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If I were you, I'd keep that thing in an original as possible config and sell it 20 years down the road...or..if you have the skills and tools, convert it to a PC tower. Those things were built like Star Destroyer.... I remember delivering 2 of them to a customer back then, they eagerly awaited them at the front door and my helper, a big guy, who carried one, just gave his Mac to the happily smiling designerin hands, a small but sporty guy,....he almost fell backwards, that's how heavy those Macs are.... solid thru & thru. I'll never forget that moment. LoL.

There is no TPM 2.0 for this HW so Win11 for sure won't work on this platform, so you'd be stuck with Win10. If that is worth it, I honestly dunno. It likely has DDR-ECC RAM with 1333MHz iirc, safe & secure but slow too. Same with PCIe versions and modern GPU, it's problems wherever you look. Use that Tower, it's iconic, maybe the nicest Tower of all time impv, but forget the interior for DCS.

Say it out loud, no..CRY IT OUT LOAD: F O R G E T I N T E L for now and yes to a minimum of 64GB DDR5-6000 so, it's been said AGAIN...LoL

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got feedback...at least 1 of those 4 PC's had it again. No need to say it's the most important of those 4, Murphy's law always strikes when you need it least. Sigh, nada I can do but watch disaster happen.

Indeed, that tops it all, LoL. Has he kept his job ? just curious What was that guys blood pressure once he realized what he'd done ? I guess "Off the scale!" Sh!t happens...LoL

I talked to Samsung Germany today, they know they are in the same boat. Had a nice chat with a Rep that took notes of all the data and configs etc... I openly told them...if this gets worse, I will send back all 9 drives to amazon, then amazon will eventually turn against you and then you can turn against MS if it needs that much "pressure" to get Microsoft investigating as deep as it needs to find that damn bug. Until then, backup daily, maybe twice, noon end evening...and be prepared for a loss of drives.

I am working on a Linux Email Filter based on Postfix, spamassassin and amavisd on openSuSE. It's been at least 15 years since I have done that last time and with the acceptance of cloud services I thought that would never come back and deleted my old notes for Postfix etc...arrgghh. Knowing that this is full of traps and the least you want is an open relay..LoL...for the client .... I got myself a Domain, tortured Ai for main.cf. and master.cf config file help as what I researched and tried didn't load at some point. Ai is nice, it told me why it got halted, what that is about etc... nice info to build your picture again. So, next thing is a brand new openSuSE Hyper-V, configure as Ai tells me and see if the Mailserver behind it gets some mail.... if it ends up as an open relay it's only my test domain and if they put my IP on blacklist is not that dramatic. I have seen other come on a black list and it sucks if you need to get off NOW, that's a tough part, been there but wasn't the idiot to blame. Took'em days w/o mail. That's when you learn, IF you host your own Email, DO IT RIGHT ! or better leave it. Only 1 client still runs his own SMTP server and the attacks are brutal, 3 a second, name..password....endless. I need to put a box in front of it that catches all those and also filters for unwanted content. I had that as a standard for all Exchange Servers back in the days when people still had them on premise...but that's over a decade ago. What I haven't forgotten is: Don't configure an open-relay...check, check...double check. IF NOT-:::: we'll have another story LoL

The patch cannot be uninstalled at all, at least on my affected client machines. W T F ? I'll go crazy if my own machine decides to join that club I am over 60% full on all nvme drives but my Linux's SanDisk Sata Bootdrive...and 50GB transfer are a daily thing.... Already counting backwards ***D a m o c l e s ' S w o r d*** So happy that I got myself a M4 Mac-mini recently, that thing rocks and no such BS. Oh man MS, I run this old MacBook Pro 15" for 13 years now, it still runs hours on battery and hasn't let me down a single day in it's entire time. Nothing stupid, just simply working as expected. When I work on the Macs for hours I dislike the Windows Look & Feel when I get to my men's cave gaming rig. It's rough, it's forcing me to a lot of things, spies on me and now the greater family suffers Alzheimer and forgets it has "A DRIVE" from time to time. What a freaking show from MS. Just waiting for things to unfold..LOL

The symptoms are identical as well as the way to cure it, cold reboot, aka disconnect the AC PLUG or flick the rocker switch for 5 seconds. This is KB5063878, it just also affects Samsung drives. If it was 1 drive...maybe...but 4 drives on one day, that is a clear sign of not a single HW issue but a common software issue of some kind, be it UEFI, Bios, Drivers, etc etc.. Thing is, the KB is not uninstallable ! It is shown as installed but not among the ones I can uninstall. Caught between a rock and a hard place. If it gets worse, there will be a 9x Sata SSD order to ship around that issue. It, to my understanding, only affects NVMe and no Sata...or am I wrong.

Bad news for all guys, I have just built 9 identical PC's and at least 4 of them suffer the new SSD-Kill bug or how you want to call it. Afaik no Samsung drives have been mentioned so far but I HAVE IT ON FOUR NEW BUILDS, identical builds ! -AMD 9600X -Gigabyte B850 Gaming WiFi 1.0 -Gskill 32GB 6000-CL30 -Samsung 990 Pro 1TB -Seasonic 500w Platinum Fanless All Updates, drivers etc... NONE of the drives is more than 60% full, NONE of the PC's was doing heavy lifting while it happened, totally random - out of the blue - reboot to Bios and missing drive. Make a Backup while you can....some drives are broken after the re

IT DOES !!! I have sunk a full blown Linux SMB-FTP-SSH-WWW-SANE-VMware(WinSRV DC+Exchange). with a SINGLE SPACEBAR , it can happen...it's long ago but it was a lesson learned cause it was MY server, MY mishap and extraordinary stupid. rm ./* add a SPACE before / and/or skip the "." then fasten seatbelts. LoL. that's roughly how I managed to delete /. which is ROOT FILESYSTEM for non-Linux users. Yeah, too me 1 second to realize...it kept running from RAM....but the damage was done. LoL. I deleted the WHOLE file system whereas I only wanted to delete a subfolder including it's files....1 space too much, or a missing dot....and disaster strikes ! Linux is really robust regarding missing files.....had a client server that got his drives stolen while running....the only thing you recognized from a client was an empty share, the server ran...until reboot. Anyway.....today's mishap is even greater but nor caused by me, other than I choose the parts: FOUR out of NINE identical PC's I just built have the SSD-Kill bug that goes around, and ALL have Samsung 990Pro-1TB drives !!!!!!!!!!!!! Maybe the first once documented as far as I can tell. Wrote a note below Jay's 2 Cents video that I have it on 4 990Pro's , it ALSO Samsung now. So, what do you do, call the lucky customer who hasnt had a crash yet and speak to his VB, "Hey, we might have an issue, MS releases a patch blabla.." Done that 30 min ago. The first incident was 8:15am WhatsApp Picture from BIOS with " WTF is THIS??" from my largest's client's owner's own NEW PC !!!! What a nightmare for both. During the day, 3 other identical machines failed with the same sudden reboot to Bios and no drive visible......cold reboot fixes it, luckily. It's a bad situation, almost all vendors seem to be affected, you cant steer left or right w/o falling into the same pit, only thing would be Sata-SSD's for all nine and a nice clone job IN LINUX as windows tends to be "u-n-s-t-a-b-l-e" these days if you run NVMe. Make your Backups guys....I spent till 3am backing up a network, from A-Z, all machines, complete machine..... I felt a lot better today with 4 failing PC's knowing that I installed Acronis last night and put them all thru a full backup to Linux with SFTP. There was a way back if the drives go south completely, as has happened with WD drives. Deinstalling the patches 9x tonight on all those PC's...hope that fixes it for now.....Jay says it wont fix it !

As some may know I service SoHo and smaller companies like up to ~25 people, nothing too big, so it's relative comparable to what can happen to you, me, everybody. Today was such a day, nothing really special, replace old HW with Win10 with 6 new Win11 Pro clients which put together, GB-B850-9600x-1TB 990Pro-Seasonic Platinum 500w fanless-32GB_6000 and a DarkRock-5 in a nice and quiet bequet tower. The building was fun despite 1 MB was DOA, but they just flew. Did that 2 weeks ago and today I planned to roll them out. Save Data and Mail from old PC to server Setup local LAN static IP and DNS rename PC join AD setup accounts install all LAN printers restore Data and Mail rinse & repeat...1..2..3..4..5..BANG !!!!! I accidently ended up on the wrong desktop, i was in RDP on Server instead of on the local Desktop, both had 2 File Explorers open, Task manager, windows over windows, I opened the the RENAME THIS PC on the wrong Desktop !! ME IDIOT !!!! I RENAMED THE Active Directory Controller, AD-DC, to PC-3 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! hit OK and then found out FUUUUUuuuuuuu§& WRONG RDP --> WRONG FILE EXPLORER --> WRONG CONTROL PANEL -----> GOD DAMN WRONG MACHINE to rename and I picked the worst machine you can possibly rename while in production and running THE DOMAIN CONTROLLER My blood froze, my pulse went to 180 from chilling low 60s, my promise to be home at 19:30h THE LATEST suddenly became a lie and my biggest fear was: "You're gonna either have some damn luck, PRETTY SOON, or you end up with Acronis, putting the Backup from last night on" Ya, after you made the bootstick, 20min, went upstairs to the server. a real ClusterFu%§ visualising what was ahead of me if I didnt come up with something quick, quickly . So, I know how to rename a DC, you DON'T do it like you do with any other Windows machine, it's a Powershell command, 3 of them iirc, with reboots and DNS entries. Not complicated, but must be obeyed or you screw up the directory, or your access to it...f you only run 1 DC, that must be said to be fair. OK..Google... it says...you did the WRONG thing, there is NO easy way out, you either use a Backup or REINSTITUTE the Domain, which basically means you might as well reinstall the whole damn thing, that's 1 day alone if ALL goes right. I did that server and it is not difficult, just a lot of stuff and it takes time and care. So...I had no choice.. I had to reboot it while I was there, no way out, you dont want to expore the outcome of that 40km away and only VPN,Teamviewer/RDP/VNC at hand. OK, the server has an Enterprise Dell iDrac that I can access from here, that would have worked even from remote...but here it goes. So I rebooted, there was no "rename again" back to SRV possible, it needed the reboot to commit. So I did. It booted to login screen, so far so good. At least no AD DB error while booting, that is a total mess then. OK, OK...so far great...try to login.. Login as admin and pwd --> Red Pop-Up --> No security entry in AD Database for this workstation. Login denied! OHH SH!T You cannot log into the local domain aka PC/Server on a DC, it is ALWAYS a log in into AD-admin. So I could not do SRV\administrator to log into the Server locally w/o Domain. I tried despite I knew it wouldn't work and it didn't, waah ! You're finally screwed !!!! You have a booting 2022 AD-Controller with a wrong name that doesnt connect to the network, doesnt show shares you could connect to and SOMEHOW work, heck, if the SQL's would run, I'd have more time to sort out things...but this beast doesnt do ANYTHING but boot to Welcome screen and sit there forever. mI also couldn't even finish the 6th PC and drive home, I was about to join AD when that happened There is no guide on Google or in AI that tells you how to redo that mishap. It's a nail in the server's coffin that you usually don't get out again. That is what gave me headaches, the not having options to fix it, just FIX IT, god damn, it's only a few lines of code...ok maybe a few more it's AD and thus deeply DNS integrated...WTF, how could you fall into exactly this pit, this No-Way-Out pit, with a big "How to Sink a DC" sign above it in Neon. Aaarghhh, a big client..and you screwed up his DC, it better runs Monday morning 7am, no matter what, no matter. So...I have it all on Acronis on a Linux Server as well as in Acronis Cloud, that would be the ultimate thing to fix it if I didnt come up with a solution, something dead simple, stupid simple, as quick&dirty as the renaming was. But what. OK,...lets try F8 and Safe Mode, maybe there is something that can be done.....but wait....I cannot reboot or shut it down. The DC-Server Welcome Screen in contrast to Client Windows OS has no Button to restart or shutdown, it's a safe guard. Well, lets see Dell's iDrac....but there have never been drivers installed in the OS for any iDrac, so I did not expect see a graceful OS shutdown/reboot option, just the normal AC operations which I knew. I was right, no graceful options, warmstart or cold restart or OFF. Yeah, what a freaking nightmare, I have to reset the server now as well, a Russian Roulette with AD Database and RAID's, you never reset server unless you really really really have to. I had to ! Show balls !! Grab it btP ! I hit warm restart and was then greatet with a UEFI Secure Boot error, luckily I could just say "screw you, I already have enough trouble!" and clicked it away and it kept booting through the many Dell UEFI and FW screens, I kept hitting F8 over and over agin. Made it, Boot options came up 1 to 9..or 0 god knows. 4 is Safe Mode.... but wait....boot to LAST KNOWN WORKING CONFIGURATION ! ???? OK, that is not ment to fix any AD structural damage if there is any but it should rewind the actual PC-settings I changed a reboot ago !? Let's try, there is really nothing to loose but the 5min it takes to boot. If it screws up and crashes I go the Acronis route, chill and wait until restored, if Acronis lets me down I am screwed, then I am gonna spend Sunday here, for free, fixing my sh!T. Monday 7am is deadline. The server booted, as before, login available, no errors so far....now try the usual DOMAIN\administrator PWD and see if it locks up. TATTAA....It fixed it, dead simple decade old rescue option fixed the misconfig, in a very lucky way I admit. The narrow path with too much domain on one side and too severly misconfigured HW on the other side, this option was golden, it saved a lot of work, money and effort. And I, I will, after 30 years, watch even closer now..on which RDP or Desktop I am before I rename a machine in a Directory ! I really felt baaaad the first 5 minutes after it happened, the"You screwed it Up!" hit hard. Anyway, that server booted as nothing ever had happened, DNS was correct, DHCP changes I made were also still present, all good. Fixed that last PC, printers, users, Mail, done. When I got home, 2h late, my step daughter looked at me, said "You know how late you are!!?" went out and took off...LoL I still felt great, still do, having a beer and typing this.... better than installing a 2022 SRV with AD, Rolls, Software, Users and what not else till 2am and all Sunday too. Done that, thank you, my beer tastes a lot better than that ! God save the command "Revert to last known working configuration" Prost

Remembering the days where you had to DL drivers via modem from a BBS, nothing like www or such...and TM was reachable by phone from like 17:00 to 19:00h only, with a dude on the phone that sounded as enthusiastic as I did in my early 20's and my first, actually 2nd, TM gear, F16-TQS-Rudders . You said "one of my pots is going haywire"... and what did they send you ? - 4+ Pots - many knobs and switches...just in case - a complete wiring for the stick - rubber feet for all - springs for the rudders iirc as well - EPROMS !!!! to update your Firmware/bios Whenever there was a new Bios for the Hotas, you got an Eprom in Mail for free. You just had to replace it yourself, 5min work. Havent had to reach out to them ever since, but even if they only do half of that now, they are miles better than OT's experience with WW. I'd not consider WW for myself, there is no soul behind it, like with MFG or other small manufacturers with a real, tangible person behind it. Customer Service goes a long way, makes relationships tighter, builds trust and both benefit if done right. Just fixed the Home PC from the Senior Boss of a customer of mine, my client's Dad so to say. Took me 15min, fixed the obvious bugs, introduced him to adfree YT with Brave, which he almost lost tears about - what a relief, installed Teamviewer and when he asked me what he owed me I said "NOTHING !!", told him, your son always pays my service bills promptly, never questions my recommendations and has had no trouble with that... if you need help ..gimme a call, tell me this number and pwd and I can help you, directly. That's how you treat a customer at 9pm after installing their new IT all day long in their business, only had coffee and cigarettes...you smile...it's why I do it, help people and luckily they pay me too cause they see the mutual benefit of valuing each other. A dying pov. Reading the above from WW tell's a different story.

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