Bartman's Blob

Thought I will have some fun taking apart this faulty DBS bank 2FA token to see what’s inside.   There is no screws used on the token.       The front and rear of the token seems to be covered by adhesive labels. Removing the Front reveals the following:   Remove the rear label, reveals a CR2016 coin cell lithium battery: Removing the PCB out from its “chassis”. Here’s the front view of the PCB.   And here’s the rear view of the PCB.   That’s it.  

When running Open Broadcast Software (OBS) version 24.0.3, I found that I could not get any audio from my USB microphone or the audio source playback from my USB sound card. The VU meter on OBS did not move even when I am playing back video clips on VLC or a mp3 player. After some debugging, I found that the issue has to do with the OS microphone permission setting. To change the microphone setting, goto Start->Settings->Privacy : Toggle the following setting to ON. After changing the microphone privacy setting, I started up OBS, selected the desired audio source and the VU meter came back to life. That’s it. Hopefully this is helpful.

After upgrading my server OS from Windows Server 2016 to Windows Server 2019, the Peak Programme Meter Version 1.90 suddenly stopped working. Every time I ran the program, this error message will pop up: Soundcard not available, or input channel may be in use by another program error message. After I pressed OK, another message pops up: The configured input Device is not available and will be reset to the default. After hours of research on the internet without success, i finally found the answer after another few more hours of debugging and testing. The cause of the program’s failure is due to a microphone’s privacy setting in Windows Server 2019. The default setting for the microphone permission setting is set to off in Windows Server 2019. After toggling the permission to On, the program started working again. To get to the setting, go to Start->Setting->Privacy->Microphone : Toggle the setting to On: And That’s it. Hope i...

If you already have a Sound Blaster X-Fi Surround 5.1 Pro THX or thinking of getting one and you are wondering whether it will run on Windows Server 2019 OS.  Good news, it will run on Windows Server 2019. It did on my server. After running a trial test to upgrade my OS from Windows Server 2016 to Windows Server 2019, the SB X-Fi Sur continue to run without any issue. As I have not testing installing the driver from scratch, I suspect that the driver installation would be the same as the steps that I have written about in this post . If you are doing research to find out if it will work on Windows Server 2019 before upgrading, well, it worked for me. Most likely it will also work for you. That’s it. Hope you find it useful.