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I was working on replacing the loud and old fan on my iMac G4. I cut off the connector of the old fan, and determined the polarity as follows: (Cable color on iMac → corresponding cable on replacement fan (Arctic F9): Black → striped black cable Red → middle cable Yellow → outer black cable (not striped) When connecting the old fan like this to a USB adapter, it spins up. After Installing the new fan in the iMac, the fan doesn‘t spin up and isn‘t „detected“ by the OS (10.4.11). How can i go about testing if the polarity of my cables is correct? I do have a multimeter available, i just don‘t know what to measure. Or maybe someone here knows the correct layout of the cables?

It's a great idea to a) make more inclusive sizes and b) test with as many people as possible, especially when looking at things like shirts and hoodies. I've got everything from XL-4XL in my closet, as some brands seem to have decided to simply "scale up" their patterns when going for bigger sizes and others abandon their usual proportions entirely. Every time I try and diversify my clothing selection, I'm left disappointed and going back to my usuals. Something to consider in addition to the tummy showing when lifting my arms, nailing the shoulders seems to be the most difficult part for me. I suppose it's because the manufacturerer can't decide if they want a buff dude trying to fit his massive bicep or a large dude trying to fit his belly into a piece of clothing. In addition to that, I personally would wish for a longer torso, as a bigger belly "eats away" some of the length in addition to having a slightly longer torso than the average man.

I had 3-4 docker containers running, the main load being homebridge and a wordpress install (which wasn't deployed yet). A new SD card did fix the problem for me. I wouldn't suspect the load to be an issue, but rather heat development or the power supply of the Pi itself - What PSU are you using? If you boot up with a monitor attached, there should be a flashing yellow exclamation mark on the top left corner of the screen. And is your Pi cooled in any way?

I agree that both outlets should work fine, but do you need a Wi-Fi extender 20 feet from your router? If there's poor reception at your PS5, you might want to check for interference in your apartment. We had an old microwave interfering with the Wi-Fi signal, and a repeater didn't help us

Currently, i'm running Windows 11 on my home server (Fractal Node 804 holding a B460-M Pro motherboard with an i3-10100 and some generic 1x16GB DDR4 RAM), which is running Plex and acting as NAS in my home network. I'm also running a Raspberry Pi 3 B+ for Homebridge, Pi-Hole, and some other services that didn't want to work with Windows (mainly deConz). And while the Pi still manages to run all those services, it's starting to become a bit overwhelmed by the demands of all the docker containers that I'm throwing at it. So I want to move all services to my home server and retire the raspi, and switch the whole system over to Linux while i'm at it. I'm comfortable with Ubuntu, so I would like to use it as OS to run Docker in. Mainly, I'm now wondering what file format would be best for my hard drives. Currently, I've got a 8tb drive formatted to NTFS, a 4tb + a 3tb formatted to exFAT and some 1tb drives that are one or the other. They only hold movies and shows for Plex, so i don't really want to create some sort of array with them, but I'm planning on replacing the smaller drives with another 8tb HDD in the future. Could i make them work in Ubuntu without reformatting, at least until i get the second 8tb drive? My main computer is an iMac running macOS, and i'm accessing the NAS via SMB at the moment (this might not be the best way, but it works alright).

What SD card are you using? I was experiencing a somewhat similar behaviour, my Pi would become unresponsive while in use. Backup and Restore solved this as well, for a short time. Turns out my sd card was on it's way out, and slowing down to the point of the pi not even booting up properly. Didn't have a problem since swapping it out.

Feel free to move this to the appropriate subforum if this isn't the place for it My Cinema HD Display, which i bought a few years ago and power with a LED PSU since then, wouldn't turn on when I came home to my family for easter. I've ensured that it wasn't an adapter-side problem or my device that refuses to connect, so i've started disassembling it. Upon seeing the mainboard, i think i've found the culprit: Two components on the board seem to have failed (see attached pictures). Unfortunately, i don't know what these components do, so i can't say that this is indicative of a larger hardware failure or just a component failing because of its age. There are some other parts that appear to have been repaired some time ago, before i bought this monitor. Does anyone here know what these components do? My solder skills aren't that good, so a diy repair isn't an option for me. Or maybe there is someone here that can repair these components, or knows where i could get this fixed? I'm based in Germany, but i don't mind international shipping if that's what it takes to bring my display back to live

Is your phone connected to anything via USB while you try to open Android Auto?

Worst buy: BitFenix Prodigy M mATX case: by far the worst experience in terms of usage. It's wobbly feet drove me crazy, so i took them off. Worst mistake: Plugged a floppy power connector into a fan header on the mobo. It fried instantly upon boot, i've since then learned my lesson and double-check every cable before the first boot.

Currently, im stashing these consoles in my apartment: SNES Nintendo 64 Gamecube Wii Wii U Nintendo Switch Xbox 360 Xbox One S Xbox One X Playstation 1 Handheld: Gameboy Classic Gameboy Color Nintendo DS Nintendo DS Lite Nintendo 3ds New Nintendo 3ds I did have a NES and a few other handhelds that have either have been thrown away (before i learned to repair things) or simply stolen. I also didn't buy most of these consoles new, but got them for cheap when a new generation got announced and my peers sold their old consoles or gave them to me for free. Learning to fix things also helped accumulating all of these devices, as you can fix common mistakes that make non-tech-savvy people throw out their consoles fairly easy and cheaply.

I didn't read the whole thread, so forgive me if this has already been said: I'm glad to see LMG start to branch out in every direction, and starting a Lab seems like the right decision to me. You could have guessed from Linus' comments on the WAN show that he has been thinking about this for quite some time, and I really like that they decided to go through with it. I also like that they're thinking about publishing more written material, albeit test results only for now. But if this written outlet were to evolve into some kind of "hub" for all things tech - hardware, software, smart home gadgets, etc... - without a bunch of ads that make the whole site unusable, that would certainly be my start page on every device. You could even add always up-to-date PC build recommendations for every budget, buyer's guides that compare newly released tech to its competitors, or give smaller updates to older videos that are not big enough to warrant production of a part II. Maybe even have a small segment for the MAC Adress team to put up a few articles on their own, or let the writers put out opinion pieces and ongoing "blogs" in which they can dive deeper into specific topics. The possibilities, if done right, are endless. There's just no one that has managed to do both - a good written outlet and a popular Youtube Channel (although the MacRumors channel has recently been delivering better and better quality content). I think that there is a huge audience to be reached that would rather like to read about certain products than watching a video on it (which might even be a few years old at some point). I don't even think that publishing written articles would cannibalize video performance - it might even drive readers into viewing a video that has been embedded at the end of an article. And viewers might be intrigued to, for example, check out a build recommendation that has been shown in the yearly christmas build guide video.

It's okay, if anything like that happened to anyone else I'd probably laugh as well. Thanks for the schematic! A friend of mine offered to check the components you've marked, maybe he can isolate a defective part and I can search for someone to exchange it for me Oh, nice to hear from a fellow German, frohes Neues! und happy lockdown I'll continue searching for anyone with the micro soldering skills to try and fix this, I'm open for any suggestions! If I can't manage to find someone, or if the board is not fixable, maybe someone here wants to have it?

So, recently, I fried a mainboard. It's a nice MSI Z270 Gaming Pro Carbon, and I took its life by delivering some wattage into a fan header by plugging a floppy power connector into it (I know, I know, but... why the devil would they still put floppy power cables on a semi-modular PSU?) After replacing it out of my own pocket (The PC belongs to a friend of mine), I just left the defective board in its packaging and eventually forgot about it. While doing some light quarantine cleanup, I eventually stumbled upon the package containing the board, and thought to myself that before throwing it in the bin, I might find a way to get it repaired, despite the unpromising end of my last post. So I started googling around, and... found exactly no one that would repair mainboard (that are not from a laptop), neither in my local area, nor in my country (Germany). Contacting MSI turned out to be nothing but wasted time, as they would not replace or repair my board (as it is now too old, I suppose). My last attempt before giving up entirely would be to ask here if any of you guys know might know someone, a person or a shop, who would be willing to look at the board and tell whether or not it is fixable. Or maybe someone here has all the necessary tools and would be willing to take a look at it. I really don't want to throw out a board that might just have a defective capacitor or whatnot hindering it from booting. I'm located in the northern part of Baden-Württemberg (right between Frankfurt and Heidelberg), but with the current pandemic situation I suppose mailing it out would mean I can send it anywhere in Germany. Any tips?

Thanks @justpoet and @Gorgon for the Input! I do have to add that i'm folding on Windows - it's installed via bootcamp. I did fold on macOS first, but as you said, GPU folding is not supported. If i just fold on my GPU, the fans are undetectably quiet. So if i'm at home, i'll solely fold on the GPU for the sake of quietness.

In Terms of new products, i guess the Apple Watch, Airpods, AirPower (could not not mention), and in Terms of redesigns everything above the iPhone 5, the thin iMacs, and that awful Mac Pros (trash can and cheesegrater 2).