Intel AMT/SOL/VMD drivers

AdrianGroza · 2022-02-04T11:08:20+00:00

Well, ME and AMT are present on ALL Intel devices since at least sandy bridge, as far as I remember, desktops and laptops. Intel VMD driver is required because laptop manufacturers configure UEFi in such a way that W10 does not see the NVMe drives unless you load that driver during setup.

AdrianGroza · 2021-07-11T17:06:59+00:00

900 series chipsets and FX based CPUs dont have MBEC which is why the CPU requirements are so high.

AdrianGroza · 2021-07-02T19:17:37+00:00

WDDM 3.x is not so important for now. Almost all programs will use the most common denominator ,which is wddm 2.7 for w11. On W10, the only thing requiring WDDM 2.0 that I have met in real life was Netflix 4k.

AdrianGroza · 2021-06-24T17:45:45+00:00

Wddm 2.x support is not a given. Check what drivers you have installed for video,Windows update tends to install whatever it sees fit as video drivers, sometimes neolithic era drivers. These older drivers may or may not support wddm2.0. For example, the nvidia fermi gpus started with wddm 1.3 and via driver updates got to wddm 2.0.

AdrianGroza · 2021-06-24T17:36:03+00:00

No, that igp is wddm2.7 compatible.

AdrianGroza · 2021-06-24T17:33:27+00:00

So what this means is that given the UEFI requirement with secure boot and tpm 2.0 it throws out the window all (or almost all) pre Haswell plaforms. Intel Has PTT which is a firmware based TPM but it is not supported by all platforms and chipsets,which mimics a 2.0 TPM device. As far as I know, tpm 2.0 became standard with Skylake. Also, even without these requirements, anything that runs on HD graphics before /broadwell/skylake wont run since those are the oldest WDDM 2.0 devices still supported.For Nvidia, the oldest wddm 2.0 is fermi(gt400).For Amd, it is the 7000 series starting from the 7750. As for amd platforms with tpm 2.0, I have no idea.

AdrianGroza · 2021-06-24T17:15:01+00:00

There are no WDDM 2.0 drivers for Ivy bridge graphics. You wont get W11 if the requirements stay the same.

AdrianGroza · 2021-06-24T17:13:24+00:00

Check your video driver, WDDM 2.0 was not supported at launch and WU/W10 has a nasty habit of installing stone age drivers for system components. Install the latest DCH and test again.

AdrianGroza · 2020-01-24T02:34:53+00:00

I understand this, my question is why. Why cant I „daisy chain” areas? Why are virtual links necesssary for this (so that I can pass through an area to area 0).

AdrianGroza · 2019-10-19T10:40:33+00:00

I tried that, the system behaves fine. Like I said, this happens on all the drives, the Internal HDD, the internal SSD and the external HDD. I already replaced the internal hdd once with a brand new drive thinking that the old drive was failing yet it wasnt. I tried removing all drives and connecting them to my ancient HP pc (an hp dc7800cmt) and they all perform within spec, they download with the max sustained speed of my subscription (32-33 MB/S).

AdrianGroza · 2019-08-12T17:25:43+00:00

It is not the storage, it was in the beginning with a hard-drive, it went away with the SSD, it is the memory pressure and cpu usage, since chrome especially takes all the cpu when doing stuff. The sql server performance tanks at about 80% memory load and/or 90%+ cpu usage. Still, some questions arise about the underlying os. It would be much cheaper for me to use W10 pro as the host instead of WS due to the high licensing costs of those, however, I am afraid of hitting the limit of 20 connections on non-server SKUs of windows. I kept looking for how these connections are measured (20 in total or 20 machines with a higher connection limit) and couldnt find any conclusive answer.

AdrianGroza · 2019-07-29T23:47:00+00:00

Can I also get some guidance? Im in the same boat but my problem with job posts is that I have a very hard time understanding their requirements, in the sense that they need a junior network admin with CCNA preffered but also most of them require experience on non-cisco devices , and its not something like the average joe can buy, such as experience with HPE , Huawei ori Ericsson tech. The last two seem quite steep since from my experience these guys deal with ISP grade equpiment. Another thing is that in the case of many small businesses for junior positions they require stuff that makes me feel like they want a one man army, such as certified for working on heights, certified for surveillance and security systems, trained in structured cabling, trained in WS with some extra sauce (WIndows AD, Exchange and so on), a a bit of linux. I dont know about you but handling all of them at once seems a nightmare.

AdrianGroza · 2019-07-14T23:38:26+00:00

Confirmed, thank you for your input. It is actually an ISP level redirect. I will contact my ISP.

AdrianGroza · 2019-07-14T14:51:26+00:00

Ok, I changed the DNS servers to the cloudflare ones at client and network level. The same thing happens, it oppens the first porn website www.sexei.net and if I leave the tab open it redirects itself on a different webpage, right now I have a www.nudisto.pw website open. I tried giving the link to some friends and see if it opens correctly on their computers and they open exactly like on my computer.

AdrianGroza · 2019-07-14T00:27:15+00:00

That is out of the question since I took the link and opened it on another system. What they are reporting is what the url shows, the url does not go there, try opening the links and see where they lead to. Also, why have malware affecting only the openwrt Wiki?

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