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I can certainly see the case where, in theory, the cleanest way to roll back a bad driver would be with System Restore.
Fortunately I never got myself into that sort of situation where I couldn't get things back the way they were. I turn it off on my own systems. But I wouldn't necessarily encourage the less technically-inclined to do the same (because then I know I'd be the one they'd turn to).
OTOH I've also sees systems with a crap-ton of restore points that had been diligently created...but turned out to all be reported back by the OS as "unusable". That did nothing to restore confidence...
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When I've seen it work is when it disables and reenables the adapter, which is pretty much the equivalent of turning it off and on again. So, yes, it has "fixed" things in my experience, though it hasn't done anything particularly "special" to make it happen.
Fool me once, shame on you;
Fool me twice, prepare to die.
--Klingon proverb
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For me, no, it never really fixed anything. And any error message you get from Windows about a networking issue is more likely than not just a red herring, which will lead you nowhere...
I am always glad in such situation that I can look back at 40 years of networking experience, which allows me to quickly check on some of the basics, which in most cases are revealing the problem at hand.
The only thing I get stuck once in a while is the whole security/permission mess that comes with Windows, something where I really wish I could work with good old Novell Netware again, there everything was logical and made sense...
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I have had the same experience with Maple (all versions since 2006). The codes and links don't even diagnose anything.
For the uninitiated, Maple is a native math code system (mostly). It is also used by many college math programs to teach advanced mathematics.
Sometimes using their online forum works, and someone will tell you wtf is going on, or at least how to avoid it.
To err is human.
To brp takes an LLM. Please stop. Who told you to add LLM tech to a science research paper writing system? Why ever would you DO that? Who told you to add LLM to a math model system like Maple? You do know that if I use AI in any way in research, I have to declare it to the journals? And I have to be able to tell them what it did for me? How the $#$#@! can I know exactly? Please stop. Quit spying on me!
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On one of my machines which is unfortunate to be equipped with an Intel NIC it can help.
Unlike the startup repairing, which never ever solved any problem.
SFC and DISM have also helped but the most case involved these unfortunately had a bad filesystem on a failing drive as root cause.
Also fast startup + dual boot ...
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Nope, but I have totally had the audio diagnostics wizard (stands out because recent 1st timer there) figure something out and make things start working again.
It did not tell me what it found/did.
I suspect a flag is randomly flipped to break audio so that it can take the credit for fixing it when it simply flips the flag back.
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I posted this at reddit, but then I remembered that the real hardware experts hang around CodeProject (yes, the flattery is intentional so that I get good information).
NOTE: What I call an "extension cable" is a cable with 1 male end and 1 female end, with the ends being the standard big USB port.
I had bought a pair of no-name extension cables from Amazon, and then when I tried to use them with a GameDoc Ultra video-capture box, neither of them worked - and so now I am looking for a brand that I can get at Amazon that will work. Or is it that the signal from the video-capture box gets too attenuated (this cable was 10-feet), and thus I need some sort of boost device, etc.? I just want to be able to keep my computer on a table that happens to be that far from the video-capture box & console (XBox360 - yes, I understand that it's "vintage").
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did you try the cable with an actual PC? Some non-PC devices are strange, as in, your mileage may vary.
Sounds like you are using a type A extension - USB 2.0. I've used these for a long time for work and had no issues. The spec says 25 meters is the max, but I'd not go that far  . 10 ft is nothing. Are BOTH cables from the same maker? If they won't work with a PC, they will not work with a random box. You would be amazed about all sorts of magic done in hardware and embedded software that is just elephanted up. Right code witch?
I know this might shock a lot of you (tongue in cheek), but Amazon does zero QC on the crap, excuse me, products they peddle. They just could not give a <insert appropriate="" phrase="" here="">. The prices are sometimes so cheap, people just don't bother with the return and trash them. Go out to newegg. They have better QC.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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Check into what level USB your device uses. There are multiple levels of USB; identify by using the color of the plastic piece inside as a guide. White or black indicates a USB1 or 2 device, blue is USB 3.0, and red USB 3.1 - Generally, that is. Not all mfrs follow the rules. I just learned this myself, and had to look it up to figure out why my cursor froze when I plugged in a 3.0 thumb drive. I was baffled, because I purposely built this PC to have a few 3.0 ports. Then I looked into the USB hub I'd plugged the device into and noticed that it only could support USB 2. Grrrr...
Will Rogers never met me.
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A couple of years ago I purchased a couple of AINOPE USB type A 6-ft extension cables. They were highly rated at the time, and have given reliable service. Your mileage may vary. Odds of success go down as cable length goes up.
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Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. -Anon
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. -Frederick Nietzsche
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"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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A smart phone now a days has way less power consumption than what a Pentium at the turn of the century had yet the amount of computing power and memory of the former is ten fold greater then of the later. How can that be explained. Why does the smart phone OS work with less juice? The resolution is the same or better so that should count in favor of greater power consumption. On the other hand there are no drivers and less hardware resources to listen to on mobiles.
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Specialized hardware with super strict constraints.
All phones (of the same model) have the same hardware (screen, storage, ...) , it's not hard to optimize power usage.
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
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This is possible because of:
- improvements in power consumption - CPU, memory, storage, display
- Improvements in CPU technology (instruction set, NPUs, GPUs, etc.)
- Improvements in display technology
- Improvements in CPU speed
Also, the phone O/S is optimized to aggressively manage power, turning off idle devices and suspending idle processes. This was not true of desktop O/Ses at the turn of the century.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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There have been a number of factors at play in the the years since the introduction of the x86 architecture Pentium processors (circa 1993).
The scaling of the physical transistors (roughly 800 nanometer to current 7 nanometer geometry) This lowers the distance between transistors and so the resistance to electron flow (Heat Loss).
The raising of the clock speed From below 100 megahertz to the common gigahertz ranges today. (again by having less distance to travel there is less heat generated by higher clocking.)
The chip architecture is different. (ARM versus X86) the ARM architecture was designed with low power mobile in mind.
The CPU support chip architecture has changed dramatically with dynamic speed adjustment depending on load, putting idle resources into low power states.
Mobile operating systems also have special code to take advantage of power saving hardware and subsystems where old pre-mobile desk top systems did not.
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Can two possible reasons be:
1. The screen of a smartphone is mostly in dark mode. Meaning that its mostly off/standby
2. The processes in a smartphone are also mostly in "daemon"/standby mode.
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