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In addition to enabling CSM, you have to also enable "interrupt 19 capture", which is usually somewhere else in the UEFI setup. This option allows things like RAID and HBA controllers to interrupt the boot process to load their own BIOS. Not having it enabled is most likely the reason it never...

Yes, 80PLUS exists to make Plug Load Solutions money, easy money at that. They make the money machine go Brrrr. The last I checked, they got something like $15 grand per unit tested. 80PLUS has no benefit to the consumer, other than slightly raising the cost of the unit. It doesn't tell them the...

You have a fundamental lack of knowledge on how power supplies function if you think this is true, which it is not. Power supply efficiency does not scale linearly with ambient temperature, you cannot make the claim that a gold unit will be better than a bronze unit outside strict testing...

That's not the problem. The problem is that Plug Load Solutions created the 80PLUS standard and turned around and said their testing methodology applies to every day use case scenarios, which is not true at all. Which is what I was pointing out in the above post, the guy was saying he had a...

Can't know what the real power draw is without using equipment to measure it. The 80PLUS standard doesn't apply to the real world, the testing conditions they use are entirely unrealistic and can't be replicated outside the testing parameters they use. Unless your PSU is in open air, with no...

The Doom3 video is from 5 years ago, and the brief powerup is from two years ago. Was the card powered up at all since then? 5 years of not being used is a long time for electronics, especially marginal capacitors. The caps could have still been good enough back then to have the card working...

With the number of failed capacitors, I honestly don't know how the card was even running. The problem I'm having right now is what I think are three SOIC-8 package mosfets(?) on the upper rear of the card under that small long heatsink are getting smoking hot. Like after just 5 seconds, they're...

Your card has turned out to be a monster with hidden problems. I'm having to consult with Razorwind because of RAM and mosfet issues. Recapping the card alone took 12 hours, here's the result so far. I had to use three soldering irons, a hot air station and my desoldering station all at the...

No, it is not possible to disable speculative execution and/or branch prediction in x86 processors.

Intel as in their IGPs, or Intel as in their new discrete GPUs? Intel IGPs have almost always worked fine under Linux, the problems come when wanting to use them for 3D acceleration. Open source drivers in general almost always have performance penalties using them. Both AMD and Nvidia GPUs...

Power calculators are generally made by people that don't know that much about hardware, and take the data the manufacturers give them. Problem is that manufacturers regularly lie about their power consumption, or use flawed metrics to come up with some "TDP" number that is not at all...

You've probably got it figured out by now, but any TV with an HDMI or VGA input will be fine for a use case like that, so long as the PC has the same outputs available. I'd probably stick with 1080p monitors though, unless the PC has a video chip capable of driving a 2k or 4k display. Lower...

It's not reserved by Windows, it's being used in the address space. In x86 32 bit with no PAE or PSE support, all memory mapped devices have to be located somewhere in the 32 bit address space. Example would be if you had a video card with 512 MB of video memory. All of that memory has to be...

No, the PM system DOES NOT WORK FINE. It's utter dogshit. You can't send messages with payment information, shipping addresses or even web URL links because the PM system DELETES THEM WHEN YOU SEND THEM. I want the old system back. Why do web developers feel the need to try and fix things that...

Best estimate I can say is probably a few hundred. I charge time and materials, my rates haven't changed in a long time, but capacitors and shipping have gone through the roof. Depending on what type of capacitors you want, it can be more or less expensive. If you just wanted normal quality...

The card won't work in a PC because it has a PowerPC BIOS. It may be possible to flash the card with a PC BIOS, though it may require an EEPROM programmer if the card doesn't show in the nvflash utility. It may also require having a couple of pins on the AGP connector taped off, because Apple...

Those rigged counterfeit cards often use ugly hacks in the firmware to make them look like something they aren't. In your case, an RX470 pretending to be an RX580. A normal firmware is most likely never going to work on that card, you'd need to have the original hacked firmware for it to work...

To reduce power consumption, I would suggest looking at the core and soc voltages in the BIOS and see if they're out of spec. There are quite a few AM5 boards that push way too much voltage, which resulted in the widespread AM5 CPU death coverage in the news, where CPUs were quite literally...

If you want me to, I can.

Are you sure it's the stick? LGA1366 was notorious for memory channels dropping out. I got three LGA1366 servers and they all have problems with memory channels acting flaky.

Best get it recapped if you plan on keeping it working long term. The electrolyte is corrosive, if there's any on the board, it's going to start eating it.

I'm going to say no, the pinouts are almost always different between manufacturers. They can even be different within the same manufacturer on different models. BUT, if the connectors are the same on the PSU end, you can just convert them. You'll need a PCIe de-pin tool to pull the wires out of...

Yeah, not a great idea to use electronics with failed caps. They turn into resistors and pass DC current, putting heavy load on other things in circuit.

I'd love to recap one of those cards. The vomit spectrum capacitors set my OCD off. Definitely not worth the $2000 price though, maybe one day I'll stumble upon one cheap. Seriously, they use garbage United Chemi-Con (probably KZG or KZE) garbage right next to what look like high dollar Sanyo...

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Do you know if your 1600 has the segfault bug?

Doesn't matter where you go, all of the online marketplaces are plagued with counterfeit merchandise. Some people say "well Amazon is better", no, they're not. I've ordered software on Amazon, where Amazon represented it as being sold by them and officially blessed by the software vendor. Then...

Except for the thing where Newegg disables your selection of only listing items sold and shipped by them EVERY TIME you go into a different subsection. If you go from looking at say RAM to motherboards, video cards, SSDs, etc. that little switch is turned off every single time. They actively try...