JCMPTech

Sorry in advance to the mods if this is not allowed, but since they did a collab doing the iMac repair, I thought it would be relevant. Sorry about my audio quality, I was using my phone for the interview and it took a bath this morning so the mic is malfunctioning, of all the days to drop something. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtR-PvB34OY

Go easy on fanboys, I was AMD hold out. My laptops had APUs, gaming desktop was an FX, and my dedicated office computer was AMD A10 APU desktop. Then my business became full time and I needed real servers, and now everything I have is Intel, not that I am anti-AMD, just bought what works, and what I could afford. The point is fanboys can come around, but they have to come to the conclusion on their own, if you force it, they take it as personal attack and latch on. I hold a Skype support group for recovering fanboys Fridays @9PM ESD. The brand loyalty doesn't matter, Intel, AMD, Nvidia, we are here if you need us.

While you may think this gets apple off the hook did you read it? Because now I change my original stance that apple did this mistakenly. AASP repaired phones are not affected, only genuine screens installed by non authroized providers and fake screens failed. When an AASP location does a repair the parts are SN controlled and when possible embeded in the replaced components firmware, we update the repair in GSX with the new parts SN. All your phones information gets validated when you update, or when you reset and reactivate it again. So if the only difference in the repaired screens that work and the ones that don't, is if it was replaced by Apple/ AASP location or an unauthorized 3rd party, then the only reason for that, is they pulled the trigger with disabling phones with unauthorized repairs. Something that has been water cooler talk since 2016, just done differently than originally planned.

There was this talk of something like this was going to happen when I worked Geek Squad and we became AASP. Except then it was going to be blacklisting the SN of any phones we opened and found 3rd party parts. When you activate an iphone it does the normal phone activation and checks your carrier to make sure the SN is not reported stolen, but also activates with apple, and if the phone is blacklisted for any reason it wont activate on apples end and will be inoperable (even if your carrier shows it as active). I will say apple official screens are a much higher quality, many AASP locations cant change screens onsite because apples advanced calibration tools is a $1,000 purchase for any AASP locations. They have an absurdly large number of touch points, to the degree you would need to have fingers thinner than a stylus to be necessary. I think this was just an accident, if it were intentional bricking you'd get the same failure to authenticate on apple server errors as the ones manually reported and blacklisted for phony parts. Unless of course apple used this as a different approach to brick the phones, using a phony manufactured compatibility issue, as a way to divert attention and blame the 3rd party screens. They did once refused to repair a phone for having a 3rd party screen I know for a fact had a legit screen, the lady had just activated a new phone and dropped it in our store and broken it. Apple would not repair it, so we wrote off a new phone and gave her a new one, we didn't want to repair it because even if we installed a brand new apple screen, the SN would still be blacklisted in Apples system as unrepairable. Apple told this client he could not have an SDD installed and his HDD was bad, and a repair would be $350, and he could choose either a 500GB or 1TB mechanical drive. He brought it to me, pulled the drive, put it in my mule, and passed all diagnostice, the garbage sata cable was bad. I just finished stress test this morning, its about to be picked up complete with a new cable and SDD for less than half apples price. As long as I can source parts, I will fix it. These are just more examples why despite being apple and iOS certified, I iwll never become a 3rd Party AASP. I was still part time with geek squad when when they became AASP (test store stages). Overnight we went from being able to install any new SDD in Mac products that did not have embedded storage, to only being able to replace failed HDDs, and only with one of the original drive options. Zero upgrades allowed. And for those who may try and call BS on my apple creds just to troll, here I am logged into Apple Global Services Exchange (must be apple certified to have access)

Your rate hike has nothing to do with that though, Plattsburgh, Tupper Lake, Lake Placid, all get their municipal back end from NSEG or National Grid, as the old contracts expire, the city as a whole gets a rate hike on the new contract. The new contract initially seems a bit higher, but you have to take into account the rate is typically locked for the durration of the contract, but NYSEG and National Grid direct customers see smaller incremental increases over the same period of time and end up paying much more per kwh.

There you go assuming, I lived in Plattsburgh NY, I now live 45 miles from their in Chateaugay NY. Between Altona, Ellenbergh, Chateaugay, and Malone NYSEG has grown their number of windmills from under a dozen, to just shy of a THOUSAND. Offering incentives to the large farms here to allow them to install the windmills on their property. Plattsburgh NY while it has it own municipality for electric, that just means the city maintains the lines and equipment in the city, NSYEG still provides their power at a much lower kwh rate.

If the high FPS looks choppy I would guess your running a 60Htz monitor? If that is correct the 90-150 fps is still higher than your display is capable of anyway, so the drop frame rate is moot.

No they just immediately blamed this update (well the HP call center guy did) but after a reimage and all the updates installed it didn't boot loop and is running fine. but I also just used the windows 10 media not the HP one, and after further talking to the client the update that wanted to restart was one of the HP bloatware ones so who knows, it works now and it was Not this CPU patch that did it, since that's installed now and it runs fine. All the hardware passed so, no telling what caused it, I could guess and say the HP bloatware not being compatible with the CPU patch, but it's update wanting to restart could of just been a coincidence

Yes and their way of dealing with it was mail it back for a reset and we will mail it back, with 4-8 week estimated total repair time. The other option was to go to best buy and have them reset it, which is a 2 hour round trip here and they would take 1-5 days to do it. Since I am right In his town he'd rather pay me to push his 545GB of data to my encrypted NAS, reset it, and pick it back up within a couple hours. The HP tech just wanted him to mail it or go to best buy and just wanted to blame MS update for the issue to get him off the phone.

Yes but the manufacturer only has to walk you through a windows 10 reset or re-image off a recovery partition, they don't have to do anything else or worry about your data, some people what their data. They also give the option mail it in to be reimaged. They do the have to walk you through diags or anything else. Even GeeK Squad / Best Buy who is contracted by HP and can do all warrenty repairs weather you bought it their or not, is only allowed to reset to factory for software issues or replace any bad hardware under MFG entitlement. Need a data recovery your on your own or paying.

How many Tier 1 OEMs have you worked for? Because I have RAN Fujitsu's refurbishing department at there FrontTech facility and I worked as a line lead in Acers facility in Liverpool NY, and that's not enteriely accurate. The most they are required to do is re-image, and are also not responsible for data loss. This client did not want to loose his data and be without his PC while he mails it in and they re-image it. The rest of this a ramble and totally off topic: I use the term image because if you think Tire1 OEMs install windows and activate each one with an individual product key you are mistaken. Prior to UEFI the key on the COA was never ever used. Each machine was imaged off the network from an ImageX file, with a MASTER key, and the COA slapped on. (allot of windows 7 activation hacks worked by forcing a OEMs Master key in your windows installation and installed a boot loader so MS detected that OEMs bios present) If you always used official recovery media that doesn't ask for a key, you were also re-imaging at home with the master key, so again the COA key stayed unused. Then people like me went into forums and told people about this, and techies started realizing if they bought windows 7 laptop, they could use the key on it to activate OEM windows 7 on they new gaming rig they built, which is another reason why MS started doing hardware tagging when they activated windows 8 and beyond, and had tier1s start embedding the key in the UEFI bios. (mom and pop OEM registered builders will have a COA with key still, Teir ones embed the key and stick on those hologram windows logo stickers instead) There is still a few loop holes people can exploit. If your old desktop or laptop updated to 10 for free, and when it did your system was running using a master key you can still use the key on the COA to activate 10 on your new home build. Simply install click "I do not have a product key" during windows 10 install, then once windows is installed go to activation and enter the OEM windows 7 key, Microsoft will then eat the key and ID tag your hardware and activate it with "a digital entitlement license" (since technically this key was never used to activate windows 10 before), and if you ever have to restore this computer, you again click "i do not have a key" and it will activate once it goes online and verify the Mobo was already activated with windows 10 previously. Now this totally violates MS licensing to do it, so don't do it. I have a dozen or so core2 Dell optiplexs I have activated clean installs of windows 10 using the windows 7 OEM COA key without issues (they were in a office with an AD environment originally so they never got the windows 10 free update roll out). I did not violate licensing as I used the keys on the system they were stuck to. Also while I am rambling those keys people buy form kingwin are also not legit, while they are clean OEM keys and will activate without issue, it violates MS licensing to sell an OEM key digitally without media. If you want digital copy of widows 10, the only legit way is to install windows 10 without a key, then when you go to activation choose to buy a key for $109.99 from the App store, other wise your still violating TAC.

Client just dropped of a PC that is now boot looping after the update, its a AMD A6-7310, with the bios "born on date" of 10/08/17, may not be as isolated as MS originally thought, getting a clean install of 10 and then I will run updates and see what happens here in the shop. Cleint called HP first dreading it was HDD failure, but everything passed HP diags as well as PC Doctor HW tests. HP support tech told him it must of been a windows update issue, could of just been what the tech said to get him off the phone, only way to tell is to run updates after its booting again and monitor which ones come thorough, and if any cause the same boot lopping result.

I still have a core2quad Optiplex as my plex server, its running windows 10 pro and I use it to manage my APs and remote in to do all my torrenting on. I used the only PCie slot for an 8 port SATA III and filled it with 3TB HSGT enterprise grade drives, I know its time is near but the raid is SW based so all the upgrades can be transferred into the next one.