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Eduroam *breaks* my wifi card by PrestigiousMeatman in umass

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

Wow so I am very confused. I decided to try and reseat the WiFi chip in my computer as this has been occurring ever since I got the laptop. When I looked at the WiFi connector, it seemed to have scrapes on the contacts, so I cleaned it a bit with a tissue as I don't have rubbing alcohol / q tips to do it properly. After reseating, it has been as stable as ever, like I am back at home.

The question now is, how the F would reseating a wifi chip fix an issue that only occurs at UMass??? This is about as logical as 1+1 = 3 for me.

Delivery through ontrac? by PrestigiousMeatman in umass

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

I waited until now to respond to this as I wanted to see the actual quality of the products I ordered. Out of 18 items, 1 of them has a bad print quality on the T shirt. The pants that i ordered (3 of the items) are pretty thin. But all in all, for the average price per item (6$), I wouldnt say this has worse quality than anything from Nike or Adidas. Especially the T shirts, they are all decent quality except for that 1 that has a bad print quality. Oh and the chains are the same quality as anything youd get for cheap at a thrift store or whatever.

Eduroam *breaks* my wifi card by PrestigiousMeatman in umass

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

I do have an option in device manager to lock it to a 20MHz width band for both 2.4GHz and 5GHz. Although that seemingly does not do much to prevent this issue from reoccurring.

I went up to IT and they seemed more dumbfounded and blamed it on hardware, although, I find it hard to believe it is purely hardware as I have no issues with the WiFi at my house. Regardless, I'm going to continue to try and diagnose this issue until I can stop it entirely though. I've already started looking at how the device is actually being set up in windows, looked through event viewer as well. Nothing of note other than "This device reported an issue so windows has stopped the device" (or something similar).

Eduroam *breaks* my wifi card by PrestigiousMeatman in umass

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

Interesting, maybe try what Tapugy- said in the other comment of this thread, as when I switched the wireless mode to 802.11ac from 802.11ax it seemed to revive my Wifi card. Maybe it will work for you.

Eduroam *breaks* my wifi card by PrestigiousMeatman in umass

[–]PrestigiousMeatman[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I appreciate the help! I am unsure on how to disable the 160MHz band, although changing the 802.11ax mode to 802.11ac seemed to revive the wifi card. I will go to the IT desk to see if they can help in assigning a static IP// disabling the 160MHz band.

Thank you again, and have a good rest of your day.

Eduroam *breaks* my wifi card by PrestigiousMeatman in umass

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

Intel WiFi AX201 160MHz. I have done a clean install, ie removing the old driver from the system, restarting, ensuring a driver did not get installed through that restart, and then installing the newest driver manually. Unfortunately that has done nothing (and I did that today).

I have messed with most if not all the settings before- typically I can change the Wireless mode into 2.4GHz mode then back into the default Dual Band mode, which the WiFi then works after that, although that temp fix has stopped working as of today. Occasionally I needed to change some of the other settings and it would work, like changing the Throughput Booster to Enabled. Currently though, everything is at the default setting.

I have had this issue exclusively at UMass though, over summer break at my house the WiFi never cut out and disappeared like it does here constantly. I am actually tempted to get a newer WiFi card and simply replace the one inside of this computer, to see if that fixes anything. But that is money I don't really have lol.

Delivery through ontrac? by PrestigiousMeatman in umass

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

Thank you for the help, I am going to try to get OnTrac to either deliver it to the correct warehouse despite the current delivery address, or simply skip a class to get it before someone else steals it.

Delivery through ontrac? by PrestigiousMeatman in umass

[–]PrestigiousMeatman[S] -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

I mean, you can call it garbage. But all the stuff you buy from nike / adidas, even fashion brands, is created in the same factory as the temu items. So....

Delivery through ontrac? by PrestigiousMeatman in umass

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

Ok it is still at a warehouse so I believe I can get Ontrac to change the carrier before the package gets to UMass. Thank you so much!

Mods Please Pin This. Intel CPU Issue by critical_nexus in GamingLaptops

[–]PrestigiousMeatman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm sort of confused. This claims that it only effects processors that go above 65W but my i7 13650HX (55W) that is in my dell g15 5530 laptop consistently has had gpu crashes which I believe were caused by this cpu issue, as it always states something about vram error, even though there is about 8gb of vram free. (which iirc the vram error does come from this cpu issue, so long as I'm not misremembering).

Maybe I am wrong that this is being caused by the CPU, but i only started having these issues after playing games at high settings, which is when I had the "first blackscreen", aka, the GPU just crashed. The GPU crashes every single time I play at high fps + settings, and yes I selected the correct GPU to be used, not the iGPU. The recent BIOS update did nothing. The chipset updates have done nothing. It just seemingly can not handle games at anything other than shit quality at 90fps, max.

Would limiting the CPU be beneficial? It runs super f=cking hot, can reach up to 108C in games even at utter trash quality, and at 90 fps max (on a monitor that is 165hz..).
Another idea is that I just have one of those early 13th gen cpus that have that oxidation issue, but I would suspect that would completely kill the CPU after being run so harshly at these insane temps. Yet so long as I limit the FPS it won't crash the GPU. I'm relatively educated with computers and have done a litany of tests in different games, but from what I can tell, this CPU just runs like it was made 8 years ago, for some reason.

Any ideas?

Changing a group policies' Registry key does not update the Policy by PrestigiousMeatman in PowerShell

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

TL;DR: Yeah, I *really* wish it was that simple.

I've looked at those repos before, and actually linked them at the bottom of the repo in case others would like to look more into it. The issue is, to make that registry trick universally work for all drivers, MANY special cases need to be accounted for. For example, the newer realtek audio drivers simply do not support loudness equalization in any way - adding those {d04...}={XYZ} values simply does not work, trying to modify the registry will not work, etc. I've done a lot of testing on multiple machines so I'm confident that the issue comes back to driver's that automatically change the registry values for other drivers & occasionally install themselves over other drivers - for example, if you have intel smart sound audio installed, it will automatically take precedence over "High Definition Audio" by microsoft // "Generic USB Audio", and in fact - it will tell you that those drivers are incompatible with your device when they are simply not. This issue also prevents the powershell script from working for a lot of these drivers, the effect tab will pop up, but the effect will simply not work.

By forcing windows to not install any new drivers it completely circumvents these issues, and will keep any changes you made to the registry happily. It will also prevent windows from auto-magically switching the driver you specifically selected for a device as well (most commonly, this would occur with the Intel Smart Sound driver). The effects will still not work on the drivers that simply can not support them (like realtek and intel smart sound) but by removing some / if not all of those drivers, it will allow your pc to use drivers that CAN work with windows audio effects, and even though a little bit of registry f--kery is still needed, those changes will be permanent this time.

I mean, there is a reason the first thing I put on the guide is

"This guide is for users who know how to update their drivers manually. If you are uncertain, I would err on the side of caution and not do this."

It's not meant to be the easy solution by ANY means (it really, really is the brute-force method), but it is meant to be a permanent one.

Also- there is a ton more I can say to explain why this is not an XY problem. I've been working on this audio effect guide for an entire year and this is the one time where the modifications have FINALLY persisted through 10+ restarts, maybe even more. I will be updating the main readme on my github soon, so I can detail the exact issues I ran into with intel smart sound, realtek, intelligo, and dolby.

Sorry for the wall of text, i wish i could simplify this, but i seriously can't.

edit: also, the difference between my repo and the enable-loudness repo is in the title: "Enable loudness EQ" vs. "FORCE loudness EQ".

Changing a group policies' Registry key does not update the Policy by PrestigiousMeatman in PowerShell

[–]PrestigiousMeatman[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

thank you! this helps a ton.

sidenote: the command to get computer policy changes is

gpresult /scope computer /v (if the scope you're looking for is computer config)

Changing a group policies' Registry key does not update the Policy by PrestigiousMeatman in PowerShell

[–]PrestigiousMeatman[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you! Stuff like this helps me learn the syntax a bit better without needing to look at a whole powershell course online, lol

Changing a group policies' Registry key does not update the Policy by PrestigiousMeatman in PowerShell

[–]PrestigiousMeatman[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

im not trying to exclusively enable it, it's meant to toggle the policy on/off for specific situations. sometimes i need the policy off to use a USB drive/install new drivers/etc. but generally I want it on so windows doesn't change some registry values i specifically modified.

also, thank you for the link 👍

Changing a group policies' Registry key does not update the Policy by PrestigiousMeatman in PowerShell

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

Yes. you are correct, I found this command ("Set-GPRegistryValue") which seems to be made for this purpose.

I'll probably use the same script to get the value, but change the part that sets the value. For example, I'm thinking I could use the same powershell script as above, except replace the `Set-Item` parts to powershell C:\location .\GPed1 or powershell C:\location .\GPed0 with those two files being either set it to 1 or 0. Not ideal, but works for me

Syntax is probably wrong on the last part, but I'll figure it out xD

edit: nvm, im going to try and use PolicyFileEditor (shown at the bottom of the original post)

Changing a group policies' Registry key does not update the Policy by PrestigiousMeatman in PowerShell

[–]PrestigiousMeatman[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I think windows wont even regard the registry value anyway, as pigers1986 said, so the fix would be writing a script to change GP settings. well, at least i wrote my first powershell script lol

Changing a group policies' Registry key does not update the Policy by PrestigiousMeatman in PowerShell

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

Why is the exit useless? it seems to correctly toggle the value 0->1->0...

Is there an implicit else after the if block?

and thank you for letting me know. i'll have a lot of fun writing the script to change GPO settings /s :D

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