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Hey everyone been a long time. I got a new PC for work with Ryzen 8840HS 40W model, a thinkpad P14s. It has soldered Wifi module so my AP Deco M5 has been disconnecting and often shows up as connected but no internet leading to missed meetings in Zoom/Teams. Currently disabled Beamforming and other settings for which defeated the purpose of buying a mesh router. Caused major issue with iOS showing insecure warning and even connecting after iOS 17 update. My setup is just like Router extender which is almost old with OFC. In India they have blocked 6E and above with only Wifi 6 being allowed. I had several options such as Ubiquity U6+, Mikrotik cap Ax, Zyxel NWA110ax, Omada Ax3000. Read about Ubiquity releasing beta updates and bricking device and slow speed due to slower hardware unless it's a pro. Omada has similar FW instability like Decos, Mikrotik has distributor issue and steep learning curve. Zyxel is the first time I heard and dunno if its good. The budget being 200-250$. Pros: Long Support Cycle 5-6 yrs Wifi 6 Work with Android, iOS, Windows and Linux without needing to disable beamforming, MIMO, roaming etc.

It seems Zen 4 and 5 APUs SMDs are electrically conductive even with using insulation tape and I found it the hard way after I talked to Juan/judal57 who said it was electrically conductive when measuring the dimensions of APU and noticed a shock and spark due to ESD when I touched memory shielding frame of my new thinkpad P14s Gen 5 (Ryzen Pro 8840HS 30-40W TDP) with soldered network card (damn) NFA725 Qualcomm. Added a thermal pad to SSD, Wifi card and CPU. Upgraded memory to 24GB from 16GB as I was running out of 16GB with just VSCode, Zoom and MS teams in background at work. Didn't see much changes as CPU pushed through 96C before and after repaste. I used IC graphite pad with a little bit of thermal paste made by cooler master maker gel nano. Before the fans spin the CPU hits 96C and then temps drop to below 90C's otherwise it was running close to 100C out of the box. Had to disable lenovo power driver service as it was boosting CPU unnecessarily based on workload and battery life tanked to under 2hrs just like alienware and the reason to upgrade was better battery life due to heavy rains or power cuts. After tweaks I got 6hrs but still there's lot to improve. I'll add the images if anybody needs it. Here is link to HWBot: https://hwbot.org/submission/5635947 Another thing was Bitlocker Encrypted drive was not able to be unlocked within Macrium PE and I got that dreaded Bitlocker recovery Screen after fresh install. Disabled device encryption and BDE. I don't want new headaches. It is a mess to boot ventoy without secure boot and only Wimboot was working as expected.

Did anyone had buggy MS Edge webview update after applying OOSP 10? Something broke on my new PC after clean install. It was a nightmare to get Ventoy working with Thinkpad BIOS due to secure boot issues and ISO boot. Only Wimboot worked. Tried xd-antispy as well. OOSP 10 never failed me in Windows 10 and 11 22H2.

They will be pushing group policy or defender updates to fix those. Some improperly saved txt files can cause if you're using unicode and non-unicode languages not conforming to the standards.

Didn't notice it on my sis's laptop.

Who knows if it was suggested by AI chatbot? Would have been better if AI could find better materials. I hope they include an NPU with the box.

MS did something with ESU updates on Win 7 which is now very buggy even on Skylake and VM. @Papusan I might switch to dark side with Surface Laptop 7 15" XElite or even AMD Ryzen 8000 U/HS or NUC since my Xbox Accessories requires Windows 11 and is infinitely stuck at loading screen with Windows 10. Thought of building SFF Ryzen but I'm highly concerned with power in Asus B670E boards for 7950x3d w/ 7900 GRE and warranty rip-off in India. Thinkpads are soldered as well. It sucks that Indian variants are slow to arrive and basically rip-off's with high pricing.

Those AI features might be trickled down to Intel or AMD once the guinea pig testing says more users liked it otherwise it will be removed in the next release.

Will this be discontinued due to financial troubles at EKWB?

No honor can be expected from Sea of Thieves publisher.

Try NVCleanStall with your hardware ID added in advanced tweaking section.

This is what I felt after owning multiple Samsung,WD and Micron SSDs. Crucial/Micron - Just works but not performant compared to competition. SK Hynix/Solidigm - Great SSD with best power/performance. Not available Worldwide. Kingston - Great performant NAND and firmware with high TBW Samsung - One of the best, but few drives can have ASPM issues with their drivers and certain budget drives can't upgrade their firmware WD - One of the best but can have issues or problems like Samsung.

Heatsink pressure on CPU is very good but on GPU top right is slightly warped which might cause issues with LM or carbonaut/kryonaut/icd sheets. Is the VRAM chips cooled with thermal pads in the back? Atleast you can service it easily whereas my Dell mobo is inverted. Maybe I'm wrong, is the 2 & 3 numbered screwed in very tight? You can add 0.5/1mm soft thermal pads on VRM just above the number 3's which should reduce temps by 1-2C.

Is it specifically 6000 and later series being affected. Not seeing any slowdowns on Ryzen 5875U Pro.

@Reciever Not sure if your carrier or telecom uses CBRS. If you're sure, you can simply disable CBRS from *#*#4636*#*# in Phone Number. If you don't use Dual SIM standby you can disable it to maximize battery life and NSA/SA 5G stability. If you're okay with a clean start and restore the phone via backup I'd suggest using Pixel Phone Repair to factory erase by unlocking the bootloader and then re-locking it once flashing is complete. It did fix my constant Wifi and LTE/5G random disconnections on Pixel 7.

Can you provide of close up shot of CPU and GPU(if it has one) die shorts and heatsink? We can figure it out. 90% chance are uneven pressure due to Dell horrible QC. Due to similar issues I simply switched from thermal paste to carbonaut and ICD sheets.

I just spring cleaned the alienware 15 r2 after 4 years with Carbonaut. Got it in 2020 before Covid19 and replaced few worn out thermal pads. It was hitting 90-95C for no reason due to clogged fans. @Rofa1234 By any chance is the ICD graphite pad the older one released before Carbonaut? I got newer HC pad that is similar to TG Carbonaut at lower price almost half with 5 packs. Its just 1-2c worse at max temps than TGC.

Correct. The paste lasted only 5 yrs until I noticed consistent spikes to 90C and throttling. Carbonaut has steady temps for 3yrs and maxes out at 70-80C.

With Open Source, it could be a fork of a fork of a fork which could lead to many problems and "sicko" easter eggs which are no better than the malware droppers. I use Chrome or Chromium as fallback which is very rare unless the website doesn't work on Firefox & Edge.

MS Edge and chromium based aren't even recognized and most website just say Optimized for Chrome and asks to download Chrome. Its saying using apps compiled and optimized for amd64 architecture but runs only on intel CPUs.

In case anyone is interested in Macrium 8.0 free WinPE. It seems Tim at Majorgeeks or Spartan/Phoenix hasn't updated the links. Macrium Win 11 PE: Macrium Reflect PE Win 11 ADK Hashes: Sha256

I think coming from MSO Essential Office could feel much at home. I use Libreoffice on Linux but on Windows, I had to purchase Office 2021 since there was lot of lost time figuring out encoding or column missing when the client used newer docx/xlsx,pptx in O365.

Unless you have an IPS panel that says Low Power the battery life should be good. 7hrs is good on 30-40Wh battery. Have you tried power saver or best power efficiency in Windows 10/11 for power slider.

I think it is within margin of error. Need to be tested on laptop heatsink with lower pressure to see if it performs better than carbonaut or IC HC pad. In my case with carbonaut and HC pad both 1-2C worse than cooler master maker gel nano paste but its been 3 yrs on carbonaut and 1.5 yrs on HC pad thermal performance has not worsened even at 40-45C ambient temp.

Could only be for a while until msft wrecks it in next update forcing new hardware reqmts.