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hope so, got a grade A one for only 250 bucks, sadly is a 7820MQ n not the e3-1575M inside but will be ok, more for upgrades 😄 a 7720 thread doesnt exist here i guess, bcs not much to find when using search.... so lets finish first the M6800 project 🙃

Some time ago Windows surprise-updated my Precision 3551's BIOS. After the unexpected, unwanted, and unrevertable update the machine had truly ghastly coil whine which I was only able to stop by disabling TurboBoost in BIOS. Hadn't realised Windows could do that and have since disabled driver updates in group policy and also turned off the UEFI Capsule Firmware Updates option in BIOS. If the BIOS needs to update I'll do that on my schedule thank you very much. Even then its really scary. First time I updated my 7540's BIOS I had to do so with an external 1080p monitor and keyboard plugged in and the lid closed because of some stupid Dell bug that was freezing BIOS updates for 7540s with 4k screens. To unfreeze I literally had to open the machine and pull the battery in the middle of the (endless) BIOS update. Dell's plan to get it to update was to replace my new motherboard with a refurb one to see if maybe a BIOS would update on that, however I read about the monitor trick on the old site and got it updated that way first. (This, btw, was part of an effort to make Dell Premier Color recognise the screen. It didn't work. In the end Dell had to swap my new screen for some refurb one, just to get DPC to work, so that I could set the profile to a reasonable and not eye wateringly 'viBrAnT!!1!' colour configuration. (I couldn't use Intel settings to adjust it because with their latest version of the Intel gfx driver at that time, any adjustment of colour profiles in the Intel application would cause a black screen requiring a use of the recovery environment to reset Windows to the previous system restore point)). These experiences have not left me with a great impression of BIOS and driver quality control.

It fits and it works!!! Albeit it need more cooling now 😕

Hi everyone, I'm looking for help, from anyone, that can please assist me with creating a Circuit-Board to replace the current one that I have in my Acer Predator 21x. The board i'm looking to have made is for the HotKeys function. I am not looking to retain the actual function of the HotKeys at all, instead just (and hopefully) a simple Circuit-Board with 6 RGB LEDs that can automatically turn on with the laptop. Just one blue color. (green 180, blue 180, red 0). The same pin connector/plug, and safety circuitry in-place as well. I've looked everywhere, called/emailed acer and countless suppliers, different countries, etc, with no luck. I am out of ideas. Acer 21x Part-ID: 55.Q1RN2.004 Board IC ID: KC3810FA0H-NCFT102ACA160527 Details on issues with the board: Started failing when blue wouldn't work anymore, and shifted to a green color. Eventually blue was only green. Then one day it stopped working all together. I tried looking for some boards I could try and swap components from, but these boards don't seem to have the same RGB-LED component, and only it seems like its red color: 55.Q06N5.002 G9-793-78CM-US I have the old board out of the laptop and I can provide any information, details, measurements, additional photos, etc. I will also of course pay anyone that is willing to help me with this. Is this possible, I haven't looked into something like this before, but with the price of this laptop, I would love to be able to have these LED lights back, I enjoyed them and thought they were so cool when they worked.

I'm going to try a bit more tonight luckily I unplug a few cables and I can pull the whole thing out but it's still a pain to work in due to the water loop and how it's routed. Problem is work is rampant due to the winter storm so I just don't have the time to troubleshoot. There was a local listing for a x570 strix but it's 3 weeks old so I don't expect to hear back I think for the time being ill set up the z490 system just to prevent me from making an impulse buy, I can still play with lossless scaling with the 3090ti + 5700XT foe the interim. Also gives me a chance to play with my pixel 10 pro and how well it handles desktop mode on android since unraid handles most of the grunt work. But that's all just me trying to make lemonade

Hi, I'm a PC enthusiast that used to be active on the now-dead Notebook Review forums. I like premium business notebooks for their no-nonsense reliability and build quality but I also like a notebook with a powerful graphics card for 3D and gaming. Therefore, I always went for a professional mobile workstation as my laptop. I still have all of them because I like PC hardware and with all of these systems I have many years of life history. For example, in 2012 I had a major accident that sent my to a foreign hospital for a week. Could not leave my bed after surgery. I had nobody there to keep me company, could not understand a word of Czech TV and had no internet. But at least I had my Elitebook 8540W with me with all of my music, with some games and a diary to write in. Here is the history of my systems: 2010: HP EliteBook 8540W (Core i5-560M - FirePro M5800 - 8GB DDR3-1066 - Win7Pro x64) 2015: Dell Precision M4800 (Core i7-4810MQ - FirePro M5100 - 24GB DDR3 1600 Win7Pro x64) 2018: Dell Precision 7520 (Xeon E3-1545M v5 - Quadro M2200 - 32GB DDR4 2666 Win11Pro) 2026: Lenovo ThinkPad P16 Gen 3 (Core Ultra 9 275HX - RTX PRO 4000 Blackwell - 64GB DDR5-5600 - Win11Pro) ^Click image for full size It's quite stunning how much PC technology has improved over time.

That sucks. Sorry to hear that. Did you try removing the RAM and inserting one known good stick to see if it will power up?

Sadly it appears that my aorus x570 itx is dead. Came home yesterday and I can't get it to even turn on anymore, tried multiple psu's and powered them on before and after but when plugged into the motherboard just won't turn on :( Anything I look at will take a week or more to arrive unless I find something local. I still have the z490-h but what ever I do it will take a lot of time to set up. Not happy about the situation. For now I'm just streaming media from unraid until I figure out next steps, likely replacing as I'm not keen on getting anything with the prices the way they are.

Brother @Papusan it looks like there is a solution to use the Matrix BIOS on your Astral. I am using it on my Solid OC and it is the best one. https://www.overclock.net/posts/29553948/

I have flashed many Dell bioses and not yet has one failed. If course, it happens but the good thing with Dell is that the actual flashing is being done outside of the OS. So the actual flashing is being done in a clean software environment. All the failed flashes that I experienced with other branded systems/motherboards was when flashing from within Windows. Some tips: If you have bad memory, don't flash your BIOS. Because the BIOS data will pass through the memory before flashing so bad memory can corrupt the BIOS data before it is flashed. Make sure your notebook battery has some charge before flashing. If power fails, you sill have battery backup power. Be patient. Do not interrupt the flashing. Modern PC's with DDR5 memory can take up to 5 minutes to calibrate their memory timings after a BIOS flash or when detecting the memory. Screen will be black. Just give it time.

Ah yes, vBIOS. I'd forgotten about that, despite having a bit of a process to get mine. vBIOS is like the main BIOS, except it's on the GPU. (the 'v' is for video) Essentially, you're reprogramming the GPU so that it behaves like something the main BIOS can work with. And that could be a hard stop in support, even if the electrical connections are all good. You can't just stuff a random vBIOS in there. It has to be made for the card you're putting it on, because it does a lot else too. So in terms of what *we're* doing, you can kinda think of it as a bridge between the circuitry in the card and the BIOS in the main machine. Both ends of that bridge have to work, and eventually, you won't be able to get the entire combination. That's a hard stop. I've only had the one, and it was on a site that was clearly legacy and specific to the card. So I can't answer that question directly, but just give you a sense of what you're getting into. It also required an old version of Linux to actually install the vBIOS, because the periodic cleanup(s) that happened since then removed that support. Once I did though, modern Linux knew what to do with it. If you're on Windoze, I couldn't tell you anything anymore; I ditched M$ when Win10 refused to update on my M6800.

There is no "one answer" here and what also applies is substandard wages and gross profiteering. The erosion of the middle class is alive and well. This is a byproduct thereof. I've had countless conversations with financial planners and debt lawyers and those in the trenches lean towards other factors than "personal planning or accountability." The world we live in today @Mr. Fox is financially a far cry than even 20 years ago let alone 40. "Picking one's self up by the bootstraps" and "self made" no longer generally apply like it did when we were young. With that being said, are there those who lack common and financial sense? Absolutely. I know quite a few including a few family and friends even but it is not the core of the problem. Remember, we do have plenty of these walking around:

IIRC you cannot undervolt / overvolt quadro GPUs edp won't work (superMG3 tested the RTX3k HP & PNY on R4 edp and it was a no joy).

It should be at least 100% sRGB for photoshop work. But no HDR editing with that budget. 72% NTSC should be not far but might be an issue. Depends on what precision is requested for her work. An alternative would be to buy a pro monitor(there are some Asus ProArt not very expensive) later, if she don´t work with laptop+external monitor she should. her productivity will increase a lot.

Very nice Vivaldi update https://vivaldi.com/new/

The cliché expression that failing to plan is a plan to fail directly applies here. Accumulating stuff is more important than having a plan for many. Unfortunately, most try to pin the blame on other things when, more often than not, it is a problem with personal perspective and priorities for most.

Hi everyone, I have some great news for my Desktop-GFX project! This graphics card from MSI is the perfect fit for the P870xx. The card is called MSI GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Ventus 3X PZ! Other cards also work very well, but this one is a perfect fit.

This is the result of the CPU performance test.

Thanks for the response, Hoping for a speedy recovery for you. Think i found Boardview you describe. HP EliteBook 8560W VANHALEN HR HPB MV MB1 V2 Boardview File - Lab-One Forum i'll take a look. ive got a JST 4 pin splitter set to get wires across the Mobo from JST CPU source. One question i do have is, as you describe wiring the "before coil" doesnt that just equate to post the JST plug / wire as it hits the fan circuit board (not challenging the process, just trying to look at it modularly. I ask as i can pop the little JST wires out to "remove" +5v etc wires from the circuit to add them from DVD edge. so its just the PWM sense that comes across via JST cable solution. also the JST is 4 wire from CPU fan, am i missing something? On the fan PCB its 1,2,3,5 with pad 4 vacant on sunon PCB (hence my confusion) With only the "one wire" PWM source (PIN2) coming to secondary fan, there wont be any tacho feed back to JST header either so in essence no feedback to mobo #FAN2 is xRPM (TBH i dont recall if HWmonitor even shows CPU RPM) So just +5V and GND to find sources (my jerry-rig USB feed would work to test as fan wont pull in excess of 500Ma whilst i give the DVD port a manicure 😄 EDIT: also not sure why but im getting some of the pictures not viewable in you region (which is a PITA)

Maxwell GPUs don’t require any vBIOS work. Note that Tesla M6 doesn’t support direct display output and can only work through the Intel iGPU via Optimus. Also, you do have to do a little mod to the GPU heatsink to get these cards to fit.

To answer the question we need an extensive test or at lest collections of users tests data and compare it with newer latest DTR'ish laptops cpu/gpus the main obvious change it's the weight

ok, next step done: found n took a 4x4GB set of kingston 2133MHz mem, now just waiting for the parcel from aliexpress n the P5200 from poland from @colohgc. 😄 new palrest ordered too, the old one looks good but its sticky(really dont know why in the 2000s everyone putted those shitty coat on everything what get sticky after couple of yrs, even ferrari did on their knobs in 400k+ cars 😵‍💫), backlit keyboard to find with CH layout is nearly impossible, so maybe will take a look for a german one. n seen those samsung v-nand SATA SSDs have a really tiny circuit boards, will try to fit it in secondary bay without case while the "tuning" fan is in, when it fits will use raid0 with a second one... bcs whats better then speed? more speed!! 🤪 n still thinking about hailo-8 in the WWAN slot 🫠

Hi there, sorry for such long time to notice, hand is still recovering and in few days I will have other hand "not usable" for some time 😞 So let me help as much I can now, About looking for 5V points, use pins from under DVD slot. To find which one, type "8560w boardview" in search engine, use OpenBoardviewer from github. With such tool you can also understand fan connector pins role. You need only one wire across board, if I remember, connect PWM pin from "slave fan" to PWM pin from "main fan". REMEMBER to solder it BEFORE that little coil. If you solder it AFTER coil (directly to 5 legged IC) you will damage it! 1- 5V 2- PWM 3- GND 4- Tacho 5- Coild for PWM signal Like I wrote, remember to solder in between that coil (5) and pin (2). For DVD port you can even use electronic side cutter. I did so, of course being careful and gently. After plastic "deletion" metal wires left I just desoldered with soldering iron and pinched them with pliers. Good luck Nice one ! Sure! No problem, I even found another DC board, so I have 3 in total - one from Zbook (using it in my laptop) and two from 8560W (one is green, other blue). I will upload them all after I will be able to work! BTW, PC industry situation nowadays makes my inside very sad, I think we will have to get through that Shawkshank Redemption pipe of (...) with what we have.. I had plans to build myself a nice PC, but after PC parts price rising I decided to stay with my trusty old notebook even longer. Untill he will come of age to drink beer with me ^_^ See you all later !

Can someone guide me regarding vBIOS? Is it required for GPUs like the GTX 970M, GTX 980M, Tesla M6, etc.? Where can it be downloaded?

As the title says, looking for a vBIOS dump of one of these GPUs. Thank you very much!