Leonito

Unfortunately I've had the issue for a few months so I've been through multiple updates and reverting isn't an option anymore. Do you really think a clean windows install would help with the boot issues ?

Hi, my issue is a bit weird and complicated as it manifests in different ways, so sorry if this is some parts are unclear ! I'm having a few different issues on my PC, mostly on reboots. I think they're all linked in some way, but I can't put my finger on the exact cause. Here are the symptoms : every time I start a windows update, the reboot fails : the PC shuts down, then starts again but gets stuck in what I assume is memory training (DRAM LED is on and nothing happens) but never completes, even after a forced reboot. To get out of this, I have to : 1) force shutdown the pc 2) remove one of my two RAM sticks 3) reboot, I get a "Boot failure detected" message 4) enter BIOS, don't change anything, save and shutdown 5) put the second stick back in 6) reboot, enter bios, save and reboot, windows finally starts. This issue also can happen on "normal" reboots, but so far only update-triggered reboots have been 100% reliable in causing it. Sometimes, but it's become rarer these last weeks, I just get a "boot failure detected" out of the blue. I just have to enter the bios, change nothing, save and exit and it starts fine. Sometimes after a reboot, my fans (both CPU and case, all are directly wired to the MB) start spinning at full speed, even though fan curves are set in the BIOS. Since I use FanControl they go back to acceptable speeds once windows starts, but the entire startup phase is quite loud At some point I also had a few BSODs, either VIDEO_SCHEDULER_INTERNAL_ERROR or PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA, unfortunately I don't have the minidumps anymore, though I didn't get any recently so yay ? Sometimes after booting in Windows, I get a few graphical glitches : green bands on the login screen, then everything is really laggy (mouse movement, video playback...) on my main display. Restarting fixes everything, not able to reproduce reliably, didn't happen recently so might have been fixed by a driver update ? Here's what I know : The issue(s) all started to arise in early January, except for the fans thing, this one's been here for longer I might have updated my BIOS not long before that time, but I'm not sure when exactly. I did update it again multiple times since and the boot issues are still present. Around the time it all started, I had to install/remove lots of Python packages, I can't realy see that being related but it's the only "major" system change that happened then. Here are my specs, including two recent minidumps. PC was built in July of last year. There is a CO offset of -30 on every core for thermals and power consumption. RAM is Corsair Vengeance 6000MT/s with EXPO enabled. Here's what I tried : Obviously I went through the "classic" sfc/DISM/chkdsk in Windows, there were either no issues or they were fixed, running again shows no error Updated my drivers (multiple times for the GPU) as well as BIOS Ran Memtest86+ for almost 24h, it did around 15 passes of all tests, nothing Ran folding@home over night to stress the system (CPU and GPU), it didn't crash or error out Did multiple AV scans, both in Windows and from a live USB, nothing was found Checked my performance both in games and benchmarks, seems fine compared to "before" Ran memtest64 as well as Prime95 large FFTs to test the RAM with a load on the rest of the system, nothing With all of this, I'm leaning towards a motherboard issue or maybe RAM, but I'm really not sure so I'd like some advice before sending anything back under warranty. Thanks for your help !

So I did some more testing, closed even more stuff as before, and I was still at 4GHz while having really low CPU load reported by ThrottleStop (C0%<0.5, almost all cores above C7% 98). But then I toggled Speed shift on (default value was 128) and instantly my CPU dropped to its base clock, while still boosting when needed. I then tried to set the value to 0 or 255 and observe the clock speeds. As expected, at 0 the CPU was always at max speed, and at 255 it went all the way down to 900MHz when idle. I even gained over 200 points in cinebench R23 when it was to 255 (probably because it stayed cooler for a little while before slowing down). Now I just need to find a way for the EPP setting to stay the same after a restart. (I'm not gonna leave it at 255, it was just for testing)

I tried to quit as many background apps as possible (I do tend to have a lot of stuff running constantly...) but it didn't help. In fact, it kind of made things worse, because now instead of being at 3.9GHz on all cores my CPU peaks to 4-4.1GHz on some of them (still while doing absolutely nothing). The weirdest part of it is that as I said, a while ago I was able to change the power management mode and instantly I saw a difference with HWMonitor, cores were boosted only when needed, it was different on each one of them, and I had just as many background tasks before. I'll reinstall windows if I have no choice, but I have a lot of stuff that I need and would have to reinstall so I really hope to find a better solution.

Hi, I have an Acer Nitro5 (AN515-52) laptop with an i7-8750H processor and the CPU is always running at its max speed (it's maxed at 3.9GHz on this model). Although I know it's not bad or dangerous for the CPU itself, it makes it constantly run at 70°C so the fans are always spinning loudly and it consumes a lot of power, even when idling. Even worse, when I actually need CPU power, it's already so hot and the fan speeds so high that it almost instantly throttles down to just over its base clock at ~2.5GHz. Previously I was able to change this through Acer's NitroSense software power management options, but it doesn't work anymore, even after reinstalling it. I checked the power management options of windows, and the CPU minimal state is set to a low percentage. Nothing I did so far, either through windows options or third party software helped and the CPU frequency stays constant under very light loads. The only case in which the CPU decreases its speed is if I unplug the laptop, but then it's just locked at base clock... Do you have any idea of what could be causing this behavior ?

I really think I'm not the only one here with a VMware macOS VM, so if you do have one, could you send me a copy of your vmwarebase.dll file please ? I believe it is the source of the problem. Thanks !

probably not because when I run it the file is downloaded, and placed in \unlocker\tools (doesn't exist before running) In addition to that, I read that the OS list in VMware at the creation of a new VM is modified by vmwarebase.dll (which seems logic to me), so I believe it is the problem, but I can't confirm that.

Hi, I'm on windows 10 and I would like to setup a macOS VM with VMware Workstation 15 Player (I have the mojave .iso) but when I'm running the VMware path it doesn't work. I tried different versions of unlocker, I reinstalled VMware, but each time the "Apple MacOS X" option doesn't appear when creating a VM. I join the console text that I have when running the patch, don't know if it will help. It seems like the vmwarebase.dll isn't changed or that the "darwin" file doesn't exist/isn't extracted from the .tar archive. Hope someone can help, thanks ! logs.txt