Observations on the world and its inhabitants
Many people including me have had their Samsung 990 Pro 2TB stuck on firmware version 3B2QJXD7. Attempts to update via Samsung Magician fail miserably. But not only the 990 drive has been affected. Samsung has never fixed this via Magician. The latest firmware for the 990 is 8B2QJXD7 (December 2025). It addresses read-operation stability and ...
What happened was that I created a System Restore point before 590 Nvidia. System Restore failed even after switching off Virus Shield. This meant I’d have to do a fresh re-install of the 577 driver. The best path forward was to ensure that 590 was totally cleaned out. Of course, not everybody knows: Absolute Cleanup: ...
Date: 8 February 2026. System: Scan 3XS Laptop (Clevo X56xWNx Architecture), Processor: Intel Core Ultra 9 285HX (Arrow Lake), RAM: 64GB DDR5 RAM, DRIVES: 3TB NVME, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Laptop GPU (Blackwell). In simple terms, this just means no-nonsense very high end. Luddites will be deterred by all the ‘jargon’ in here. ...
