windows-ios

[spark dove]

#building-and-recc-chat or maybe #tech-deals-discussion

[onyx mica]

has anyone tried the 0patch for windows 10?

[frank stratus]

this has been happening for months now and i cant seem to fix it. any time i play a game for example val or fortnite my audio everywhere else lessens, the call im in gets lower, and when i click the windows button off off the game into a different application the audio increases again but so does the game audio. And then when i enter the game again the audio lowers on both applications. I've went into sounds and sound settings but it doesn't help. I finally wanted to ask after trying to fix it myself

[neat wadi]

what call application are you using?

Discord?

some call apps have a "lower audio on activity" setting

[arctic verge]

make sure this is set to nothing just in case

im not sure if whatever game you're playing is causing this or what

oh yeah

another cause may be bluetooth headphones

make sure you disable the "hands free audio" in the recording tab

[frank stratus]

I’m pretty sure I’ve done this when tryna fix it but I’ll check again

[frank stratus]

yee i had arleady done this

[frank stratus]

im using wired so idk if that matters

[arctic verge]

then not in that case

hmm

maybe try disablin like windows sonic or dolby atmos for headphones? it has to be some software related thing causing this

[frank stratus]

Kill when I get home

[unique basin]

Does anyone know where to get a windows 11 key? Not for free like pirating, but where i don't have to pay $100+ for it

[viral eagle]

some sites may have OEM keys for more like $30 but tbh it's hard to tell if it's really an OEM key or just greymarket

[arctic verge]

most keys that aren't direct from microsoft nowadays are not people reselling keys they obtained legally or in ways that break microsoft's terms of service
whether you spend $5 or $30 on a key site, 99% of the time it's likely to be a stolen key (if it says "OEM" key at least. if it is a retail key, then it might be somebody selling their key that they bought)

[viral eagle]

Uuuuuuugghhhh think my windows install borked itself

[neat wadi]

nooooooo

D:

symptoms?

[viral eagle]

Was getting a handful of bsods and now can't boot into os

Windows repair isn't working either

[viral eagle]

Oh thank the lord 🙏

Gemini pulled through with some repairs through cmd

[tall wraith]

iOS is being merged with this chat, due to inactivity.

So if you’d like to talk about windows, or if you’re an iOS fan, you’re in the right place!

[viral eagle]

Hmm

Ok I guess last time we were talking about mac it wasn't in Mac/iOS chat anyways

Technically Mac and iOS are unix so they should be grouped with linux/android chat 🤓☝️

[tall wraith]

https://tenor.com/view/i-will-shank-you-bean-abbi-jacobson-disenchantment-i'm-gonna-kill-you-gif-10115244425359496733

[small drum]

I need a new Dell Inspiron 7706 2in1 Motherboard i7-1165G7 2.8GHz Nvidia MX350 DDR4 P47D9. I wanted to upgrade it but I don't think that is possible. What is the best price.

[last gorge]

Im seeing listings for the motherboard at around 150usd on ebay

Probably wouldn’t be able to upgrade, the motherboards in laptops are often specific to the model

[bitter salmon]

Hey

I got the Mac MIni M4 2024 base model recently. What is the best filesystem format for an external ssd?

[last gorge]

if you plan on only using it with the mac i'd just do APFS

[wary furnace]

What do I do if Windows craps out after ddu and is just a black screen

WinRE won't boot either, I don't know if that's an issue between the chair and keyboard or just Windows being stupid

I'm also helping someone else do it and that's why I say PEBKAC

[young current]

I bought mine on vip-cdkdeals.com which sponsored Gamers Nexus a long time ago. I have had the Windows Key for 4 years now without issue.

https://m.vip-cdkdeals.com/

[viral eagle]

greymarket so maybe a little iffy here fyi

[young current]

Was not aware.

[viral eagle]

Yeah technically OEM keys can be totally legal but the issue is you can't really tell if they're actually OEM or not

[deep zodiac]

Any idea on what i can do?
okay so yesterday i tried to login to our family xbox account, which uses my moms Microsoft / email. It wasn't letting me login so i thought something was up and tried on my phone to login directly via the xbox app, and when i went to do so it said "2fa email sent to (some random ass email ive never seen) and me and my mom are now fully locked out. We tried to do the Microsoft account recovery tool but both times were told "Not enough evidence" which is bullshit because i filled out every box there, and keep in mind my mom has had this account for over 10 years, so theres ALOT of data for the xbox account, and all our cards are linked to it aswell.

[idle dragon]

Hibernation on my Surface Pro 7 does not work correctly. When I manually or automatically trigger hibernate, the system appears to power off instantly. On resume, it performs a cold boot and all previously open applications are not open.
powercfg /sleepstudy and event viewer report unexpected shutdowns during hibernate
sp7 uses s0 sleep and doesn't support s3 but I guess hibernation doesn't care.
I tried enabling hibernation (powercfg /h on), rebuilding hibernation file (powercfg /h offon) setting hibernation type to full (powercfg /h /type full), no fast startup, sfc /scannow, tested forced hibernate (shutdown /h /f)... tried reinstalling surface driver pack...
what do I try now?

[viral eagle]

Probably try reinstalling windows tbh. In my experience when windows really breaks it's very hard to fix, sometimes impossible (without reinstall)

[idle dragon]

it's a fresh install and it didn't work from the beginning, or at least after I installed the right surface driver pack

I noticed event viewer reports network card error before each hibernation attempt, but even unisnalling both wifi and bt card and drivers from device manager doesn't fix anything

[viral eagle]

Oooof, if it's a fresh install then yeah it's gotta be a driver or firmware quirk.

Laptops can be fussy sometimes

[idle dragon]

I did run Chris Titus debloat tool but I specifically avoided the modern standby fix and similar tweaks which I knew could cause problems

guess I'll reinstall again tomorrow, only use ms driver pack for the drivers and possibly use a restore point to see if ctt causes any issues

[idle dragon]

I'm reinstalling it

[hazy elm]

Anyone have a bypass similar to the late oobe\bypassnro? I need to set up a Laptop for a friend

[hazy elm]

Also it is an HP OMEN laptop, with Windows 11 preinstalled, will I need to re pay for a license key if I reinstall from a USB? My short research earlier leads me to believe that the key should be embedded in the BIOS, but I need to be sure

[idle dragon]

Shift + F10 to open cmd during installation > start ms-cxh:localonly

this should be the new working alternative

[idle dragon]

you won't lose the key, yeah it's either saved into the firmware or activation checks for the mb hardware id for previous activation

[warped cobalt]

i can't with drivers pls help

im trying to install a driver for my 1660 super and it keeps asking for more storage to install but there's like 2 gigs left

yeah it's nearly full but why isn't it installing having the space

<@&525119001324683264>

[last gorge]

You typically need at least ~20% of the drive free for the os to perform optimally. Some free space can be reserved by the system for caching, paging files and such. You are going to need to clear more data

[warped cobalt]

there's not much i can un install 🙁

now my audio is also buggin out

everything is just faailing me 🙁

[last gorge]

Yeah operating systems will start to freak out when you have so little storage available

[warped cobalt]

like literally what else should i uninstall

i need the visual c to play games

[last gorge]

I feel like there has to be something else. are you able to download wiztree

[warped cobalt]

probably

it's launched

[last gorge]

that software gives you a visual interpretation of what is taking up space on your drive. you can look through it and see what exactly is using space

[warped cobalt]

ooohhh

deleted 18gb of C:\Users\Zoiko\AppData\LocalLow\VRChat\VRChat\Cache-WindowsPlayer
Generated by WizTree 4.31 5/4/2026 11:42:34 PM (You can hide this message by making a donation)

hope it wasn't important xd

welll the driver is installed thnx 🙂

🔚

[dry raft]

Prolly want to move VR Chat cache to another drive if you have one. If VR Chat is crabby enough where it doesnt have that option, prolly make a symbolic link (mklink /d "%localappdata%low\VRChat" "d:\Games\VRChat")

[sly heath]

Hello! I unfortunately cannot operate on this right now, but I wanted to ask about this for when I eventually get home.

Sequence of events:

1. Backed up my PC on an external drive and factory reset my PC.
2. Opted out and closed out of OneDrive.
3. Redownloaded everything important when it comes to apps, games, and other programs.
4. Noticed I had a OneDrive folder still in File Explorer.
5. Deleted the OneDrive folder which apparently contained the default location for Desktop, Documents, and Pictures.
6. Tried to create new folders, restart File Explorer, change default location Users, and edit registry to %USERPROFILE% to no avail.
7. Spoke with Microsoft who recommended basically everything I already tried.

Questions:

1. Is there anything I can do without having to factory reset my PC again to get it right?
2. If I were to factory reset once more, what steps should I follow to prevent this situation from happening again? Can I make it so OneDrive doesn’t even touch my PC? Can I change the default location to the correct one before anything gets placed in the OneDrive variant of the main folder?

Thanks in advance. I can’t stand OneDrive.

[last gorge]

Whenever I would install windows I always bypass the microsoft login. I think if you just do the install with a local only account it skips all that bs of linking your home folders to onedrive. then once you get into the desktop you can immediately uninstall onedrive via the apps settings menu

[sly heath]

Is that even possible now? I didn't see an option to bypass the Microsoft login

That's actually in part what I was intending to do when factory resetting

[last gorge]

well microsoft certainly hasn't been making it easy. they tried patching some of the bypasses recently but I'm pretty sure some still work. https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1jp5vln/an_alternative_to_bypass_microsoft_account/

I believe some imaging software like rufus have built in toggles to bypass some of that stuff while you are making the usb installer

[sly heath]

Predatory garbage man

So just that command at the country selection screen after the initial settings and key are entered I guess. Either way, idk if that will prevent OneDrive from existing let alone stopping the default folder location going into OneDrive

[last gorge]

onedrive will likely still be there but not setup straight out of the box. It's been a while since I installed windows so I can't say for sure since some of the changes

[sly heath]

I just fear that, no matter whether you're signed in, that will be the location of a handful of those folders

[last gorge]

I brought it up because I'm fairly certain that it doesn't do that to the home folders in that case so it might be worth a try

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[sly heath]

I'll report back in a few hours. Thanks for your help 🫡

Here's hoping...

[sly heath]

Update: start ms-cxh:localonly worked. Created local account, uninstalled OneDrive and a bunch of other apps, folders seem to all be listed in the correct spot. Restarting and will shortly add my Microsoft account to the computer

[sly heath]

I think I'm about done. I now have a secondary Administrator account on the computer I cannot get rid of.

[last gorge]

did you add the ms account as a second account or just sign into ms with the local?

[sly heath]

Signed in with the local. Guess I should've added it as a secondary 🤪

So I basically did everything correct besides that, and adding the Microsoft account as a secondary will enable me to delete the local and leave myself with just the Microsoft?

@last gorge

[sly heath]

OOBE\BYPASSNRO was the key. Gemini managed to figure it out. I should be all set now. Appreciate the help!

[last gorge]

no problem, sorry i was in and out but glad you found it

[random stag]

If I Delete Duplicate File's will my Windows still work?

[last gorge]

what kind of duplicate file specifically?

[random stag]

All

[random stag]

O crap something went wrong with Delete Empty Folders on my Windows 11

[last gorge]

Well are we talking system files or user files? Some files can appear to be duplicates but are actually symlinks. You generally should not touch any system files. If they are you user files you can determine which to keep based on properties and such

[random stag]

I think I got it CCleaner didn't work so I used ASC

[last gorge]

Why are you using tools like ccleaner?

[random stag]

My friend is missing Qt6Widgts & Qt6Core.dll can I get a Link to get them back?

[last gorge]

You probably have to reinstall whatever app it’s for

[river mulch]

Im giving my old z390 to my sons girlfriend and was wondering if the old rules still worked where if I put in a new nvme boot drive and new rtx, that I can use one of those $20 pro licenses, long as I put in the old hardware after first time registration. I cant give them the windows license on it already as its part of the old discontinued ms technet program and rather not risk losing my keys.

[viral eagle]

"one of those $20 pro licenses"

[gleaming plaza]

if you disable hibernate, you'll get as much extra space as your RAM

but then your system won't hibernate

but I don't think that's really that important unless it's a laptop

you can also disable page file but eh you probably want like 32gb of RAM for that

[warped cobalt]

Hmm

[warped cobalt]

I have a desktop so

[gleaming plaza]

assuming it's enabled, in powershell as admin: powercfg -h off

you can re-enable it with powercfg -h on

if you want to do that for some reason

also check in Control Panel>Programs and Features to see if there's anything more you can uninstall

Also Disk Cleanup

damn I should practice what I preach

[left mango]

Is this a monitor or a CPU? How sweet!

[viral eagle]

It's a motherboard

[wary mica]

i just installed windows 11 ltsc. currently trying to install my laptops audio drivers because the volume controls on my keyboard arent working but i keep getting this error when trying to install

[wary mica]

ok update i fixed it

but my keyboard buttons still wont freaking work

this is pissing me off

anyone help??

[round condor]

Hey do you guys help with troubleshooting here? Having an odd issue.

PC had messed up graphics drivers and WiFi drivers when I booted it up the other day, fixed the graphics using a restore point. Now the WiFi is still not working, started as saying it couldn’t find any networks to connect to, did a lot of troubleshooting steps I saw online and, now it sees networks, without any connectivity, know this is software and not hardware cause I booted into a Linux live Cd and this issue isn’t present, Event viewer has no related errors beside “The Network List Manager reports no connectivity to the internet.”

[tall wraith]

<@&1344082385423040512>

[left mango]

Are you on cable?

Direct to the router?

[tall wraith]

@round condor

[round condor]

I tried both neither get internet

Connected no internet

[hazy elm]

An IOS question, as I just had a new issue with my phone. Would battery health being at 74% cause stability issues? it hard crashed and entered recovery on restart. Thankfully nothing happened

[hoary nacelle]

FIRST

[strong surge]

New channel!

[hoary nacelle]

yeeee

my idea

[wary furnace]

Nice

[strong surge]

Good idea

[hoary nacelle]

SO

first question of the channel

what program should i use for editing code

[wary furnace]

Linux

If that's all you're doing

[hoary nacelle]

[wary furnace]

Or your main focus

Was that a trick question lol

[jaunty acorn]

Linux is the best if you like to use something complicated

https://img.memecdn.com/Linux-windows-and-Mac_o_79869.jpg

[rocky cedar]

Yes

[hoary nacelle]

nonono

i meant like

what program

not what operating system

lol

[rocky cedar]

Notepad++

[pliant valve]

are you looking for an IDE?

[hoary nacelle]

yeah

[pliant valve]

hmm, I’ve only ever used Eclipse

It may be java specific though

[hoary nacelle]

how about like universal? multi language support maybe?

ive been doing javascript

[pliant valve]

it has plugins for js

looked it up, elclipse has plugins for almost every language

[hoary nacelle]

huh

ill have to check it out

is visual studio any good?

(just outta curiosity)

[pliant valve]

I’ve never used it, but read good things about it

https://www.eclipse.org/
for when you get around to it

[hoary nacelle]

thanks

[pliant valve]

you’re welcome

[last gorge]

WOW NEW CHANNEL

Big news for you guys

[smoky pagoda]

[last gorge]

ready?

[smoky pagoda]

GO.

[last gorge]

Windows sux.

[smoky pagoda]

:gasp:

[last gorge]

facts

[smoky pagoda]

k.

[last gorge]

My announcement is now complete

[hoary nacelle]

windows 10 s is where its at

[last gorge]

nah man

Linux all the way

[rocky cedar]

I like eclipse for Java

Idk Compatibility with other languages tho

[silent shuttle]

windows 10 is so good right now

when it was first out it wasn't spectacular but now it's just lovely

wow there are so many mods online

[hoary nacelle]

we added some new ones for fun

[silent shuttle]

also congrats @cinder mauve, your role appears to have changed

[hoary nacelle]

[silent shuttle]

related to your prior statement

[jaunty acorn]

Every windows was like that just some took awhile to get good while others didn't cough cough Vista cough cough

[white moat]

bruh why we adding channels we have enough

[silent shuttle]

Vista to me was fine

but quite a while after it came out

like Vista wasn't good until 7 was already out

and they just made it more like 7

under the hood

[jaunty acorn]

Vista there was too many bugs that is why it was known as the testing OS for 7

Pretty the same with 8/8.1 was like the testing OS for 10

[silent shuttle]

actually 8/8.1 are different entirely

for 10 they went back to 7 and restarted

8/8.1 had cut out a lot of stuff that people liked in windows so they had to go back to 7 for most of the tech and then bring stuff from 8 back in

[jaunty acorn]

When you open the setting tab on the bottom right and select tablet mode that is windows 8 right there

[silent shuttle]

except 10 isn't nearly as light on resources as 8

i'm having to use an i5-4590 right now and it feels slow and clunky

[jaunty acorn]

I used 10 on a i5 2500 and it felt perfectly fast for me

[silent shuttle]

i must be running a lot of stuff then

[jaunty acorn]

open your task manager and click the startup tab

[silent shuttle]

i know how to do that

[jaunty acorn]

ok

[silent shuttle]

you did remind me however

and i got some horrible stuff like daemon tools out of there

[jaunty acorn]

Also for my version of Windows 10 i am using these https://i.gyazo.com/a522ffe7b9f0cb59d073b8dc3e0b0aec.png

[silent shuttle]

widgets? docks?

does one of them replace the start menu?

[jaunty acorn]

Nope it is just windows 7 gadgets

[silent shuttle]

the vista sidebar is not my thing

[jaunty acorn]

Right now i am only using these https://i.gyazo.com/825edb53e390198eafc7339b1f8df1b2.png

[silent shuttle]

i actually have my desktop not even show the icons

boop

[jaunty acorn]

Oh those i just like to monitor sometimes in case something looks off

[silent shuttle]

yeah i get you

i didn't know 10 still had gadgets

[jaunty acorn]

like if my system was idle and i saw my memory spiking towards like 70% i could check

[silent shuttle]

i think i just am running off an HD

and that's causing slowness

i am used to SSD but my SSD died after many years of service

[jaunty acorn]

Go for a 240gb SSD from Team Group

Also this is page 2 for the gadgets https://i.gyazo.com/e3cda8ee73e227142175919b0ea6d33b.png

[silent shuttle]

i'm getting a super cheap 2TB SSD

NVMe

it's Inland which ask two people and they'll say it's terrible or it's great

[jaunty acorn]

Id honestly use a 240gb 2.5" for the OS still

[silent shuttle]

i will take that into consideration, however it is likely I will just have the 2TB as my main drive

i could see what team group is offering at NVMe 2TB

after all i'm buying their RAM

[jaunty acorn]

I think they only have upto a 1tb

If i go for a M.2 i would actually buy a Sata version since NVMe i wouldn't get any real benefits

[silent shuttle]

not me, since the SATA drives aren't any cheaper i'm not going to purposely use one

i'm excited to get my SSD

february that and the 32GB RAM

[jaunty acorn]

Well could be depending on country cause there is this (which is always on sale as well) https://www.newegg.ca/team-group-ms30-512gb/p/N82E16820331232

and then this is the cheapest known brand for a NVMe https://www.newegg.ca/xpg-sx6000-pro-512gb/p/0D9-00DF-00002

[silent shuttle]

that's totally not 2TB

good price though

[jaunty acorn]

Well i am talking about for me

[silent shuttle]

oh okay

sorry

it's hard to tell on the internet what exactly someone is getting at

[jaunty acorn]

i would use the Sata M.2 for my OS and the 240gb i have now i would use for other games

One thing a lot of Tech Tubers i have been watching has always said that a NVMe is only worth having if you are doing more than just gaming

things like video editing

[silent shuttle]

but i'm saying it's the same price, so what do i have to lose?

[jaunty acorn]

Well i don't know which one's you're looking at to be honest

[silent shuttle]

i'm looking at $215 USD for 2TB

pretty solid pricing

look at me spending $125 on a CPU and almost twice that on an SSD, you can see my priorities

and $120 on the motherboard because why not

[wheat timber]

I'm getting a SSD for this laptop
2TB for $210

[jaunty acorn]

i slapped in a 480gb SSD in my laptop cause i only use it for 3 games and watching movies

[wheat timber]

I have like 90% of things into my storage (500gb)

and wanted to download some games
the heavy ones, but i cant

[jaunty acorn]

My laptop is not made to play demanding games so

that is why i have a desktop

[wheat timber]

I'm always travelling
I need my switch and my laptop for gaming and video editing

this isnt that bad

[dry raft]

860 QVO is better for only $180
Mushkin Pilot is a pretty good NVMe for only $204

[soft fractal]

I remember there being a discussion about the Windows 10 update for 1903 and 1909 could someone tell me about what's going on because I can't remember if it was a bad idea to update Windows 10 or not.

[dry raft]

1903 certainly still had some issues. Idk about 1909

[fleet goblet]

The 860 QVO has QLC memory, that's the worst possible choice

[dry raft]

because memory type is the only thing that matters /s

[fleet goblet]

So worth to loose 50% of lifetime and almost the same in performance

[vivid temple]

@fleet goblet for the normal consumer? it does not matter one bit

[fleet goblet]

@vivid temple The lifetime doesn't matter ?

[vivid temple]

the time it lasts is plenty for the normal consumer.

yes, it does not last as long as a TLC based drive.

and we can keep going on and on about it. Or we can use the drives that perform decently for a decent price.

point being: There are other things that consumers should worry about imo :)

[fleet goblet]

So why should a normal consumer choose a drive that is less than 5% cheaper, less reliable and less performant ?

[vivid temple]

because they (perhaps) value the cost higher than the other two

and it can easily be debated that the two dont matter to anyone but the people that think that benchmark scores trump everything.

[fleet goblet]

I'm comparing here the BX500 and the QVO, for 5$ less in 180 that's a nonsense to choose the QVO

Even without talking about the performance, the lifetime is really bigger with the BX500

[dry raft]

Have you considered amount of chiplets, quality of chiplets, memory controller, and so forth?

BX500 isn't better than the 860 QVO on perf

MX500 is

[vivid temple]

agreed (mx500)

[dry raft]

Don't get confused between the two

[vivid temple]

and again, the reliability is plenty for the normal consumer.

[dry raft]

Anyways, lifetime isn't a concern as it is still more than long enough for any standard consumer

[vivid temple]

however, if you ( @fleet goblet ) want to talk about your personal preference. Sure, we can do that. You might be a person that needs (or think) they need a TLC (or better) drive

[fleet goblet]

@dry raft If we're talking about pure benchmarks, even if it doesn't matter in real life, the BX500 is way better than the 869QVO

[vivid temple]

benchmarks does not matter to the extent you seem to think it does.

[fleet goblet]

@vivid temple I totally agree with you. But even if we're talking about real life, the BX500 is still faster.
But I'm just talking about reliability, again. It is a SSD, as a HDD you keep it for a long time

[dry raft]

Also note, BX500 has worse cache

[vivid temple]

the reliability is fine, again, for the normal consumer.

IF you sleep better by not buying a QLC based drive. By all means, do that.

people overestimate GREATLY how much data they actually move around

and IF you are a person that actually understand how much/little data you move around. Buy accordingly :)

[smoky pagoda]

👀

[vivid temple]

it is quite simple when it comes down to it :)

and yes sorry for the storage talk in the OS channel @smoky pagoda

[smoky pagoda]

oh nah it's cool llol

[dry raft]

@fleet goblet I don't really see the BX being better here. Esp in some workloads due to lack of DRAM cache
https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/crucial-bx500-ssd,5377-4.html

[summer bough]

I have an 860 qvo. Its not a bad drive for storage or games.

[summer bough]

this picture is my comparison. from left to right 1tb 860qvo vs 500gb evo vs $30 256gb gigabyte ssd

I was going to use my WD ssd, but I dont know where it is

[silent shuttle]

However, we see there is a dip in write performance that spans the 128KB-512KB file sizes. This is due to the DRAM-less architecture, which causes the BX500 to “get into a condition or state where background garbage collection briefly has to take precedence over I/Os” during the test.

that's interesting

DRAMless QLC drive

[sick cobalt]

840 evo vs mx500

[silent shuttle]

these benchmarks make you wonder if it matters what SSD you get at all

as far as SATA goes

[sick cobalt]

sata's basically maxed out at least in terms of transfer etc

they can always improve the access time with a new design but beyond that we need u2 to become more standard

[silent shuttle]

u2?

[sick cobalt]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.2

basically the same speeds as nvme but in a 2.5" form factor

99.9% enterprise drives only however, which is why it's not really included on consumer boards most of the time

[silent shuttle]

huh

that's neat

[sick cobalt]

it's the logical step after sata

[silent shuttle]

yeah and the power can come from the board because board power is enough to power 2-4 SSDs

[dry raft]

@silent shuttle Well it can matter. Here is a cherry picked example from the review above. 50GB of random files

It is the most drastic example and all other benchmarks werent as bad. This was the only one where the DRAMless part really kicked in

[silent shuttle]

BX500 and WD Blue look awful

QVO doesn't look good eithjer

only the 660p (lol) and the optane look particularly good

[dry raft]

Random perf tho, it's a bunch of random files

I didnt dig too deep but quote above pic
"We use the DiskBench storage benchmarking tool to test file transfer performance with our own custom 50GB block of data. Our data set includes 31,227 files of various types, like pictures, PDFs, and videos. "

[silent shuttle]

well isn't the random stuff 90% of what you're gonna do with an SSD?

[dry raft]

yeah, but I feel like the >100mb/s mark seems decently acceptable given the stuff it's doing

Tho, not like I heavily look into SSDs and their average random perf

[silent shuttle]

probably

but you obviously want the best performance for price

i mean the MX500 is a really good SSD if you factor in price

[dry raft]

but again, this was a very cherry picked example. All other results for the BX showed itself to be decent

[silent shuttle]

i won't buy one still, i have an aversion to DRAMless QLC SSDs

[dry raft]

I wouldnt buy one either cuz price is too similar to others

[silent shuttle]

i'm poor but i'm not too poor to pay attention, if you get my meaning

like i failed on that board recommendation, live and learn

and i almost bought an intel 660p, but live and learn

Linus did a review of that 660p

and it was basically "it's going to work great unless you fill it up and then it's going to come to a screeching halt"

[dry raft]

660p isnt horrible. Tho unfortunately for Intel there are brands that have a better cache setup for like $5 more or so

[silent shuttle]

and there are brands that don't use QLC at all

[dry raft]

I mean I feel like not too many people will be writing files to an already full drive

[silent shuttle]

for not much more

i think what was meant

is if you fill it up enough, you take up most of the SLC cache

and writing any more files will bring it to a halt

[dry raft]

QLC isnt as bad as what people make it out to be so long as the cache setup is good

unless you're running a datacenter or something. Then no go for QLC

[silent shuttle]

665p any better than 660p?

[dry raft]

Know nothing about 665

so idk

[silent shuttle]

i've seen it

i should seek a review

[dry raft]

I've heard about it once

[sick cobalt]

yes they improved it

[silent shuttle]

it might have fixed the cache problems

intel is a brand i would generally trust for reliability in SSDs, they practically wrote the book on them

[sick cobalt]

https://images.anandtech.com/doci/15133/665p-specs.png

[dry raft]

Ooo. What'd they improve?

[silent shuttle]

it doesn't say anything about sustained performance

[dry raft]

Lol. That endurance tells me they went with TLC?

or smth

[silent shuttle]

no it's still QLC

i know because i saw that on the newegg page

[sick cobalt]

96layer now

[dry raft]

So I guess good for them on that improvement

also how long are we going to #storage-devices in #windows-ios ?

[silent shuttle]

hahaha

it's all the rage

[summer bough]

my first nvme was an instl 600p. horrible drive, but its worked out great for just OS.

[jaunty acorn]

instl?

[summer bough]

you cant read fat finger?

intel

[jaunty acorn]

Well you didn't say Intel

[summer bough]

nope fat fingerd it and forgot it

cant type of my phone

[last gorge]

on?

[vivid temple]

no, he means he is stuck typing on his phone .. forever!!

[summer bough]

FOREVER!

[jaunty acorn]

https://www.fanatical.com/en/bundle/javascript-bundle

[strong surge]

Time to upgrade folks!!! https://www.tomsguide.com/how-to/windows-7-end-of-life

[sudden yacht]

Hey, is there a software/app that you guys trust were I could download youtube video.

[vivid temple]

considering that would be advocating piracy. no.

[sudden yacht]

what how

im going to credit them...

[peak notch]

no, us suggesting software that COULD be promoting piracy is against discord TOS

we would be advocating piracy lol

[smoky pagoda]

[quaint veldt]

Software isn't inherent piracy

Having said that there are a few "online"solutions.. Use responsibly

I would use those, used them for creative commentary critique before

If they have you download a thing that isn't a media file steer clear

[strong surge]

It's not Piracy but it is against the YouTube TOS. Hence, we will not discuss nor provide information on software to do so. "“You shall not download any content unless you see a ‘download’ or similar link displayed by YouTube on the Service for that content. You shall not copy, reproduce, distribute, transmit, broadcast, display, sell, license, or otherwise exploit any content for any other purposes without the prior written consent of YouTube or the respective licensors of the content.”

[ripe quest]

My YouTube downloader, it's in the MS store and is validated

[delicate plaza]

any1 got a win10 pro key lmao

or 10 home

[jaunty acorn]

Here you go @delicate plaza https://www.newegg.com/microsoft-windows-10-home-64-bit/p/N82E16832416892

[delicate plaza]

ah

[hoary nacelle]

@delicate plaza ebay keys are $6

but i didnt tell you that

[delicate plaza]

mm yes ty my gamer

[gaunt bramble]

for mic properties, my enhancements tab is gone. ive searched online and all they say is to install realtek drivers which ive done but it's still not there. any clues on how to get back my enhancement tab to show up?

[dry raft]

Uninstall audio drivers then install. Don't just install overtop @gaunt bramble

[cinder mauve]

@last marsh here

[last marsh]

ok

[cinder mauve]

What's the problem with the windows install?

[last marsh]

ok

@cinder mauve I'll send the error pics here

Now I'm here

again

[cinder mauve]

What are you trying to do? Wipe the drive and clean install? Upgrade? etc

[last marsh]

look at the bottom

this is a new drive

i installed windows 3 times before this

on 4

i want to make a new partition

[cinder mauve]

When you boot from your windows installer usb - do you select the UEFI option? And do you ensure csm mode is disabled?

[last marsh]

I did select the UEFI option

[cinder mauve]

If both yes - then do you want to wipe the drive clean for a new install? -if so, delete all 4 volumes there and click next

[last marsh]

I'm not sure what CSM is

Ik it has to do with BIOS

ohh

compatibility support module

pretty sure it isn't enabled

so i delete all of the partitions?

@cinder mauve

if im not sure about csm

[cinder mauve]

If you're positive you want to wipe the drive of data and install fresh, yes.

What mobo?

[last marsh]

ill check

[cinder mauve]

Probably not an issue, I wouldn't worry.

[last marsh]

i just got it a few days aho

ago

h81

[cinder mauve]

If you can see the UEFI boot option, you're probably fine - and the fact it won't let you install without wiping the previous EFI partitions, also sounds like you're booting in EFI mode - all is good.

So to clarify, delete all, then simply click next.

[last marsh]

aight im deleting

theres drive 0 - unallocated space rn

and i clicked next

it might take a few minutes

[cinder mauve]

Btw - I always recommend having a spare ~8GB-32GB usb with HiRens PE or similar installed on it for any kind of troubleshooting/rescue/diagnostic use if needed.

[last marsh]

more than half way done for partitioning i think

the first stage

getting files ready

i have a 32gb drive

[cinder mauve]

I'm sure you're fine from here, I can't imagine much would go wrong.

[last marsh]

i always manage to mess something up

i should be fine

the same thing happened at the guy's house that i bought it from

i got a different hard drive

the hell

it just restarted and did this

@cinder mauve

install now again?

thats what its showing

nvm

wait

back here again

[cinder mauve]

Wait, what'd you do afte the top screenshot?

[last marsh]

it doesnt show the "windows cant be installed"

i let it install

[cinder mauve]

Windows didn't install fine after that? The 2nd screenshot looks like you've installed in legacy/bios/MBR mode

[last marsh]

then it said it needs to restart

and i was back to the setup

i selected windows 10 pro because i have a let for it

key

I'll try installing again maybe?

idk what could be causing this

[fossil swift]

Does anyone know about FreeDOS in Rufus?

[last marsh]

@cinder mauve what now?

[cinder mauve]

Just to make sure I'm not missing something, do you have a link to a pcpp or other full hardware list?

[last marsh]

Uh

[cinder mauve]

Also, did you use the media creation tool to prepare the windows installer usb?

[last marsh]

I can just give you the specs

[cinder mauve]

pcparticker

[last marsh]

yes

[cinder mauve]

That works too. Whatever is easiesst

[last marsh]

i5 4690k water cooled
Windforce R9 380x
G.skill sniper 2x4 (8gb) 1600mhz
caviar blue wd hdd 1tb 7200rpm (i think)

do you need any more?

the psu

uh

its an antec green 650w 80+ bronze

mobo

is gigabyte h81m-h

anything else?

idk about the case

is that all you need?

[cinder mauve]

So is the caviar blue hdd the target install disk?

[last marsh]

yds

yes

single drive

nothing else in there

[cinder mauve]

Gotcha. My guess is something weird going on with the mobo's default boot/csm/legacy options. I'll check

[last marsh]

should i retry installing windows?

delete the partitions again

im gonna retry rq

[cinder mauve]

How did you create the windows installer usb again?

[last marsh]

i plugged it into my laptop and made a creation media drive thing

it worked

im installing it on another drive too if it doesnt work

this is getting frustrating

im on finishing up now

ffs

im back at this part

[cinder mauve]

Ok, so when that happens, do you just let the pc boot? Don't interrupt it with del/f2 etc, right?

Is it connected to the internet/

[last marsh]

i just let it boot

[cinder mauve]

Ya, that's the normal windows install screen

[last marsh]

i didnt interrupt it

its back there no

w

its an instant loop

whats causing thsi?

[cinder mauve]

Post a screenshot of the "boot" or hdd/ssd etc menu(s) from bios

[last marsh]

okay

[storm ocean]

Anyone know where you can get some cheap win10 keys

[last marsh]

look literally anywhere on ebay

with sellers that have over 150 positive feedback

and 85%+

[storm ocean]

Aight thx

[last marsh]

i just realized

thst boot option #1 was not uefi

i changed it a few mins ago

[cinder mauve]

I'd say >98% feedback, better yet - 99.5 ish and 1k+ sales in the last few months to feel confident over key legitimacy

[last marsh]

sc

?

[cinder mauve]

Disable fast boot, and yes, make boot optoin 1 uefi sandisk, assuming you're about to install clean

[last marsh]

okay

[rare rune]

^I wouldnt promote grey market keys. Just because they haven't been caught yet doesn't mean they are necessarily legitimate. And most keys are knocked off the block well after ebay feedback times expire. Most are for sure bought in enterprise bulk or stolen credit cards.

[last marsh]

am i ready to try it again?

[rare rune]

And even keys recovered from scrapped machines, the original owner could still have the key.

[cinder mauve]

All very true - it's certainly a grey area because it's so hard to differentiate legitimate OEM keys re-sold legally vs the run-of-the-mill ebay exit scam etc.

[last marsh]

what if i save a few bucks by trying a base64-style counting system

where i sit at my pc all day

and guess codes starting from 0000000000001

worth it

[cinder mauve]

K73H9-NGFBT-8J77C-2DMG2-XTQ8P

[last marsh]

.

[rare rune]

I'm not saying you shouldn't buy grey market keys, you'd need 20 to be disabled to lose money over buying a real one and you're unlikely to even have one deactivated. Just saying, Newegg is a legitimate business that sells legitimate copies, I wouldn't be promoting buying one here. Just winking.

[last marsh]

REEEEEE

BSOD

[cinder mauve]

Agree, and hey - if you buy a system builder's key/license, it can cover multiple installs, machines, often far less headache than dealing with sketch 1 time use recovered MAK keys etc.

[last marsh]

REEEEEE

BSOD again

holy

this happened at the person's house that i bought it from @cinder mauve

should i try a different windows media ceeationgnfnd

sandisk

i have 2

i jusg instadfildicdd

i snfallled if

i judt indtalled

it

i might just take it to geeksquad or something

this is past my knowledge

ok nvm that takes weeks

[cinder mauve]

Ya, re-building the installer usb via media creation tool could help.

[wary furnace]

Does anyone know somewhere I could a get a Windows 10 64-bit key from that's cheaper than $100?

[cinder mauve]

Kinguin

It is trusted by many people

[wary furnace]

Never heard of it

[cinder mauve]

You can add a protection bonus for 5 dollars that makes it so they gaurentee you get windows

It’s like 30 dollars

@wary furnace

[wary furnace]

Yeah I see

Hmm

How many people actually trust this?

[rare rune]

We had this discussion. Its fine to buy grey market but I really wouldn't suggest promoting any site specifically selling it in a discord for a legitimate company selling official copies of Windows.

You can trust most of them to work, you should have no faith that the keys are legitimate though, and expect them to be deactivated at some point in their life.

If you wan't to suggest one then just PM the person.

[royal hatch]

What am I doing wrong every application I try to open and change something it says access denied. this happens for everything administrator related for example powershell would give it administrator but I run it but I still get access to denied.mm

And I run everything with administrator to ugh...

[wary furnace]

Would this W10 Pro be okay? I was talking to someone and they said if it has 500+ reviews then it's probably real

https://www.ebay.com/p/219522947

[storm ocean]

The seller only has 11 reviews

I wouldn’t trust it

[wary furnace]

Huh it says See all 963 reviews for me

[rare rune]

^ don't post that stuff in this discord. Keep all links to established legitimate sites/products if you will.

[silent shuttle]

it might or might not be piracy so you can't just post stuff here

[shell heron]

Anyone know anything about Vegas 17? Having some issues with my nephews laptop. Keep getting a run time error on the startup/splash screen the 2nd time I try to open it. Always works the 1st time after installation/reinstallation.

[analog zephyr]

What’s the error

[rare rune]

TIL Magix bought vegas from Sony

And to be fair looks like they made it more affordable

[analog zephyr]

https://youtu.be/3pFbh1Li97o

Just a guess since it’s requirement is . Net 4.0

Oh back when Sony vaio meant your computer was bogged down with junk, day one.

[last gorge]

Can you update a prebuilt from windows 7 to 10 without a product key?

[devout delta]

You’ll need a product key for it to be a registered legal copy

you can update without one but It’ll just be a trial and will eventually want a product key

[last gorge]

Darn it

[molten belfry]

Windows 10 runs without a product key

Also, you can do a reimage using Windows 10 (full install wiping out the old data, so you need to back up all your files) and use the Windows 7 product key to get a fully activated Windows 10

[shell heron]

not that 7 key it will be oem

can still do it but you will have to call and complain to the microsoft support team in India first

[molten belfry]

It should work. I use them all the time, I just did 3 Dell OEM Windows 7 keys with fresh Windows 10 installs about 2 weeks ago

[rugged fjord]

Help needed

Can't get an os and a raid to work at the same time....

[shell heron]

hardware raid?

[rugged fjord]

Yeah

I'm beyond screwed now anyways

That's the least of my worries now

[worthy condor]

So, I’ve been out of the PC gaming world for about 10 years. Diving deep with a brand new build... considering how out of the loop I am... what’s the best anti-virus people are using these days?

[vivid temple]

@worthy condor (that is a topic that is close to religion for tech people :P ) best or acceptable ?

[worthy condor]

@vivid temple acceptable 😜 I used to use AVG. not sure if that’s the go to anymore?

[rare rune]

AVG free is more than fine.

[cinder mauve]

Windows defender and the chrome/firefox extensions ublock origin, https everywhere, privacy badger help lots.

[strong surge]

Provided you aren't into questionable sites, I haven't installed a third party AV in multiple years now. Windows Defender works fine

[cinder mauve]

^^ I knew you were techie material 🙂

[smoky pagoda]

I always liked Avast.

[strong surge]

I used Avast or BitDefender Free in the past

[smoky pagoda]

they even have their own webbrowser

but yeeah if you don't go into the naughty areas of the web, you really don't need a thirdparty av.

[strong surge]

I seem to remember Avast not being very configurable though. Flagged some downloads as as virus even though they weren't and it was a PITA to get around it.

[cinder mauve]

Not a bad way to spend $43 https://www.newegg.com/intel-e1g44htblk/p/N82E16833106050

[strong surge]

SOmeday I'll have a house that's fully wired for LAN

[devout delta]

Goals ^

[rare rune]

I considered a pi-hole for adverts. Until I realised ads for most things change domain very often.

[summer bough]

unless you are paying for AV most of them are pretty pathetic. AVG and AVAST will annoy you with popups and ads. Bitdefender free will automatically delete anything it thinks could be a virus and has no way to configure it and no support. It wiped several gigabytes of family pics from my computer a few years ago. Once they are gone, they are gone. it doesn't even quarantine it just deletes.

luckily I had them on external backups but still annoying and I don't trust their software after that.

[rare rune]

I find avast annoying, AVG free is only annoying til you discover you can disable popups hidden quite far in the settings

[devout delta]

For Paid antivirus I use ESET. Not super expensive and gives me a little extra peace of mind

[remote dew]

Well lucky me i have McAfee To keep me safe

[upbeat dawn]

Windows won’t go onto my new ssd ;-;-;

[rocky cedar]

Whats da problem

[upbeat dawn]

It says because it’s gpt or something like that so I made it mbr and now it says it can’t install it

All i want is faster windows startup and it’s been 2 hours ;-;-(

[strong surge]

Are you formatting it and allocating space as part of the Windows boot process?

One issue I had was a setting in the BIOS for legacy OS. Might want to check that and see if it's on or off. Whichever it is, switch it.

[upbeat dawn]

I tried that but I can’t find that option in my bios at all

[strong surge]

Mothebroard?

[upbeat dawn]

Gigabyte a 320 m

S2h

[strong surge]

CSM support

Should be enabled

[upbeat dawn]

It’s enabled

[strong surge]

Disable it then and try again?

[upbeat dawn]

It always was

[strong surge]

Does the SSD show in BIOS as UEFI?

[upbeat dawn]

The ssd shows as SATA ssd

P0 sata ssd

[strong surge]

Is it a Sandisk though?

[upbeat dawn]

It’s a Hyundai ssd

[vivid temple]

a suggestion: unplug the drives you dont need. then try again.

[upbeat dawn]

Ok

[vivid temple]

(sorry for jumping in with a random suggestion @strong surge )

[strong surge]

Nah, you're good

I thought of that but it's like the BIOS has locked the drive

I ran into this once before and fixed it but don't remember how

BUt yeah, I'd do what Naed says

[upbeat dawn]

Ok now it’s just my ssd and win 10 flash

I unplugged my external and internal hdd

Now all I have is my ssd no flash

[vivid temple]

try the install again, however. in the install process, remove all partitions (that might be on the drive) and just tell it to use the unallocated space as the destination.

[upbeat dawn]

How? I can’t boot to my flash so I can’t boot to the windows install

[vivid temple]

hm, you mentioned "Ok now it’s just my ssd and win 10 flash"

[strong surge]

Plugged in.....

[upbeat dawn]

I meant as in that’s all I have plugged in but it’s not showing up

[vivid temple]

that sounds wonky as all

[strong surge]

What is Storage Boot Option control set to>?

[upbeat dawn]

What

[strong surge]

Storage Boot Option Control

[upbeat dawn]

Legacy

[strong surge]

Try UEFI

[upbeat dawn]

Legacy only

UEFI only ?

[strong surge]

ye

[vivid temple]

let me understand you right: When you had your external and internal drives enabled earlier. You could see the usb stick you are installing windows from right?

[upbeat dawn]

Yes but now I can’t

[cinder mauve]

Is the target install drive the only hdd/ssd connected?

[strong surge]

It is

[upbeat dawn]

Yes

[vivid temple]

(now, it is)

[strong surge]

But now the USB Windows 10 media isn't showing

[vivid temple]

which does not make any sense.

unless the install that was running earlier was NOT from the usb stick but from a drive

[cinder mauve]

Is it sata or nvme? Does it have a legacy/uefi oprom?

[upbeat dawn]

It’s from the Sandisk flash

It’s sata and what Is eprom?

[vivid temple]

clarify for us what drives are empty and what drives has the windows installation files (for setting up the new OS) on it

[upbeat dawn]

Ok so I have an empty Hyundai ssd and a Sandisk flash has my install

Oh now it’s showing up

It is

[vivid temple]

the latest problem was the install media not showing :)

[cinder mauve]

Ah. Sounds like maybe there's still an EFI sector on the usb?

[vivid temple]

could be. but for now. Björn try the install of windows again. Remember what i said about removing partitions during the install

[upbeat dawn]

Here’s a different error message

Last time IT SAID THE OPPOSITE

[cinder mauve]

You'd have to delete the EFI and msr/whatever carries the bcd to install -

Or just wip them all , then click next

[upbeat dawn]

I DID IT

[cinder mauve]

Also - ya, no idea how csm turned itself back on for that boot , and/or it ignored the uefi installer boot optino lol

[upbeat dawn]

I converted it back to gpt then did some hacker magic and recreated the partition now I’m installing windows

I’m a cool kid

[vivid temple]

as long as it works.

[upbeat dawn]

I’ll check back in if it decides to die half way through.

[past musk]

I mean

[vivid temple]

the simpler solution for fixing this is booting with something that can just wipe the drive completely

[upbeat dawn]

But until than I’m gonna watch Linus roast intel

[past musk]

AMD > Intel

[upbeat dawn]

Yep

100%

[vivid temple]

not for this chat lads :)

[past musk]

AMD drivers i was saying about

Yes definitely AMD drivers are sure better than intel drivers

[upbeat dawn]

I agree.

I also prefer Ryzen master, just sayin

[cinder mauve]

XTU is in a tailspin rn haha

[upbeat dawn]

What’s xtu?

[cinder mauve]

Like ryzen master for intel

[upbeat dawn]

Oh yeah

[cinder mauve]

anyone familyer with obs studio?

[cinder mauve]

Aaaaaand still crash

[strong surge]

installed synapse and uninstalled?

[cinder mauve]

Yep

[strong surge]

Restarted?

[cinder mauve]

My PC?

[strong surge]

Ya

after the uninstall

[cinder mauve]

Oop--

Lemme do that XD

[strong surge]

Ya

[cinder mauve]

Still crash

[strong surge]

Check for these files

C:\Windows\System32\RzChromaSDK64.dll
C:\Windows\SysWOW64\RzChromaSDK.dll
C:\Windows\SysWOW64\RzAPIChromaSDK.dll

What was your exact error message also?

[cinder mauve]

It doesn't give one

It just stops

[strong surge]

Starts and stops

[tidal lintel]

Blade23445#9760 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[cinder mauve]

The razer chroma thing worked XD

[strong surge]

Nice

[cinder mauve]

I don't get it but hey XD

[strong surge]

it hooks into the game for some kind of display overlay

and Overwatch pitches a fit

[cinder mauve]

Ah makes sense. Maybe warframe does also

[strong surge]

I'll bet it does

[cinder mauve]

https://i.imgur.com/3yrVNKY.gifv

[strong surge]

that's in hidden devices?

[shell heron]

special

[strong surge]

Cuz I went Intel to AMD without reinstalling....brb

Nope, not in mine

[cinder mauve]

This was on a sandisk 2.5" ssd that went from a dell optiplex GPU miner > dual hex core opteron > 2500k homework pc > x570 master/3700x >9900k z390 dark > supermicro H8QGi+-F quad socket 64 core

[sharp holly]

anyone know of a program that lets you launch a bunch of other programs and organize your desktop (like powertoys)? So, if I wanted a video editing setup, I would be able to use this program to launch davinci resolve, file explorer, audacity and chrome and place them where I'd like them on my desktop?

[rare rune]

I just made a batch file to do something similar not all that long ago

[sharp holly]

well the batch file tells me it can't find my applications

[rare rune]

Swear at it until it works, as it will work if done right.

[sharp holly]

hmmmm, what if I want steam to launch a game (not just run the exe)

and is there a way to bypass the administrator prompts (give the batch file administrator privileges)?

[jade ledge]

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07CJVLL1K?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share This is t working with windows 10. Any ideas? Can’t get drivers for it to work...

[sharp holly]

well, I won't judge your purchase since you've already purchased it, but are you sure you can find proper drivers for the card?

It would appear as driver for win 10 do not exist, but that's just a quick google search

And as far as I know, audio interfaces (internal/external) are not plug and play

[jade ledge]

@sharp holly what would you recommend for a sound card for 5.1 with the same type of connection as the prior card for windows 10?

This is the computer: https://www.newegg.com/acer-aspire-t-tc-865-neselecti3-student-home-office/p/N82E16883101686?item=N82E16883101686

[sharp holly]

Well, I wouldnt recommend a soundcard at all but...

Depends on what you want to do

Amp+dac are for audiophile headphones

Audio interface are for recording setups (I have mine powering my headphones because it has nice adjustment knobs)

Audio mixer if you want to set up a home theatre with surround sound

That being said, these options aren't cheap, and if you don't know what your looking for, a complete pain to find the perfect solution, so you should tell me what you expect out of your audio setup, and how much you want to spend

[fossil nimbus]

also not going to judge but amd hd audio that is on thier graphics cards is better than that sound card

also why the heck does that pc have no graphics card

it has intel hd graphics lmao

[floral ruin]

Hey so is there any way to fix a black screen no boot issue?

Thankfully it's not for me but a friend of mines PC is messing up somewhere. Guessing win 10 is broke or something

[cinder mauve]

Well hardware issues are resolved I think. Now it's just in a continual loop of this XD

[halcyon lichen]

anyone know how to fix

[strong surge]

What are you trying to install?

[halcyon lichen]

windows 10

I just built by first pc

[fleet basalt]

Congrats

[halcyon lichen]

My

thx

[fleet basalt]

Specs?

[strong surge]

SO that's from the WIndows 10 installation media on a fresh install?

[halcyon lichen]

Yes

[strong surge]

K, hang on

Fresh hard drive as well or an old one?

[halcyon lichen]

fresh

[strong surge]

Ok, my thoughts on this

Try a different USB port

maybe USB 2 instead of USB 3

If that doesn't work, try a different USB drive, that one may be corrupted

Worst case scenario is faulty RAM but we can test that later

[halcyon lichen]

i get the same message

[strong surge]

On a USB 2 port?

[halcyon lichen]

yes

[strong surge]

use a different USB drive and create the install media again

[peak moss]

if i attempt to make a partition from the bootable drive, will that mess stuff up? for example i have a 500 gb ssd that i want to split into 2 250 gb partitions

[strong surge]

If that's the boot drive yes, I wouldn't touch that one

[peak moss]

darn alright

[strong surge]

I mean, that's not to say you can't but I'm not the one to ask about that

From what I know it's not recommended

[hushed cradle]

I think it's doable

As long as the software is smart enough

Which it should be these days

It'll just partition empty space

If the entire drive is full and u want to partition, that's a little bit too hopeful :p

[vivid temple]

@hushed cradle it is doable, just not recommended. Macrium reflect is probably the simplest for you to use for it.

@peak moss the above bit was for you :)

[upbeat dawn]

Does anyone know how on windows to choose which GPU is used by a game?

I have an rx 580 and a gtx 1050 (for nvenc) and my game keeps using my gtx 1050

[smoky pagoda]

would imagine it'd be in the Nvidia Control Panel settings somewhere

is the monitor plugged into the 580?

[upbeat dawn]

Well I can’t use the NVIDIA control panel

Yes it is

Both of them are

[smoky pagoda]

why can't you use control panel?

[upbeat dawn]

I don’t have a display plugged into my 1050

[smoky pagoda]

well you are using both radeon, and nvidia

that just seems problematic for me

[upbeat dawn]

In every game i play except windows store games I don’t have problems, every game uses my rx 580 and OBS uses my gtx 1050

[upbeat dawn]

I figured it out, I just have to disable the 1050 in device manager, launch forza, enable the 1050 and it all works out 😋

[vivid temple]

that sounds like a fault of the game instead of a fault of the OS @upbeat dawn

[fleet basalt]

Besides my OS, what should i install on my boot drive?

[strong surge]

A game or two for quick access if it's an SSD

[fleet basalt]

What about drivers and stuff?

[strong surge]

Well, those get installed to the OS so....ya

[vivid temple]

personal preference is to only keep stuff on the OS drive that i dont mind losing

[cinder mauve]

So anyone ever dealt with windows telling you that it can’t retrieve info about the disks before?

[rare rune]

Format it if its new.

[cinder mauve]

They have been formatted, it’s either saying that or it’s saying I’m missing a media driver

It won’t let me even get to that point right now

To format them again

[smoky pagoda]

what are you using to format them

[cinder mauve]

What is the diffrence between computer science and software engineering

Because programming is writing code

So if I wanted to pursue a career which is basically coding what should I go for

[devout delta]

Comp sci usually focuses on the software side (i.e. programming) where Comp engineering will have some software and some hardware (i.e. analog & digital circuits)

[sharp holly]

Isn't computer science the theory behind how computers work? (Logic and circuits)

Software engineers are in high demand rn

But iirc, companies aren't as interested in how fancy your degree is, but what you have in your portfolio (side projects, your own website, some database program you made, etc)

[silent shuttle]

i made a database program in GW-BASIC on an old DOS machine in childhood - I wasn't familiar with databases and how they worked, but i just accidentally made it

[cinder mauve]

Anyone know how to fix

[hoary nacelle]

looks like you gotta reset the CMOS

[cinder mauve]

I got fixed the pc rebooted it self

Thank tho

[late rose]

does anyone know if the cyberpower mouse that comes with the pc have a software?

to customize the mouse and such

[rare rune]

With what PC?

[empty zenith]

why don't i have a bootup screen?

[hard wedge]

could be a couple reasons. 1 your pc cant/wont post. 2 your gpu isnt working properly wether it isnt seated in the slot all the way, pcie power isnt connected or its dead. 3... last but not least... you forgot to plug it into the wall lol

[peak moss]

We need much more info to troubleshoot that. Is your pc turning on or no? Is it showing the bios splash screen? Is the pc fresh build or was it working before? What is in it? What did you change? Etc etc

[sudden dirge]

Can someone help me with MSIs retarded mystic light/dragon center? I cant get my fans and pc case to sync colors with the mobo rgb, but I can sync the fans and mobo rgb effects but not the case.

[sudden dirge]

@silent shuttle Are you able to help possibly?

[silent shuttle]

I don't know anything about RGB stuff, unfortunately

i've never been able to play with anything like that

@sudden dirge

[sudden dirge]

@silent shuttle No worries. You would think instead of the proprietary junk software they use they'd create something more consumer friendly.

[silent shuttle]

certainly

but who knows

it's nice to sync if you have RGB, then you can sync some 00ntz 00ntz club music to it

[rocky cedar]

Well the thing is, some RGB hardware likes to use their own rgb software, and reject MSI RGB software

[warm osprey]

Anyone here familiar with Azure pipelines? Specifically looking at CD with a private GitHub repository.

[cinder mauve]

does anyone ever reinstall windows

and do you use media creation tool

[strong surge]

Yes, windows 10 media creation tool. Download it and install it to a USB. Free installation media from MS

[cinder mauve]

what version do you use

[strong surge]

Well, the media creation tool downloads the latest version for you

Or you mean 64 or 32 bit?

[cinder mauve]

what windows build are you on

im on 1909

when a new build comes out i always do a fresh install

thats why i create disc

[strong surge]

1909. It's the latest build............

[cinder mauve]

i know

i was on 1903 and when i found out 1909 came out i did a fresh install of 1909

[tepid silo]

Plenty of web utilities or software tools out there to just download the ISO of coice , legally, from microsoft. Easy to verify the MD5 hash.

This is one way to save some time, especially with a package manager. https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/96683-create-media-automated-unattended-install-windows-10-a.html

I use this method /Azure active directory + KMS https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/129521-microsoft-deployment-toolkit-easy-fast-windows-deployment.html

[cinder mauve]

does the media creation tool let you install a fresh windows

when it burns to a flash drive

[rare rune]

Yes. Thats the point of it

Microsoft give it to you specifically to make installing windows very easy.

Just download the creation tool, run it, itll turn a USB stick into an installer, then boot onto that usb stick on the desired PC

[tall lichen]

so i just recently built this new pc and everything works great EXCEPT it can't wake up from sleep mode

windows 10 pro

trying to wake it from sleep just causes it to reboot most of the time

anyone know what's causing the issue?

[tepid silo]

Could be a bios setting related to suspend/.sleep ppower states, I would also disable fast startup in windows.
TBH - it's often most convenient and rarely costly at all to just run a machine 24/7

Could always pull ethernet or shutdown for security piece of mind ofc.

[vast haven]

Hey y'all, I tried to dl a newer version of my realtek audio driver, but when I used the wizard to help me uninstall my current version, it put me in a loop where it keeps "uninstalling" the current version and rebooting only to do the same thing. Now im not getting sound whatsoever and don't know how to restore my old version. Any help would be greatly appeciated!

[sharp holly]

The wizard doesn't allow you to just install directly/update the existing driver?

[vast haven]

apparently not, it uninstalled my previous version, rebooted, and puts me back at "uninstalling"

im trying to figure out how to recover my old version rn

[summer bough]

I have something that will fix it, but it could break windows if something goes wrong

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1O9kCCHh1vVJO22nMeFMizTo_pJokAKCN

that will fix your audio issues

after its doen and reboots dont touch your system for about 10 minutes after reboot while it finishes

[opal kernel]

so is there anyone i can ask for help when it comes to video scheduler internal error BSOD

my pc was fine untill i upgraded from intel to ryzen

[peak moss]

did you do a fresh instal

[opal kernel]

by fresh install you mean???

from scratch or you talkin about drivers

heres a better question

[peak moss]

from scratch

[opal kernel]

is it possible for intel software to interfere with ryzen

and no its not from scratch

it was a pre existing build

[peak moss]

basically when you get a new mobo or cpu or in this case, both, you're supposed to reinstall windows. when you switch from intel to amd, from what i understand doubly so. i went from amd to amd and was able to get around it but with going from intel to amd you should probably just reinstall windows. also make sure theres no pending bios updates on your build

if you want to try to avoid fresh install, update your bios which should replace your drivers, but im not 100% that will work.

[opal kernel]

i have done that and all bios updates are to the latest versions

[peak moss]

then you probably need a fresh install

[opal kernel]

of windows

[peak moss]

yes

[opal kernel]

i have tried

[peak moss]

you have already done that?

[opal kernel]

not the first time i tried either

[peak moss]

what gpu are you using

[opal kernel]

want to know my entire spec list to make it easier

[peak moss]

yeh

[opal kernel]

k gimme a min

current spec's
GPU: RTX 2060 super OC from MSI
CPU: Ryzen 7 2700
Motherboard: B450M PRO-M2
RAM: 16GB DDR4 2400MHz
HDD: 2x 2TB
SSD: Kingston 240GB
PSU: Corsair 450W 80+ Bronze

damn why did i torture myself there

i could have just snipped speccy >,<

oh well

[peak moss]

uh gimme a second

[strong surge]

Uh

[opal kernel]

should also mention that when launching games 1 of 3 things happen
1: game launches in a black screen audio and controls still audible and interactable
2: the game straight up crashes whilst the gpu is throttled instantly to 100% disconnecting it (from what event viewer tells me anyway)
3: BSOD

[strong surge]

450 watt Psu too smsll

[peak moss]

yeah thats what i was looking up right now

[strong surge]

Need 550w minimim

[peak moss]

that psu seems way to msall lol

[opal kernel]

i used a system calculator for the psu, and it stated recommended minimum is 450W

then again

[peak moss]

the error code reads as a problem with your gpu but its more likely your psu

[strong surge]

Yeah.....don't trust those lol

[opal kernel]

that was for a regular 2060

no super option

XD

[strong surge]

Pau draws little power on desktop

Fire up a game and poof overloaded

[peak moss]

also you're supposed to draw no more than like 80% of your psu right bekora?

[strong surge]

Best practice 90%

[opal kernel]

on the off hand i do go to the shadow realm of BSOD i will post what the gpu does

[strong surge]

Just upgrade the PSU

Gpubis shutting off from lack of power

[opal kernel]

would that also fix the video scheduler internal error

to think of it

[strong surge]

Yes

[opal kernel]

all the critical errors on event viewer are from error 41 kurnal power

[strong surge]

Whole Pau shutting off then

[opal kernel]

at first i thought my gpu was dying so i went and bought a 2060 >,<

[peak moss]

what did you have before

[opal kernel]

damn im stupid

a 1060

[peak moss]

i mean you could rma it if you want

but then you wouldnt have a 2060 anymore lol

[opal kernel]

cant

the 1060 is voided

[peak moss]

i mean the 2060

[opal kernel]

i would rather keep the 2060

i do alot of vr stuff

[peak moss]

but thats also proving the issue isnt the gpu and that psu is extremely small for your system

[opal kernel]

need the power

??

what do you mean gpu too small

[peak moss]

the psu is to small

issue is not gpu, psu is to small

[opal kernel]

oh sorry just read it wrong

so what would be the best psu with decent performance for low to medium price

i saw someone mention a 550W

for minimum

so the only logical option would be a 600W right???

that leaves some room