idea is I can start over, get each installation to work with as many drivers and components as possible. then I image the installation, save it on a different pc, then clean the hdd and prepare to repeat this 3 more times for the remaining operating systems.
after all that I'll partition the thinkpad drive properly and deploy each imaged os back to it

any chance something like this will work? it is certainly easier than having to deal with all the drive letters and broken bootloaders

[vestal ibex]

As long as you keep in mind the 4 partition limit yeah that could work. That can be one for the bootloader and 3 operating systems per disk max.

[idle dragon]

grub4dos doesn't require it's own partition, it overwrites the bootloader inside the MBR (in this case windows bootmanager). grldr and menu.lst can -probably should- be stored in win95 fat32 partition.

all of this doesn't count as a "partition" but it's just the first 512bytes of the disk iirc

which means I can have 4 partitions for the OSs

[idle dragon]

this is a list of the drivers that win95 asks you to include during custom install. i previously selected them all which was a clear mistake

the thinkpad r40 ended up having some conflicts with the drivers and not boot up in normal mode as i already said

you got any recommendations on what basic drivers i should include to get most things working?
nvm i think there are some serious problems with compatibility, it either hangs on the boot screen, "starting win95..." or other startup messages. I'll give osr2.0/.1 a try. I lost count of how many installs I made til now, more than 10 for sure

[deep cosmos]

i got a bluescreen saying i needed to recover, then i needed to do something else and my screen turned off, so i hit ctrl to turn it back on and it acted like it was turning on again after being shut down and it worked fine

[wild valley]

I’m trying to extend my C drive in Windows 11. I have an unallocated volume visible in disk manager I want to use, but the extend volume option on my C drive is still greyed out. How do I solve this?

[wild valley]

So today I learned you can’t merge non-adjacent volumes in disk manager.

Yay.

[arctic verge]

not only disk manager, but it's just not possible
imagine a drive as being just like a really long strip of paper

also you cant extend partitions to the left either (easily) because of how it works

[wild valley]

It’s using an NVME drive. What does it matter where stuff is physically in the cells as long as it is correctly indexed?

[vestal ibex]

Physically yes it shouldn't matter, but logically it does on the software level

[wild valley]

Sidebar, I gave Windows a ~250GB partition to itself with the remaining 1.5TB becoming disk E.

I caught myself wondering if programs, save data, and more would have enough room to grow in only 250GB. Hence trying to extend it.

In any case, the healthy recovery partition is in the way so it looks like I’m stuck unless I want to get rid of that too.

Game install directories will be pointed to E and other disks I haven’t plugged in yet

[wild valley]

So if the lovely coders at MS deigned to add the feature for solid state devices it wouldn’t be an issue?

[vestal ibex]

They would have to rewrite the protocol they've been using since Windows XP

[wild valley]

It’s that ingrained?

[vestal ibex]

Likely meaning they'd need to create a new file system

That's NTFS for you

[wild valley]

I see.

Do you have an opinion on the 250GB concern?

The real size turned out to be 243. I don’t quite understand why when I use the exact number of MB I want I don’t end up with the expected amount of GB.

Some third party tools claim to be able to merge non-adjacent volumes

One even suggested in a Windows forum thread

[vestal ibex]

It's because Windows and the disk manufacturers can't agree on what a MB is

[wild valley]

MiniTool Partition Wizard

[vestal ibex]

Disk makers want 1MB=1000KB
Windows goes with the traditional definition of 1MB=1024KB

[wild valley]

I thought everyone used the 1024KB definition…

[vestal ibex]

So currently we call it 1 MiB=1024 KiB

[wild valley]

MiB?

[vestal ibex]

But Windows still calls it a MB even though they use the measurement for MiB

Mibibyte

Kibibyte

Gibibyte

etc

[wild valley]

I think I’m getting a headache.

But the figure I got from the calculator wasn’t a round thousand

It was, supposedly, a multiple of 1024.

Which I input during installation.

[vestal ibex]

Yes, again because Windows measures it as MiB but calls it MB

But the drive manufacturers redefined what a MB is so they can make it look like their drives are bigger

[wild valley]

But I calculated in what should have been the MiB number

Unless I’m just horribly confused

Math was never my strong suit

[vestal ibex]

Did you calculate each layer going down to the byte?

[wild valley]

No

[vestal ibex]

Otherwise you end up with 1024x1000x1000

[wild valley]

I see

Yeah, bad at math

[vestal ibex]

Plus there will be a little bit of space that's reserved in the partition for the journal that tracks metadata

[arctic verge]

the last time i've seen a disk use 1024bytes per kb was like the old cf cards you see on those old ish digital cameras i think?

[wild valley]

I searched for a GB to MB calculator, typed in 250 and entered the output without thinking. But if it used the manufacturer definition, it should still have been a round thousand, which it wasn’t.

Not that it’s that important at this point

[arctic verge]

huh

[wild valley]

What about using Gparted to merge non-adjacent volumes?

[wild valley]

Of course I won’t bother if it can be ascertained that C has enough space for the aforementioned

[arctic verge]

you could potentially use gparted to move the partition that is in the middle of where you want to extend, to the end of the LV/VG, and then extend the partition

[vestal ibex]

That size partition should be fine for Windows

[vestal ibex]

This works best with partitions that are empty or near empty so it doesn't have to move a lot of data. And if you move a boot partition or OS partition it may fail to boot.

[arctic verge]

recovery partition is tiny though usually i think?

at least mine are tiny

[wild valley]

I’ll be pointing games, and most software to directories on the E partition and other drives, but I know a lot of games save stuff to documents and other places in user and app data.

[vestal ibex]

Honestly I just delete the recovery partition

[wild valley]

Should I install Steam itself and such to the E partition?

[wild valley]

Oh?

[vestal ibex]

yes

[wild valley]

Any particular reason?

[vestal ibex]

I keep boot USBs handy that have more functionality than the recovery mode does

[arctic verge]

i've never used it either tbh
if i ever needed to "fix" windows i reinstalled it fresh lol

[wild valley]

Is my existing boot disk suitable for the same purpose?

[vestal ibex]

Yes

Once you select the language on the first screen there's a link to go into recovery

[wild valley]

Ah, well maybe I’ll follow suit then.

[arctic verge]

if it's large enough you can even use ventoy and put more useful tools onto it, and not just have windows recovery/installation

[wild valley]

Ventoy?

[vestal ibex]

It lets you boot straight from an iso file instead of using a burner program

And support multi boot

Super useful tbh

It never hurts to keep a few utilities handy like a gparted distro and the avira rescue disk

[wild valley]

What about utility programs like Razer Synapse? Should I basically just install everything to my non-Windows partition?

[vestal ibex]

Small stuff can go on the windows partition

[wild valley]

Does Steam grow beyond its intial install size even if you point games to a different partition and directory?

[arctic verge]

honestly pretty much just don't store videos and games and videogames onto the windows partition

[arctic verge]

asides from steam client updates, no, everything is stored in the library directory it's installed in

maybe a few extra bytes at most

[wild valley]

So discord, steam, gog galaxy, and similar utility/client applications can go there without worry?

[arctic verge]

yes

[wild valley]

Although, now that I think of it, putting Steam and my other launchers on the E partition would simplify windows reinstallation as I wouldn't have to verify files for everything. Just make a new Steam shortcut.

[vestal ibex]

My Steam installation is currently 1.51GB not including games

I don't call that small

[wild valley]

I like how you think

[arctic verge]

it's modestly sized

250gb partition, say 50gb goes to windows, you'll still have enough space for 100 2gb programs, though while you don't want to fill the drive to 100%, you're also unlikely to have 100 2gb programs?

[vestal ibex]

You also need to account for temporary files and app data

And game saves since a lot of games are still hard coded to write saves to C:

My AppData folder is 37GB

[wild valley]

Yeah, I realized that after I set this up.

[arctic verge]

yeah i guess it does depend on what you use ig