In November of 2021 I purchased an ASUS Gaming Desktop computer. I bought it at Best Buy and had it delivered to my front door. The model is a ASUS ROG STRIX C15-B11. It comes with an Intel 11700KF CPU, an ASUS TUF Gaming Nvidia RTX 3080 NON LHR GPU, 16GB of rather generic RAM,… Continue reading ASUS Gaming Desktop
Category: Updates
AMD Radeon Team
Pull it together. The latest release of the Adrenaline driver is 20.2.1 It was released on February 3, 2020. It still exhibits many of the same issues of those that preceded it. [yop_poll id=”1″]
Userbench fails Sphere graphics test. Possible solution.
If you are experiencing an error running the userbench suite of tests, and the error indicates “ERROR: Sphere GPU benchmark failed, aborting further tests on this GPU” then this MAY solve your issue. I isolated this error on my system to the Nahimic service that is a part of the Realtek Audio driver package. To… Continue reading Userbench fails Sphere graphics test. Possible solution.
Another AMD RADEON Driver Update that mostly fails
AMD released 20.1.2 Version of the AMD RADEON drivers on January 15th of 2020. This new driver is supposed to enhance the features of online streaming. I still have to revert to the 19.11.3 version to get basic functionality for all of the games I play on a regular basis. HELLO AMD are you listening… Continue reading Another AMD RADEON Driver Update that mostly fails
Install Windows 10 and lose your GRUB menu?
Try this from an ADMIN command prompt bcdedit /set {bootmgr} path \EFI\ubuntu\grubx64.efi Note: This is from Windows 10, and this will work with any flavor of Ubuntu and with Mint, it will not work with other distributions.
Updated plugins, adobe acrobat reader, prevent some security issues
There are new updates for Adobe Acrobat reader. A new version of the 64 bit version of the Adobe Flash plugin for Linux and WIndows. Also there is a new version of Java 6 update 22 available at Java.com
WordPress 3.01 available
WordPress 3.01 is now available. Be sure to upgrade your blogs as soon as possible.
WordPress 3.0 released!
WordPress 3.0 is finally available. There were many release candidate releases. It has been a while since a new release of WordPress. WordPress 3.0 is now released.
ASUS P7H55M-Pro BIOS update
ASUS recently released a new BIOS update (1303) for the P7H55M-Pro motherboard. The new BIOS addresses memory errors with the 0802 BIOS. Memory tests revealed no issues but on rare occasions I was experiencing a couple of memory related errors. IRQ_NOT_Less_THAN_OR_EQUAL and PFN List corrupt errors indicate your BIOS and memory are not communicating correctly.… Continue reading ASUS P7H55M-Pro BIOS update
WordPress 2.8.6 is available.
The folks at WordPress have released version 2.8.6. It installs smoothly as usual. I highly recommend everyone update as soon as possible. This is a security patch release.