- CRYSTAL DISKMARK FREEZES DRIVERS
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- CRYSTAL DISKMARK FREEZES CODE
- CRYSTAL DISKMARK FREEZES PASSWORD
Of many updates on Win10 since these PC were obtained, this is among the first were reliability post update ramped up high quickly, suggesting many of my past issues could be related to old or faulty factory firmware drivers and/or UEFI. My settings were preserved although the boot sequence priority was changed to Win10, and not VC. There is some protection here, and after entry, requested my UEFI Admin password, as expected.
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On the laptop, I had the hard drive password locked, and the UEFI update halted on the restart on the drive.
Of concern, if an attacker has access to the Win10 desktop in Admin mode on these model Acers, such as you leave it on and momentarily leave your PC but unlocked, it also has access to your UEFI, even if PW protected, FYI. After adjusting settings back to my preferred, I found the VC efi, it had not been erased, just not listed. After automatic install, I enter UEFI and found the VC efi appeared to be erased, and it was no longer listed on the security table. On the desktop, from within Win10, Win10 was able to bypass my UEFI password by resetting the UEFI to default. The drivers updated without issues automatically from Win10, but the firmware UEFI I expected trouble. Due to this, I installed all the updated optional drivers and UEFI on the test system to see how Win10 would handle it. I have had issues for some years with USB drives on a desktop randomly not waking from sleep, that required either the USB cable to be pulled out and reinserted or device powered off and on. The oldest UEFI was from 2016, and youngest from 2019, they were the factory installed UEFI out of box, see attachment.
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NB: Included were optional driver updates to many Intel chips, and the firmware UEFI of all the boxes.
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Since that update, Win10 has also sent numerous security updates to 20H2, see attachment for full list, including an optional 'quality' update from March 2021 that again, I will not voluntarily install. 3 desktops and 1 laptop with VC 1.24u7 all completed without issues. Win10 pushed feature update 20H2 in mid Feb 2021 to all my PCs, as version 1909 is near end of life. Quick updates, summary: to date,100% success using Win10 and VC without issues since 2018. There is no guarantee this will continue to happen, but the reliability history suggest the future is less likely a "blue screen". On my setup as above, the latest update is installed without issue with VC being transparent. In the attachment, the last update from Dec 2020 is particularly problematic for apps and drivers for me as I have not returned to my baseline of 9-10 and am currently at 3, but I have not had "windows failures" that cause the PC to stop entirely requiring reboots or worse.įinally, the most current Win10 update Jan 12 2021, includes a UEFI related security fix, and yes, it can affect even Windows bitlocker as described. Over time, as updates are pushed periodically, they are repaired, by then the next update occurs, and the cycle repeats. You can see all of these by running reliability reports from Win10.
They do not cause a crash, but cause drivers or apps to stop and Win10 later reboots them. There is always a risk for malfunction, however, so one should plan for it rather than evade it.įor example, after each update in Win10 Home, I notice for years that subtle non-critical bugs occur continuously after each update. If you avoid SSD as the primary boot drive and choose a PC or laptop with a very simplistic UEFI, over a far more expensive and 'flexible' enterprise laptop like those from HP, the probability of issues now and in the future, are lower. Even Win10 alone, without VC, can crash because of updates involving these subsystems, such as the 2020 update bug with NVMe Thunderbolts that took months to fix, so its best to be as conservative as possible if you want high reliability, as you did by going back to MBR and using TC instead, note with old clients you accept its vulnerabilities are unfixed.
CRYSTAL DISKMARK FREEZES CODE
It had low level code for HD and BIOS and a big issue today are small differences in firmware from SSD and UEFI which affect compatibility and I do not know if these have been re-written for VC or still legacy from TC. To revisit, I have not seen TC code for a while and was one of the first users in the early 2000s. One box runs 15 external encrypted drives, 12 TC and 3 VC, all the primary partitions of the PCs are VC 2 drives require the TC client as they were encrypted with a very old version of TC from around 2004. No issues since 2018, running continuously without a VC crash, see link and my past posts, now with 4 Win10 Home PCs on latest build.
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