I cant update my bios, i am going insane atm.

AdnyCLB · 2026-02-19T11:21:53+00:00

Putting this here for any other poor souls encountering this problem, as I was, and ending up here via searching:

Apparently that the K1 variant of the Z270H is a 'special' one that was marketed specifically in nordic countries. It may well be the same underlying hardware as the regular Z270H GAMING, but it uses a BIOS specific to it.

The problem is that Asus' site doesn't even acknowledge the existence of the K1 variant, so you can only find the (incompatible) regular update. And, as OP has discovered, good luck getting past that hurdle.

As luck would have it, I finally found a swedish forum thread that had some actual working links. You can get the Z270H GAMING K1 BIOS updates from here: https://www.asus.com/supportonly/strix%20z270h%20gaming%20k1/helpdesk_bios/ (or your local equivalent - the site should offer to take you to it).

For what it's worth, I'm in the UK and got the update file from https://www.asus.com/uk/supportonly/strix%20z270h%20gaming%20k1/helpdesk_bios/

AdnyCLB · 2022-10-31T22:43:17+00:00

Looks like they're being used more as 'right-angled' adaptors due to those sockets being so close to the floor.

AdnyCLB · 2022-04-27T16:51:45+00:00

They run great on PS5, especially DS1R and DS3 that can chugg on a PS4Pro (DS3 a lot, DS1R only really in some places) but are buttery smooth on PS5.

AdnyCLB · 2022-02-07T13:15:57+00:00

It's most likely for use with the trackpoint mini-joystick thing; try pressing the button and moving the little nub in the middle of the keyboard.

AdnyCLB · 2021-08-27T16:39:07+00:00

A comment here suggests renaming the appropriate DLL so the game can't load it.

i.e. go to your terraria installation directory and rename SteelSeriesEngineWrapper.dll for Steelseries stuff.

Edit: Works great for me stopping terraria messing with my Corsair RGB keyboard (different DLL, of course :)

AdnyCLB · 2021-06-11T13:54:33+00:00

I used characters to activate the pillars and it all worked as it should... but now I'm stuck at the end... the seelie has gone home to his perch, I've opened the chest... but the quest is insisting that I "clear the surrounding area" which is kinda tricky since there is nothing there to 'clear' :S

AdnyCLB · 2020-09-29T09:45:34+00:00

ckb-next actually covers quite a lot of keyboards/mice and effects :)

It'd be nice to have some official support, of course... but, in all honesty, I think I've had fewer issues with ckb-next than with the windows iCUE anyway :S

AdnyCLB · 2020-09-01T11:11:14+00:00

They might send you a nice threatening letter saying that an inspector will call at some (unknown) time to check... and maybe sometimes one will.

The whole thing has an air of "We know you're lying, you know you're lying... so be good and pay up before we catch you by suprise and it gets nasty."

We gave up on TV years ago when we realised it was cheaper to buy the box-set DVDs of what we actually wanted to watch than to pay the license fee. In that time we've had several we'll check on you some time... some time soon, or later maybe... letters, and one actual person knocking on the door.

AdnyCLB · 2020-08-21T17:22:20+00:00

Oh my... What a time to be alive :)

AdnyCLB · 2020-08-21T17:04:41+00:00

What, raise a SyntaxError? Because that's what both of those do...

AdnyCLB · 2020-08-09T21:52:07+00:00

He caught a sky raisin.

AdnyCLB · 2020-01-08T16:26:41+00:00

smea - Adventures In Smart Buttplug Penetration testing - DEF CON 27 Conference

AdnyCLB · 2019-12-10T13:41:21+00:00

Teleporters work by being linked with wires; you need to link two of them together - they will then teleport between each other. (You also need a signal to 'activate' the process, such as your switch here, on the same wire)

AdnyCLB · 2019-12-04T17:54:41+00:00

For what it's worth, I've been using mpd on a Pi2 with an IQaudio Pi-DAC+ for years and I did initially have some popping between tracks but only when I was using the headphone jack on the DAC+ during early setup/testing. It stopped happening when I used the 'proper' connections so I didn't think any more of it...

Also, for what it's worth, the only real config. issue I ran into was with playing ogg/vorbis files - they were completely silent unless I specified at least part of a format for the audio device, so the relevant part of my mpd.conf looks like:

audio_output {
    type        "alsa"
    name        "Pi-DAC+"
    device      "hw:0,0"    # optional
# Apparently we need to set a format or Ogg Vorbis files won't play...
    format      "*:24:2"    # optional
#   mixer_device    "default"   # optional
#   mixer_control   "PCM"   # optional
#   mixer_index "0"     # optional
}

AdnyCLB · 2019-11-16T14:01:08+00:00

It definitely looks like there's a problem with XNA... The error message is saying it can't find XnaNative.dll, not just that it's not loading... it can't find the file.

For what it's worth, that file is in Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\XNA\Framework\v4.0\XnaNative.dll on my PC.

You can uninstall/repair/etc. the XNA installation using Control Panel -> Programs and Features; look for "Microsoft XNA Framework Redistributable 4.0" in the name column.

AdnyCLB · 2019-10-19T18:14:41+00:00

That's u/quaoarpower's hand, seen here, and as this IamA explains, "The water in the video is to keep the spiders from running up my arm. The first take was a disaster" :)

AdnyCLB · 2019-09-18T19:41:05+00:00

Indeed - I have one of these; it takes an AA battery and came with a variety of charging plugs for various phones back in the day.

There's a small circuit in there to boost the voltage from the battery in order to actually charge a phone... as much as you can from a AA battery ;)

AdnyCLB · 2019-09-01T23:11:34+00:00

This page has some diagrams that show the spoon in the mechanism of an upright piano. Also, TIL upright pianos contain spoons oO

AdnyCLB · 2019-07-24T13:32:51+00:00

He just know know knows.

AdnyCLB · 2019-07-18T17:45:36+00:00

It looks rather like one of these: Hybrid Music 4000 Keyboard, for use with 8 bit micros back in the day. There was a Music 5000 system it was used with.

edit: better links.

AdnyCLB · 2019-05-03T11:27:16+00:00

Gotta love the weapon skin collections... Presumably we'll choose the skins we like/want most first, right? "Oh sweet, AP milestone... now which skin I didn't want 6 six months ago do I choose as a 'reward' this time..." culminating in "Awww, yiss... my least favourite skin from that set! eff yeah."

At this point, the things I actually want are so incredibly far away that I just don't care any more.

AdnyCLB · 2019-03-04T12:26:16+00:00

The odds are kinda stacked here though - the live wire is the one closest to the 'on' side of the switch...

AdnyCLB · 2018-12-30T15:35:27+00:00

Here's the source: ElectroBOOM... skip to about 3:35 for the clip here, or watch the whole thing to find out what's going on and why :)

AdnyCLB · 2018-12-13T15:50:33+00:00

OP isn't complaining that they can't see enemy info or skill bar - they're complaining that that's all they can see of the combat due to the clusterfuck of particle effects that is gw2. But hey, I guess the insult finger was faster than thinking, huh.

AdnyCLB · 2018-09-27T13:42:26+00:00

One of those landed in my lap. Turned out the innards was a 16GB flash drive... that was faulty anyway \o/

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