gorillaman

It would be interesting to test using the PSU as your only exhaust. The setup in the video was never going to show a big difference, since both cases already had perfectly good airflow the PSU fan wouldn't make an impact.

I only hope the internet is able to derive $750 worth of entertainment from this tragedy.

My current drives are becoming a tangled hell of symlinks as I keep swapping installs from tiny SSD to somewhat less tiny HDD. Save me Apacer!

"assword" is my go-to insecure password for things I don't care about. I always almost hope someone will guess it and pop up in a private game server or whatever it is I'm doing.

Is there a secret BIOS repository somewhere for motherboards whose manufacturers have abandoned them? I see mentions of much higher version numbers than mine for the same board, but finding a download from HP seems to be impossible.

Yup, I blasted it all off with compressed air. Zero tolerance for bog roll in the CPU socket in this household.

In my amateurish, fumbling way I've been steadily trying to twist a little prebuilt HP slimline into the shape of a passable budget PC. The motherboard, CPU and RAM are about the only original components remaining to it. After swapping the processor for one which is, according to the manufacturer's website, supported by the motherboard: I get fans spinning, no POST, no beeps (though I'm not sure I trust the buzzer, it was beeping randomly for a few months before it shut up; it may be dead), no display (from either the GPU or integrated graphics). There are no bent or missing pins that I can see, though they were a bit linty since the processor arrived from eBay encouragingly wrapped in toilet paper. I looked for a newer BIOS but found nothing. The other components are working. I tried clearing the CMOS to no effect. The old processor still worked as normal when I put it back in, so I've managed to avoid destroying anything in the intallation procedure. So my guess is either the BIOS needs updating (but I can't find one) or the CPU's dead (but I have no way of checking). Are these good guesses? Is there an obvious solution? specs: Pegatron M2N68-LA (Narra 6.01) BIOS v5.04 Athlon II X2 215 / Athlon II X4 640 3GB RAM GTX 550 Ti 120GB SanDisk SSD PLUS 320GB HDD of some kind EVGA 500B PSU (500W) Windows 7 Home Premium http://www.support.hp.com/us-en/product/HP-Pavilion-Slimline-s5000-Desktop-PC-series/3999463/model/4032748/document/c01866567/