nah
I reject that
computers aren’t appliances and specialization is for insects
if I’m alive, I simply must tinker and if I’m gonna tinker, whatever computers I have nearby are along for the ride and, hell, there’s always gonna be something new and stupid to tinker with
I’m no ascetic and my compute boxes ain’t no temples
are computers insects? must investigate further
BEE
BEE
BEE
My Asus laptop just suddenly had a kernal-security-failure and hardcrash. The internet makes this seem bad, but also modern internet is such shit I am having a hard time figuring out what to do. i ran System Checker and the log says some aspect-black file has been corrupted?
the first result was “update the firmware on your SSDs” which seems to involve a blank usb stick and software that has reached EoS.
edit CSI 000001c7 [SR] Cannot repair member file [l:79]‘FileExp\FileExplorerExtensions\Assets\images\contrast-black\windows.cleanup.svg’ of UserExperience-FileExp, version 10.0.26100.7705, arch amd64, nonSxS, pkt {l:8 b:31bf3856ad364e35} in the store, hash mismatch
I don’t even have an amd processor!
I’d just do a normal bios update and make sure windows is updated. Did this only happen once?
There is code that is there for AMD processors that will spit out errors whether or not your processor matches.
I’m a moron how do I do a bios update?
looks like it calmed down, just more of macos’s wunderwaffe charm
I’m at work so can’t look into it but this is the usual steps.
You may alternately have to download a file to a thumb drive and install it I. The bios menu but I don’t that’s the case. Asus is a weird brand though and sometimes are a bit more difficult to self service.
Added you on discord via Bachelor’s server btw
thanks so much! I am parenting so will be a few hours before I can concentrate on this.
Happy to help. I work 3rd shift central is so I am around. Honestly I wouldn’t worry about it unless it keeps happening and then maybe just try changing to another personalized theme
amd64 is just the instruction set that your version of windows was compiled for, it was originally developed by AMD yes but Intel CPUs use it as well. x86-64 is a more neutral identifier used to mean the same thing. It is what it should be for your computer, it’s not a very important part of this error message.
Updating firmware/bios isn’t going to un-corrupt the files, try this first to get windows to re-download the busted files
DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth
then once it’s done run
sfc /scannow
I still recommend the bios update because Microsoft pushes updates that I have seen cause issues with specific machines which then the manufacturers have to write fixes in the firmware. While brands like Dell and HP will often have these critical updates added to the packages that Windows Update pushes out I will often see brands like ASUS and Acer way behind. That being said, I recently fixed a slow CPU on an HP with a bios update. I’ve seen old firmware be behind lots of different issues, including memory controller management (a suspect in this case), and have seen these issues increase with the adoption of Windows 11.
I’ve never seen sfc or DISM scans fix anything but it is definitely something that won’t hurt.
I’m tired of my stupidass Google Home Chromecast thing. What’s the play these days if I want to do a self-hosted/configured setup which can access apps/streaming services like YouTube, NetFlix, etc; as well as pull media off a local file share? I have a NAS already that I can hook up for this purpose.
From what I see initially doing a search, most projects seem to be focused on one or the other (online streaming service hub, vs local file streaming). I did come across Kodi, as a maybe. Does anyone have opinions on that? What else is out there? I am fine running two different things, one for each, if that’s the way to go about it, but then ideally there’s a way to easily swap between them on my TV.
Would also appreciate some guidance on the hardware choices out there for a thing like this. I’m not really looking to buy a 500 dollar “media PC” for this, more along the lines of a rasperry pi or whatever running aforementioned services.
Unless you’re some kind of weirdo using windows to run your nas I don’t think you’re going to be able to stream netflix from it because of drm
Imo an apple tv and plex (or jellyfin + infuse) are probably your best bet
This eventually came back with clean answers so hopefully I won’t be back in this thread with “it is happening again.”.
If this laptop dies I’m just gonna switch to the even older one.
