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A very hard visual check will most often NOT find the fault, even with a microscope.....you can get lucky but don't count on it. Try your phone on magnify and go over EVERYTHING. Twice. Without being able to power the laptop with card installed means you can't even use heat to pinpoint a shorted power rail component. A variable power supply would let you low power the card by itself to find a short, but I don't recommend you do that first. A cheap multimeter will get you a better idea.

From your description I'm gonna guess your a windows user? Event viewer is your friend.... a useful tool. https://www.pcmag.com/news/how-to-troubleshoot-problems-in-windows-via-event-viewer

Muse - Supermassive Black Hole Because - it randomly came up in my feedtube and I had to try it. the music video is trippy!

TLDR: AI and LLM models are NOT smart. It averages all possible answers ie. takes any random crap off the internet and presents it as gospel. This is worth the almost 8mins of your time

It is sad. But do look and asking in the manufacturers section https://notebooktalk.net/forum/70-sager-clevo/ never know what you might find

Unfortunately I am referring to both The forum is not what it once was, modding cutting edge laptops is a dying hobby. As you are aware newer laptops are not so modular with upgradeable components. Although some of us are into retro No true DTR for some time now

Hello and welcome. Party is about over but better late than never

Wow he looked old and tired there.....My Mum loves(ed) Elvis movies so I grew up watching them also.

Carmina Burana - O Fortuna Best played at a volume guaranteed to piss off your neighbours

TLDR New AI "accidently" hacks website Looks like I'm gonna need a new hobby...................Hack the Planet! https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-10/ai-assistant-hacks-gym-website-aus-cyber-attack/107007986

Jet - Cold Hard Bitch Because.....we all know at least one

That song did seem to be very popular when I was in UK for Y2K bug. I liked it (but I also love Tarantino movies)

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I have a .fd file but no idea where I got it or even if it's for Ranger (probably from NBR@Striker1234), BUT use at your own peril. https://www.udrop.com/ONt9/VAS00X64.rar My notes say you got the insyderflash.exe from DELL, open it and without closing it goto your C:\windows\temp folder and copy VASxxx.fd file. Put that .fd file onto the root of a FAT32 usb stick (follow the rest of the guide) Trouble is I cannot find any .fd file in the temp folder. You can try find the official bios files here https://www.dell.com/support/product-details/en-au/product/alienware-17/drivers Dont click on download, click where is says Alienware 17 system bios, then at bottom of side screen click All driver versions.

The Darkness - I believe in a thing called Love Because....it's weird kewl New(ish) music with an old skool vibe. EDIT: I found the original music video and just prefer it