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Jeremy Falcon wrote: it's just me being silly trying to keep this chat somewhat lighthearted
Sorry... to be effective has to be understood   
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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I’m on mobile so can’t easily toss out an emoji response. So, I’ll just say….
Daaaaaayyyyyyyyuuuuuummmm lol
Jeremy Falcon
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I've always and only bought ASUS motherboards because they are known reliable, with a catch.
Always update the bios before you do anything. I had to for it to even recognize my CPU last time - using flashback because i couldn't get to setup without a CPU.
That might be your issue.
ASUS boards are rock solid. If it's not a bad bios, that is probably not your issue. Could be your NVMe. Could be your RAM.
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch/gfx
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I'll give the BIOS update a try next week. For now, I'm taking a weekend away from this thing. I used to buy only SuperMicro boards, but they've gone to selling only server boards and complete workstations. That's a shame, because they've always been the gold standard for quality to me. I wish there was some visibility into what the setup process is doing... it would make it so much easier to diagnose things. Why does it crash at 4% - what's it doing???
Will Rogers never met me.
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Did your motherboard make the list?
ASUS Motherboards Ready for Windows 11
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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Yes. And all required features (TPM 2.0, Secure Boot, DirectX 12 support) are installed and enabled.
Will Rogers never met me.
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My current one is a MSI and I am pretty happy with how it works.
My systems is
MSI Board, AMD 7 CPU, Viper RAM, Crucial NVME SSD, and the rest is from BeQuiet (Case, PowerUnit, Fans, CPU Fantower...)
Running smooth since the very beginning.
I know it doesn't help you a lot right now, just wanted to name some alternatives.
Good luck solving your issues  
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Try disconnecting everything that's not 100% necessary. Only keep the boot media (you mentioned it's on DVD?), the mouse, keyboard and monitor. Disconnect every other physical wire, including LAN. If prompted during install, skip Wifi setup.
This worked for me the few times I've seen this sort of thing happen. Once the OS is up, I reconnected everything, one device at a time, and let the OS detect it/install the drivers as/if needed.
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A good plan! I'll give it a try. I think I'll try easter-egging the RAM, as well, removing half of it at a time and rebooting. If there's a memory problem, that should help to isolate it.
Will Rogers never met me.
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Yep, I've done that too. A memory tester might also help (memtestx86? whatever its name is...)
If you don't mind, post a follow-up - I'd be genuinely curious to know if/how you got this resolved.
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Having removed half the RAM, it now runs MemTest86 with no errors through multiple passes, and Windows 11 installed without a glitch. Well, almost. At the point where Setup wants to check for updates, it doesn't recognize the built in WiFi adapter on this MB. So I spent an hour or so rummaging around storage to find a 100' Cat5 cable to reach the router. Once Setup was done, an ASUS program kicked in and downloaded drivers for the MB. After that, the WiFi adapter was recognized and usable. So, all is good for now, and the excess RAM will be set aside.
Will Rogers never met me.
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Interesting.
Have you retried MemTest86 with only the suspect stick? Odds are, it'll confirm there's something wrong with it.
Or maybe it's not identical to your other one(s), and they have problems running in sync.
Either way - good news. At least you found the culprit.
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Interesting you should mention that. As part of the process, I tried booting with just one stick installed, despite the fact that I've always been told by the manual to install them in pairs. This manual showed installing one as an available option, so I went for it. The PC went nuts! Start, stop, LEDs go on then off... then on again. Crazy stuff, so I figured the manual was wrong, and traditional instructions to install them in pairs must be correct. But if that's no longer a requirement, I must have plugged in the one bad stick first! Oh well, I'll save them both of that set for the next build.
Will Rogers never met me.
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Have you tried resetting the CMOS RAM? I had a system a few years ago that had similar issues. All the BIOS setting appeared to be correct but the system couldn't complete a Windows install. I reset the CMOS RAM and then adjusted the settings and it started to work correctly.
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Yes, that was the first thing I tried. But now I'm wondering if I have too little capacity on the PSU. The recommended power from the vendor was 650W, I bought a 750W unit. But this processor and the video card can get greedy. Perhaps a 1000W would be a better choice.
Will Rogers never met me.
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If you're just going through the part where you'd just installing the OS (and not running some demanding app that'll push the hardware), it's unlikely your system would be trying to draw that much power at that time.
IMO. YMMV.
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Wagner chief vows to topple Russian military leaders[^]
Apparently, Wagner has already started shooting down Russian helicopters.
This is going to get messy. Here's hoping our Russian members can stay safe regardless of the outcome.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
modified 24-Jun-23 1:00am.
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Whatever the final outcome we know who is going to suffer most. The only positive at the moment is that it may stop or slow the attacks on Ukraine.
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That, or as the chef said: "The Special Operation was built on lies".
i.e. Putin now has an "out": he was lied to.
Only time will tell if Putin "gets it".
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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Putin has certainly taken a baseball bat to the hornet's nest.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Keep in mind how the media loves a story like this and most likely inflames it for their own readership / subscription / advertisement agendas, and Putin most likely does the same for similar, though metaphorical, agendas. Not to mention Wagner himself. My 2c.
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Inflame? Shirley you jest!!!
>64
Some days the dragon wins. Suck it up.
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I dunno - Putin is between a rock and a hard place here: if he doesn't pull troops out of Ukraine to block Wagner he could lose the Kremlin without a shot being fired (except at him, I suspect). If he does then he loses face (and quite possibly Crimea or even the whole Ukraine war) and risks his troops refusing to be involved as appears to have happened in Rostov.
Just like the war itself, I don't see any signs of an exit strategy developing.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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What you describe would serve Putin well, in my opinion.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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when our opacity is more transparent, and our transparency is more opaque ... are we more, or less, blind ?
my heart goes out to the millions who are suffering, and will suffer more, in this geopolitical nightmare driven by the usual suspects: the ambitions and grandiosity of tyrants and autocrats who dream of lost empire, the never-ending saga of the battle to control energy sources, etc. This bonfire of vanities and atrocities fed with the lives of young soldiers, children.
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«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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