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<p style=”text-align: justify;”>Using a UEFI system will not avoid SMBIOS either because it is a required component module for using UEFI on a PC. Microsoft also made it a requirement in 1997 for the Designed for Windows 98 sticker. We are now up to V3.0 which is the 64 bit version.</p>
Seem to have a Bee in my bonnet about it 😂

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Oh yeh. On my system there is a difference between loading the CMOS defaults and clearing the CMOS. The default and optimum profiles are held in the BIOS flash ram along with 4 others I can define and loading them does NOT clear the System Management data as I discovered 🤨

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I wrote above that when I reset my CMOS settings to default the system would not boot because it got stuck at verifying DMI pool. I also wrote that this was because the drive settings reverted to IDE instead of AHCI so the system could no longer see the drives and the DMI data was on a disc file so that was the problem. Well I was never quite happy with that explanation so I have looked further.

I was right about the IDE/AHCI thing but wrong about the disk file.

First off DMI is a bit wrong as it has been replaced by CIM anyway, what the system means is SMBIOS data pool. The SMBIOS gathers system configuration data during a boot  and makes it available to an OS by putting it in a CIM formatted table and storing that near the top of the first 4MB of memory before handing control to the OS.

My BIOS does that thoroughly ONCE and stores the table in CMOS, on the next boot it just dose a quick verify of the data it has in CMOS and if all is well passes the CMOS data to the OS.

My problem was because of the IDE/AHCI mismatch. The main BIOS had reverted to IDE but the SMBIOS was still trying to get device information from an AHCI drive, which it never could, so I got stuck at verifying DMI pool. The simple solution is to do a CMOS reset which clears the DMI pool and forces the SMBIOS to do a rescan using BIOS settings.

Or just change the IDE/AHCI settings manually which is what I did 😂

There is much more to the SMBIOS data and configuration mismatch problems but I am tired of typing 😀

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Back to the EU listening to us, they stopped listening to us a couple of years BEFORE we had our vote. After they rearanged things so that we lost our veto on most votes we became nothing more than a small pain in their fat a**es. It is a major reason to leave in the first place.

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https://www.o2wifi.co.uk/about/extra

Above is a link to the O2 web page that gives an over simplistic explination of how things work 😁

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Its not EXACTLY connecting to a public hotspot Dave, its connecting to an O2 hotspot. Logging into the WiFi Extra service is Automatic only and based on a Sim ID and phone IMEI.

As soon as I found out the service existed I checked my phones settings and found it was switched on but I can switch it off if I like. This is a new setting that was apparently delivered with the last software update 2 months ago. You need a Samsung S7 or equivalent to make it work. You cannot manually log in to WiFi Extra if you are an O2 customer. Customers on any other network can use the service but they must register with O2 and log in manually, they will also get adds 🤔

I does look like part of the push to put everyone on Voip calling.

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I have a good name for a new thread and it is “How I would run the Country” 😀

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What hold us back is a lack of vision from the top Ed. But can we put this back in the Brexit box please, or better yet a new thread ?

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Back to cross rail. They put in a bloke to manage bond street as his first ever major project and then cut him off from any direction. Guess what, he floundered.

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Oops I let the Brexit thing leak to here. I am truly sorry 😀

But we really are a Massive island packed with creative potential. We need to stop listening to those who would do us down.

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On the other hand, no one has much experiance of UWP yet so it could do anything 😀

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I had a feeling the driver package wouldn’t be listed. If you DO manage to get a driver it should be a PACKAGE and it should show up 🤔

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Dear Bob 😁

The UK is a MASSIVE island with skills spread all over. We need to develop ALL of them but we can’t do it if the EU says NO.

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Driver Easy may be a good idea 😁

In the meantime does your touch screen driver show up under settings>apps>Windows apps and features ?

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As you have a device with an ARM CPU (I can’t find the specs but you must have if it can also run Android) then you will have a Universal Windows Platform version of Windows and that has some very odd UWP drivers 🙄. If the driver is not installed in exactly the right way (not the normal way) then it will appear to be installed but it won’t be properly linked into the OS so won’t work.

The only way to properly install UWP drivers is to run the installation package EXE or to let Windows update do it. It may be worth uninstalling the existing driver, so the touch screen shows as unknown device, and then doing a forced Windows update check.

Just a thought 😁

 

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Did anything happen before things went wrong, like a Windows update ?

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Happy Birthday Lee. Keep up the good work 😀

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Sorry wrong link. That one just says my RX480 may struggle a bit 😁

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It is indeed Vulcan and with high system requirements too. I put mine in a the link below and it says I could expect 46 fps at 1080p Ultra.

https://www.game-debate.com/games/index.php?g_id=35595&game=Rage%202

 

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Years since I did it but I have a BTEC in ELECTRTCAL&Electronic engineering. Hours of fun was had with power factors and phase diagrams 😁.

The thing is though, most of that is to do with load rather than frequency. It seems to me that the national grid is normally  very good at managing load but not so good at managing frequency now they have so much unregulated Green stuff coming in as it just syncs to and follows the supply its connected to.

In the past if the load went down the frequency would tend to go up because the physical load on the generators would go down so they would spin faster and vice versa.

As Drax point out they can fix that just by altering the amount of steam they use, they are effectively driving the frequency of the grid rather than following it.

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