Misc

WARNING: Flashing a Video BIOS (VBIOS) carries a significant risk of permanently damaging your graphics card. This guide is for educational purposes only. Proceed at your own risk (YMMV). After a recent upgrade to an MSI B450 Pro Carbon, I attempted to reinstall Windows using a pure UEFI configuration. However, after switching the BIOS setting … Read more

In this blog post, I describe how to flash the Seagate Exos X16 to the latest firmware version. I recently purchased some of these Seagate Enterprise drives, and looks like they shipped with the SN02 Firmware. Upgrading on Windows is quite easy. Just be aware I tested with the drives still clean, while not in … Read more

I recently had an issue where I plugged in my headphones on the front audio connector but got not sound. At first I thought it might be because the headphones are out of battery, but after charging up, still no audio. Next suspect in line was my cabling and connections between motherboard and PC case, … Read more

The bell porting issue If you check redflagdeals, there are a lot of Koodo deals from time to time. They also suggest “porting out” the number to Bell with a prepaid SIM. I tried that, but got interrupted in the middle of the process, and when I tried to continue, I got the error: “The … Read more