New Windows 10 Insider Preview Skip Ahead Build 18214 - August 10 Insider

BugMeister · 15 Aug 2018

New Windows 10 Insider Preview Skip Ahead Build 18214 - August 10-skippy-closed.jpg

- not any more..
- it's closed down..

*tumbleweed rolls by..*

CountMike · 15 Aug 2018

What's closed ?

OutsiderLarry · 15 Aug 2018

slicendice said:

For most Windows installs/upgrades this is absolutely correct. But lately there has been a lot of issues that have had absolutely nothing to do with driver incompatibility but rather bugs in Windows itself that causes very unpredictable behavior on same hardware. Windows PE barely runs and sometimes not at all. Same goes for Safemode.

These bugs occur both on physical hardware and any type of VM or emulator for specific builds, and I'm surprised how on some computers these issues occur while on others they don't. The only common changing factor between all these physical and virtual computers I can think of is the CPU itself.

Now when I really think about this, could it be that there is some code in Windows that tries to run 512bit AVX instructions or similar on CPUs that don't have such capabilities? That would explain some of the crashes.

slicendice - Just finished rock 'n rollin' (sleepin' like a rock 'n periodically rollin' over). Your reply is well worth pepeating -- thank you for feeding my insatiable thirst for understanding, particularly in a 'hardware language' to which I can relate. Fresh back from a month off from all things technical, it took me a day-and-a-half of reading TenForums to get caught up! It's as if the dawning clouds have parted and the sun is shinin' again. Btw, I'm havin' a tough time containing my laughter on these recent posts -- you guys are absolutely hilarious!

slicendice · 15 Aug 2018

OutsiderLarry said:

slicendice - Just finished rock 'n rollin' (sleepin' like a rock 'n periodically rollin' over). Your reply is well worth pepeating -- thank you for feeding my insatiable thirst for understanding, particularly in a 'hardware language' to which I can relate. Fresh back from a month off from all things technical, it took me a day-and-a-half of reading TenForums to get caught up! It's as if the dawning clouds have parted and the sun is shinin' again. Btw, I'm havin' a tough time containing my laughter on these recent posts -- you guys are absolutely hilarious!

Happy to keep you and others entertained!

CallMeSteven · 15 Aug 2018

On a brighter note, all these Skip Aheads are free. I don't hear anyone celebrating that

CountMike · 15 Aug 2018

CallMeSteven said:

On a brighter note, all these Skip Aheads are free. I don't hear anyone celebrating that

Yippee ki-yay, so is fast and slow builds.

martyfelker · 15 Aug 2018

CountMike said:

What's closed ?

Basically buildfeed.net

CountMike · 15 Aug 2018

martyfelker said:

Basically buildfeed.net

Ah, that.

magilla · 15 Aug 2018

I’m ready for a new skippy build! I keep getting a notice on one of my skippy systems saying check your build, and the dialog says no spots remain on skippy, but I downloaded last skippy to that system and it has that build on it???

f14tomcat · 15 Aug 2018

magilla said:

I’m ready for a new skippy build! I keep getting a notice on one of my skippy systems saying check your build, and the dialog says no spots remain on skippy, but I downloaded last skippy to that system and it has that build on it???

Weird.... did you ever do that reg trick to force-feed Skippy registration? Maybe it's a leftover from that. There were some "issues" with it, if I recall........