Hi Guys,

Just wanted to introduce myself properly, I've been a SG User for a few Years and I haven't got the opportunity yet to start a discussion. I guess, better later than never I suppose.

I work in IT for 20 years, been an analyst and worked in support for the most time. @ the moment I do plenty of Debugging Windows OS's and sort Performance Issues for big companies as clients. Work 100% from home, so work life balance is great. Caveats would be probably the stress. It can be hectic at times dealing with several accounts.

What I like the most is Debugging and Sysinternals, grown pretty good in troubleshooting BSOD (BLue Screen of Death) issues and reviewing memory dumps.

If you have a blue screen on your computer and you need someone to look @ it, don't be shy :P

Now that I took the time to introduce myself, I encourage you to do the same?

Anyone working in IT in Steamgifts as well?

Care to share your experience?

GIbs:

https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/uLaCF/aaero
https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/gtteB/bleed-2

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I teach people (mostly kids) French and English and I aspire to be a linguist. Not making too much money, but costs of living are low.

5 years ago
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Hi,

I work in a global(USA based) logistics company in Turkey / Mersin.

Got a BA degree, did Erasmus in Slovenia for a semester. I've been looking for a job for an entire year. In that period I became a G2A seller, earned good money. Then my system crashed, got in some debt and stuff. Cleared it all, now working for almost minimum wage because I live in a shithole and I hate everything about this god damn country.

Overall, life sucks. I hate Turkish women, I hate my country, I only have 2 hours for myself per day and I work my ass off for 400€'s per month. Steam expects me to pay 60€ for a god damn game while I only have 100€ for myself after basic needs per month. For this exact reason I support Epic Games Store and I'd love to see Steam crumble into dust.

Note to those in power, in 2019 if you're doing currency conversation instead of regional pricing for a digital product with almost 0 marginal cost; you're a god damn moron.

I almost got married once, then she cheated on me. I'd never marry anyone, ever. Oh also, I'm a huge sexist, racist, egomaniac, narcissist, misanthropist who thinks he's a demi-sapiosexual but deep down knows he'd not turn down having sex with a tree if the tree would make the first move.

I also have a history with violance, stabbed someone once; drugs, almost died twice and alcohol, had to be hospitilized couple of times.

There.

Now you know me.

5 years ago
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I'm a screenwriter and playwriter. I also teach literature and screenwriting.

5 years ago
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What is the basis for being screenwriter/playwriter?

5 years ago
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Read a lot, write a lot. Watch movies, shows and plays as much as possible. Study, research and have as many experiences as you can get.

5 years ago
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Awesome, I'm trying to get more into screenwriting myself (I'm studying film but not screenwriting in particular). I need to start writing more though, also I've got a bit of a trouble choosing a language to write in as I prefer to watch films and read books in English yet I live in a German speaking country and for University that's "our" language of choice for projects. Writing dialogue is especially hard for that reason.

5 years ago
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I am me.

5 years ago
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I'm a senior analyst working with PeopleSoft (the product not the company that doesn't exist anymore).

5 years ago
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Data Center Technician, basically I work at a data center and do whatever the customers want me to do, from troubleshooting problems to maintaining the installed equipment, install new equipment or patching new lines. Also during the week we are responsible for all our colleagues devices (computers, mobile phones, etc.), meaning we are doing help desk/ sys admin stuff for about 100 employees on top of the data center stuff. And of course monitoring all active lines on the data center.

5 years ago
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I work in sales for ages now, pretty nice job because my superior can't tell me what to do

5 years ago
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I am culinary student but I don't think I will be working in that field. Plan to get major in philosophy in the future. I don't like Windows, so I use Linux (opportunity to tell that I am using Atch, if you know what I meen). Only thing I debug are dotfiles which isn't that hard. We don't have BSOD and karnel panics are really rare. I enjoy 80s music and collect steam games.

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don't get a major in philosphy 0 you won't be working in that field

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To be fair, most people don't work in the field of their degree.

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I'm working as keeper (not sure it's right word...) in homeless man shelter, night shifts only. Salary is not great, but job is peaceful.

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No, mr. officer.

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Well I used to be a systems development manager, which was sort of IT. I was basically a go-between the IT department and the warehouse staff who hated each other and didn't want to talk to each other. But then there was a recession. It was the last in a long line of jobs that I put a lot of effort into but were pooped on by circumstances outside of my control that caused me to decide to follow my dreams and be a successful artist.

So I am an artist and I do make money out of it but it is far from the dream lifestyle I imagined so I also now have a part time job that is currently less part time than I would like. I work for a major parcel company trying to find the owners of parcels that have lost their labels, which is a lot more complex than you might imagine.

A year ago I also blew all my savings on a house that was falling down in the hope of fixing it up myself and selling it for a profit. That isn't going to plan but at least I don't have to pay rent any more. I have lodgers and I would like to also claim to be a slum landlord but they mostly just complain about the lack of basic facilities and spend their money on drugs before paying their rent so I'm not sure that counts.

Previous to being a systems development manager I was a fork lift truck driver, stock controller, wheelchair technician, civil servant, sound engineer, car mechanic, bartender, antiques dealer, mobile DJ, artistic nude model, bass player, fetish magazine photographer and probably a few other things that I've forgotten. It all made sense at the time but now I come to write it down my life has been incredibly shambolic since dropping out of university and I think I'm making myself depressed...

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and spend their money on drugs before paying their rent

I feel personally attacked.

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I'm ashamed to admit I don't mind overlooking the rent at times just because it is handy to have drugs in the house for when I've had a bad day...

5 years ago
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I spread Pro-Russian propaganda on the internet. A Russian bot. Pays better than $15 an hour.

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Retired cow puncher. Left school when I was ~14 to work on my uncles farm and worked on various farms all over the country for the next 30+ years until a feral horse ran in front of my car, ended up with a fucked back and hip and nearly lost one of my legs, was lucky to survive actually. Also worked in a sawmill for a couple of years and ran my own tree clearing business for a while. Now I collect a disability pension and supplement that with cash in hand work fixing computers and managing servers for a couple of local businesses.

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I'm a digital sculptor, I do collectible figures/statues for clients, just starting my portfolio with the hope of entering soon into some good company :)
https://www.instagram.com/nicolaspertini/

5 years ago
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I worked in an office. Now I just pretend I work in an office.

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Right now I am a Warehouse Manager. I am uncluttering a huge warehouse that was neglected for a few years. Easy enough if the business was closed for the duration, but no, it's in full swing.
Before that I worked for an international lingerie brand, and before that in a printing and textile printing company for a decade.

I want to be...in advertising. Oh, and a lyricist and scriptwriter.

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Spanish teacher by trade, but I have 19 years of experience in pharmacy and 31 years of experience in technology (from back when the Apple II CE was top of the line!), so I currently make my living as a corporate drone for Big Pharma. Though I miss working the fill floor - 8 hours of constant running back and forth across a big, open warehouse, throwing pill cards into machines that could crush every bone in your body if they don't light you on fire first; NOTHING like it! - I do enjoy what I do and the people both with and for whom I work. I'm also a freelance writer, baker, and Internet mom. I also used to deliver medicine to the elderly; oh, the stories I could tell...

tl;dr:es - BIP-BOP ¡HOLA SOY UNA DRON!

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Thanks for the offer of help. You're just the person I need.

Short story is, I have 'inaccessible boot device' blue screen on Windows boot on my HTPC, after trying some AMD driver installs and then the fixes described in step 1 here. I don't have a restore point, can't get to safe mode, but I can get to a command prompt.

It's a semi-known problem, that is, googling for 'inaccessible boot device radeon drivers' or similar will bring a little bit of stuff up. But nothing of much help. Most online help for 'inaccessible boot device' says to use DSIM from the command prompt, but I can't find it (though it was available from within Windows before the problem started). I've removed the RX 460 from the PC (leaving just the Pentium 4560 for graphics) but that didn't help. Might try to look for Radeon driver files and delete them, but I don't know if it'd help or just ruin Windows boot even more.

As for me, I'm a programmer specialising in GPU programming, but mostly doing CPU side C++.

Gibb

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Stop 7B or Inaccessible Boot device Bugcheck is one of the few where memory dumps are really not helpful.
If you suspect that this was immediately after updating AMD Drivers, you can try to boot into Safe mode (Only a minimal set of drivers are loaded at boot) or try LKGC ( Revert back the SYSTEM Registry hive to a point in time where the boot was successful) . Ultimately if you can identify the drivers that were installed you can disable them in Recovery through the registry and boot with those drivers disabled.

Method 1 > If you clearly know the drivers you installed prior to this issue happening.

Disabling the driver by setting start type to 4 within recovery command prompt.
Remember drive X:> Is your recovery environment, you need to check what is the drive that has the windows folder in it, that's your system drive.

1.    Open Regedit
2.    Click on HKLM
3.    Click on File -> load hive -> Support

  1. Navigate to HKLM\MSSupport\system\Select
    IMPORTANT! Remember in recovery as the system is offline there is no CurrentControlSet
  2. Check the Current and Default values if they are 1 then the controlset001 is the one belonging to the OS.
    6.   Navigate to -> controlset001 is the active one 
    7.    Navigate to HKLM\MSSupport\system\controlset001\services\<drivername-here> -> Modify the Start entry from 0 to 4 
    8.    Navigate to HKLM\MSSupport 
    9.    Click on File -> unload hive
    10.Restart the machine and check if it boots successfully with the AMD drivers disabled

Method 2 > if you are not sure about the AMD drivers and just want to revert everything back:

Swap the SYSTEM and SOFTWARE registry hives with the backups
a. Go to C:\Windows\System32\Config
b. Rename the files SYSTEM and SOFTWARE to SYSTEM.old and SOFTWARE.old
c. Go to C:\Windows\System32\Config\Regbak
d. Copy the files SYSTEM and SOFTWARE to C:\Windows\System32\Config

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Thanks.

I mentioned that I can't get into safe mode, which might suggest that it's not the drivers.

Is it possible to run regedit from the command prompt without getting into safe mode?

If not, I might try the backups you suggested.

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Just a follow up: SYSTEM and SOFTWRE under Regbak were empty. I ended up resetting Windows, which solved the problem at the expense of a little bit of reinstallation (has to reinstall Steam, though for some reason the Epic launcher remained installed).

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I teach English and History at a vocational high school. I'm on the verge of entering the real estate business since I don't find my current job all that fulfilling.

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I play games and watch movies and tv shows. I run a D&D campaign. I tend to a house and keep an eye on my under age brother. Can't work have no income, hence why I love this site. I can't afford games all the time and a lot of free time to be had.

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Professional bread slicer.

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+1

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On short, I'm 21, Production Engineering bachelor student, currently at the 4th year and, while my job title doesn't reflect what I do, I do work on my graduation area and basically manage a small manufacturing industry, with works ranging from the production itself to purchases and supplies. When I have spare time I do some web and logo design for a friend's design agency. I'm also planning on making some money with eLearning, but that's something I'm still studying about.

I love managing and improving production processes, and I also love graphic design. If I didn't have a job on my graduation area I would probably seek to be a graphic designer of some sort.

Graduation-wise, I plan on doing a postgraduate studies on Work's Security Engineering and later a bachelor on Mechanical Engineering aswell.

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I improvise. Like literally that's my job. I do improv comedy shows, run my own school where I teach others how to do it and this month I've founded my own comedy club.

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