Recent content by noel_prg_la1979

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    News Gigabyte shows off Aorus Xtreme and Xtreme Ice motherboards, GPUs at Computex

    Gigabyte has recently & officially released their Intel Z890 motherboards this October 2024: GIGABYTE Groundbreaking Z890 Motherboards Unveils True AI, Infinite Performance
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    News Intel Z890 motherboard reveal reportedly set for October 10 — Arrow Lake CPU review embargo seemingly lifts on October 24

    Gigabyte has officially released their Z890 based motherboards on Oct. 9: https://www.gigabyte.com/Press/News/2229 also recently mentioned here on TechPowerUp: https://www.techpowerup.com/327480/gigabyte-unveils-ground-breaking-z890-motherboards
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    News Intel Raptor Lake Instability Troubles: Everything You Need to Know

    Motherboard maker Microstar International [MSI] has posted this announcement regarding the problems with 13th & 14th generation desktop Intel processors and how they will address the problems with updated BIOSes coming mid-August: Addressing Recent Intel Core 13th and 14th Gen Desktop Processor...
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    News Hands-on with the overhauled and improved ROG Ally X: More and faster RAM 1TB SSD, 80Wh battery

    Asus has posted Drivers, Utlities and Bios/Firmware downloads for the ROG Ally X handheld pc in late June 2024. get them from this link: https://rog.asus.com/gaming-handhelds/rog-ally/rog-ally-x-2024/helpdesk_download/?model=rog%20ally%20x%20(2024)
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    News HP bricks ProBook laptops with bad BIOS — many users face black screen after Windows includes firmware in automatic updates

    check this article from Neowin HP staff allegedly blames Microsoft's Windows Update as firmware bricks ProBooks either way, it's a bad look for both HP and Microsoft as the former is blaming the latter for the bricked HP Probook laptop bios problem another good reason to find ways to disable...
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    News Microsoft updates Windows 11 24H2 requirements, CPU must support SSE4.2 or the OS will not boot

    there's none, so don't bother looking plus Win11 requires TPM 2.0, not TPM 1.x those with TPM 1.2 or older may still need to use a reg hack bypass to install Win11
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    News Microsoft updates Windows 11 24H2 requirements, CPU must support SSE4.2 or the OS will not boot

    or run recent Win10 LTSC releases (either ltsc 2019 or ltsc 2021), which have much longer support edit - btw, saw this story recently on Neowin Unsupported Windows 11 24H2 PC users can legit upgrade from Windows 8 by this bypass trick
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    News Microsoft updates Windows 11 24H2 requirements, CPU must support SSE4.2 or the OS will not boot

    AMD "Bulldozer" & "Piledriver" series of CPUs (aka AMD FX, the ones released after K10) have both POPCNT AND SSE4.2 support
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    Question Windows 11 [Bought This Way] Has The "System Requirements Not Met" Message and Loss of Function Warning

    there are at least TWO versions of Windows 11, natecombsmedia. version 21H2 (build 22000.x) and 22H2 (build 22621.x) type winver.exe in the Run dialog box to show the Windows 11 version and edition === also, this story from Neowin recently came out where the "system requirements not met"...
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    Question Windows 11 22H2 not showing up in Windows Update.

    yeah, it's better to wait for the 22H2 update, especially for those using nVidia graphics drivers as they're recent reports of "performance problems" with 22H2 for nvidia users: https://www.neowin.net/news/windows-11-22h2-apparently-causing-problems-on-nvidia-graphics-cards/ edit - also, the...
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    Question NO AUDIO OPTION FOR REGULAR ANALOG SPEAKERS

    Jetway no longer makes consumer grade motherboards anymore and only "industrial" based motherboards for business PCs. they stopped making them many years ago it seems part of the onboard realtek audio on that Jetway board died where only the digital audio (spdif) output was available but the...
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    News How to Move the Taskbar to the Top in Windows 11

    22H2 went public release (aka. "final") on Tue. 9/20 and the reg trick doesn't work in moving the taskbar on top
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    Question Can't install Realtek Drivers on windows 10.

    @BotUgaBuga is this your Asus motherboard? apparently ASUS supplied the standard legacy Realtek audio drivers and not the ones in smaller/compact UAD (universal audio driver) format and the latest one there listed is v6.0.1.8746, which the standard non-UAD version (hence the download size is...
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    [SOLVED] Where can I get Windows 7 ISO now in 2021?

    actually not anymore, according to the creator of the Heidoc.net Windows ISO downloader tool from this forum post. MS has pulled nearly all of the Win7 ISO downloads off their servers