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NVMe bootable Raid array on Windows 10 Pro using AMD TRX40 built in raid controller

In order for this to work you must follow each step exactly or windows will fail to see your raid array as a bootable device and the setup will fail to boot from your raid array.

  • Enter your motherboard UEFI bios.
  • Go to Advanced > AMD PBS
  • Enable "NVMe Raid mode"
  • Go to Advanced > RaidXpert2 Configuration Utility (in some cases you may need to F10+save and reboot before it will show up as an option)
  • Warning! Going beyond this point will delete any data on your NVMe drives
  • Once in the RaidXpert2 management, go to array management > delete array
  • select the drives you want to use for the new raid array and choose "Delete Array(s)"
  • Now choose Create Array select enable for the drives you want to raid with the correct raid type and your preferred configuration, then click create.
  • Save.

Download the AMD Raid Drivers from here: AMD Drivers and Support for Radeon, Radeon Pro, FirePro, APU, CPU, Ryzen, desktops, laptops

extract the drivers to a usb drive, preferably the same drive that you use for installing windows 10 pro.

Now insert your windows 10 pro install media and start the setup process.

Now install raid drivers from the file you extracted to your usb in this order:

  1. \WIN10\x64\NVMe_CC\rcbottom
  2. \WIN10\x64\NVMe_CC\rcraid
  3. \WIN10\x64\NVMe_CC\rccfg

Once you do this you can install windows like normal and it will boot from the raid.

That's it now you're done.

How to solve: Page content blank when printing but works in InPrivate/Incognito view

This is an odd one and actually stumped me for a bit, in order to solve I used f12 developer tools to uncheck specific css attributes and tested the print function again. It ended up being a font-family attribute in the all css style.

Once removed the page printed all of the content on all browsers once again. I also tried adding a second font but that also did not solve the problem. It seems that the font was not being imported correctly or was corrupt. Replacing the font using the @media print solves the issue.

For example:

How to fix EthMiner when it just closes on Windows 10

With the current release of EthMiner you may need to update your start config from the old format to the new one.

It should now look something like this for AMD:

setx GPU_FORCE_64BIT_PTR 1
setx GPU_MAX_HEAP_SIZE 100
setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1
setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
setx GPU_SINGLE_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
ethminer.exe -P stratum1+tcp://0x73f4bb52abd8233aaafe92c55e3654a94980a8b4.PCNAME@us1.ethermine.org:4444 -G -R 

In some cases you may receive the error 

No OpenCL platforms found
Error: No usable mining devices found

which is caused by a missing DLL file in the latest AMD drivers which is needed for OpenCL.

Go to 

C:\AMD\Radeon-Software-Adrenalin-2020-20.12.1-Win10-64Bit-Dec8\Packages\Drivers\Display\WT6A_INF\B#### Folder

then copy the amdocl64.dll file to your C:\Windows\System32\ folder.

Next open regedit and create the following key path: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Khronos\OpenCL\Vendors then create REG_DWORD amdocl64.dll

or like this for nvidia:

setx GPU_FORCE_64BIT_PTR 1
setx GPU_MAX_HEAP_SIZE 100
setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1
setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
setx GPU_SINGLE_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
ethminer.exe -P stratum1+tcp://0x73f4bb52abd8233aaafe92c55e3654a94980a8b4.PCNAME@us1.ethermine.org:4444 -U -R

You should be all set now.

If for some reason you are still having an issue add pause to the last line in order to see the error and prevent you cmd window from closing.

How to see Edge Chromium resource usage by tab, what website is using all of my resources?

Edge Chromium which is basically a "reskinned Chrome" with some minor changes you can use many of the same tools that you can for Chrome. In order to see Resource usage on Chrome or Edge Chromium you can use the Shift+esc combination to open the "Browser Task Manager". 

At this point you can close any tabs that you don't need that are over using resources.