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Go back to Windows 10 LTSC from Winduhz 11 cancer without doing a clean install... in-place "downgrade" (actually an upgrade) without having to do a clean install.

I have personal experience with this same thing, with a Precision M4800 and ePort Plus dock. What I recall is that it is just pretty finicky about passing through a 60 Hz 4K signal. It is possible but it doesn't always work. I think that it is just because of the "wiring" not being high quality enough to make a signal with the bandwidth required stable. The dock doesn't support a specific version of DisplayPort, at least when it comes to its "electronics". That is determined by the system. (It may support a specific version of DisplayPort just in the sense of being "rated" to pass the signal through.) Unlike "modern" docks, an ePort dock is basically a glorified adapter + extension cord. It just passes through traces from specific pins on the dock port on the bottom of the laptop to the ports on the dock. It doesn't have much inside in the way of electronics / processing the signal. (It does have a DisplayPort→DVI adapter which is used for the DVI ports.)

Do you have any pictures of the deletion? Just how much “artistic flare” is needed on the DVD port? I’ve now got an HP vbios 980M enroute (965M was a bust) so a few steps behind you. Got my 8770w H/sink chopped just off the branch ready to fit, so at least at first install I can sink and see if I get video output. was your 980m a custom vbios? I know speaking to KBX he had an 980M HP card with a Msi vbios he’d got installed from china hence the ask.

Yeah, but than you have 1000 Mobos 😂

The $431.99 one is sold by Kova Trade and shipped by Amazon. Shipped and sold by Amazon is $441.99. With these types of products via Amazon, I tend to lean towards both shipped and sold by Amazon just to be safe unless the price difference is meaningful. That is $70+ in my pocket 🤑 for picking up an open box new and worse case scenario is I return it and pick up the $441.99 variant. Most times open box new is box damage with Amazon so we will see. First thing I'm going to do is check G4 9200 on down to see where it gives up the ghost . Hopefully this one is a good one though! If it isn't, welp, back it goes.... ----- I was waiting for the refresh after reading about the node refinements, IO improvements and better IMC incoming. I'll just continue to double down around this 265k atm while sorting out the memory end of the DDR5/MB combo and then go from there. Worse case I tune it around 8400 unless it is an OC dud on top of that then off to eBay it goes... Nova with latency refinements and bllc could clock in as a legit AMD gaming killer. I would be ready for a return to Intel's glory days but remember....this IS modern day Intel we're talking about. We might want to lower our expectations......

Curious about what you can achieve with your iPad. You do have more broad objectives then me. What is home inspection software duties? i use MS OneNote in my tablet and take pics of relevant issues in specific notes and do checklists.

Can someone help me find EC 1.05.10 ? It would be much appreciated.

That really needs to happen. I hope it continues and accelerates faster than expected. Nadella has been a terrible business leader and he should have been let go a long time ago. There are not many reasons for consumers and fewer than there used to be for business users to avoid Linux and continue using Winduhz at this point. Ignorance isn't a good excuse. That can be fixed easier than fixing Windoze.

@Mr. FoxNot sure Microsoft with Nadella in front think about the future. But clearly they going the wrong direction. Gamers will leave Windows and the same can be said for prosumers/corpotate/small business. While Microsoft is obsessed with AI, Valve is stealing PC gaming away

While Microsoft is obsessed with AI, Valve is stealing PC gaming away

Hi, Demonthorn here. At one point I though I'd never want a laptop, but then the college I went to gave everyone a laptop to use. I soon thought to myself, how did I ever live without one? The college laptop was a Toshiba, and since then I've gone with HP. Currently using a 2018 HP running Windows 10, i5, 16GB RAM, 17" screen. It's getting slow and I'm planning to upgrade soon.

Best GPU for this laptop is a 4070 in PEG. RTX 4070 MXM type-A. I already made a thread about having issues in upgrading to an RTX 4070, turns out I didn't do a good heatsink mod. Now everything works. 4070 in eDP PEG.

Yeah, its great working with Asus bios. One bios that's pretty annoying is ASRock lol. My sons Z790 DDR5 bios is a pain and very confusing. Theres like 4 different settings for CPU load line. The ASRock bios reminds me of Aorus/Giga bios.

There are some new ones for just $431 on Amazon right now. I hope you get a good one! I actually had to return an Apex to Amazon for absolutely shit tier memory OC. I learned it's definitely possible to get a bad binned board, something I had not experienced before. I really want Intel to drop the ARL Refresh in January since I have vacation and will have time to tinker and bin. But I saw a rumor of a March release which to me is just wild. Why would they drop a new CPU refresh, about 6-9 months before Nova Lake. But maybe the rumor I saw of a fixed IO is the reason. If Intel actually fixed the IO, then we might actually see the latency fixed and there could be significant gains. The rumors of 10-30% gaming gains could be true then. If they fixed gaming that much without huge cache, then Nova Lake with this fix and huge cache could be an absolute monster.

And now to the big question. How is the performance of the 14Z90T with the Arrow Lake CPU? I used Cinebench as I have results for four recent gram notebooks. Cinebench 23 runs the tests for a minimum of 10 minutes which reveals how well heat management affects the performance.The highest scores indicate a cooler CPU and/or better cooling. It can be seen that the 14Z90T is the fastest of the four notebooks for single core applications, although the difference between all four isn't large. For multi-core loads the 14Z90T is also the leader when the "normal" fan setting is used and there's a close call with this notebook and the dual fan 17Z90SP when the "high" fan setting is used. I also noticed that the14Z90T's fan noise is less than those in the 17Z90SP. I would presume that putting the Arrow Lake CPU into a dual fan chassis would enable even higher multi-core performance. I also think that the Cinebench Open GL test is a rough indicator of the GPU performance where the 255H CPU scores almost double the 155H part. The other performance indicator of interest to me is how quickly the 255H CPU eats the battery. I used my standard test of playing an MP4 video. That CPU is very frugal: Using 17% of the battery in 6 hours represents a potential run time of over 30 hours! It's not obvious on the graph but the first 3 hours were at about 70% display brightness which I then increased to 80%. In comparison, an 8 hour test on the 14Z90RU used 35% of the battery which gives a run time in excess of 20 hours. Roughly, the 255H CPU uses 2/3rd of the power of the 1334U under light load conditions.

it is clear how much thought and high level engineering placed in the new platform, placing the dGpu right under the CPU is clutch.

IDK, that is what I need to figure out, who can fab the board and what it would cost. I am sure for something like this, it will be expensive unless I wan 1000 boards made.

Yeah I just couldn't do the MSI Unify Z890 even at $399.99 knowing I've been sitting here working with Asus BIOS for the last several weeks with the Strix. Asus is such a greedy dog water company, but their BIOS is the best for my use cases atm across several in the house and gets the most love and engagement in the forums too while I finish sorting out the memory side of this equation first (as I always do since 12th gen / AM5). -------------------------- Updated and same as before. DOS status update progression bar on PD_Update and auto exit then delayed silence on ASMx4242 till it popped up with the "Update or erase successfully. Reboot now?" Window. I don't recall getting that window last time and checked processes to make sure it had completed.

Wow, that is a really good deal.

I agree that there is room internally and externally. Perhaps LG think that users no longer use micro SD cards. I now rarely use a digital camera as the phone has taken over as the primary photography device and the phone has plenty of internal storage from where images can be moved using either a cable or LG gram Link. Nonetheless, there's the apparent inconsistency that the cheaper of the 14" grams made in 2025 has the slot and the more expensive gram doesn't. Perhaps the older Intel CPUs were sufficiently cheap that LG decided to include other features to help sell the notebooks with them in.

I think the bios and ec for the eon 17-x listed on this website are for the newer models of the laptop, so I’m not 100% sure if it is compatible with the x170km. You may have to email support for 1.07.08 bios if they still have it. I have heard xmg bios is best, so it may also be worth trying. I wanted to try it to see if it would improve my ram stability but did not want to risk bricking my system.

So I bit the bullet (the itch wouldn't stop itching) and picked up an open box new Z890 Apex from the zon for $371. This gives me the Z890-A Strix and Apex for motherboards along with 3x of memory on hand atm (TG 8200, KB 8400, Corsair 9200) along with this open box 265k which I am 99% sure is capped out at 8400 at G2 but we'll see. I'll also be able to verify the Z890-A Strix capping out at 8667 in G4. Z890-A Strix is rated to 9066 but two review I've seen now show it capping out sub 8800 under stress test so this isn't a surprise as mine will boot 9200 G4 just fine but falls apart about 5 minutes into the stress test (TM5 1USMS 90 min). Return window is Jan 26th for the Z890-A Strix or I'll hold onto it and the 265k for the Hyte White Y40 I have. ------------ w00t! That bodes well for my ship window thank goodness and it will be in your hands sooner than later to start getting some data. Thanks! I just grabbed it. I'll patch it in a few...

Here is mine with iGPU only

@Teo I will try the XMG BIOS after I get a programmer. My goal is to have 64GB of RAM (32 at least) because I do run VMs a lot. If RAM wasn't crazy expensive at the moment, I would also look at replacing the sticks I have but I will have to try other solutions first. BTW, that is an impressive amount of copper for your cooler. I will also look into liquid cooling as soon as I get the funds.

@strijrator Before I did anything else, I removed the heatsink assembly and reapplied thermal paste to both the CPU and GPU. I have 2 pairs of 16GB sticks to make 64GB total. The system ran fine with 64GB without any issues until the beginning of Decemeber when the freezes started. I forgot the brand of one unlabeled pair but the other pair is Crucial rated for 2400MT/s (CT16G4SFD824A.M16FE). Checking dmidecode shows the Configured Memory Speed is 2400MT/s for the single Crucial stick I have installed. Then I tried various combinations of RAM sticks and slots. I noticed the system was POSTing only with one RAM stick in slot 3, as observed earlier. In any case, I decided to see if the single 16GB stick would result in stable operation. I was able to run Windows and I briefly played a game and I did not notice any issues. Then I switched to Linux, played another and this time the game did push both the CPU and GPU and the cooling was okay. Unfortunately, I did not record actual temperatures but the system was definitely stable. I will use the computer in this state for another day to see if any of the programs I use will cause any issues. As for the BIOS, I was not sure where to get a good BIOS. I did find https://support.originpc.com/hc/en-us/articles/28376120239245-Drivers-Manuals-BIOS-EC-Firmware and I have not yet installed it. Is it a good BIOS or is it better to install one from a different manufacturer?