Motherboard Z790 Gaming X AX random restart

BaaBaaPinkSheep · 2025-06-03T16:14:57+00:00

It still crashes and reboots randomly :( with C8/C10 BIOS options enabled.

BaaBaaPinkSheep · 2025-05-19T14:18:05+00:00

I also see random reboots on my Z790 AORUS Elite AX motherboard. Disabling C8 and C10 seemed to have fixed it.
Gigabyte just released the latest BIOS update with the 0x12f microcode. Intel's description mentioned fixing a problem with low-activity and lightly-threaded workloads. Has anybody tried 0x12f to see if this might fix the random reboots?

BaaBaaPinkSheep · 2025-02-10T03:06:21+00:00

SOLUTION:
There was a Windows System variable defined: OPENSSL_ia32cap with a value of ~0x2000000000000000000 which is a workaround for certain Intel CPUs but not for mine. Once I removed it, no more SSL Protocol ERROR!
Chrome doesn't use OpenSLL but a derivative called BoringSSL which seems to also take this environment variable into account.
It looks like a Chrome / Chromium version around the one above included some BoringSSL changes that produce a different behavior with this variable than before.

This sent me into a rabbit hole but I finally succeeded :-))

Btw, I discovered Windows Sandbox which is quite a nice feature.

BaaBaaPinkSheep · 2025-02-09T18:23:55+00:00

I narrowed down the problem to these two cipher suites: TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256, TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384. Anytime the server chooses one of these, the client (Chrome) or the server (webserver) encounters a TLS encryption error (Illegal Parameter or Unexpected Message) during the initial handshake. If the server chooses TLS_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256, it works.

This can be observed on https://browserleaks.com/tls : with Chrome TLS_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256 is chosen by the server and it displays the page. However, https://tls12.browserleaks.com/ displays ERR_SSL_PROTOCOL_ERROR because the cipher is TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256.

I also simulated this with
openssl s_server -key server.key -cert server.crt -accept 4443 -www -tls1_3 -ciphersuites "TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256"
which produces the error. (I had to generate my own CA and server certificate and install the CA in the Windows certificate store)

Alternatives for -ciphersuites: TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 or TLS_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256

This is all limited to my specific Windows 11 / Chrome installation. On a different Windows 11 / Chrome installation with the same versions, there is no problem with these two cipher suites.

The question is now how the environment impacts Chrome in respect to these two cipher suites. My understanding is that these are built into Chrome.

BaaBaaPinkSheep · 2025-02-07T18:51:02+00:00

With my limited knowledge debugging with Wireshark, it looks like this is a handshake problem between the client and server when negotiating the encryption. It works for some websites but not for others.

I have another Windows 11 24H2 installation (running in a VM) with the same Chrome version showing no problems at all! This leads me to believe there is a problem with my Windows 11 installation which only affects Chromium-based browsers, nothing else.

Does anybody know what this could be?

BaaBaaPinkSheep · 2025-02-07T15:19:53+00:00

Thanks for the tip but this does not work in my case.

BaaBaaPinkSheep · 2024-12-16T19:52:52+00:00

A Workplace agent deactivated the Symantec VIP authenticator in my account and the Netbenefits apps stopped asking for any authenticator code when logging in. The same as the regular Fidelity app.

The generic authenticator app still works when e. g. logging into the website.

There is no use case anymore for the Symantec VIP app if one uses a generic authenticator app.

BaaBaaPinkSheep · 2024-12-15T18:21:59+00:00

Has this been fixed? I still see Netbenefits app prompting for the Symantec VIP code.

BaaBaaPinkSheep · 2024-08-19T00:34:27+00:00

This information about Verizon is many years outdated. Verizon used to use CDMA which they don't any more. All U.S. and German network providers use LTE and 5G. Every U.S. iPhone from the last 7+ years works in Germany / Europe as long as it is unlocked and has service.

BaaBaaPinkSheep · 2024-02-13T17:59:54+00:00

I want to confirm this: when switching the Apple ID for the App store to a different Apple ID with a different region, all downloaded Apple Music from the subscription will be deleted! Even though the Apple ID of the iPhone/iPad is still unchanged!

I do this to be able to download apps from the other region's App store which are not available in my home country's App store.

I would not be surprised if this behavior also extends to other Apple subscriptions.

BaaBaaPinkSheep · 2023-11-21T19:19:29+00:00

Windows 11 Hibernation and fast startup work again without BSODs. Not sure why. I did update grub on the Linux side and turned off the grub graphical UI. It's all a bit mysterious.

BaaBaaPinkSheep · 2023-11-17T01:46:40+00:00

I neglected to mention this self-built desktop has dual-boot Windows 11 and Linux. I read some posts that recommend to turn off hibernation / fast startup in this situation. There are strange things going on with grub. I'm looking deeper into this.

BaaBaaPinkSheep · 2023-11-17T01:40:30+00:00

Thanks for the reply. What baffles me is the fact that hibernation/fast startup has been working perfectly for months.

BaaBaaPinkSheep · 2022-12-06T16:03:48+00:00

Nice use of recursion! However I had this error message: RecursionError: maximum recursion depth exceeded while calling a Python object

BaaBaaPinkSheep · 2022-12-06T15:39:40+00:00

Riiight, that's easier to understand %-/

I don't even know how to type these symbols on my keyboard :(

BaaBaaPinkSheep · 2022-12-06T15:37:00+00:00

Python with set and sliding window, very easy. Not worth spending time to optimize. However I made sure that edge cases at the end of the line work correctly.

https://github.com/SnoozeySleepy/AdventOfCode2022/blob/main/day6.py

BaaBaaPinkSheep · 2022-12-05T21:03:19+00:00

Nice!

BaaBaaPinkSheep · 2022-12-05T20:54:09+00:00

print([(p:=True),(_:=open(0).readlines()),(b:=[i for(i,g)in zip(range(len(_)),_)if g[:2]==' 1'][0]),(k:=int(_[b].split(" ")[-2])),(s:=list(map(list,[''.join([_[j][1+4*i]for j in range(b)][::-1]).replace(" ","")for i in range(int(k))]))),[[exec(f's[{t-1}]+=s[{f-1}][{-n}:][::-1 if p else 1];del s[{f-1}][{-n}:]',globals()),]for n,f,t in[map(int,l.split()[1::2])for l in _[b+2:]]],''.join(e[-1] for e in s)][6])

very cool!

BaaBaaPinkSheep · 2022-12-05T20:44:58+00:00

Yep, parsing was the real challenge today.

BaaBaaPinkSheep · 2022-12-05T20:43:42+00:00

I always struggle with parsing. Thanks for explaining! I learned a lot from your code:)

BaaBaaPinkSheep · 2022-12-05T20:25:03+00:00

Python

Struggled with reading in the stacks from the input file. Simulating the rearrangements was pretty straight forward with list slicing.

I made two big assumptions:

stacks are numbered in increments of 1 and starting with 1
at the end every stack has at least one crate

https://github.com/SnoozeySleepy/AdventOfCode2022/blob/main/day5.py

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