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Thank you very much, I was checking the page for my date it was not there, till I saw your post.

THE STORY:
So a buddy if mine brought me a laptop that he had found from cleaning out an abandon house. Laptop was dirty as hell and looks beat up but still turned on. It was a ASUS model X55A (I think). I thought when he said he needed for me to remove the password he meant it had a password to get into windows. Easy enough. But when he brought it over and turned it on, first thing to pop up was grey text box that said ENTER PASSWORD. Damn this thing has a admin bios password. I had fixed a similar asus computer years ago that had a bios password. I just needed to google the list of recovery codes to remove the password. Jumped onto google found the list and damn again! This list only goes until 2012... It's 2017. Started thinking... 3 options... call asus and try to get a recent recovery password (I hate calling tech support when I am the tech support), google a bit deeper to see if someone cracked the algorithm to the recovery codes, or... open up this laptop to remove the CMOS battery to reset the internal clock. So about 20 minutes later and 3 missing screws later I had the laptop taken apart and back together. Turn it on and press alt+r to bring up the recovery password option and now the date is 1/1/2009. Awesome. Consult the list of recovery codes I found online. Type in the code for that date...and boom password removed. 
 
LONG STORY SHORT:
If an ASUS computer has a admin bios password at boot.
1) Open computer and remove the button battery on motherboard to reset clock
2) Check the recovery date by pressing alt+r at the ENTER PASSWORD screen.
3) Consult this list for the recovery password  http://pastebin.com/L3c3rySj
4) Enter recovery password at recovery screen.
5) Eat pizza?
 
This process requires another computer or at least your phone. (I assume you got one because you're reading this)
 
I know this process sounds simple but I saw tons of people talking about this online and there wasn't a simple guide to solve the problem. If this guide helps one person then mission accomplished.

Thanks for the post. I was unable to reset my system date, but I found a workaround and wanted to share for any future viewers. I found that the codes listed in the paste bin above (http://pastebin.com/L3c3rySj) had a pattern. Every month/day combination shares the same last 4 characters. So it's the year that changes the first set of characters, and these characters repeat.
 
For example:
At the password prompt, press alt+r Take note of the date displayed. For me it was 2017-05-11 Use Ctrl+F to search the paste bin for your month and date. I used "-05-11" Use the codes you find until one of them works. Mine was the same code as 2007-05-11 from the paste bin. It looks like the codes might repeat every 10 years. So I would suggest starting with the month and date combination from 10 years prior to whatever date is displayed after you press alt+r.

I agree with Crosseyed Sniper for Image Viewer for viewing the photos and you can try Darktaple (https://www.darktable.org/) for editing, it's free.
 

are the other two fans working fine?
 
i see a third option thats a little unusual but should work, get a kind of adapter funnel 3d printed and put a 120mm fan on the end, zip tie it to the backplate and it should work fine.

well it's that or drilling a hole in the PCB

The Ryzen CPU comes with a good stock cooler compared to Intel. You don't need an aftermarket one put the money towards other stuff.

I'd look into fuji as well as sony, an xt10 or xe2s can probably be bought for close to that amount and the lens system for apsc glass is far superior. In general, if size is a concern, you won't be going for a FF upgrade any time soon, and the fuji system is better than the sony in that regard. They also have lenses that are actually pretty small for what they are. A 27mm f/2.8 for instance is a great way to have a very pocketable camera that performs really well in all regards. Even attahed to an xt2. So I think that would give you more space to grow afterwards if you end up going for a crop sensor system.
 
Sony just doesn't seem so invested in its crop sensor lineup as it should be.
 
A home run would be something like a used xt20 or xe3, probaly with the 15-45mm lens or the 16-50mm, or even an xt100. I think it'd be a much better package. ]
 
I'd also possibly look at the Canon m50, I dont know how availability looks in the used market or if you can possibly get a deal on it with the kit lens, but I think it is a great all rounder.

Probably yes, which tower? It's on the specs.

The radiator size, the radiator thiccness?
The tubing diameter? 
 
The biggest performance difference comes from radiator size (120,140,240,280,360 etc) and on same size radiators the radiator thiccness.

It doesn't sound normal.
can you post a video?
Try to locate the source of it by stopping the fans one by one

Yes, the molex connector has 5v and 12v  - if you connect the 5v and ground wires from the molex connector to the usb  voltage and ground wires, then you have a usb port with power in it.
Your device may charge or not, or may charge at very low rate ... most devices search for some signal on the data wires in the usb port and your data wires would not be connected to anything.
 
The most basic way to indicate this is a charging port would be to connect a simple resistor (less than 200 ohm) between the data pins of the usb port.
 

 
A more complex signaling would be like this :
 

Phones that support QuickCharge and all that often negociate with a chip inside the charger and switch from 5v to using 9v or even 12v in order to transfer more power from the charger to the phone.
The amount of current that goes through the wire is what causes voltage drop on the cable and power losses (and cable heating up) - if you raise the voltage you can lower the current and send the same amount of power with less losses
With just the power from the molex connector, you're limited to at most around 2.5A but you really shouldn't go over around 1.5-2A - it's not the molex connector which is rated for up to around 6A, it's the usb connector which isn't rated for more than around 1.5-2A. 
Wires also affect things but if your cable is short, they don't affect that much.  AWG18 is good for 10A+ , AWG20 is good for 8A+ , AWG24 (the wires inside ethernet cable) are good for around 3-4A

if you are up to try more.
1. Use an Ubuntu live disk and see if it is showing 
 
2. Use a Hiren's BootCD and try a partition manager inside mini Windows XP

As said, it’s fine, but might get annoying having to switch inputs on the display so much. 

All the more reason for me not to use Spotify

I've been seeing a lot of false and speculative posts on here (even from big reviewers) reguarding spectre and meltdown, so I'm doing an FAQ.
If you have any questions, please ask and they will be added to the list. Think of this as a megathread to stop the bombardment of other threads.

What is Meltdown?
Put shortly, Meltdown is a flaw discovered in CPUs that works by abusing pre-fetching to gain access to secured sections of RAM pages, which contain sensetive data like passwords.

What is pre-fetching?
Because CPUs run so much faster than RAM, CPUs used to finish workloads given by RAM far quicker than they could recieve them. This resulted in the CPU doing nothing occasionally, because it would have completed all tasks given to it too quickly. As a result, manufacturers started using "pre-fetching", where the CPU predicts what the next process will be based on previous processes and current processes. This has huge performance gains, because even if the CPU guesses incorrectly, it doesn't matter - it was sitting there doing nothing anyway. This was very noticeable in the sandy-bridge lineup, where intel came out of nowhere to stomp AMD - this is due largely to prefetching.

What is Spectre?
Spectre is a less serious version of Meltdown. Without getting technical, Spectre requires physical acsess to the machine, which Meltdown does not. Spectre is also far harder to implement, whereas Meltdown is quite literally a few lines of assembly code. 
 
What can Meltdown do?
A lot. Having access to secured RAM pages gives you access to pretty much whatever you want within that page of RAM, passwords and pretty much ANY data in that ram page. Stealing passwords with meltdown is like hunting ants with a nuclear bomb. Meltdown can run on cloud, it's even been shown to work through Javascript in Google Chrome.
 
Who is affected?
Spectre affects pretty much EVERY modern CPU, because they all use pre-fetching. Meltdown seems to only affect intel. This is because Intel's prefetching is reckless and random - it jumps from random prefetches to another. While this does make the prefetching faster, it also means the RAM + CPU cannot keepup with sectioning pages, creating the Meltdown bug.
 
How is it solved?
Bandaid fixes like BIOS updates, windows updates and even antivirus updates can stop these bugs being as easy to implement as they are. Realistically? CPU design will need to change, mostly on Intel's part.
 
What will these solutions do?
Software based solutions will likely aim to catch Meltdown before it has a chance to get to the Prefetch stage.
Microcode and Bios updates will add a thin layer of security that will attempt to regulate memory pages properly.
 
Why are intel releasing CPUs before solving this bug?
Designing CPUs is INCREDIBLY complex and takes many, many years to do. Anyone claiming they understand how CPU design works start to finish is lying - not one person on earth understands it. It isn't possible for Intel to redesign their chips to be free of this bug in a year. CPU testing alone takes YEARS on new designs. Intel would have to stop all CPU production for years if they wanted to comply with idiotic requests to stop manufacturing processors until the problem is solved.
 
Will updating my BIOS/Windows slow my PC down?
Yes, but realistlcally, not much. You won't notice much of a performance difference at all. This is mostly because these bios updates don't entirely solve the issue, rather they just loosely address it.
 
Why are datacenters / servers getting rid of Intel CPUs so fast? Is it because of the performance drop from updating?
Actually, not as much as people think.  The performance isn't THAT huge of an amount lower even on datacenters. The problem also lies in that Meltdown can actually transfer between VMs and servers sharing the same box. 
Take for example a company that hosts servers for businsesses, like Amazon. Amazon hosts HUGE amounts of servers. If amazon are breached by the Meltdown bug, EVERY server on VMs or serverboxes with amazon becomes highly susceptible. 
THAT is why datacenters are freaking out. If ONE company is hacked with Meltdown, they all are.

 
 
 
 

pretty sure LTT has done a few videos on setting up VM's in Unraid, start there.

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1. I prefer m.2 to sata, easier installation
3. I agree on that

Get Windows from www.kinguin.net for under $30, Paul from Paul's Hardware suggest.

The whole point of linux is that it's customizable. Go Lubuntu and change the desktop environment if you want. Don't use full Ubuntu on an old machine.

How much is the 4k player? and where to buy?