angrypig7

I got into BIOS, disabled internal battery temporarily, pressed power button a few times, connected AC power and booted and my CPU just came back normal. I have absolutely no clue what caused this problem unfortunately.

The temps are nothing to worry about. Idle temps lower than 40C, and when under 100% load, it stays around 70~80C and at 84% load, it hovers around 60C.

I have my thinkpad E560p which has an I7-6700HQ. I tried to get better thermals and more battery life by undervolting via throttlestop, but undervolting did not work under load so, I just set it back to default, turned it off. But after that, CPU got limited to 84% at 2.16~2.18Ghz all the time. Rebooting does not help, closing/removing throttlestop does not help either. A temporary fix is available in two ways : 1. Run throttlestop and set multiplier to max. If I close the program it will throttle back down again. 2. Take the charger cable off and plug it on again. I set CPU usage to 80% max on battery, and 100% on AC charger and I think this action resets the max CPU usage of 84%. Any kind of help would really be appreciated...

I may need to swap computer ssd/hdd between computers, but I heard that A full format is required when chipset or CPUs change. Is that so? And is format required when swapping intel/amd CPUs?

I've just been browsing through the AMD catalyst folder, and I came across with this weird butterfly image. Inside this folder(C:\Program Files (x86)\AMD\ATI.ACE\Core-Static) you can get a nice picture of a butterfly. Seriously, what was AMD thinking??

Then, they might charge you for extra money, but they will RMA your card. If you're trying to connect the headers yourself and messed it up, you can send it back for RMA or just buy a new cooler as a last resort.

I would just suggest sending the card back for RMA. Trying to solve these kind of problems the "manly way" may get you into more problems and from my own experiences of replacing headers with that short cables are pretty damn hard. But

Uhhhh, I don't get what you're saying. He said he wants to use his integrated GPU, and disable the discrete graphics card in his bios. I said he can disable it within the bios, and you told him to plug the monitor right into the mainboard. And as you probably know, when you have a graphics card selected as primary, the integrated GPU won't work and you won't get any signals from the mainboard. Am I missing anything??

Well, yeah if you're running integrated GPUs, but he said disabling graphics card not taking signals from integrated.

Yes, you can. You should be able to find the GPU menu in bios.

Not really. You won't get any signals that way

Thanks for the reply. This is the kind of answer I've been waiting for

This post is a bit old and it looks like the motherboard is okay and the capacitor is okay too. Those capacitors, even if they did go bad, they shouldn't give you bad results the moment you start torturing them. As Lotus said, that dent might have changed the capacitance slightly. I'm not sure what that capacitor is used for, but probably for voltage stabilization. If so, even if the capacitance changed, they won't be much of a problem and you won't notice a thing. I just googled your motherboard and it looks like that capacitor is a solid capacitor, not an electrolytic capacitor. If you've dented an electrolytic capacitor, that's a bad thing, since they explode and put off fumes or leak and release the electrolytic liquid inside them when they are too old or take in voltages higher than their specs, and denting will decrease its lifespan. But since your capacitor looks okay, nothing to worry about.

Oh, as far as I know, that is not a heatpipe.(I just google it to make sure) And most of the GPU and CPU heatsinks have heatpipes not copper bars.

Oh thanks, that's actually what I expected. I don't expect cables to be that different from on another