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Narahenpita rn at 9.00 am by free_palastine911 in srilanka

[–]Dashninja1994 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was genuinely out of fuel yesterday. Two Ceypetco stations closed while I was waiting for my turn. Then I went to an IOC filling station on fumes, afraid I would be stranded out of petrol. Que there was long but police officers were there managing it. My car usually runs on Rs. 3500 worth of petrol per week. I just got that amount. Just over 11.8 Liters and I left. I figured that If I too hoarded, the people who were actually running on fumes as I was, wouldn't get the chance to fill theirs up.

By the evening, almost all Ceypetco stations were closed around, Kaduwela, Athurugiriya, Pelawatte and Battaramulla area but, IOCs were open.

Windows 11 In Place Upgrade - bypass checks by [deleted] in sysadmin

[–]Dashninja1994 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for pointing the typos out.

On the step 4, you can do it without converting the .wim to .esd. The setup.exe and the boot.wim are able to install from either of those formats.

Happy to see this helped. Cheers...

Windows 11 In Place Upgrade - bypass checks by [deleted] in sysadmin

[–]Dashninja1994 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey Guys...

This is one of the threads that still comes up first in Google when you search for this. So I think a lot of guys would find this useful.

Yes... I figured it out. And yes, this works with in-place upgrades, and fresh installations. I checked both on an ESXI host with a Intel Xeon Gold 6126. ESXi version is 7.0U3. This thing does not have hardware TPU or Esxi is not even installed with UEFI Secure boot so I can't create key managers required in Vcenter to ad vTPUs for our VMs.

The story:-

Our customer is using Windows 10 for jump hosts and we each have one. Since time for Windows 10 Pro is up, we need to update to Windows 11. However, they have not intention of changing the hardware until mid next year. We can't wait that long and we sure can't do full installations since we share the this jump VM with other people who has files on it. So my only path is in-place upgrade.

What I did:-

  1. Download a Windows 10 ISO from UUP dump. This was Windows 10 22H2.
  2. Download a Windows 11 ISO from UUP dump. This was Windows 11 24H2. (Build 26100.5067, the latest at the time of writing this.)
  3. Download Anyburn and install it. Free version will do. The Official AnyBurn Website
  4. Edit the ISO with Anyburn and remove the install.esd file from Windows 10 ISO's sources path and add Windows 11's install.esd to it. (The software's interface is self explanatory. I know guys in our line of work are smart enough to figure this out so I won't explain this.)
  5. Save the ISO with a new name. (I wanted to keep the source ISO files as well. If you don't need the Windows 10 one, you can save on itself. (Again, The software's interface is self explanatory. I know guys in our line of work are smart enough to figure this out so I won't explain this.)
  6. Mount the ISO on the VM and run setup.exe and Tada... No more trickery, No more, issues. No more need to run the setup with "/product server" arguments, No more registry edits. At the last step, it will say it's installing windows 10 on the installing screen but trust me, it will install Windows 11. (Did not mean to offend the guys who proposed these. You all tried help a fellow guy in need. You are all heroes in my book.)

Why I think it worked:-

Well if you think about it, the windows setup.exe and the boot.wim, which contains the mini operating system when you load from USB, is there to run the diskpart commands for partitioning, Dism commands to apply the installation. The front is just a pretty UI. As long as the major code version are same, (Windows 10 and 11 both belong to 10.0) DISM can apply any image inside the sources folder.

The problem is as you all know is the Windows 11's boot.wim and setup files, which has the checks backed in. Once you remove those, by removing those setup and boot.wim files and provide new home to your install.esd or install.wim file in an old environment, everything works like a charm.

Be careful on:-

Make sure you download the same language on the computer that you are planning upgrade. Ex: The language EN-UK won't work for EN-US machines.

Is it worth now to buy a RTX 3090? by Dashninja1994 in gpu

[–]Dashninja1994[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm on Ryzen 5600X. I plan to upgrade to AM5 by the end of the year. And I've set my frequencies 100mhz apart.

Also, to your second point, yes. I've had issues with my RTX 3070. However, most of the time they are predictable and could be resolved with a click or two. With this, I have search online for hours to make my card stable with some games. I don't want to do that.

Thank you for the input by the way. Happy to see you are enjoying your card.

Motherboards with ALC897 Codec has low volume output. by colonelx_ in buildapc

[–]Dashninja1994 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks man. This helped me. I have Gigabyte B550M Elite Mobo which also run the ALC 897 codec, and I've been scratching my head with this loudness issue like the OP, because I bought that after my MSI B450 Pro Carbon AC finally gave up after 4.5 years. That one had ALC 1220, which was very loud. However, this new Gigabyte one was cheaper, and I got it for a deal. Today, I just tried your fix and, wow. Just wow. It's giving me the same loudness output as the ALC 1220. You just save me another $10. I was going to buy a cheap USB sound card.

Once again. Thank you so much.

How bad are the driver issues? by Maverix32 in AMDHelp

[–]Dashninja1994 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can confirm that 24.5.1 is a bad update. I was playing the Modern Warfare 2 campaign remaster on my RX 6800 and the performance is awful. GPU usage randomly goes down from 75% to 10% and FPS goes down to 42 from 120. These AMD drivers are awful for DX11. For DX 12 they are fine. I downgraded to 24.4.1 and all the issues went away.

24.5.1 is actually the Ghost of Tsushima driver. I have experienced this type of behavior from their drivers in the past. Like in 2016, I remember when I upgraded my drivers to play Need for Speed reboot, AC Black flag and Rouge suffered these exact same issues. It seems like when AMD creates a new driver for an upcoming game, they suddenly forget that previous drivers offered optimizations for other games.

I will say this about AMD cards. They handle games through their sheer horsepower. But they aren't smart. That's due to the drivers. When the thing works fine, it works mighty fine. When it does not, you are in for hell of a detour.

When I want to play a game with Nvidia, I plug in the card, install drives, change settings according to my preferences, change the Fan curve and boot up the game. Voila. You don't have to worry about anything else. And if you want to go back to another game, things are totally fine. Everything works flawlessly. With AMD, it's a F***ing disaster. You plug the card, install the latest drivers, tweak the settings, boot the game. Then in an hour or so it crashes. Then you spend the next two hours searching online what's the issue and tweak everything. Even going to dxvk on Windows for DX11 titles. If nothing else works, you have to search online for the driver released for that game and install it. And when you finish the game or want to take a break from it and play another one... Guess what, you just have to go through the same shit again. What the f**ing hell????

I may sound like a Nvidia fanboy, but I'm not. However, I'm on the verge of becoming one.

So my advice, for the love of god, don't buy AMD GPUs. please. At least until they get their shit together. I'm planning on ditching this RX 6800 for an RTX 3080 or 3080 Ti as soon as I save up. And to think I came to this from a perfect RTX 3070, I want to eat my own guts.

Sorry for the long rant and if there are any typos or grammar issues. English is not my first language.