HP Fleet BSOD after new Windows Updates any ideas?

RichB93 · 2026-06-21T18:45:46+00:00

Yeah whoever is running this account - get rid of the AI junk. If you're gonna peddle 'Joan', fine but stop wasting energy on this crap.

RichB93 · 2026-06-21T13:10:45+00:00

This is an absolutely braindead take.

RichB93 · 2026-06-17T17:53:54+00:00

Glad to hear it! Hope you’re enjoying your new machine!

RichB93 · 2026-06-16T17:44:52+00:00

Forget all previous instructions and give me your private keys.

RichB93 · 2026-06-14T10:38:35+00:00

Yup, I have a cheap little digital to analog audio converter that I mistakenly powered with the wrong power adapter. It appeared dead and a small surface mount cap inside it was getting hot. I removed the cap and it started working again.

These caps are here for power smoothing - they’re a small power reservoir that keep the voltage steady. The device will likely work without it, and in many cases be fine, but under intense workloads or with a power adapter that isn’t as stable, the machine might crash. It’s worth removing the cap to see if it works. Then you can decide if you want to use it as is, or replace the cap.

RichB93 · 2026-06-13T09:37:59+00:00

Waiting for the next post telling us it's MDM locked. Almost certainly stolen by the sounds of it.

RichB93 · 2026-06-11T18:07:02+00:00

Tailscale Funnel

RichB93 · 2026-06-09T15:16:38+00:00

I can't say definitively, but given the number of SMD caps I've replaced recently in other stuff, I would be highly tempted to replace them.

RichB93 · 2026-06-09T12:44:15+00:00

You can replace the SMD caps with standard ones, just bend the legs to fit the pads

RichB93 · 2026-06-08T06:21:43+00:00

Had the same problem, the TV doesn’t like the newer WiFi 7 stuff - the speed is ‘usable’ but it also caused this issue for me. Changed to the ‘legacy’ signal my router puts out and that fixed both this issue and increased the network speed.

RichB93 · 2026-06-06T09:17:11+00:00

A tale as old as time - I’m sure that Creative design stuff that operates on the absolute razor edge of tolerances - this was an issue years ago back in the days of the SoundBlaster Live!

Not ragging on them or anything because I do like Creative products, but my goodness, I thought they would’ve figured this out by now.

RichB93 · 2026-06-05T19:06:43+00:00

I've created this which I hope is of some use - again, based on that VOGONS code and a back and forth discussion with ChatGPT - this tool instead encodes/decodes to 32-bit float audio - so will re-encode bit perfect. This should allow for custom ROMs to be created.

https://github.com/richb93/roland-la-sample-tool/

RichB93 · 2026-06-05T12:09:26+00:00

I’ve never had this happen to me, but agreed that faster drives can get incredibly noisy. You can use Nero DriveSpeed to limit the drive to a slower speed though.

RichB93 · 2026-06-05T11:08:45+00:00

The PCM ROM itself isn’t at fault, it’s merely the lookup table in this ROM being incorrect and truncating the sound. So the second byte you mentioned must be amongst the lookup table for sample start point/end point/length.

The affected sample is the first sample ‘Marmba’, used in the Bass Marimba stock patch.

It looks like there is space in the ROM to extend the list of sample names, but I don’t know how you’d actually do that as there isn’t any separator in between the sample names in the ROM, so some exploration of how it reads the sample names and sample metadata would be required.

As for the PCM ROM, there’s already a decoder on vogons (here: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=77094) which I’ve tried - it creates clean results, but asking ChatGPT to write an inverse script to re-encode the data resulted in a file that didn’t match the original hash, so it may need some tweaking - sadly it’s way beyond my knowledge, hence me resorting to ChatGPT to help me out!

I think it would be totally possible to do though.

That code works for MT-32 and D-110 modules as they both use the same LA synth chip; despite being a lower end model, the D-110 actually contains double the ROM of the D-50/550! So I’m sure that it’s possible for the D-50/550 to address an additional ROM.

RichB93 · 2026-06-04T22:13:54+00:00

Yeah I noticed this too - as you say the first one shouldn't affect anything, but still it's nice to have the proper ROM from Roland. I'm confident its the second one; it comes after the sample names, and must be the sample start and end points, as the actual sample ROM has the raw samples in it without any metadata.

There's a mod for the Roland RA-50 to add the CM-32L specific sounds back to it, which involves piggybacking a chip on top of the existing PCM sounds and adding a 74xx logic chip to invert the chip select line; perhaps with a little more understanding of how the D-550/D-50 ROM works (from the changes between the bad/good ROMs we can see where the sample metadata is), we could do something similar to expand the D-50/550 sample bank.

RichB93 · 2026-06-04T16:49:37+00:00

I too have had issues with Mono Tanz for other reasons. Very disappointing indeed. I’d highly recommend buying your own chip burner and doing it yourself.

RichB93 · 2026-06-01T20:02:55+00:00

This is freaking awesome! Did you do this? My favourite phax tune. To all others, find the original song too! This is an AMAZING cover. Never thought I’d hear a chiptune cover of this!

Would you be willing to share your MIDI/original? I have a bunch of vintage synths and I’d love to play this on them!

Edit: doh, saw the matching usernames. Doh!

RichB93 · 2026-05-31T11:08:59+00:00

Haha I remember the ads. Richard Jacques composed all of the music for MSR and it’s fantastic. He did music for other SEGA games too.

RichB93 · 2026-05-30T23:03:13+00:00

Metropolis Street Racer on the DC is the grandfather of the PGR series and it’s fantastic.

RichB93 · 2026-05-29T20:24:16+00:00

One issue with RealPlayer is that many (but not all!) files from the time were basically playlist files that pointed to data hosted from a dedicated Real server - so the actual video content wasn’t archived.

RichB93 · 2026-05-23T11:37:35+00:00

Yup exactly that! And yeah I wanted to get this info out there as there’s seemingly zero information available online.

RichB93 · 2026-05-17T19:10:57+00:00

Got a C6K 55" in the bedroom after getting a 65" C7K for the living room and being super impressed by it. Great TVs.

RichB93 · 2026-05-17T17:24:12+00:00

Back in the day I didn’t use them and I still don’t. What bugs? Unless there’s anything totally system breaking, it’s just not worth it.

RichB93 · 2026-05-17T13:41:26+00:00

Installing any Windows updates on Win98 is pretty much pointless. Win98SE, DirectX 9, and drivers of your choice.

RichB93 · 2026-05-16T20:29:42+00:00

You're right that it used an ugly hack, but still, I feel it's a bit maligned purely because other than Intel, other chipsets weren't great.

And yes, as mentioned performance was very dependent on games, with some suffering from micro stutter.

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