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For future reference - find the motherboard specifications on the manufacturer website, for that motherboard it is this page: https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/PRO-Z690-A-DDR4/Specification It is written there.

Are you getting an IP address on the adapter/interface? Is DHCP configured or do you have to configure a static IP?

Do you even need the country to be correct? IP and country matching is usually done using GeoIP databases. These databases might have outdated information or the IP belongs to a company thats based in country X, but also has servers in country Y, but you could be seeing one or the other, depending on the service. tl;dr - country information isn't always 100% correct, don't depend on that.

4 isn't enough. Get 8 minimum, 16 to be on the safe side.

That can happen when you run out of memory - nothing works great when that happens. There is no benefit, if you have more memory than the OS and the applications need. But when you do not have enough, there is a major performance drop.

Yup, can boot into live environment without issues. Though I do not remember by heart if I tested with UEFI mode both on and off.

I have a Samsung 530U laptop, that does a complete shutdown even on restarts and with that forgets BIOS settings every time. If I save BIOS settings and it reloads (without a shutdown), the settings are still there. The CMOS battery was dead, I replaced it, but it's still same. I have verified the voltage on the motherboard, CMOS battery is full and connection is good. Main issue is that it resets back to Legacy boot every time, but Windows is installed in UEFI mode. I could reinstall Windows in legacy mode, so that the laptop is at least somewhat usable, but that's a workaround, not a fix to the issue. What else should I check or try?

That router you mentioned only supports WiFi 6. As for the best cards - AX200 for WiFi 6, AX210 for WiFi 6E. You have CNVi card installed in the motherboard, so you might want to look into this thread to read about upgrading it.

Opening a port means there has to be a service or a program that is listening on it. nc (aka netcat) is one of the tools. If it can listen on port 58585 (default is TCP), then your program is not listening on that port. You need to configure the program to listen on the port first.

Damnit, I knew I was forgetting something. Thanks for the clarification

When you use a number of lanes, you get the whole lanes. The generation is determined by the slowest capable device. If you have 16 lanes of PCI Express Gen 5 and you use PCI Express Gen 3 or 4 devices, you are still limited to 16 lanes, even though the CPU might be capable of more lanes. I am yet to see a PCI Express card, that can convert between different generations (e.g. Gen 5 M.2 extension card, that supports twice the number of Gen 4 devices as compared to Gen 5 for extra bandwidth). EDIT: So for your example, if you have 16 lanes of Gen5 and you use 16 M.2 SSDs of Gen3, they will be limited to x1 at Gen3 speeds (assuming it is even a supported mode).

And what were you expecting? 95% of the motherboards only have single 8-pin for CPU power, simply because CPUs do not need more. Unless you are doing extreme overclocking (LN2 etc), which is when the additional 4-pin connector can bring some additional stability. In every other case, standard 8-pin CPU power is enough.

No. You use DDU to remove all drivers, then download the latest drivers from the website and install them.

Remove all the drivers with DDU and reinstall them. Remove any overclocks (get it back to stock configuration).

Jeez, Norway, your prices really are crazy. Z Flip 3 is like 1000€ in Estonia for 128 GB model. Z Fold 3 is around 1700-1800€ tho.

Oh, that's the easy part. Rest depends on how they wiped it. You can try using TestDisk to see if it can recover anything. Also make sure your unRAID instance is not exposed to the Internet in any way, check your Docker containers as well as any other basic security checks/updates.

Since you don't mention whether it is a homelab server or a rented one (what parts of the server and network do you control), I'm gonna give quite a general answer. Start with basic connectivity debugging when it loses connection. Test your DNS, test pinging the gateway as well as a public host (like 1.1.1.1 or 8.8.8.8), run traceroutes, test ICMP and TCP/UDP traffic. Are other devices/servers/clients affected? When and how does it recover? Try to find patterns.

This. Plus Intel drivers generally have the best driver support (meaning least amount of issues), though Realtek is not far behind, depending on the operating system.

I'd use kill-a-watt or a similar power meter, they're more accurate than software readings. Though you'd need to have rest of the specs more or less the same (GPUs, drives, fans) to get as accurate appes-to-apples comparison as possible. Or just test these two in the same system.

You can use an access point to create a wireless network, that clients can use to access the Internet (and/or intranet). That model supports both 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz.

You can't really change the partition table on the drive, that you are currently booting from. The best and safest option is to delete all the partitions on the disk (which means deleting everything on the drive, including the files and the OS) and then recreating the partition table in GPT mode. Anything else is sort of a hacky solution, which may or may not work. Either way, ensure you have backups of whatever is on your drive. Also, other recommendation - install Windows on a SSD. You're leaving a lot of performance on the table by running it off of a HDD. It works, but isn't as snappy.

Start with the easy stuff - try a different cable.

I'm guessing you want one for Windows. ShareX and Lightshots are ones I have used and work great.

It is a custom platform built in-house. Frontend is built on React, CSS/SCSS. They use REST API. Backend is built on top of Node.js (TypeScript or maybe JavaScript). Based on some searching around, my guesses (and just guesses) are: - they use Sails ORM on the backend - run numerous services in a Kubernetes cluster (at some point they used OVH, but not sure anymore) - images are hosted in Amazon S3 - all the traffic is proxied through Cloudflare - PayPal and Stripe for all the billing

What GPU do you have? A lot of GPUs keep their fans off until they reach a certain temperature, which is usually around 60 C.