I'm really kind of jaded on doing anything with the bot other than leaving it online, because of SE's arbitrary and capricious control over what it can and can't do
So... sorted out the issues with fan control - turns out the ASUS Fan Control Service was overriding BIOS settings.
Q-Fan Tuning got the minimum chassis speeds right.
(exhaust fan connected to RAD1, intake fans connected to RAD2, both controlled by motherboard temperature, but I might look into setting it to use a combination of sensors (up to three can be selected))
CPU fan must still be set to 100% - the liquid cooler pump must see a full 12V at all times. (It'll adjust radiator fan speed automatically according to the coolant temperature.)
I've removed parts of the ASUS AI Suite. I can't remove the whole thing because the AURA RGB lighting control software depends on the AI Suite to function correctly, but the offending part has been uninstalled.
Well, a hallmark of the ROG Crosshair VI Extreme is its extensive array of fan headers.
They're intended for use as part of a custom liquid cooling system, but can readily be repurposed for chassis fan control.
Well, after fiddling with the fan controls and fixing the liquid cooler speed, this is the quietest Astaroth has ever been. The CPU now runs much cooler as well.
I never really used win8. I know it might 'magically activate' on the same laptop. Not sure if that was due to a key in the firmware or if it detected that this OS was used before on the same hardware/sam_serial
Assuming you can download the .iso on a Windows 7, 8.0, 8.1 or 10 computer to evaluate Windows 8.1 Retail editions you may bypass the enter your product key screen, using a generic key to install Windows…
Most of that is untested by me. I got a laptop for my mother with win8 on it. It was unstable as hell. I spent days trying to fix it but it kept crashing.
Bloody dumb win8 was my thought at the time
I threw it (gently) in a corner. Left it alone for a few weeks and tried clean 8 installs. Failed. ignoreed it a few more months. Retried and failed
Repeat twice
By now we are 1 1/2 yeear further on.
And I discover that the dfactory shipped SODIMM was broken and the cause for the instability and failing installs.
Not win8's fault. But I still dislike win8
Also 'fun' is that the laptop could boot in EFI mode or with CSM. And in CSM mode it would not support int13 graphics. So e..g installing win7 in BIOS compatible mode would boot, start and crash.
What should I do if my Windows computer seems to be infected with a virus or malware?
What are the symptoms of an infection?
What should I do after noticing an infection?
What can I do to get rid of it?
This question comes up frequently, and the suggested solutions are usually the same. Th...
> Running CineBench R15 Multi-Thread in a loop results in no significant performance degradation over time to confirm that the processor shouldn't suffer from any temperature ceiling or TJMax alarms when gaming or browsing.
Hmm... no thermal throttling.
(TJMax is the maximum permitted silicon temperature)
> Even the 45 W quad-core i5-7300HQ found on most mainstream gaming notebooks is consistently slower by 5 to 10 percent against AMD's less power-hungry APU.
What the?!
Well, I'd still like to see some comparisons with 4C/8T 8th-gen Kaby Lake-R.
The media creation tool never failed for me. But I do not use it to write to USB. Instead I used it to download the ISO and then either did things manually or used rufus
@Mokubai Well, this wasn't meant to be anti-Intel.
@JourneymanGeek says he usually drops a link and lets it be. I'm evaluating just putting a link and relevant snippets (like @Bob) does, without excessive flourish.
So, let's try it now.
Can you delete my messages starting here and here? I wonder if we can reverse the damage and forget about this incident.
@Mokubai, I'm seriously hoping this is the last time this will happen.
must remember: this is a chatroom not a blog this is a chatroom not a blog this is a chatroom not a blog
The way I see things is that while redirecting emotions may be necessary under certain conditions, suppressing them altogether is a much stronger display of self-control.
Going forward: Link and relevant snippets only. If nobody is interested and I continue to discuss the same topic unnecessarily, feel free to flag for a mod so I can be suspended. This needs to be brought to an end now.
> Many cultures, including South Asian culture, believe that emotion suppression is a particularly masculine quality and that emotion expression qualifies you as weak. Unfortunately, no matter how highly it is valued, avoiding your emotions never makes them go away and makes it more difficult for you to manage a similar situation were it to happen in the future.
> Effects of consistent emotion suppression include increased physical stress on your body, including high blood pressure, increased incidence of diabetes and heart disease. In addition, people who engage in emotion suppression regularly rare more likely to experience stiff joints, bone weakness and more illnesses due to lowered immunity.
There's been less soapboxing lately FWIW (to my knowledge, the last time this happened was at least one month ago), but it's still a problem. What are my options?
@bwDraco Have fun. Play games. Do things you enjoy. We all need to vent sometimes, but it's finding the time and place for it. Lots of people go out hunting, or visit the big Blue Room. Enjoy life.
@bwDraco The answer to that is to go out and talk to people. Real life people. Go for a walk. Stop for a coffee. Talk to the people you meet. Eventually you will find people you click with and meet them again.
So... looking back, I've lost interest in participating in the main site, having burned myself out a couple of years back, turning myself into a arrogant, selfish man.
Looking back at Winter Bash 2014 and how this was a big run to try to become a mod, then later discovering that I have serious personal issues to address.
This is why I didn't run for mod during the last election.
@bwDraco The thing is, you need to learn to enjoy whatever life brings. Happiness and sorrow, pleasure and pain. It's all a rich tapestry and becoming so fixated on one thing that everything else suffers can be bad. But again for some people it works and others it doesn't. You find what you want and enjoy it.
So... I was thinking about future directions for my behavior IRL. At home, there's been a lot of work on calming down faster after an incident, but I'm getting the impression that my parents want me to stay quiet and subservient to them while they yell at me because of a subconscious fear that if I'm not brought in line, Bad Things™ will happen.
I'm trying to plan for the future so that I'm ready to move forward and become a fully self-reliant person, and I'm kinda stuck.
@Mokubai Father's not confident I can behave myself in a bar. Mother is more willing to let me do trial runs, but she doesn't because of Father's objections. (Disputes between my parents are not unusual in this house.)
I need to provide strong evidence that I can take care of myself, because apparently, what my parents fear is that if left to my own devices, I will not be able to take care of myself and my health and safety would be in jeopardy.
Father's fearful of what would happen under the influence of alcohol.
Father has also constantly objected to allowing me to learn to drive, despite Mother's support. Again, for fear that my inadequate self-control would result in an accident.
@bwDraco Just do what any other red-blooded american would do and not tell him. Just say "it's a friends car and he'll pick it up and drive me to work".
This is a chicken-and-egg issue. I can't work on my independence because I'd get yelled at by my dad, but I need to in order to become independent.
Over the last several years, I have felt like I have no path forward because there's nothing I can do to prove to my father that I can act independently without getting myself in trouble.
The only evidence he'll take is a full-time job and at least several month's worth of incident-free job performance.
@bwDraco You are interested in sports photography, right? Why don't you join your local photography club? Meet like minded people (some of whom may become friends). Diversify into other kinds of photography. Enter competitions. There is a career there for you as well as a way of meeting people and making friends.
@bwDraco What? You already have all the expensive cameras. You can set up a website for next to nothing. Post your pictures. Print some cheap fliers. It doesn't cost a lot of money to start promoting yourself.
@bwDraco The goal is surely to get a job. What exactly is stopping you getting a job right now? What are your qualifications and what kinds of jobs are you actually applying for?
@bwDraco Be T-shaped -- and to do that, you have to be interested in things and do things for hobbies so you learn stuff and get stuff into your periphery
most tech job requirements are written in an extremely narrow way these days, because employers don't want to invest the time it would take you to learn stuff
so they might need, like, Maven, Ansible, Selenium and Kotlin experience
or React.JS, Node, Yeoman and Grunt experience
or even weird things like Fortran, COBOL, PTC Integrity and F# experience
cast a wide enough net so you can at least apply to some more jobs
when an employer is looking for experience with technologies A, B, C, D, and E, the worst thing you can say is "I've never heard of that" or "I've heard of it but never used it"
if it's at least in your periphery, they'll be willing to talk to you
You have to start somewhere. Which means applying for jobs that match your current skill set (with a small amount of leeway). You then learn on the job (and in your spare time) to increase your skill set for the next job.
Speaking from experience, as my first job was as a process engineer, with some programming experience. I wrote programs as part of my job and pushed that side of things. Then I transferred to the IT department. Taught myself C and my next job was another company writing C programs. I taught myself C++. Moved to my next job and taught myself Java. etc etc.
Not exactly much - I'm looking into getting MCSA certification.
I've had quite a bit of experience running Linux servers for my own use, but a lot of jobs seem to call for Microsoft enterprise computing experience so I've decided that's probably the best way to get my foot in the door.
@DavidPostill See @allquixotic's comments earlier. PowerShell is essential for Windows systems administration in an enterprise environment and is a key skill for the resume.
What should I do if my Windows computer seems to be infected with a virus or malware?
What are the symptoms of an infection?
What should I do after noticing an infection?
What can I do to get rid of it?
This question comes up frequently, and the suggested solutions are usually the same. Th...
