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Post by Bongo Heracles on Jun 17, 2022 21:04:56 GMT
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Post by Lukus on Jun 17, 2022 22:47:08 GMT
Set his desktop to a picture of you looking at him disapprovingly.
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Post by dominalien on Jun 18, 2022 6:02:06 GMT
Take it away, buy a desktop and put it in the living room like it’s 1994! \o/
Sorry.
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Post by cubby on Jun 18, 2022 6:15:32 GMT
Just give him a list of good websites and he's allowed on those. Hell, buy him pornhub premium for his birthday.
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Post by hedben on Jun 19, 2022 20:37:53 GMT
Another probably basic tech support question I’m afraid
I’ve been getting “network unstable” messages when playing online multiplayer games on the Series X, with serious lag and sync issues. It only happens sometimes- maybe once or twice a week- but while it’s happening, it goes on for hours and ruins an evening’s gaming.
After some light Googling and experimentation, it may be because my NAT type keeps switching from Open to Moderate. I’ve done the very basics- hard reset, ensure UPnP is enabled on the router- but the problem is it changes from Open to Moderate within minutes after a reset. I also tried opening a port via the router settings but that didn’t seem to improve anything.
I have a Virgin Hub 4 router. I know I should probably get a better router and set the hub to modem mode, but that’s a last resort- I’m hoping there’s a configuration fix I can do, rather than needing different hardware.
Any ideas or helpful links? There’s plenty of info online about how to check NAT and reset back to Open, but not so much about why it keeps switching back again.
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Post by zephro on Jun 19, 2022 21:15:38 GMT
If your NAT type does actually keep changing there's not a huge amount you can do about it, that will largely be happening at your exchange not on your local network. That said it shouldn't actually change dynamically, that sounds weird. Though Virgin Media going unstable and shit for portions of the day sounds usual.
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Post by hedben on Jun 20, 2022 6:47:58 GMT
zephro hmm good to know, thanks. Maybe it’s Virgin being rubbish- that would also explain why it only happens sometimes without me changing anything on my side. I’ll keep an eye on it and contact them if it happens too often.
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Post by dominalien on Jun 20, 2022 7:39:25 GMT
The xbox is connected directly to the router? Cable or wifi?
Edit: upnp is useful, but terrible. Maybe you have something else on the network that's stealing the xbox's port redirections?
More editzz: does the xbox require upnp? A playstation will have the bestest nats without upnp running.
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Post by zephro on Jun 20, 2022 9:29:31 GMT
Ah Open and Moderate are Xbox terms. I know the PlayStation versions from working on them years ago. NAT's all about being able to accept incoming connections on the device, first and foremost by having a working address. So in PlayStation land: Nat 1 = public static IP address, people can definitely address specifically that console, NAT 2 = behind 1 router and the firewall/forwarding is configured properly, so incoming connections get routed properly by the router to that specific device, NAT 3 = either the forwarding is off or your ISP is setting up multiple routers (so instead of all the devices on your router being addressable its you and your neighbours, and as you can only do the forwarding on the router in your house you're basically fucked). So all of that config is unlikely to be changing periodically without you doing something to your router. So it could be something else on the network popping up and using the redirections. However if its for hours during the evening on a Virgin connection, I'd hazard a guess that what's actually happening is due to oversubscription your connection quality is tanking when everyone is online. So the NAT detection thing is failing to send packets because Virgin is just shittily dropping them all. Which would look like the port is blocked because no traffic is getting through. When it's happening run a speed test. Or set up a broadband quality monitor: www.thinkbroadband.com/broadband/monitoring/quality Often when my Virgin connection is fucked I see that my download speed is fine(ish) in the 200Mbps range though it should be 600. But my upload speed drops to 512K sometimes 56K, so it looks like my computer is downloading fine but trying to send outgoing data is utterly buggered and the packet loss is so high it just times out. |
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Post by dominalien on Jun 20, 2022 9:54:48 GMT
As an aside, NAT 1 in playstationland is not recommended by Sony. And I'm not surprised. They recommend 2, 3 limits your online options.
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Jun 20, 2022 10:10:32 GMT
And if you have any wifi extenders/mesh/homeplugs/whatever they can come with routing protocols turned on which will cause the xbox to whine about nat/double nat.
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Post by hedben on Jun 20, 2022 11:18:47 GMT
The xbox is connected directly to the router? Cable or wifi?
Edit: upnp is useful, but terrible. Maybe you have something else on the network that's stealing the xbox's port redirections?
More editzz: does the xbox require upnp? A playstation will have the bestest nats without upnp running.
It’s a wired connection direct to the router. Ironically if I unplug and go WiFi that sometimes seems to solve the problem, but then I have much worse download/upload speeds. I followed the troubleshooting steps on MS’s own support pages, which meant trying with Upnp and then also switching it off and opening a port support.xbox.com/en-GB/help/hardware-network/connect-network/xbox-one-nat-error(There’s no Series S/X version of the support page but I figured it was the same) Thanks for the suggestions all, I’ll read through them properly and have another tinker tonight. |
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Post by malek86 on Jul 15, 2022 18:31:00 GMT
Having some trouble with my laptop randomly rebooting. It happened a lot last month, like at least once per day. Fixed it by clean reinstalling the Geforce drivers. Thought I had solved it for good, no problems for a month, but now it just happened again. Maybe I oughta try that again.
Anyway, how do I tell Windows 11 not to reboot automatically after a crash? I'd like to actually know what the hell is going on. Yes, I know there's a checkbox in the advanced system settings. No, it doesn't work. Maybe because it's not a BSOD proper?
I also told Windows to generate a minidump file, and of course it didn't generate jack. Latest minidump I have is from last month, which I used to realize it was a Nvidia driver problem.
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Post by 😎 on Jul 15, 2022 19:25:30 GMT
Check the event logs. If there’s squat all in there that shows a crash, and it’s not bluescreening, it might be power or other hardware related.
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Post by pierrepressure on Jul 25, 2022 21:15:16 GMT
This has no bearing on gaming whatsoever but thought you pc geniuses would be my best bet.
For some reason, after reading my messages in Outlook on my work laptop they'll go back to being unread later on. It's only started doing this once I got a work phone and set up my emails on my phone.
Any ideas?
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Post by 😎 on Jul 25, 2022 21:35:57 GMT
Is it exchange? If so, are you using the Outlook mobile client? I’ve seen weirdness like that happen if it’s a different mail client on mobile that’s not setup as an exchange account.
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Post by dfunked on Jul 25, 2022 21:45:18 GMT
Yeah, use apple's native mail client and just wait for the monthly new issues to come in.
Apple; "not our problem, talk to Microsoft."
Microsoft; "not our problem, talk to Apple."
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Post by pierrepressure on Jul 25, 2022 22:20:10 GMT
Is it exchange? If so, are you using the Outlook mobile client? I’ve seen weirdness like that happen if it’s a different mail client on mobile that’s not setup as an exchange account. Yeah its an exchange using the outlook app on an android phone. |
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Post by pierrepressure on Jul 25, 2022 22:21:44 GMT
Yeah, use apple's native mail client and just wait for the monthly new issues to come in. Apple; "not our problem, talk to Microsoft." Microsoft; "not our problem, talk to Apple." Unfortunately I'm not at the required level to "earn" myself an Apple phone, I've got to practically run the business before I get that upgrade. |
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Post by drhickman1983 on Jul 26, 2022 7:42:07 GMT
Here's an odd question relating to work that I can't work out and our own IT guys are basically contractors who are just there in case things go wrong, not to offer advice.
As part of my job I'll be setting up a shit load of assessment centres for our recruitment process.
Each assessment center has 10 colleagues from the business acting as assessor. We invite them to the events using outlook.
Now, we need to track which assessors accept and decline the invites. As we have around 40 assessment centres (even more for the next campaign) going into each diary item in outlook to check tracking is a massive ballache.
What I'd like to do is be able to export the entire diary , and then import it into Excel so it shows each event *including* accepts and declines for each diary item. If I export from the calendar it shows every event, and invitees, but not the responses.
Is there a way to export this diary information from outlook, including accepts/declines, without having to manually enter reach diary invite to export from the tracking tab?
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Post by dogbot on Jul 26, 2022 9:05:51 GMT
drhickman1983 you should be able to export a calendar from Outlook to CSV using Outlook's built in export function (File > Export > Choose the calendar). IIRC, it allows you to select what information you export, but I don't know if it will list each individual response. You can try, though.
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Post by crashV👀d👀 on Jul 26, 2022 14:38:48 GMT
If it's office365 them you could go the whole power automate/flow route.
Have an automation monitor an outlook calendar for responses and then catalogue them accordingly
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Post by drhickman1983 on Jul 26, 2022 14:53:10 GMT
If it's office365 them you could go the whole power automate/flow route. Have an automation monitor an outlook calendar for responses and then catalogue them accordingly I don't think we're allowed Flow on our devices. I can't see it, anyway. Lots of red tape to get anything installed... |
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Post by 😎 on Jul 26, 2022 14:57:53 GMT
You’d have to do that off a schedule, there’s no trigger for meeting responses currently. It used to be a massive pain to get attendee info through Power Platform as the inbuilt connectors used some weird Exchange API and you’d have to either do a graph or exchange call manually to get anything. The newer connectors should pull that back natively though.
But yeah, scheduled or instant trigger, get events v4 with an odata filter (or if there’s nothing in common that you can filter on, a good old hard coded get event multiple times), foreach them into an array, convert to table, fire off in an email summary. Presuming you’re in M365 anyway.
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Post by Fake_Blood on Jul 30, 2022 14:09:06 GMT
My mate’s pc is stuck in the repair loop. Tried most things, tried repair from a freshly made usb key, even the fresh install option from the cloud fails. I see no option but to rip his user directory from the drive for the couple of files and photos he has on there and wipe the whole lot. Tried some shenanigans in cmd with diskpart because his main install is on D: with C: being some sort of recovery partition, so tried swapping the drive letters around. When win10 fucks up it fucks up good it seems. Any have any bright ideas before I clean install?
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Post by Fake_Blood on Jul 30, 2022 14:49:08 GMT
Sorry for the wall of txt, but this is his bcdinfo.txt
Windows Boot Manager
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identifier {bootmgr}
device partition=C:
description Windows Boot Manager
locale nl-NL
inherit {globalsettings}
default {default}
resumeobject {13a7f016-a6d8-11eb-9fe9-e309d6755148}
displayorder {default}
toolsdisplayorder {memdiag}
timeout 30
Windows Boot Loader
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identifier {default}
device partition=D:
path \WINDOWS\system32\winload.exe
description Windows 10
locale nl-NL
inherit {bootloadersettings}
recoverysequence {current}
displaymessageoverride Recovery
recoveryenabled Yes
allowedinmemorysettings 0x15000075
osdevice partition=D:
systemroot \WINDOWS
resumeobject {13a7f016-a6d8-11eb-9fe9-e309d6755148}
nx OptIn
bootmenupolicy Standard
Windows Boot Loader
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identifier {current}
device ramdisk=[C:]\Recovery\WindowsRE\Winre.wim,{d558a1ff-a6cf-11eb-91ff-e7c32c25e32f}
path \windows\system32\winload.exe
description Windows Recovery Environment
locale nl-NL
inherit {bootloadersettings}
displaymessage Recovery
osdevice ramdisk=[C:]\Recovery\WindowsRE\Winre.wim,{d558a1ff-a6cf-11eb-91ff-e7c32c25e32f}
systemroot \windows
nx OptIn
bootmenupolicy Standard
winpe Yes
Resume from Hibernate
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identifier {13a7f016-a6d8-11eb-9fe9-e309d6755148}
device partition=D:
path \WINDOWS\system32\winresume.exe
description Windows Resume Application
locale nl-NL
inherit {resumeloadersettings}
recoverysequence {current}
recoveryenabled Yes
allowedinmemorysettings 0x15000075
filedevice partition=D:
filepath \hiberfil.sys
bootmenupolicy Standard
debugoptionenabled No
Windows Memory Tester
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identifier {memdiag}
device partition=C:
path \boot\memtest.exe
description Windows Geheugencontrole
locale nl-NL
inherit {globalsettings}
badmemoryaccess Yes
EMS Settings
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identifier {emssettings}
bootems No
Debugger Settings
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identifier {dbgsettings}
debugtype Local
RAM Defects
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identifier {badmemory}
badmemorylist 0x130094
0x13011a
0x130233
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0x130c50
0x130c53
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Global Settings
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identifier {globalsettings}
inherit {dbgsettings}
{emssettings}
{badmemory}
Boot Loader Settings
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identifier {bootloadersettings}
inherit {globalsettings}
{hypervisorsettings}
Hypervisor Settings
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identifier {hypervisorsettings}
hypervisordebugtype Serial
hypervisordebugport 1
hypervisorbaudrate 115200
Resume Loader Settings
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identifier {resumeloadersettings}
inherit {globalsettings}
Device options
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identifier {d558a1ff-a6cf-11eb-91ff-e7c32c25e32f}
description Windows Recovery
ramdisksdidevice partition=C:
ramdisksdipath \Recovery\WindowsRE\boot.sdi
Does he just have broken RAM?
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Post by X201 on Aug 9, 2022 20:31:23 GMT
Thought Vizzy was back for a second then
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Aug 9, 2022 21:28:36 GMT
Yes. If it’s a laptop and the ram is welded to the board you can mask out the bad addresses and set the badmemoryaccess flag to No to stop the bad bits being accessed.
It’s a bit off a faff so just swap it out if you can.
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Post by H-alphaFox on Nov 3, 2022 8:40:44 GMT
So our wifi is acting up, everything is connected to it and we can use it to browse the internet and download what we need for work etc.. could even play Battlefront 2 online multiplayer yesterday but when it comes to watching Netflix, Disney or any of them they won't play.
Disney error code 83 and Netflix say it couldn't find their servers etc. I can't even open certain mobile games. It all works in offline mode on phone data and can open and watch D+/NF/HBO on the PC but not on anything connected to the wifi.
Our speed is better than it has been and the speed tests on connected devices are reasonably good too and doesn't seem to be any recent updates but think I'll face a rebellion soon if I can't figure it out.
Any ideas beyond uninstalling and reinstalling the wifi driver?
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Post by dfunked on Nov 3, 2022 8:51:47 GMT
Could just be your ISP's DNS shitting itself. Maybe try using different DNS servers on your router web config page. Make a note of whatever it's currently set to, then try others like 1.1.1.1 and 8.8.8.8
Weird that it works OK on the PC though. Have you maybe fiddled with settings on that in the past when you had issues? Remember you having a few problems a while back.
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