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Torx? For what? The cpu tray? You could open the tray with a small slotted screwdriver if that's what you mean?

I replaced all of my chassis parts several time but haven't done so last time. I bit the bullet and added stickers from the office we had all over the place from IT-security vendors. I replaced my lcd back panel to a brand new only for it to peel a bit, its powder coated from factory but with bad prep work. And there are 7 or 8 different models both back panels and lcd bezels so you need to take it apart and read the part number and hope dellparts or aliexpress has it. Your back panel look brand new, is the scratch so little it won't show on the picture?

Decided to dust off my machine for some cybersecurity training. Was a bit disapointed by the performance being used to nvme drives nowadays, I booted into bios and enabled RAID On, made two 220 GB drives RAID 0 and having a separate drive for vmware. Not bad for a ten year old laptop. This is two healthy drives in Raid 0, 128KB block size, Windows 11 with standard 4KB, bitlocker enabled.

could it be that this only supports lvds?, sounds stupid but it might be a possibility?

mmm that sucks, I love my docking station

I didn't mean to ridicule you it just seemed to good to be true to find a coreboot for a dell precision where mods has been in progress but didn't make it to a functional state having to make hardware access through the pins on the realtek sound card chip. This is awesome, if the devs get the S3 and screen brightness sorted it will be very interesting to flash. And if you're up for contributing with a guide/tutorial how to flash it that's awesome!

Does this gpu require eDP motherboard? Right ...seem suspicious? Did Per Astra Ad Deum really get this working?

The challange is to finish the security question. What I do is to start camera in google translate or yandex translate app. You will see three lines of a word that is the name of a number. Write the 3 numbers and hopefully you get it right before it changes

I don't see a need for the clip anyways. I had mine off for years until tidying up finding it in a box of parts, the flex cable sock is long enough to not move a bit lid open or closed. Is the core too low or too wide touching the coils? Should work to either solder on a copper shim or put some on with kryonout cooling paste adding the height. Not sure if you have some shims at home, or you could order some from aliexpress. I have a set of shims in different thickness that comes to good use with various projects. Lastly you could cut out a tape shim over the PCB so there is no chance of electric short kind of how thinkpad motherboards are covered in black pcb tape.

Yep I had to replace my motherboard once, its a real challange to get one. Parts-people rarely has one in stock. https://www.parts-people.com/index.php?action=category&id=142&subid=457&refine=motherboard I had to resort to aliexpress but was lucky to get a brand new motherboard still in service mode. I need a new usb daughterboard but getting one that works is hard, the last one I received was dead completely. And one would not play any audio. Its almost as I want to try to replace the usb ports my self. https://www.parts-people.com/index.php?action=item&id=18533

I would hope just hope some day they make a trackpoint with three mouse buttons

My battery died last night leaving it unplugged at work. Anyone have any clue how to restart the circuit board? I have 0v on the outside from the terminal but total 11.5v on the inside but the circuit board is not active so it wont charge even if I insert the battery in the computer. I know how to restart a thinkpad battery because they have an NC + NO fuse you have you apply power from the inside to the outside starting the circuit board and reversing each fuse so you can reassemble and charge the battery edit: I fixed the battery by cutting two small wires and shorting them against the battery terminal and LP5 and LP1, now the laptop says its charging and full within 2 hours and 12 minutes. Already it has 3% power!

....that is a great idea!, that could work! The nvme card might hit the chassis on the opposite side, maybe I can file away some of the material. There is like a bend where the backside comes down and extend as a panel, but there is just air underneath for about 10mm or so.

Thats by design, you can at least you could on older models disable C states and speedstep force it to run at nominal frequency. Otherwise use a power adapter with 180w minimum or more like a 230w, 240w, 260w adapter and you are in the safe zone or whatever the cpu and gpu specifies you need for your configuration. For you it will be the 240w adapter that is standard.

Was thinking of using the PP minicard slot that is sitting empty to put my Logitech G903 transmitter inside the laptop but that didn't work. I ordered a simple minipcie to usb from aliexpress: The PP slot doesn't have a usb repeater... I forgot to check that out before I found that out the hard way by swapping my Intel AX210 in minicard 1 slot with pp slot and moving antenna wires over there barely making it to the pp slot. Wifi worked but bluetooth did not because that uses the usb repeater and the mini pcie to usb worked just fine in the minicard 1 slot. I put everything back where it was and called it a day. Maybe I can find a flex cable or make individual wire loom and jam it between the card and slot and run it over to the minicard 1 or minicard 2 where my msata is that is not using the usb circuit. Shame having one slot in the laptop that's good for almost nothing.