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Well that’s just not true. He did put out a statement just a few days later That said, fuck the immature community for brigading the guy for doing nothing wrong. Even the comments on the ncix auction initial video were simping for Linus even though in that very video he clearly was fine with giving the button to the guy. In fact, he offered to call off the deal.

Yeah sorry let me be more specific. It's not doing anything at all in the slightest that would indicate it's on, except for turning on the power LEDs, and spinning the fan. No display output, no USB, no beep, no boot screen, nothing.

Nope, Don't have another battery unfortunately but I've tried without the battery entirely to no avail. The board doesn't cut out. It turns on, fans spin, power LED on, but just doesn't POST at all. No beep, display, USB. The HDD activity light does flash every now and then too. Not sure what you mean by discharge capacitors. I left the board unplugged with the CMOS battery out for over an hour and spammed the power button a few times with it out so I'm fairly sure it was discharged. Yeah I tried running it with no USB devices plugged in and tried different ports. No difference there.

Nope I highly doubt that's the reason. I just forgot to set the bootable flag after dd'ing the flash drive with the ISO. That's all there is to that. As for the rest of the PC: I3-4130, 8GB of green PCB transcend RAM, GTX 1050.

No worries

Read the post again my dude. As soon as I changed back to UEFI it was instantly bricked. I can't get into the BIOS or the boot menu at all. It does absolutely nothing now.

Hi all. I'm pretty pissed off and wildly confused at this point. I was in the process of installing linux to my pc(done it many times before, I'm certain I didn't screw up there) and the flash drive wouldn't boot. No problem I thought, I'll just switch to legacy mode and boot from it that way, then switch back to UEFI grub afterwards. Switched to legacy and still nothing so I switched back to UEFI. After switching back, the PC wouldn't boot at all. No display, no POST beep, no USB(My keyboard backlight only comes on when there's actually a logical USB connection. My phone still charges so it's not for lack of USB power). Here's the list of things I've tried: Unplug everything, plug in again and boot Unplug, take out CMOS battery for a few minutes, and boot Reset using BIOS reset header Take out all sticks of ram but one Try a different ram slot for a sanity check Reseat all the sicks of ram Unplug all HDDs Reseat CPU Removing GPU and running on Internal graphics I don't know what else I can possibly try and at this point I'm worried I've legit bricked the mobo just by changing a BIOS setting. Maybe something went awry while it was saving that setting and it somehow flashed itself incorrectly. It's an Acer-branded board made by ECS. Model number B85H3-AM. Proprietary PSU so I can't easily swap motherboard either. Is there anything obvious I've missed and if not, is there any way y'all can think of to reflash it?

I think I'm still within the rules to share these links: http://www.macbreaker.com/2016/03/dual-boot-windows-mac-os-x-hackintosh-clover.html http://www.macbreaker.com/2016/04/dual-boot-windows-os-x-same-hard-disk-clover.html But I can't help you further. GL;HF.

There's a pretty big community around "hackintoshing" but I don' think we are actually allowed to discuss it on this forum(classified as piracy) but I'd recommend you check out some hackintosh forums (tonymacx86, InsanelyMac)

Unplug all unnecessary devices(including hard drives). Start up the system with ONLY the SSD connected and ONLY a keyboard/mouse connected. Do you have the same problems if doing so?

Keep in mind that it's always unlikely you'll be able to get the same battery life in linux as windows under the same sort of workload assuming the windows drivers are all correct. However, with some tweaking you can get pretty damn close to perfect. To be clear, it's not linux's fault. Unix OSes can be extremely efficient(macOS for example) but unfortunately, linux-based operating systems tend to be a bit behind in terms of drivers support etc. Additionally, for some inexplicable reason, distro devs seem to be terrible at decision making when it comes to default settings/tuning for the more technical side of things(ubuntu's default swappiness for example). TLP/PowerTOP/Preload should come installed and tweaked by default IMO but most distros don't bother.

Damn not a single legit answer here guys? All just speculation? C'mon... Install tlp: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:linrunner/tlp sudo apt update sudo apt install tlp -y sudo tlp start This by default comes with a lot of optimisations, although there is room for improvement with settings tweaking. Next: Install preload: sudo apt install preload -y This caches commonly used programs/files into free memory reducing HDD access(performance and battery life improvement.) Finally install powertop. sudo apt install powertop -y This program allows you to see which programs are using the most power and causing the cpu to wake most often etc... It also allows you to tune a few things that can help a lot with power usage. You can run it like so: sudo powertop Then just hit tab until you are on the "tunables" section. These are all the little settings/flags that can be changed to help with power draw. If it says "BAD" then it means the optimisation isn't applied. In general it's good to go through them one by one and figure out what they do but I'm a pretty lazy guy so I usually just enable everything.(space bar to toggle optimisation on/off.)

The standard way to do this in the software industry is to use the ethernet and/or wifi MAC address. They are theoretically completely unique. One per NIC. Some manufacturers have been known to be lazy and reuse MAC addresses but in general they are unique. You could use a combination of MAC address and processor ID/motherboard ID. The chance of there being two conflicts is ridiculously low.

Well the point has always been to get the absolute best bang for buck possible. So if part-for-part assembly is the best way, then they should do it that way. Obviously it wouldn't be a long 3-part episode. If the budget was high enough, they could incorporate a thrown-together external GPU setup.

Hey guys so I posted this to the suggestions thread but I figured I should post it somewhere more public so y'all can give opinions. LTT should do a scrapyard wars laptop edition. I don't mean gaming performance. But I mean a very limited budget($300-$400), and the goal is to get the best laptop a laptop can be. The systems can be graded on: Battery Life. CPU performance. GPU performance. Features. Screen quality. Weight/portability. Connectivity Durability Styling(some room for customization here) Accessories maybe?(if you can get a good laptop bag, mouse etc in the same budget) Upgradeability/fixability/longevity As I understand, the original point of scrapyard wars is to allow people to see that they can actually throw together a good system on a budget and to debunk the "it's too expensive" excuse. I think a laptop is a prime example of this. A lot of students need laptops for their work and instead of spending $400 on a cheap dell or a chromebook, they could get a refurbished laptop from amazon, or a second hand laptop from an owner, with very good specs (haswell i5, 8gb ram etc...) and go through a few mods to improve it. Throw in an SSD, buy an extended battery, put some nice vinyl stickers on it, upgrade the RAM etc... It would be a great way to inform people of the viability of a used/refub laptop as a daily driver. You can actually get a ton of performance(even some with dedicated gpu) from a really cheap($250 ish) laptop. Hell, you can even get a surface pro 2 or 3 within $350-400 on ebay/craigslist. I guess you could call it the "Student edition" of scrapyard wars.