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Old gold then ...... I am not exactly digging myself out of that hole am I

Most of my CD collection is old 90s Dance music, tons of stuff that just doesn't excist on streaming. Most of my new music is something I added while on streaming. I use Spotify and their feature to add local files that I can download to my phone via their app. And it actually works pretty well most of the time. That said, I have at times had some songs grey out, a few recently actually. And I hate when that happens, I love every song in my library. And it just doesn't feel like MY library, when things disappear. And having to scavenge the internet (legag or other) for the song, just plain sucks. But I also have to say, I love the discovery options on streaming. Playlists constantly made for you with new music or something to rediscover. I kinda wish someone did something that good for a music store. I would happily pay for my music, song by song, if it was still possible. (hint hint, if you people have some tricks for me, I am all ears )

I did a little check on Asus website for the specs you listed. And drivers that would work with Windows XP are just not listed. If I read it correctly, it is an ASUS pre-built, and it seems it downloads most of its drivers through Windows Update. (hence why they are not listed on their site). The main issue I suspect you have installing Windows XP, is missing drivers for your drive, or the interface/chipset on the motherboard. However since the drivers are not listed on ASUS website, you need to download those files elsewhere. But to know where to look, you need to know what kind of controller/chipset the motherboard uses. I have only done this very few times, so I am really not too experienced figuring it out, without sitting in front of the machine. Should you somehow get Windows XP installed, your next issue would be getting anything to work, drivers for the hardware are just available. Without chipset drivers, just getting USB devices to work can be impossible. Sometimes you if can get a hold of a 32bit driver you can install it by forcing the DLL file to load. But you need to figure out what chipset and other pieces of hardware are in the machine, and check the manufactures websites to see if they have any drivers (ie if the ethernet is from RealTek, you would need to check their website, and spoiler, their website is ). This is a treasure hunt. And there is no guarantee for treasure... If you really need native Windows XP, you need to find something older, or something with better compatibility. If you are talking about VirtualBox that should be a snap. Maybe try only giving it 1 CPU core, that sometimes fixes a few issues. I have never had issues getting Windows XP to run in VirtualBox. I am running the older Windows 2000 without a problem right now for some old software.

@pre_parzivalYes, that is still very good to use

My PC is packing a 5600X and a 6800 XT. Everything at ultra setting @ 1440. No FSR or Ray-traycing. If I am in a less crowded area i get around 100-140 FPS. If crowded, it does dip to 50-60 FPS. I generally see vram usage of 9 to 12 GB. I have not had any crashes yet, a few stutters when the GPU renders a dense area, or if move a little too fast right after a loading screen. Currently 12 hours in.

I am not in charge with the security, and honestly, network security is not my specialty. I am just responsible for doing the work

I am in luck, I have and old router lying around that will tell me what the MAC adress is. Thank you for that idea These devices do not randomize the MAC adress, we have looked through the specs of the device to determine that. Only devices with an approved MAC adress is allowed on our wireless. The rest is a little above my knowledge Thank you for your reply

Hi everyone Hope you can help with this one. At my work, we need devices MAC adress to connect them to our secure wireless network. The device in question is an Interative Touch display from CleverTouch. I just need the devices MAC adress. However no where in the menues will the device give up the MAC adress for the wireless module. And stupidly it is not printed on any labels on the WiFi module or the box of the WiFi module. Does someone know if I setup my PC as a hotspot if I can fish out the MAC adress that way? Or any other workaround that I might be able to do, to get the MAC adress of the WiFi Module? The Clevertouch display is running Android 11, if that helps anyone (Crazy thing is we have a 75" version, that does give the MAC adress in the settings panel, the 86" version does not. And no sorry, the modules are not compatible on the different displays, not to my knowledge anyway)

@James Evens The 4 pins for the RGB is Corsairs own proprietary layout. But you can program each LED individually in iCue. Even for the QL fans which has 36 LEDs (ish, haven't checked the exact number). So I don't know what each of the 4 pins do, but together they handle RGB. The RGB plugs can not be plugged into any other RGB solution, other than Corsairs own control boxes.

Corsair makes their own RGB connector, and requires their control box (Lighting Node Core). Because of this, each of the 8 RGB LEDs can be controlled individually. I should know, I have 6 of these fans in my case . So if you want to buy these fans, you need to buy a starter pack to get the Lighting Node Core, without that, the RGB won't work. One Lighting Node Core can handle up to 6 fans, and require in internal USB 2 header and 1 SATA power. Each of the fans require a 4 pin PWN connection. And you need Corsairs iCue software to control them.

Seems it is not. But I have had Tidal on my pair. And there is a difference. The sound gets a little richer, and details clearer.

I actually just read this on Toms Hardware, maybe a follow up review of RX 6000 series GPU's. Compare the performance on new and old drivers, and how AMD stacks up against nVidia. AMD's New Radeon Preview Driver Brings Double-Digit Performance Gains | Tom's Hardware (tomshardware.com)

Exactly my point

I have to agree with If you look at the speed the drive works at in the video, it barely breaks 10 mb/s at 100%. it looks as if it failed, and I would also advise going the RMA route.

Ghostery Privacy Badger uBlock Origin Return YouTube Dislike I don't care about cookies The last is a must for me, no more annoying cookie warnings. I so wish I could get that on my phone.

yea, it is not a perfect solution. But when reinstall is out of the question, that is our options. Just curious, does Safe mode also take this long to boot? Maybe a driver has screwed something up?

Maybe try to update BIOS, and if you already have the latest version, try to do a clear CMOS. I am not sure, but considering the errors you get, I suspect the CPU in some way. The memory errors are just red herring I think. Stupid thing to check maybe, but have some of the thermal paste sneaked into the CPU socket? I have had similar errors previously, and it turned out the CPU was bad. (That was AMD though). How old is the build?

Since it is something that has crept up over time. It could be something broken in software. Have you tried running the command "sfc /scannow" The command will scan Windows to see if anything is wrong.

If you look at my previous post, the reset switch is pictured. Bottom row of pins, pin 3 and 4 from the left.

Surprised to not see this yet. I have clipboard history enabled in Windows, and WIN + V to paste what I have previously copied is huge timesaver for me. Sometimes I if I need it, I copy more than 4-5 things at once, and can then paste them as needed. When Working with colour codes, this is extremely helpful.

And I partly agree with that. Some skills and knowledge carry over. Like the basic understanding of a desktop UI and the navigation of it. Depending on usecase, propably some more skills. Once your apps is installed, using it is not more difficult than Windows, depending on what your use is of course. Surfing and doing e-mail, music etc. is not gonna be way different. It may require you to use some other apps. (These are my findings, YMMV) It is the setting things up and getting things going part that really is entirely different (at least for me). And the only way to learn, is to do, and screw up, so you know what not to do. If you stay away, you will never learn. And as I eluded to in my previous post, I think all techies learned a lot from screwing up, when something was new. Be it an OS, an app or hardware assembly and troubleshoot. So is Linux Windows. Nope. Trying to make it Windows, bad idea, you need some different apps, services and a different mindset. And I hope this video series will show that. If things doesn't work or is difficult beyond reason, it might not be meant to be, or more time to find alternatives is needed. Maybe Linux isn't ready to replace the "default" streamer setup? But I didn't keep all my apps and periphals the same when I went Mac in 2013, and I changed my setup again when I went back to PC in 2019. (I am not a streamer, just for clarification, that is NOT my setup or usecase) Mac just had a less steap learning curve. (At least for me, I know people who would give up on computers and go pen and papir, if Mac was the only other option) I get why people want to try something else than Windows. But for some usecases, the grass is just not greener on the other side. Which is why my desktop is not getting Linux. I wouldn't be able to play more than half my games, I use O365 and that is not gonna fly on Linux, though I did get OneDrive up and running. (Hence my trip to the CLI, was fun to try, even though I didn't understand much) and I haven't had time to look for alternatives to all my apps yet. That journey is still ahead of me. It is just my laptop I installed Linux on, which is mostly just a tool for troubleshooting other peoples problems, when I go IT-guy for friends and family (web-search and driver download mostly), and then I use it for some surfing and YT when I kickback in my couch. And for that, Linux can easily do what I need. And it is fun to try. I wanna learn. Simple as that.

I have decided to give Linux a try, so my Laptop got its Windows install yeeted and is now running Mint. I had some apps I wanted, and yup, Google pointet me to CLI solutions. And did I copy them, execute them without reading any of the warnings. Yes. Did anything break. Nope, cause warnings is just a part of OS'es today, and they are not always actual warnings. Just little heads-ups. Sometimes, as seen, you should have payed more attention, cause the warnings was serious. But all techies, be honest, isn't that how you learned a lot, when things were new? I picked the most recent solution I could find on the first 2-3 pages of the Google search, and expected the writers of the advice, to know what they were doing, so I didn't have to. Because that is what I expect when arriving on a tech forum. If that is wrong, well that is my lesson then. Some forums are better than others. And figuring that out, is just a part of the learning curve. For any OS btw. I can build PC's in my sleep, I do Windows reinstalls in my actual sleep. I do a bunch of batch scripts to automate some boring and repetative tasks. And yet I don't know a thing about the Linux CLI, I am learning by doing. Those two skills are very seperate, and I don't think just because you can do one, you can do the other. You need to seperate it. Also, if all people have done is download and install software on windows, and never needed to touched CLI. Trying Linux CLI as the first, it's gonna be a bit of a crash course. And if something that should have been done easily in GUI doesn't work, or they go a little off the beaten path, they will eventually get pointed towards the CLI to do some things. And I get it after a few days on linux, I wish something like apt-get would be on Windows for the mouintain of software I install, just copying a command into CMD and it installs 30+ apps in one unattended go, while I can do other things, that would be fantastic. But apt-get is about the only command I am starting to get comfortable with so far. Everything else i just copy paste. And I have no idea what I am doing. If it breaks, it breaks, and I get to learn how to fix it, which is how I have learned most of what I know today. And for perspective, I started out in the Win95 days with boot floppys and CLI for formatting and installing Windows, and I learnt that when I was 8-9 years old, by looking over the shoulder of our neighbor. And the Linux CLI is still mostly a mystery for me. (Fair enough I can't figure out powershell quite yet either, maybe they are just not made for my brain, and that is fine. I also haven't really gone to big efforts yet for powershell, since regular old CMD still does it for my usecases) And other than the initial setup of my laptop on Linux, I might not need the terminal again anytime soon, so I may not need to know more about the terminal right now. That is what a long term test is for . And if I re-install windows on it, I don't have to dye my hair

Several ways to do it. If you want to know how. Try to do a search on YouTube for "Audit Deployment". Spoiler, it is a video I made, I am just no sure if I am allowed to post the link to the tutorial I made here. But it does how through how you can customise a Windows install.

I see the difference, question, does it need to be? I should have the cooling to get the frequency higher. My old Ryzen 3600 did stay at 4,1 GHz during full load. (just 0,1 GHz off the boost speed) I know the 5000 series is not the 3000 series. But that still leaves my question, can I get the frequency up in situations of full load? My cooling should be plenty capable of handling it.

These are the numbers during a game of Siege. The average is collected over 30 min.