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I'm looking to upgrade the i3 2330m in my Satellite L755-S5306 to an i7 2960XM. They both have compatible sockets & chip-sets; the only question remaining is whether or not the BIOS will accept the new i7 (refer to the Intel staff answer to this comment). I currently have Insyde H20 3.60 flashed as my BIOS version (downloaded & installed it from the Toshiba support page some time ago). I have not found any articles relating to this topic after a bit of Googling. Any help is greatly appreciated! Thanks, Merrick

I have an old machine that I want to utilize as a retro gaming machine. It currently has windows XP installed but the product key on the side indicates that it originally held windows 2000. I've attempted to download ISO files from torrents and win world but no luck. So how can I put windows 2000 back on this machine?

Haha you're right

I plan on comming clean, thank you!

Lol, well I am pretty chill with my principle and I think the admins consist of memebers of my town's school board so no clue I guess. But was that truly illegal? Are there any laws in place that you know of that would still apply even though I didn't "hack" anything and it was all open to me?

I agree that it was a stupid move not that I look at from a different perspective, but what is your prediction for the level of punishment? I go back to school on Tuesday and Friday is my final day lol so is there a chance it might slide?

Yea, ik, so pretty bad?

My friend and I installed TeamViewer on a school computer during class today so we could access it from home to monitor the progress of the 3D printers in the building so we could stop the printer remotely if we saw something was wrong over a live remote camera feed from inside the printer. After school I logged on and installed Dropbox, Log Me In Hamatchi, and Java JDK to run a bukkit minecraft server off of the computer lol (the bukkit files were running from inside my Dropbox so bukkit was not installed in any sort of fashion). After I got home around 9pm, I started messing around till about 10:30 when I began to see all of my open windows slowly close one by one, so I quickly logged off. The only problem was that I was logged into my personal Dropbox and teamviewer accounts so they most likely have my name. The computers are running DeepFreeze so any changes I made can be easily reverted by just restarting the computer, and you do not need any sort of administrator level access to install or uninstall programs. So I assume it is not illegal since I did not install malicious programs or achieve administrator level access without permission. Right?

I'll check again

It's says "760 ti" on the sticker above the 16x male port

Herm... well when I looked up the pin out of PCIE 6 pin connectors, I found that the Pinout is not always the same. Yes, I believe you're right about the pcb being dead, but I wonder if there is a easy way to at least trick the card into thinking it is powered externally to even see if it displays anything. I'm your case I wonder what the card is actually thinking, since there is no way of telling what the card thinks is wrong; therefore, preventing it from stating up.

Lol that was a good way to put it, and bummer, kinda feared that. Thanks anyway

I recently received a graphics card from a friend who said it was broken. Upon installing it in my system, I first did not attach any of the PCI-6 pin external power connects (2 in this card's case) to see what would happen. I got a message saying "please plug in PCIE cable(s) necessary for this card" (or at least something along those lines). Then I tried only plugging in one 6 pin connector into the card then booting (I tried this for both slots) but the fan would ramp up to 100% and there was no output from the card. My pc would boot off of the mobo vga but the system would not recognize the card. I achieved the same "100% fan speed and no card output but pc still booting" result when both PCIE 6 pinconnectirs were installed. I am using a 300w psi to power my CPU, mobo, and HDD, while the GPU has its own 400w PSU (using the "short green wire to black wire" method to turn on the 400w PSU). The 400w PSU only has one 6 pin connector comming off of it so I am using a SATA to PCIE adapter to fill the GPU's second external power slot. I noticed the adapter only has 2 12v and 3 ground rails, while the connector coming off of the PSU has 3 12v and 3 ground rails. Is this a problem? The picture I provided shows the PSU PCIE connector on the left with all 3 12v (yellow wires) connected, while the adapter on the right is missing the 3rd power rail ( yellow wire in the middle). I guess what I am asking is if this card needs any special PCIE power adaptor configurations. Thanks

Yes, that is the correct model. I would hate to do this (since I do not recommend it either) but only for testing purposes; do you think it would be possible for me to buy two adapters (one molex to 6-pin and the other sata to 6-pin) to run the card off of my 400w psu? The different adapters would keep each 6-pin slot on its own power rail (also i only have one HDD and my cpu is 95W TDP so I think it could barely work).

Lol, you're probably right, my friend can be a bit of an idiot. I will try it out soon. Thanks