I speechless right now
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How do you think I fucking feel? 
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Seriously - that feels like an attack- without even being paranoid… it is really incredible how W10 seems to hunt you… only good in the bad is that you prayed- keeping my fingers crossed and 
for you- how is it going rn?
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That was hyperbole for effect. I don’t pray.
2 more fucking updates just got through. Got BSODed during install. Managed to get back in. Seems ok…for now.
All I’ve got left to do now is drive re-encryption. But I’m paranoid as fuck to do it. What if it BSODs me mid-encryprion and corrupts both drives? I’ll do some digging to see what might happen.
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5 hours
How is it going?
Well, I went to backup my boot drive, guess how that went…
Currently trying to figure out what the error is and how to get around it. I’ll back up my boot drive first, then I’ll get around to the re-encryption. I’ve also ordered some USB sticks so I can have one as a permanent bootable media.
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More news of the Dell XPS line. This time it’s the recently released XPS 13 2-in-1. I personally think 2I1s are stupid devices. I very temporarily owned an Inspiron 15 2I1 (while I was going through the phase of scorching i7s) before I got my XPS and they’re just daft, just buy a tablet.
The reason this got my attention is because of what it came loaded with. The top spec model has a UHD+ display (3840p x 2400p) with a 16:10 aspect ratio, a 10th gen i7 1065G7 (a CPU which I know nothing about given that it was released 10 secs ago), 1TB NVMe SSD, a Killer AX1650 WiFi card (capable of WiFi 6 and Bluetooth 5) and 32GB LPDDR4x RAM…that runs at 3733MHz!
The catch(es)?
- I/O isn’t great (2 Thunderbolts, a micro SD slot and a headphone jack).
- It doesn’t have a dedicated GPU (though that’s way too much to ask in this size), but still uses Iris Plus graphics which are better than normal.
- Everything is soldered to the motherboard (again, I can see why they did it, but at least give us the SSD in a socket)
- It costs £2300 (or £2380 if you buy the optional magnetically-attached pen)
A lot of the cons are as a result of the small form factor and I can understand why they exist. But the price is kind of overkill. This thing will probably be a serious monster, but it has the same problem as every XPS 13…the XPS 15. The 13s have never really made any sense because the closest 15 (price-wise) is only usually £100-200 more (or less if you go for the one of the outgoing generation), but you get a hell of a lot more for that money.
You could have this 13 2I1 or you could have last year’s 15 with an i9 8950HK, 1050Ti, 32GB RAM, a 4K touchscreen and 1TB SSD for £2270. I know which I’d go for.
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Ask him. Lol. As per him the laptop had lot many hidden settings… which he had to look into. And that snapdragon won’t work if he didn’t attached his pendrive. He has got the entire system kn his pendrive. Idk much.
On topic. : Please suggest a good phone… lil cheap … and not apple of c. I think i may buy new one soon if mum allows.
I’m not sure you mean Snapdragon the only ‘Snapdragon’ I know of at least is a line of mobile phone CPUs.
You’re going to have to be more specific than that. At least specify an actual budget.
Sit-rep:
I’ve made no progress with boot drive backup or re-encryption because I’ve been installing my dock. In short, it works…sort of, technically the issues aren’t with the dock. I can run 3 screens, but one of them is the laptop itself. Let me elaborate.
On most laptops with dedicated GPUs, none of the ports are actually connected to the dedicated GPU, but instead run off of the integrated GPU. The dock can support up to 4 external screens just fine, but Intel integrated graphics can only run 3 screens total, and one of those screens is the laptop’s screen.
Apparently though you can run displays from USB 3 ports with some DisplayLink drivers and an active adapter. For reasons that I don’t yet understand, you can run upto 6 displays. I’ve ordered an adapter and I’ll hook it up to the dock and use the dock as a USB pass-through so I can use all the displays. While still only having one cable going to the laptop.
The catch with DisplayLink technology is that because it runs off USB, the capabilities of the monitors you connect are quite limited. So, you can’t say play some hardcore game at 4K/120 FPS or anything crazy like that. It’s only for very basic use which is exactly what I need.
Something that I just got done fixing though was the audio pass-through issue I had. The regular jack and the audio channel on the Thunderbolt port don’t share a driver. There’s a separate USB audio driver. And as is the norm with audio drivers on this laptop, it bricked my custom EQ setup. It took a lot of fiddling around with drivers and settings to get it fixed, but it’s working now.
This isn’t going in my project thread yet, because the setup is incomplete.
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Right, I’ve just started re-encrypting my non-boot drive. Now I just hope I don’t get BSODed.
EDIT:
Re-encryption just finished with nothing going wrong, thankfully. I’ll probably do the boot drive tomorrow.
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Sooo…ummm…guess what I’m doing today? I’m reinstalling Windows…again…yay!
That’s right, I’m back to fucking square 1 again. This time though, instead of wiping the boot drive, I’m actually going to wipe the file drive. That way I might be able to move all my software to the file drive with the fresh install. Wipe the old boot drive, then transfer all the contents of the file drive (which at that point will be a temp boot drive) onto the proper boot drive. Then wipe the temp boot drive and get all my files back on it from my external backup. I’m just hoping it works.
I’ve also started to suspect that these recent and very frequent BSODs might actually be down to a RAM issue. Of course, I was going to run MemTest86, but then this happened. But just to be sure, I’ve stuck my stock RAM in temporarily. I’m now back down to 8GB like a peasant.
So it was on purpose this time and not caused by an error? 
Of course it wasn’t on bloody purpose. Why would I obliterate 7 days of work? I got sent back into the crash loop that corrupted the OS again.
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I’m sorry- hope it will work out this time - stay strong 
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Well, this plan fell flat on its fucking face. Looks like I’ll be purging both drives now. Reinstalling Windows a 3rd time. Then putting my combined 1.2TB of data back on it. And I only have 3 days before uni starts. Thankfully, the first week is only an intro week.
You know what, fuck it. I’m fixing ALL of this shit in one sitting. If it means staying up for 24h straight. So be it.
Settle down bro…you’ll start cutting corners out of irritation…ooor going to town on it with a bat which will be counterproductive
You’re capable and will get it done
You’re using the same copy of Windows 10? Not sure if you mentioned but what of trying to get a fresh copy of it? Somethings gotta be corrupted within the system itself that maybe you’re reinstalling when using the same copy? Just a shot
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You know the weirdest thing? I’m completely calm and just don’t give a fuck anymore. It’s just more software re-installation. Not somewhere I can cut corners really.
I do fresh installs every time. The only thing that’s not new is the product key, and the key exists only to say that you have legit windows and didn’t pirate it. I do still intend to test the RAM when I sort this out.
In other news, my HDMI to USB adapter came in today. It worked for about 2 mins before it started flickering and then it just got hot and gave up lol. I’m sending it back and buying a better one.
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Oh I know this here, I’ve seen it 
I know when the eff to run 
Methodical rampage mode activated 
I figured…
fml
This coming from king loser
Just playing… shit has to function at some point bro 
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No, it’s more the “I’ve just accepted that I’m fucked” type of calm. At this point it’s not even worth getting angry. I’m just going to soldier on, get it done and then see what happens.
It was a cheap £16 adapter, the replacement I’ve bought is ~£35 and is actually recommended by DisplayLink themselves.
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