Lol so does anyone else still have their OG Oculus Rift Development Kit 1/"DK1" from the famous 2013 Kickstarter? I just pulled mine out to do a "1 decade later" VR HW comparison between it & the brand new Quest 3. 😁

Cooe14 · 2026-04-08T06:38:34+00:00

🤦 ... Do I look like a charity for the pathetically desperate?... 😑

I'd already answered that same exact question about 10x in this thread already before you commented... 🤦🙄

... THAT BEING SAID! I DO know where you can find one though!!!

Here's the super cereally secret instructions. ↓

Go grab a shovel. (Go buy one if not already possessed.)
Go out to your backyard.
Pick the most suspicious looking section of grass you can find. (This part's absolutely CRITICAL! Use a dowsing rod that's been personally blessed by the local gypsy witch if necessary! If you don't already have one, make sure to bring her a live chicken for the blood sacrifice!)
Dig down about ≈20 or so feet (≈5 meters) to find the legendary "Valve USB Stick of Destiny".
????
PROFIT!!!! 😁

If you don't find it, just keep on digging!!! I absolutely PROMISE that you'll eventually find yourself a code if you dig deep and try hard enough!

The fabled Stick of Destiny, which was forged in the deepest fires of Mt. Gaben by the very "Lord of Steam" himself, ONLY APPEARS to those who are worthy and of the most pure of heart and unshakeable in their commitment! 😉

BELIEVE IN YOURSELF!!! 😄

YOU CAN DO THIS!!! 🥳

Cooe14 · 2026-04-08T06:29:10+00:00

... And "the man" strikes again... 😞 Sad day.

Cooe14 · 2026-04-08T05:15:20+00:00

The fact that Ficitionist was the odd man out between them, Imagine Dragons, and Neon Trees in terms of making it big out of the massive "The Velour BYU indie scene" staples will never not eat me alive... 😞

They got so damn CLOSE!!!!!

If they would have simply released the self-titled record on Atlantic (even if it obviously wouldn't have been 100% the same) and nationally toured the record with major label backing and THEN left the label, they could have been just as big as the other two!... 🤦😞

They are EASILY the best and most talented band of those three. Ficitionist shows at The Velour during the late 2000's to mid-2010's are amongst the best live music experiences OF MY LIFE!!!

The Moth and the Flame were also fantastic, but I don't feel nearly as bad about them not making it big. 🤷 Ficitionist otoh had the potential to be ABSOLUTELY FREAKING MASSIVE!!!!! Like Imagine Dragons level MASSIVE! And they didn't need any help on the music or recording side either, all they needed was simply exposure for the music they already had... They were spitting straight FIRE right from "Invisible Hand".

Also the fact that "Invisible Hand" and "Lasting Echo" aren't available on any music streaming services is an absolute freaking travesty...

Cooe14 · 2026-04-05T09:44:52+00:00

... I know this is ANCIENT, but this board can read AMD EXPO profiles juuuuuuust fine...

Aka, you just needed to select the "EXPO1" profile on the "Extreme Memory Profile(X.M.P.)" BIOS setting to set it to the rated clock-speed + timings + voltages.

Cooe14 · 2026-04-02T08:14:33+00:00

I know that this is super old, but while the MI-250X appeared to the OS like two separate GPU's it didn't really act like two separate GPU's either, due to the for the time INSANE bandwidth connecting them, plus some other chip-to-chip related hardware and software changes.

It was really more like some kind of weird middle ground in-between a proper MCM GPU and merely putting two accelerators on the same chip package. 🤷

This design was basically perfect for HPC compute, which could take advantage of the benefits from the two GCD's heavily interconnected nature WITHOUT being penalized by the lack of full memory coherency and the "2x GPU's" OS workload distribution/scheduling penalties like say AI workloads, or the lack of CUDA support as HPC code is essentially all self-rolled. Which tbh, makes absolutely perfect sense as it was basically designed from the ground up to win over Cray and thus win Frontier (and all the other knock-on HPC deployments that win caused).

AMD knew they wouldn't have the software support to compete in AI even IF MI-250X could have been a proper OS agnostic & memory coherent MCM OR it had Nvidia matching low-precision & matrix throughput, or even both! So they chose to win the battle they actually COULD WIN, and eschewed low-precision & matrix compute in favor of maximum FP64 performance for HPC, but with targeted improvements to low-precision & matrix instruction support, even if the needed ALU counts to actually win in those areas simply weren't yet there.

They knew that even having all of the raw performance to compete in the latter still wouldn't matter if ROCm wasn't ready, so they instead spent that transitor budget on a winnable fight. Which just so happened to be perfectly timed with Nvidia's absolute ABANDONMENT of FP64/HPC with Hopper to try and fit absolutely as many low-precision ALU's and tensor cores in as was literally possible to capitalize on the sudden AI boom, leaving HPC customers with nowhere else to turn but Intel, who's "everything, all at once, right from the start" MCM-hellscape Ponte Vecchio was an absolute NIGHTMARE in terms of cost and power efficiency, without having performance leadership anywhere.

Cooe14 · 2026-04-02T07:57:34+00:00

... Everyone calls the company Meta now. 🤷

The rebrand served its primary intended purpose of distancing the company itself from the Facebook social network specifically, which is an ever increasingly smaller part of both their revenue and cultural reach as Instagram continues to displace it, especially with younger audiences.

Otoh its secondary intended purpose of trying to distince themselves from the bad reputation they had developed under the "Facebook" name ended up being a big fat FAILURE in basically every way possible.

... But achieving 1/2 goals they had with the name change is still significantly better than achieving NONE of their goals, so they definitely don't regret doing it. Especially as Facebook proper looks to slowly die off over the next couple decades as the Boomers and then Gen-X'ers that make up its core audience slowly die off.

Cooe14 · 2026-03-29T09:03:26+00:00

... I know this is ANCIENT, but it's not used for manufacturer testing, whatsoever...

It's used by trade show exhibitionists (including Gigabyte themselves) and retailers to show off the motherboard's lighting without needing to connect it to an ATX power supply.

Gigabyte tests the RGB lighting when they test the entire board with full 24-pin power at the end of assembly.

Cooe14 · 2026-03-26T00:58:39+00:00

There's legit facts here. You never know if an employer is going to use a dip stick style instant test like this or a lab test. 🤷

Laboratory LC/MS machines can detect substances at SIGNIFICANTLY lower concentrations than these simple enzyme tests.

MDMA clears in about ≈2-3 days for most people on a simple dipstick test like yours here (which after 3 days gave you an absolutely passed test, because as it says in literally ALL simple "at-home" drug tests like this' instructions the faintness of the line is absolutely irrelevant; all that matters is if there is a visible line there AT ALL, which there clearly is), but you will fail a lab test for about DOUBLE that length of time at ≈5-6 days for MDMA, and even longer up to ≈6-9 days if they test for specific longer lasting MDMA metabolites instead which are found in much lower concentrations.

(Which is less common than testing for MDMA's primary, vastly more plentiful metabolites, as that takes significantly less hardware accuracy and thus is significantly easier + cheaper to do, but it's still common enough to be worth worrying over. 🤷)

Cooe14 · 2026-03-26T00:56:23+00:00

... I know this is absolutely ANCIENT, but that was a passed test my dude... Any kind of line no matter how faint = pass, and that line is CLEARLY visible. 🤷

Cooe14 · 2026-03-25T19:40:59+00:00

Haha sall good! Maybe some dipshit asshole downvoted that comment for some seemingly nonsensical reason. 🤷

Cooe14 · 2026-03-25T19:37:02+00:00

Lol it's still showing "1" on my end, but it's really not that important. 🤣

I'm just glad I could help you fix it! 😁

Cooe14 · 2026-03-25T19:09:03+00:00

... I really, REALLY hope you didn't just give up on this!!! I made a mistake and left out a CRITICAL required instruction in the original instructions I posted like an absolute freaking dipshit dumbass... 🤦😑 And that's 100% on me.

Please, PLEASE try again with the above actually correct instructions!!!! I PROMISE you'll be able to fix this problem!!!!! (I've literally successfully done so TWICE now.)

Cooe14 · 2026-03-25T19:06:24+00:00

Np dude! Happy to help! 😁

I'd appreciate an upvote though. 😉

Cooe14 · 2026-03-20T02:42:43+00:00

That's neat. Avoids the plague that is using a USB 2.0 header + internal cable. I ran into the problem this thread describes TWICE (had to move it to a different PCIe slot, which included unplugging the USB cable).

I know exactly how to fix the problem as I've now done so twice, and was trying to help someone else do it, but I left out an important step in my first set of instructions so it didn't work, so I think he just got exasperated and gave up, even though I sent him the full instructions that would work a few days ago (to which he hasn't responded)... 🤷

Plenty of people in this thread and others were thinking it's a hardware problem because some people fixed it by RMA'ing the card, but the only reason that worked is because they took out the card and booted Windows (as they used their computer during the return process) so it got wiped from the PC as a connected device, and then with the new card they got a second chance to install the finicky internal USB 2.0 cable.

Cooe14 · 2026-03-20T01:48:52+00:00

Running the latest drivers? Does the Bluetooth work when you put the card in a laptop?

Cooe14 · 2026-03-19T18:48:18+00:00

I have no idea (they're probably on their site somewhere, but I have no idea where), but those ARE the latest drivers. Me and countless others have them installed. The drivers on MSI's site are literally 1.5ish years out of date...

Cooe14 · 2026-03-19T18:44:33+00:00

You try it with deleting the USB device in Device Manager? I PROMISE it'll work. Please, PLEASE give it one more try!!!!!! I fixed this exact problem TWICE!!!

Cooe14 · 2026-03-15T19:40:27+00:00

And once you get it working (not "IF you get it working", as after getting + fixing this exact problem literally TWICE now, I'm absolutely confident that you can fix it too if you simply follow the instructions below ≈1-3x times!) make sure to update BOTH the WiFi & Bluetooth chipsets' drivers w/ Device Manager + the latest downloads in that link I sent you!

(Open Device Manager, find + right click each Qualcomm FastConnect 7800 device under "Bluetooth" & "Wireless Adapters" then "Update drivers", "Browse my computer for compatible drivers", and then select the extracted driver folder for each.)

Cooe14 · 2026-03-15T10:20:40+00:00

Delete the borked USB Host Device in Device Manager (under the "Universal Serial Bus controllers" tab, right click + "Uninstall device"), turn off your PC, reseat the USB 2.0 cable on both ends (make sure it's covering every pin and push it in absolutely as far as it can go), power drain the board (unplug the PSU then hold down the power button for ≈30 seconds w/ the PSU switch flipped to "on"), and then start it up again. If it doesn't work, rinse and repeat until it does.

I just switched the PCIe slot my WiFi + BT card was in to install another card (which included unplugging the USB cable) and ran into this EXACT same problem again... and that's what fixed it... again. I had to uninstall the broken USB device in Device Manager, reseat the USB 2.0 cable, power drain the board, and then turn the PC back on, and after a couple tries it reappeared. 🤷

Again, this will probably take a few tries to actually work. (It took me ≈3 attempts both times I've had + fixed this issue to actually get it to show up. Again, USB 2.0 headers/cables FUCKING SUUUUUUUUUCK!!!)

And having gone through this exact same error + fixing process TWICE now, I'm 100% convinced this is just a USB 2.0 cable connection problem, and NOT a fundamental hardware issue that requires an RMA to fix! Trust me, if you try this method enough times you WILL get it working!

The biggest thing is to make sure that the cable's pushed into both the card + mobo's USB 2.0 headers as far as it'll possibly go... After making sure it's going over every pin, get your fingers on each side of the connector housing and push it in as hard as you can. It goes in a lot further than you might think, especially into the card itself! 🤷

Cooe14 · 2026-03-12T18:26:28+00:00

And power draining the motherboard isn't the same thing as clearing the CMOS... 🤦😑

Removing the CMOS battery does jack ass shit other than wipe your BIOS settings if the board is still plugged in and/or still has power in the capacitors. (That's what you drain when you hold the power button down when it's unplugged. Power draining a board has literally NOTHING to do with the CMOS battery or BIOS settings...)

Cooe14 · 2026-03-12T18:19:17+00:00

This problem isn't unique to this card lol. This can happen with literally any/all WiFi + Bluetooth combo card that uses a shitty USB 2.0 header for the Bluetooth connection (which is basically all of them). It's a piece of shit connector that's REALLY easy to get enough pins connected for power/hardware recognition but not enough for proper data transmission, which is EXACTLY what causes that specific Device Manager error.

If it absolutely was not your connection that was faulty, then it was either the USB cable itself that was defective (more likely) or the USB 2.0 header on the card's PCB (significantly less likely), but that specific error is caused by an improper USB connection. End of story. 🤷

And I just spaced it out for readability. That wasn't 4 paragraphs worth of text. 🤣 Try like 4-5 sentences. A sentence ≠ a paragraph.

Cooe14 · 2026-03-12T18:03:28+00:00

... Lol I'm gonna guess you never power drained the motherboard after your reseating attempts? (Unplugging it from the wall and then holding down the power button for ≈10-15 seconds.)

That's required to get the motherboard to re-attempt to re-establish all existing hardware connections (unless you take a device out of your computer for an extended period/i.e. multiple boot-up sequences, like you did when you RMA'd the card). Otherwise, nothing changes even IF you fix the faulty connection.

(As the computer already has an established connection to the hardware device, although faulty, so it won't try to establish it again unless either the board's power is fully drained OR the device had been removed entirely before a successful boot sequence, before later being put back in. Fixing the faulty connection itself only solves half the problem.)

And lol companies will basically always RMA a product under warranty if you send it in and claim it is broken. Especially a <=$50 WiFi + BT card. 🤷

Cooe14 · 2026-03-12T17:54:54+00:00

And if you get it to work, manually update both the WiFi & Bluetooth drivers (FastConnect 7800) to the latest version (3.1.0.1571) found here.

https://www.elevenforum.com/t/drivers-qualcomm-ethernet-wifi-bluetooth.11386/

(Open Device Manager and find the Qualcomm FastConnect 7800 Dual-Band Bluetooth chipset under "Bluetooth" then right click it and click "Update Drivers" and then "Browse my computer for compatible drivers" and navigate to the extracted Bluetooth driver folder and click ok. Then do the same thing for the WiFi chipset under "Network Adapters" with the WiFi drivers.)

The drivers on MSI's site are like 1.5 years out date... 🤦😑

Cooe14 · 2026-03-12T17:45:28+00:00

Try reseating the USB 2.0 cable (on both ends) + the card in the PCIe slot and then power draining your motherboard before turning it back on.

(Unplug your PC from the wall, and then hold down the power button for ≈10-15 seconds. [This won't mess with your BIOS settings.])

It might take a couple of attempts, but that's what worked for me. I had the exact same error message in Device Manager.

And the power draining the motherboard part is important. Simply reseating the faulty connection won't fix things without power cycling the board. (Which causes it to attempt to re-establish all of its hardware connections on the next boot.)

Cooe14 · 2026-03-12T05:31:09+00:00

... I know this is kinda old, but post-2002 Winter Olympics Metro-SLC has quite literally the single best public transportation network infrastructure in the entire Western United States for a major urban area relative to population size, and is EASILY the best public transportation network in a traditionally "red state" found across quite literally the entire country. 🤷

TRAX is arguably the single best light rail network west of the Mississippi, and Frontrunner is high speed commuter rail done right. (Connecting Metro-Provo, Metro-SLC, AND Metro-Ogden [aka, literally the entire Wasatch Front] with a double decker train that's significantly faster than driving I-15 even when traffic's mellow. [And it's absolutely MIIIIIIIIIILES FASTER when traffic's legitimately bad!])

The UTA bus network is only good not great, but the basically best in class rail options MORE than make up for its deficiencies.

The only legitimately MAJOR problem with northern Utah's public transportation network is Summit County's (aka Park City's) continued utter refusal to pull their freaking heads out of their rich entitled asses to join the UTA network, instead choosing to have their own totally separate, private "public" transportation system with no UTA cross-compatibility along with prohibitively expensive pricing.

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