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So the mb has a button, I tought it was a power button but did nothing. Turns out its a bios flash button, I figured maybe the bios was corrupt, pretty common with gigabyte mb IME. I got the latest bios, flashed it into a USB and gave it a try. Couldn't make it work. I tried several guides...

I'll check into that, I recently installed updates so that might have borked the power serttings, you know much windows loves to mess with settings after updates.

So a few days ago I noticed that my work laptop which I use mostly at home, is having a weird wifi issue If I disconnect the laptop from the AC outlet, it will loose wifi (even on a full charge), it will show as its connected but you can't surf or use the network at all, for example Facebook...

Unfortunately, the mobo is too big to fit on my toaster/oven. The idea of "baking it" crossed my mind.

I took everything off the case and tested it individually. I tested the mobo/cpu with a different PSU and RAM, won't post, won't turn off. Tested the RAM/SSD/PSU/GPU on a fully working setup. Everything runs fine. My friend is tight on money right now, so it might take a while till he gets...

interesting. any guide on how to do it?

My wishful thinking was that it would stand between the RTX 4070 and 4070Super, but if you were on the market for a RTX 4060Ti, might as well get this.

of course it does, it's on a different bracket.

Actually, I've done this dozens of times even between intel and AMD, mostly on desktops, ever since windows 7, windows 10 has been much more forgiving with drivers specially storage drivers. Only time I had trouble was when using RAID. Doing it in windows XP even with sysprep was a hit or miss.

I disabled secureboot, the SSD gets recognized in the bios as a boot device, but it won't boot, like it didn't have a boot partition. Re-enabled sucureboot, put back the original HDD and it didn't boot either, but I was able to select a boot partition. I don't think the SSD had bitlocker...

make that 3, I remember a cracked die on a Barton cpu, IIRC than was not uncommon with TB/Barton AMD CPUs back then, you had to be really careful installing the cooling fan.

So a friend of mine's hp laptop just died, he wants to swap the SSD from it to a Dell. The HP is intel and the Dell is AMD, but that's not the problem. The thing is I assume secure boot won't make it easy (possible?), what should I do for it to work? To clarify, the idea is to use the hp...

In my 35+ years as a pc enthusiast I've only seen 2 dead CPUs a P4 and an AMD Duron from clients. In my mind intel CPU are for all means and purposes, inmortal. My friend's fear is that it might end up being both. Very unlikely, but not out of the question.

I actually do have a B550 motherboard lying around but I'm not sure it works either: it behaves exactly the same as the other one. My friend is getting a new mb to test the cpu, worst case he'll get a Ryzen 7 5700. he doesn't have the budget to upgrade to the 7000 series much less 9000 series...

So I'm checking a friend's PC that won't boot. Its a gigabyte B550 mobo coupled with a Ryzen 5 5600G The pc will turn on, fans will spin, but it won't boot, I tested the ram PSU,, SSD and videocard separately and they all work fine. Thing is the CPU will not get hot at all, also the PC won't...

So my son's PC started having stability issues, every now and then it would freeze for a few seconds then come back, but a couple of times it went BSOD. I figured it might be the ram so I opened the case it only has 16gb DDR4 stick, the case/mobo was quite dusty, so I cleaned it. I cleaned the...

Actually, I still have an audigy card X-fi I think, its PCI though. Also I was never able to activate DDL on it, it was supposed to support it.

Back in the day I had a nforce2 Abit mobo with DD Live coupled via SPDIF with a sony 5.1 home theater, man that was AWESOME. Not that many games had 5.1 back then but the ones that did were amazing. I still have the 5.1 setup but I can no longer do DDL, I'm not aware of any DDL or DTS Connect...

So RTX5090 are like a box of chocolates, you never know what you are gonna get :p ;) :D

Why do anyone recommend this card when the 9070 is faster and might even be cheaper.