Nano Adam

Thanks for your answer! Those "malware" sites I am well aware of lol. I avoided those for sure, and if I remember correctly was checking a forum post on Microsoft, and toms-hardware. Mostly they pushed towards DriverVerifier but I am not gonna try to run that because it might take hours to diagnose the driver in which I don't have the time simply for that. The laptop is sadly a single 8gb stick or I first thing for sure would have tried it. Oh well. I don't really know what to do at this point because I wouldn't trust a repair shop unless it was absolutely necessary and reliable ones go way out of budget. Thanks anyway! If there is anything else to chime in, feel free to do so!

For some context, this laptop is my secondary one so there is not much mission critical needs here. The laptop is an HP Pavilion cs-0064st with i7-8550u, 8GB ram, 1TB HDD and 16GB Optane Memory. I was already getting BSOD's in Windows 10 for a while around Jun of last year, but then they stopped randomly and for about 5 months I had a very smooth experience. Now just about last week, I started getting those BSOD's again. The error codes were I believe: SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION and MEMORY_MANAGEMENT. Upon Googling them, I would find hints toward driver issues. So this weekend I decide to tackle the issues with a clean install of Windows 10. And things do downfall here. 1. The Windows 10 Installer gives me an error and says there might be something wrong with my USB. 2. I install Windows 11 which successfully installs but I get like 5 BSOD's even one during the setup process. One BSOD was in Edge: `STATUS_STACK_BUFFER_OVERRUN`. Then the rest were just normal OS tasks: `SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION`, `KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED`, `MEMORY_MANAGEMENT` and `KERNEL_SECURITY_CHECK_FAILURE`. 3. I try installing Ubuntu 18.04 which gets installed but can't perform package updates and has issues. But based on past experience I try upgrading to 20.04 which fails through. I can't do clean install 20.04 because of Optane RST issues. 4. Finally I did Cloudready Chromium OS which just killed browser processes randomly every few minutes. The "Aw Snap!" pages were: `SIGSEGV` and `SIGILL`. Just to mention, a big reason why I was able to sustain through all these OS installs and errors is because I do programming so jumping back in and fixing and retrying were already part of me, and didn't get me annoyed or anything lol! And I did Google most of the errors and couldn't match up the scenario. Hopefully the community can help out get this laptop maybe back up and running to a 99% stable point because as a student this laptop was within a budget range which is why I was willing to take it to and from school. But if I can't, not a big issue because all my tasks can still get done!

Timer set by [SERVICE] \Device\HarddiskVolume3\Windows\System32\svchost.exe (SystemEventsBroker) expires at 6:59:25 PM on 12/31/2020. Reason: Windows will execute 'Maintenance Activator' scheduled task that requested waking the computer. Timer set by [PROCESS] \Device\HarddiskVolume3\Windows\SystemApps\Microsoft.Windows.StartMenuExperienceHost_cw5n1h2txyewy\StartMenuExperienceHost.exe expires at 6:48:05 PM on 12/31/2020.

It doesn't go back to sleep, I let it do its thing for about 7-8 hours, and it was still awake.

Here is the situation. The computer put to sleep around 10 PM. Then randomly at night, the computer will start up. However... there is no display output, the mouse/keyboard don't receive power, so my only option is to force restart with the power button. I have checked this with network plugged in or plugged out, no difference. I have reinstalled windows and still same issue. Any suggestions will be welcome!

A simple google search about 60db would have helped.

I just rememberd. So first I put PopOS, then I decided to put Zorin OS on it. Before I installed Zorin OS, I didn't remember that I needed RST in Zorin, but I remember seeing an option in the bios to turn it on/off, so maybe I install Windows, I might get that option back.

ooof. I hope there is an update on this in the future.

k. Do you think booting into windows, and enabling/disabling inside of Windows 10 could help?

Took pictures of the Bios.

In Bios I see: - Main - Security - System Configuration - Language ... - Boot Options - USB Boot - Network Boot - Network Boot Protocol - Legacy Support - Secure Boot - UEFI Device Config - Intel Rapid Storage Technology - SATA 0.0 HGST .... 931.5GB - PCIe 1.0, INtel .... 13.4 GB Then clicking on the drives just reveal info, and no way to change anything.

sda 8:0 0 931.5G 0 disk ├─sda1 8:1 0 512M 0 part /boot/efi └─sda2 8:2 0 931G 0 part ├─elementary--vg-root 253:0 0 930.1G 0 lvm / └─elementary--vg-swap_1 253:1 0 976M 0 lvm [SWAP] And.... 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v6/7th Gen Core Processor Host Bridge/DRAM Registers (rev 08) 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation UHD Graphics 620 (rev 07) 00:04.0 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v5/E3-1500 v5/6th Gen Core Processor Thermal Subsystem (rev 08) 00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP USB 3.0 xHCI Controller (rev 21) 00:14.2 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP Thermal subsystem (rev 21) 00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP CSME HECI #1 (rev 21) 00:17.0 RAID bus controller: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile SATA Controller [RAID mode] (rev 21) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP PCI Express Root Port #1 (rev f1) 00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP PCI Express Root Port #5 (rev f1) 00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP PCI Express Root Port #6 (rev f1) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Intel(R) 100 Series Chipset Family LPC Controller/eSPI Controller - 9D4E (rev 21) 00:1f.2 Memory controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP PMC (rev 21) 00:1f.3 Audio device: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP HD Audio (rev 21) 00:1f.4 SMBus: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP SMBus (rev 21) 02:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wireless 7265 (rev 59) 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 15)

The problem is that I cannot see it in the OS. (Elementary OS) The bios ain't giving me an option either.

I am trying to use another OS besides Windows, and I want to use it as a separate drive.

I am trying to make Optane Memory act as an SSD, but in the bios, I see the "Intel Rapid Technology" option, but inside of it, it shows my HDD and the 13.2 GB drive, but when I click on them, it doesn't give me any other option. I have a HP laptop, cs0006st. I have read many HP forum posts, and can't seem to find a solution. Hopefully someone here may have some knowledge on this.

Ah, thanks for clarifying that. I actually normally use Etcher to create Linux usb.

Yes you can. You can use a software like Baleena Etcher to do so. Just download the ISO from the web, then put your USB, then select the flash drive in Baleena Etcher and go!

For ethical hacking, I don't really do, so I won't have much knowledge about that. Sorry.

For programming you don't need powerful machines, unless you are doing like machine learning and training models.

Kinda hard to find a laptop with Kali Linux, but any normal Windows Laptop can get Kali Linux

What cache method would you suggest for Ubuntu.

I would, but that won't be cost effective as I use the laptop rarely. Long boot times didn't affect me much before, but after I started using Mac's with SSD's and all, it kinda broke my habit of waiting for laptops to boot.

Would using it as cache for Ubuntu speed up the boot time?

In my laptop I have a 16gb Intel Optane. Now I am using Linux and with a 1 TB hard drive, Linux boots very slowly (Ubuntu). Is there a way I can use the Intel Optane Memory module as a normal SSD or as a high speed storage, so I can boot Ubuntu from the Optane instead of Hard Drive. Thanks!

On the PC, check if the gateway address is fine or something. Can you ping your router/gateway?