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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.

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!

That's my development, and there's more! 🙂 Maro gave you tips... Greetz..

What is the cpu frequency ?

Good on you brother! Nothing is as frustrating as "comfortably getting by." Just enough where life is comfortable, but not enough if something were to go sideways or you suddenly wanted to take a break or do something else but can't really afford to do that....cruise control has its pros and cons. Almost 2 out of every 3 people live paycheck to paycheck in America now. It's a somber reality. Here's wishing you all the luck and success in the world man....now go get it. 🙂 My dad used to tell us all the time, "You know the people who both lose and win the most at life still equally die right? Immortality is not in the prize pool."

Hey fellas. Yeah I’m just burned out on just barely gett’n by is all. I’m 35 years old now been contemplating life a lot lately, me and my wife both work full time from home, life is good in the new house. Bills are paid, but that’s it lol. Things are getting really expensive lately like (Daughters new braces 😬) kids will need cars in a 2-3 years (I’m broke). I need to do something on the side and make some major moves. About ten years ago I use to buy and sale junk cars, this was extremely lucrative. There were times when making $2,500 on a good day wasn’t impossible. I have been complacent and living on auto pilot for several years now doing the minimum.. The 5090 had to go though, I needed the funds to help fund a truck+car trailer+winch. In this case, not a truck but close, I bought a clean and well kept used Tahoe Z71 4x4. Lately I learned that we got to step outside of that comfort zone and take some risks in order to gain something or see change. If nothing changes, nothing changes. Life is hard, none of us make it out alive. 😂

a good reason why you should clean that fan & HS once a year

my brother's HP Spectre x360 - 15-df1033dx laptop got automatically upgraded from Win10 22H2 to Win11 24H2 (home edition) several months ago (likely thru windows update). so far, no serious problems running Win11

BIOS & driver downloads are available for most Framework laptops from this page