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oh...after my 980m died I did put the 860m back in but it has the 120Hz screen upgraded

If you have a 3d capable aw17 r1 running 780m, 880m or any 3d oem gpu, please help me with your acpi dump: https://github.com/acpica/acpica/releases/download/20260408/iasl-win-20260408.zip download this zip, extract, run: acpidump.exe -b then zip the folder and upload. Thanks

IDK how it's done on GT80 but screen is definitely LVDS (same screen as AW 18 - LVDS PLS/IPS). MB layout is different between ivy GT60 and haswell GT60. I think ivy is full LVDS whereas haswell has edp to LVDS converter. That converter is gone on the v3 version (2K/3K version).

Yeah 5090 is certainly fast in Forza, that’s really good though. But man +60% for triple the cost. I’m thinking 1K 5080. VS. 3K 5090. AI has pushed these things to crazy price tags. We got to beg to pay 3K cash for one on FB Market place lol.

Managed to get the tax liability down by 40% and since the mrs's Altima literally died in the driveway I gave my Rogue to the wife to drive for work since she commutes 90 min a day. I spent a considerable amount of time shopping minivans then realized I did not want another one (this would have been my third) I picked up a shiny new (to me) Nissan Armada because I've always wanted one. Thought about the 2025+ new design and did not care for it once seeing and sitting in one vs the 2021-2024 design along with how much value it would lose driving it off the lot (one reason I usually buy ~3-4yr old cars). Found a killer price on a certified pre-owned and the wife and daughter both said, "dad, you deserve it. You're always so frugal with yourself." I think they just want to ride around in it.... Thing is huge compared to my Rogue. Feel like I'm driving my old Lincoln Navigator from 25+ years ago again.... 🤣 --------------------------------------------------------- Anyone looking to dabble in ArrowLake, Amazon had ~50 Asus z890 Maximus Hero boards "like new" for $209 + 15% off for prime members yesterday + 6% rewards = ~$188 to my door for a board that originally retailed for $700+. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0DGWWRTPV/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?smid=A2L77EE7U53NWQ&th=1 They're currently down to 28 left in stock. You can pair this with the 270k which after the initial hype is back to realistic pricing and $319.99 on Newegg and includes a the game bundle AND an MSI 240mm AIO ($84.99 value) --------------------------------------- I was this close to making the swap to the Z890-A strix + 270k, but now I'll wait and dial in the Hero and see where it lands with the 270k and if all is right, sell off the Z890-A Strix + 265k before swapping it in to ride Arrowlake meaningfully till the fall as my main rig unless it gives me a reason ASAP to switch back to the Crosshair x870e + 9800X3D. Sounds familiar with my 34yr old daughter..... one moment no interest then suddenly they want some decent hardware and rediscover their steam library as if it were lost.... Trickle down Graphicsnomics that actually works! Pros of having a great dad/granddad at the helm @Mr. Fox! Crazy it was that close. Did he try to press for Zelle or F&F? I know he listed G&S too, but a lot of times they use that as an entry point. Then "something goes wrong" with the transaction on their end and they immediately refund you which gives you a sense of good faith and try to get you to resend it via Zelle or F&F and disappear with your funds.... Good call all around. Man, I would have LOVED to have been a fly on the wall when your wife caught wind and you almost caught hands! 🤣 Sold the Laptop for 1500, 5090 for 2350 so almost 4k in your pocket and a quarter of that lands you a nice Zotac 5080 which is a killer card on its own and 3k still in your pocket AND a happy wife? That is a win win.... My laptops at home are either for tinkering, aux usage when my desktop is down for tinkering/upgrades/needed files/ drivers or vacation. All other times, it is usually on the shelf which is 95% of the time. No way am I gaming primarily on a laptop when I can have a good desktop running. 5090 are still monsters though but the pricing now is insane....$1k 5080 slaughters it bang for buck easily. On a personal note, still amazed that WoW Midnight is giving the 5090 an actual workout with semi frequent dips into the 90+ utilization zone and the 9070xt is gasping at 100% utilization most times everywhere. This is all at 4k. I had to drop the wife's internal render back to ~1600p to get the 9070xt to spit out decent fps at 4k. You ended up with a fantastic scenario. Early verification purchase from Nvidia, used it for over a year and got back everything from it. Could you have maybe sold it for more? Sure, but sometimes you count your blessings and keep it moving. I'd like to think a lucky user is using it right now in their loop, but I have this sneaky suspicion that small PCB was torn asunder as they ripped the core and memory off and slapped it on a blower compliant PCB and it is churning away in an AI shop somewhere.....

After using my Pro Max 16 Plus for several weeks, I am disappointed by the performance. The 175W TGP on the RTX 5000 Pro is only sustainable for short periods of time. Under sustained heavy load it will thermal throttle to around 115W, which perhaps not coincidentally, is what hwmonitor reports as the base TGP.

How time runs away, topic from 2022. Back in the cabin in the woods, the old 4G equipment still alive, but the mobile network antenna not that good, down around 30 to 50 Mbs is fine for my use, but upload is substandard, f.ex. sending an email with some attachment takes ages (if it does not timeout). Tested with 4G router + some phones. 0.4 Mbs!? Was around 15x better last year, they'll maybe fix it someday if enough users complain. Anyway, looking at speeds folks get on fibre these days, suppose this is one of the joys of living halfway offgrid, some cosy feeling of sometimes being back on dial-up modem :O)

Maybe this "new" fan is shorting out the 5V power rail. Try without the fan...

To end this topic - the Gram is now just used as backup - battery charged to 80% and put into a drawer. I used it for 4 years 9.5 months... But yeah, exchanged keyboard (which means also means part of the case) due to the e letter not working, and battery once. mSD card reader was broken - and one of the two USB-C ports wars broken (happens when lying on bed/sofa with USB-C cable plugged in and standing on it kinda - too bad no USB-C on the other side). Screen had many dead pixels by then - and the case had a fracture (on the part hat I got newly with the keyboard). But otherwise it still worked reliably, and the keyboard on the standard gram surely suits me more vs the Gram Pro. I still make much more typing mistakes on the Gram Pro - it's just too shallow. Otherwise the Gram Pro is better in everything - but 4 years newer model too. Let's hope for the Gram Pro to make it to 5 years too. Sadly lunar lake not panther lake but I could not wait another year and did not want to wait for the Panther lake X7 model to drop in price until affordable (if ever).

My ASUS ROG gaming laptop suddenly stopped powering on after I replaced the CPU fan today. The old fan was making noise, so I removed it temporarily and the laptop was still working fine. Today I installed the new fan, connected everything back, and after assembling the laptop, it now shows no power at all. I’ve already tried: Checking charger Reconnecting battery Holding power button Reopening the laptop If anyone has experienced this before or knows what could cause it, please help. Any quick troubleshooting steps would be appreciated.

You mean, the RTX 2000 Ada need 4g decode to work?

I sold the shunted 5090FE and the EKWB waterblock only for $2,350 on overlock.net. Just wanted to get my money back out of it. I actually still have the FE air cooler and FE box. I kept those so new potential owners couldn’t turn around and scalp the card on eBay or somewhere else. 😂 The 5090FE is still shunted and someone is still running it as far as I know.

That really sucks. It's bad enough that there are so many hackers, scammers and identity thieves that are foreigners, but a fellow American doing it makes them that much more worthy of brutal and merciless retribution. Their predatory mindset is very similar in practice to serial rapists and child molesters and they deserve capital punishment. Did you sell your 5090 FE or did something happen to it?

He sounded like someone with an accent from a different state. Like up north to me. But really good English.

The risk is that these cards must need 4G decode to work on + they're crazy expensive for what they are. Yes they have DP on DP_D and I don't think this will fix the "EC fan controls".

Zotac makes some of the best 50-series GPUs. Build quality and PCB design are excellent. Glad you chose that one. The scammers of the world all deserve a bullet to their head. Did the scammer have a foreign accent or did his speech sound like he was from the area he claimed to be from?

It's a DP_A, how can I receive its video output? Any receiver for SiBeam?

Do you think it might work better than the regular 4060? Although, admittedly, there might not be the temperature sensor issue with that one.

IIRC there's a WIDI card (Wireless display) that used to be on AW M18X, was on the DMC port (the weird port). That or either a TV tuner card with a coaxial cable.

how do you find and change the address of the SMBus temp sensor?