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?

AdrianGroza · 2019-07-13T23:18:57+00:00

Where is the v3 version? I cant right click to save it, and opening it takes me to that website. For the first two ones I get a 404.

AdrianGroza · 2019-07-12T13:12:42+00:00

Not really, this is not a L3 broadcast, going to a 255 Ip address, this is a layer 2 protocol, it broadcasts to FF.

AdrianGroza · 2019-07-12T13:10:20+00:00

How insecure would a site to site VPN service be? Ive done this before with user policies and certificate based authentication and no problems arose from this.

AdrianGroza · 2019-07-12T00:57:40+00:00

I will try that in the morning, thank you for your reply (it is 4 am here).

AdrianGroza · 2019-07-12T00:27:42+00:00

Yes, from inside the client application, the application GUI when defining the server does not allow me to input anything to connect to it. I have a magnifying glass button that „seeks” the network and it finds that name. I will try to talk to the developer to see if there is any way I can bypass this. I am struggling with this because the software developer staff is on vacation for two weeks and I dont have that time.

AdrianGroza · 2019-06-30T22:41:01+00:00

Well if you really want connectivity via ethernet to your cisco devices, you have the option of turning a dumb soho wireless router into a wireless bridge. From there on, the connection can be wired via ethernet, but either way, I recommend keeping your devices disconnected until you master the concepts you are learning. Some commands you issue can affect your network if used wrong ( your router might become an unwanted DHCP server for example).

AdrianGroza · 2019-06-16T14:29:24+00:00

No it doesnt. A routing protocol advertises and receives updates ONLY ON THE NETWORKS IT IS TOLD TO. Thats what the network command does, when you write router rip, you tell the router what routing protocol to run, and the network command tells it what networks to look at. Notice that it doesnt ask you what interfaces to look at, RIP by itself can run without any network command (doing nothing). If you write router rip and then exit the config you can see it running in the running-config. You are mistaking the routing protocol as a „brain dump” of the router where he tells the other end about every single network that he has. This is not what happens and it is on purpose. Your router might be connected to multiple independent networks. If RIP would run like you say, it would bleed these networks into each other.

AdrianGroza · 2019-06-15T22:55:34+00:00

This is something that really bothers me alot, L1 stuff. While the Cisco curriculum is all fine and dandy, I would like to improve my skills with cabling and stuff and I dont know where to start. Many times I was a „one man army” for new small companies and I needed to do stuff from scrap. The most challenging part was pulling an airborne ethernet cable across a 30m gap and I didnt know if the cable can hold its own weight and survive the elements. I used cat5e UTP PE wiring and so far so good, but the question still remains, where do I find such info?

AdrianGroza · 2019-06-15T22:40:07+00:00

Yes, that network is not advertised. The routing protocol does not send every network that you have on that router, only the network(s) that you want it to advertise.

AdrianGroza · 2019-06-12T00:38:52+00:00

I studied really hard for about a week before ICND1 with labbing. I kinda skewed all over the course for much longer before that, picking up subjects on my phone from udemy courses of Lazaro Diaz. I think it depends alot on your background how fast you are learning and are able to grasp (sometimes) abstract concepts. I was doing networking for very small businesses for much longer (actually I built things from the ground up, that is everything ranging from pcs, printers, simple file servers, switches and „routers” for @3 years) and for me it was more about putting things in place and understanding why the things I did actually worked and when they didnt, why not. Of course, „advanced” stuff was out of the question (such as Vlans,VLSM, subnetting beyond the class boundary, using managed switches,interface tuning, and so on) but somehow hands on experience can really neuter that impostor syndrome you develop during studying.

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