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Still works.

Windows 10 x64 Home 1909

1. Select “Download Updates over Metered Connection…..”
2. Turn off internet connection (I just clicked Airplane Mode)
3. Click “Resume Updates”
4. You’ll get an error
5. Change your “Pause Updates” date
6. Enable the internet.

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[Mike]

For reference, specifically for DAW’s

https://helpcenter.steinberg.de/hc/en-us/articles/360008589880-Windows-10-How-to-set-up-and-optimize-a-Digital-Audio-Workstation-DAW-

 

Modern systems with a fully updated Windows 10 should not need any of the default settings to be modified. However, if certain drivers are not fully optimized and you experience audio drop-outs, it is worth having a closer look. Note that the following settings are often not accessible, especially on laptop systems.

• Disable Hyper-Threading (Intel)/Simultaneous Multi-Threading (AMD) in the UEFI BIOS if your CPU supports it and if your BIOS allows you to modify this setting.

• Disable advanced power-saving and dynamic performance options for your CPU if applicable. This usually needs to be done in the UEFI BIOS of your computer and includes ‘Enhanced Intel SpeedStep (EIST)’, ‘AMD Cool ‘n’ Quiet’, ‘Intel Turbo Boost’, and ‘AMD Turbo CORE’.

• Disable C-States in the UEFI BIOS if this is accessible. C-States allow your CPU to sleep when idle, which may interfere with real-time applications such as audio. This option is often called ‘Disable CPU Idle State for Power Saving’.

• This reply was modified 4 years, 11 months ago by Mike.

BTW. The reason I even got curious about Speed Step and Speed Shift was an article I read that most DAW software, like Steinberg, recommend disabling them. Another reason is many gamers have seen an improvement when playing games with either disabled. But, all that may be old news.

[Mike]

I have two computers.  one is Win10 (upgraded from Win7). The only reason I use Win10 is for specialized software support.  The other computer is Linux Mint.  There are 3 styles of Linux Mint: Cinnamon, Mate and Xfce.  As far as the graphics, look and feel,  Cinnamon is most like Windows.  Xfce is the one that is plain and uses less resources, and runs faster on an older system with less Ram.  Mate is somewhere in between. All three come with Linux software to do the basics: surf, email, documents, spreadsheets,  play media, etc. Security and Firewall enabled.

When I installed Linux Mint Xfce on a Dell i5 desktop it was amazingly easy. Everything, including my Canon printer was found and the drivers installed. Maybe I was lucky. We use this computer for entertainment, online surfing, creating docs, xls, pp and finances using Libre Office, VLC, Firefox and Ublock Origin. The interface/gui/desktop and “File Exlorer” are simple and easy to use. Updates are automatic and seamless, never had an issue.

In short, for the uses we need, I see no reason to use Windows.

Mike

• This reply was modified 4 years, 12 months ago by Mike. Reason: added content

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Hi Bob.

I’m not going to give you reliable links because you can find a multitude of those on the net or here using search. If you are speaking of using Windows 10 image backup to make a image of your operating system, then that is a combination of a rescue boot device which would be a USB flash thumb drive or a single DVD disc, and then a USB external Hard Drive for the actual OS image.  The boot device boots the computer if your OS is corrupted and then allows you reinstall the OS image you saved on the USB external drive.  Why not use DVDs for the actual OS image? Well you could, but they are slower and would take many..if not a dozen. A real pain sice you need 50+GB or more for a OS+programs.

If you want something other than the Windows image creation  program, Macrium free is a nice program.

[Mike]

Thanks Ascaris and satrow for your comments and educating me.

@satrow: All drives are below heat limits.  OS and Programs are on two different NvME SSD’s.

I’ll eat my words, which were poorly stated.  I don’t currently have an issue with overheating, but I don’t want it to happen, because my cooling design doesn’t allow for overclocking heat.  That’s the risk I took with the core i9x series, air cooling and case. But, it sounds like things are managable.

I also misspoke about throttling down. What I meant to say was that the CPU was in a lower idle state..or..whatever the proper term is during editing video. Now, from what you’ve told me, that sounds like a power setting issue.

Any ideas on the Core CState and MPC mode setting.  Just curious. BTW, You are both 1000x better than Asus support

I really appreciate you help.

Mike

• This reply was modified 5 years ago by Mike.

Thanks for both replies.

The reason why I don’t want the Turbo Boost is for a couple of reasons.  1) It’s throttling the CPU low in the middle of editing video and causing some glitching.  I can probably take care of that in the power settings.  2) Temperature.  This i9-9900x CPU is a hot little beast and while I have adequate air flow, overclocking is not necessary and just consumes more power and puts out more heat.  That’s the biggest issue.

Also, I may be able, somewhere to set processor min and max states.  Not sure about that and currently that’s beyond my head.

If you glance back up in my first post, you’ll see several other settings for this MB.  I’m trying to figure them all out.  My understanding is a combination of these settings will disable the hardware function of Turbo CPU mode.  It seems obvious that it might be the “Turbo” setting, but it more probable that there is another setting in combination with that?

SpeedStep is an older Intel CPU feature that I think was replaced by SpeedShift for the X generation processors, which I have.  Core C-State and MPC Mode are totally confusing.

Mike

 

[Mike]

Like mentioned, you can use the wireless companies text gateway, but many times you have to go to the trouble of logging in. I use Verizon’s application called Message+.  It can work with PC or MAC OS or Android via WiFi. Works great for me. Evidently you don’t have to be a Verizon customer.  Here’s  a link to the FAQ:   https://www.verizonwireless.com/support/verizon-messages-faqs/

 

• This reply was modified 5 years ago by Mike.

Hi.

This is an incredible longshot, but I had a similar issue and found the power adapter was bad. It was or had been overheating and was unreliable.

Mike

Thanks DG1261 for a great explanation. I agree 16mb is not worth worrying about….just a curiosity  for me since I was under the impression  that the MSR was only on OS disks. I wonder if using diskpart would make the MSR as well.  Again, just wondering.
Thanks everyone.

Thanks folks.  For the record, the drives (disk 1, disk 2) are HDDs.  The boot, disk 0, is an SSD

[Mike]

Wouldn’t this be a fan going bad? Bad bearings.

• This reply was modified 5 years ago by Mike.

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Ascaris

Thanks Paul.  If you want to, could you explain the whole PE option.. is that for different  hardware?

I wanted to add some information to my original post that I left out.

Part of my confusion is that my download machine is different than my install machine (which doesn’t have internet).  While both are Windows 10 1909 x64, the download one is a “Home” version, if that even matters.

From what I read on the Macrium website, when you do this, you have to download the necessary components for the target machine, and then move those to the target machine and activate.

Again, the issue is that those “components” have a dizzying amount of RE and PE options.

Reference:  https://knowledgebase.macrium.com/display/KNOW72/Installing%2Band%2Bupdating%2BMacrium%2BReflect%2Boffline

and

Mike

My thanks to everyone here.  I appreciate all the ideas.

Mike