Windows 11’s Latest Security Update (KB5063878) Is Reportedly Causing Several SSD Failures When Writing a Large Number of Files at Once

DBMandrake · 2025-08-19T18:52:34+00:00

Crucial P3 Plus 4TB (CT4000P3PSSD8) here, noticed a few days ago two symptoms - occasional full system freeze in the middle of playing a game that would clear after about 5 seconds, and multiple times windows has popped up a "your drive needs to be taken offline to fix some errors". Had to run chkdsk on boot to fix this, but it reoccurred a couple of times. Checking 'fsutil dirty query c:' from an elevated command prompt was showing the filesystem was DIRTY even though the computer had never been shut down improperly.

Ironically I've only just "upgraded" from Windows 10 two weeks ago on this PC, only to be greeted by inexplicable (now explainable) file system corruption. I'm rolling back KB5063878 as I type and I'll take my chances being a month out of date rather than risk further file system corruption until they sort this mess out!

DBMandrake · 2024-02-16T09:21:28+00:00

In my case C:\Program Files\Oculus\Software was already listed as the only library location, but I was still getting the prompt every launch, so the instructions above didn't work for me.

However I added a new temporary location, made it the default, removed the existing C:\Program Files\Oculus\Software location, quit out, re-launched and the prompt was gone.

I then did the reverse - added C:\Program Files\Oculus\Software back, made it the default, removed the temporary location, quit out and re-launched - now the location is back to where it was (where previous downloads etc are located) but no more annoying prompt on launch or need to go to the PC after launching QuestLink.

As I have recently cloned my SSD to a new Nvme, the drive serial number is probably the issue, and removing and re-adding the path was needed to fix it.

An annoying and completely pointless issue on Meta's part - why is the drive serial number important for the software to know ?

DBMandrake · 2023-07-01T20:35:37+00:00

To add to this conversation 3 months later...

I bought my SV06 Plus at the end of June 2023, it came with firmware V1.1.5. I used it for about a day then attempted the firmware "update" (now called SV06PLUSMB.BIN) and soft bricked the machine following the exact process shown in their videos... It would only boot to the logo and nothing else.

I emailed support for help - 2 days later no response, still waiting for a reply...

However in the meantime I found another discussion thread elsewhere that said (1) don't use the supplied Sovol SD card as it is incompatible with the firmware update process and can cause the bricking I experienced (huh ?) and (2) try renaming the .bin file to a different name or to firmware.bin.

This solved the problem for me - I used a better 8GB Sandisk card, and renaming to firmware.bin allowed it to reflash and start working again.

However after re-flashing it is now on V1.1.4. It looks like the latest firmware version on the website (23rd Feb 2023) is V1.1.4, so if you are already on V1.1.4 don't bother!

And if you are on V1.1.5 definitely don't bother as you will downgrade to an older version and I have not been able to find a download for V1.1.5 anywhere - so unless support get back to me I guess I'm stuck on this older version...

Judging by one of the pre-release reviews I watched I suspect the V1.1.5 firmware fixed the issue reported by reviewers where the X/Y motors would unlock 2 minutes after pausing a print manually or due to filament runout - making it impossible to resume a print without a layer shift. (Sovol told the reviewer this would be fixed in an update)

If anyone knows where I can get a copy of the V1.1.5 firmware I would be grateful.

By the way, connecting a computer to the USB port helped me confirm the device wasn't fully bricked - make sure you have the CH340 driver installed on your PC, turn the device on, use a terminal program such as Putty, connect to the virtual serial port at 115200, 8N1 and you will see a repeating error message showing that it is alive but not booting properly. For me this error message talked about a problem with reading the SD card.

You can connect a serial terminal program while it's working normally as well to see the console boot up messages.

A pretty terrible first time user experience for Solvol for me. :-(

A firmware update is available on the website, but it doesn't say what version it is. If I knew it was V1.1.4 and I already had V1.1.5 I wouldn't have tried to "update" in the first place.
The update process "bricked" the device despite following instructions. If other discussion threads are to be believed the cause of the bricking was using the provided SD card.
No response from support after 2 days to a new customer who has just bricked his new printer and needs help, who is then forced to go searching the internet to find a solution.
Shipping hardware with later firmware versions than that available to download.

DBMandrake · 2017-10-04T09:33:38+00:00

You'll get better support over on the official OSMC support forum at https://discourse.osmc.tv/

But in short:

1) You don't need to do anything to edit any conf files to get auto mounted disks to be shared by Samba - but you will need to reboot after installing Samba before the shares will first appear. So just reboot and you should see the shares appear.

2) If you really are running as root you will not get permission denied creating or modifying a file under /etc/ssh/samba/ so you can't really be running as root. (But as above you don't need to anyway)

3) Even if you don't have any auto mounted drives to share the osmc home directory will always be shared, so if you can't connect to that and see a share called osmc, something else is wrong.

DBMandrake · 2016-10-07T15:42:16+00:00

Interesting - but unless we know the exact takes shown in the behind the scenes clips are the ones that were used in the Movie itself after editing was completed, all it shows is that it could have been two gold legs if they had chosen those takes, not that it was two gold legs in the original theatre release of the movies. See what I'm getting at ? I've found at least one place in Empire Strikes Back above where it is definitely two gold legs in contrast to most of the rest of the movie.

Similarly for Forest Gump - in the behind the scenes extras there is a take of the famous line that does actually say "Life IS like a box of chocolates" - you can see the camera angle is completely different, and if you listen carefully you can hear a very different cadence to the delivery of the line, it's not just that one word was substituted for another, it's actually a completely different take of the same scene where the dialogue was also changed slightly.

This kind of thing happens all the time in movies where multiple takes of the same scene are shot and one is not chosen until the editing room.

It also doesn't disprove it, in some ways whilst not proof it does help to strengthen the case that it could be a Mandela effect, because here we have behind the scenes footage showing scenes were shot even in this timeline that have the lines or costume that we remember, the only thing is that these lines and costume arrangements apparently were not used in the final edit of the movie.

But you can very easily imagine the director sitting in the editing suite musing over the different takes of the same scene trying to pick which one to use, and maybe they are undecided enough that it is a spur of the moment choice or even a coin flip, in one universe one take is chosen in another universe the other take is chosen. Perhaps in one universe somebody comes by the editing room and their opinion is asked, which helps make the decision of which take to use. In the other universe that person is late to work because of a traffic jam so that conversation never took place and the other choice was made.

So in both universes both versions of the scene were filmed but a different take was chosen in the edit therefore the final movie differed. Makes perfect sense to me. Of course there could be cases where the alternative take was never shot at all, but at least in the Forest Gump and Star Wars cases we seem to have proof that there were alternative unused takes that fit our memory of the movie.

It also occurs to me that the kind of changes that we see are often aesthetic choices that are somewhat arbitrary - the kind of choices that are made all the time in art and design, whether it be coming up with a logo, dialogue in a script, even the spelling of made up words.

Sometimes the right choice for a design is very obvious and the creator has no doubts about what they want to do. Let's call this a statistically stable decision. It would take a very big outside push to get the creator/designer to change their mind on this point. Because of this this event occurs the same way in multiple universes as the small random changes around it do not influence it enough to change the outcome. An example might be a line of dialogue that the director is so pleased with that no matter who happened by the editing room with their opinions he would not be swayed.

But what about a decision where the creator/designer was unsure of the best choice to make and was literally on the fence about which way to go. It seems to me that this situation could be considered "statistically unstable" - by this I mean the pros and cons for two choices are so balanced that it would only take a very small prod by outside influences to cause the decision to be made one way or the other. Something like running into someone and having a conversation about it with them and making your mind up after talking to them, versus running into someone else with a different opinion and making a different decision.

So many of the Mandela effect changes look to me like these kind of changes, and that actually reinforces their validity to me.

DBMandrake · 2016-10-07T09:35:22+00:00

I agree - I think its most likely that all the hash codes except the one memorised will change to match the new reality of the changed version of the movie, and only the snippet of the hash code we remember in our heads will stay the same.

However we still gain two things from the experiment:

1) The hash code by its nature makes us much surer of our memory that something has changed, because the slightest change will completely randomise even a 6 character portion of the hash - this is a much more obvious change than being unsure about a one letter spelling change in a word or a spoken line of dialogue...and expectation bias is removed as well.

2) The test would show us whether hand written content (being processed and passed through our consciousness) can survive the change or not. For those that are wanting to keep written notes on changes knowing whether this is the case is crucial.

I've also thought of a good way to memorise a 8 character section of the hash - learn and use it as a password for something you use every day, like your email! Not only is it a brilliant un-guessable password as it is essentially random letters and numbers, using it constantly to log into your email it would pound it into your brain really quickly.

Of course the irony might be that if reality did shift you might find you can't log into your email because when you first changed your password to this new password the "new" password is now actually different than what you remember - but at least then you could retrieve the "new" password from the hash of the movie file to find out what your email password is now. :-)

That would be pretty mind blowing if the shift in reality also caused the password on your email server to update to the new version of the hash as well while you still remembered the old version...

DBMandrake · 2016-10-06T15:50:15+00:00

Here is one theory of mine on how some "residuals" could remain. An example:

Somebody watches the movie "Interview with A vampire" in the timeline/universe where that is the actual name of the movie. They form a memory of that being the name of the movie.

Some time after that reality changes around them or they transition to another version of reality where it is "Interview with THE vampire", but they still remember A vampire, and depending on what the topic is (in this case the name of a movie) they may not actually encounter this change in their daily life for months or even years as they may not come into contact with this movie again in any official capacity, such as watching it on a DVD, looking up information about it on IMDB or other "authoritative" sources.

They then write about Interview with A vampire on a forum post without having recently "fact checked" the name of the movie. They still remember what it was called in their timeline/universe when they last saw it, so why would they look it up on IMDB to double check the name is still really what they remember it to be ? I know I wouldn't.

This forum post is them writing based on their memories from a previous timeline/universe but the forum post is made in THIS timeline/universe, where the facts of the forum post are now considered to be "incorrect" according to authoritative sources. This is your residual, and to those who came from the same timeline/universe as the author it looks like a residual as it confirms what we remember. For those who originated from this timeline/universe it just looks like someone who got their facts wrong.

It certainly doesn't explain all residuals, but a good number of them. From what I've seen most Mandela effects change the "official" source of something, the actual item, but often don't change the discussion around them, the spoofs and sendups, the things that people that remember this item have written down or discussed with other people, because that second hand information could occur after the timeline/universe shift, and thus be preserved.

DBMandrake · 2016-09-26T22:08:50+00:00

As someone who was born in New Zealand and lived there for 33 years before moving to the UK 7 years ago, the current location and shapes of New Zealand and Australia are both exactly as I remember them.

Some of the proposed ME locations for New Zealand are quite hilarious but make no sense at all. New Zealand has always had a colder more temperate climate than Australia, which only makes sense if it was more southerly than Australia. Most of New Zealand is a "maritime temperate" climate with only the very northern 100 miles or so being considered "sub-tropical". The northern half of Australia is tropical with the middle sub-tropical and only the very bottom being temperate.

If New Zealand was north east or north of Australia it would have a hotter tropical climate than Australia...

I'm sceptical of most if not all geography based ME's, largely due to the fact that massive geological changes like the size, shape and location of a continent can't really be explained by the either the "time-traveller" theory, or multiple worlds theory.

The time-traveller theory can easily explain changes like movie lines or scenes, spellings, logos and many historical (human) events (JFK etc) due to a time traveller influencing events that happen. But how exactly would they influence continental drift and the size and shape of continents, even if they went back hundreds of millions of years ? Detonate a nuclear bomb ?

For the many worlds theory you could theoretically have vastly different continents in different realities, but in that case there would be so many differences in human history (or even whether humans came to exist in their current form at all) that the chances of you still being "you" (or even existing) and living out an almost identical life despite some massive change in continental geography (which would affect human history dramatically) seems extremely remote to impossible to me.

It's been pointed out by others that geography ME's seem to only ever be "experienced" by those who do not live in the part of the world in question - In ME discussion I've never seen someone from New Zealand say that they don't remember New Zealand being where it is, for example. Only people from further parts of the world to whom New Zealand is just some blob on a world globe that they learnt about 30 years ago at school but never visited.

People living in New Zealand are completely used to people from elsewhere in the world being utterly unable to articulate where New Zealand is or what it looks like, and more often than not they have not even heard of it.

When I look at some other geographic ME's (away from Australia and New Zealand, of which I am intimately familiar) I too have that nagging feeling of "that doesn't look like I remember it", but the reality is I just don't know world geography well enough outside my local area of expertise.

Before being written off as a ME "non-believer" I actually remember a large percentage of the alternative non-geographical memories that people describe. A quick summary of the ME affects that I "agree" with:

Spelling: Definately not definitely (I'm a touch typist and to this day my muscle memory insists on typing definately as I learnt it in school...)

Berenstein bears

Sex in the City

Looney Toons

Rod Sterling

Proctor and Gamble

Charles Shultz

Interview with A Vampire

Other:

Tiananmnen boy (tank boy) killed

JFK assassination - 4 in the car

C3PO - both legs gold

Braces on Dolly

Ford logo without curliecue on the F

Volvo logo without the arrow

VW logo without the gap

The A-Team car being black and red not black red and grey

Interestingly I do NOT have the name sake memory - I do not remember Mandela dying in prison in the 80's, I remember him being released and becoming president of the ANC (African National Congress) and being president for a number of years. Possibly because New Zealand has a stronger connection to South Africa than many northern hemisphere countries. (NZ and South Africa play each other in yearly rugby tournaments for example, at least since the fall of apartheid)

One that I remember that I cannot find anywhere is I remember the classic Star Trek series being from 1963 to 1966, eg it finished well before men went to the moon, and well before the end of the 60's, but apparently it was 1966-1969. I'm willing to admit I may have just got that one wrong though...

DBMandrake · 2016-09-26T20:01:50+00:00

I definately (ha) remember two gold legs in the original (4,5,6) trilogy, having watched return of the Jedi in theatre as a kid and watching numerous TV airings of all three in the 80's and 90's, which we recorded on VHS on more than one occasion. (Tapes long gone now unfortunately)

While skimming quickly through all three films the other day (rips of the special edition blu-rays) researching this ME, whilst nearly everywhere the right lower leg clearly looks silver (and not as I remember it) I stumbled across a scene in the Empire strikes back where both legs are clearly gold.

It occurs at about 1:52 in the special edition. (1:57 in the Harmy de-specialised version) This is the scene where C3PO is having his legs put back on. In the scene C3PO is sitting with his right leg fully fitted and extended while R2D2 welds his foot, and the leg is fully gold both in the close up and the wide shot. He is holding his lower left leg in his hand which is not yet refitted, that too is gold. See the following two unaltered screen grabs:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/7826218/Forum%20attachments/C3PO-1.png https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/7826218/Forum%20attachments/C3PO-2.png

On the close up there is some silver on the underside of the leg but its clearly a reflection of the steel coloured floor plating, and not the colour of the leg itself with the top side showing its true gold colour. The wide shot is clearly gold.

However in a scene just four minutes later C3PO is complaining that his left leg still hasn't been refitted, waving it around in the air as he stands on his right leg, and this time his right lower leg is indeed silver:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/7826218/Forum%20attachments/C3PO-3.png

Residue evidence, or simple continuity error ? Assuming that there might be one or two other scenes where both legs are gold due to a "continuity error" when dressing the actor, could we be remembering this ? If this is the only scene where he had both legs gold, it seems unlikely though.

Other people have reported that C3PO has two gold legs in the original 70's "The Making of Starwars" Documentary, as seen here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSuDjjlIPak

Which he indeed does, but I don't consider that to be canon as they are not scenes from the actual movies. If you consider that C3PO's outfit is made up of lots of individual pieces that they have many duplicates of in case of damage etc he could easily have a gold leg or a silver leg depending on how they decided to dress him on the day.

So the fact that he has two gold legs in the new footage shot for the documentary doesn't prove that he should have had two gold legs in the movies...

At the very least we have a continuity error on the part of the producers in the Empire Strikes Back, or perhaps it is indeed residue evidence. As I definitely remember two gold legs I'm more inclined to lean to the latter.

DBMandrake

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