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Bishop Crane

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  1. If you're genuinely interested in how it actually works there are loads of articles on it that can explain better than my short forum post but here goes anyway! Your CPU has 20 PCIe lanes which need to be divided up between resources that are directly attached to the PCIe bus So in your case you have two PCIe x16 slots each of which wants 16 lanes. That obviously isn't going to work, so they share them evenly between the two, so each gets 8 lanes. The remaining hardware (nvme and x4 slot) has the remaining 4 lanes to share between them. Now each lane has a lot of bandwidth, so in reality running two storage drives is not a problem, with each lane giving nearly 1GB/s for PCIe 3.0 so with x4 you're getting just under 4GB/s which no nvme is going to saturate. So in short don't worry about it, even if you put it in the other x16 slot and reduce them both to x8 the RTX2070 could just about saturate that at a major push.
  2. If they instructed you to take the CPU out for them to look at then in the modern world it really is on them, if you hadn't removed it it wouldn't have caused damage, blah, blah and all that.
  3. That is the motherboard of a TeamPoS 3000 XL Its a checkout/till/PoS machine whatever you want to call it. http://pdfstream.manualsonline.com/3/39ec0ba8-a85a-4a3f-9c27-05ed38015da7.pdf (page 7-6 for a picture of how it looks in the machine) If you can find someone who needs one (unlikely as they're ancient) they might pay for it, but the technology is fairly niche and 13 years old now.
  4. Always go for dual channel it is noticably faster. Your motherboard manual will tell you which slots to put the memory in when you have only 2 of the 4 For upgrading later on, if its exactly the same make and model of memory it will be perfectly fine yes. Its only when you have what appears to be the same, but is slightly different (speed, or CAS) is where its an issue
  5. Yep, that's not a problem, it will likely format as FAT32 but that's normally fine.
  6. The other thing you may need to do is get specific drivers for it, Quadro's are not generic like most graphics cards, so a dell Quadro 2000 can sometimes need Dell drivers.
  7. It can happen if the drier coils (motor or heater) aren't well shielded. Assuming your PC was off at the time it should be fine, as it should have earthed the short. If you're booting OK, it looks like you got away with it. For the future hold the hair dryer a good 4 - 6 inches away from anything to prevent that happening.
  8. Usually FAT, but some more modern motherboards will accept NTFS, if it doesn't say otherwise in the motherboard manual, I would go with FAT to be safe
  9. It should be totally fine. On the most part there isn't anything complicated going on here, its just an extension cable. the quality of the cable would limit your overall maximum distance you can use, but your extra 200mm should be totally fine even if it was half as much.
  10. Good luck finding a motherboard to run it. The highest TDP I know of on the 2011 socket is the 2687W at 160W and most motherboards can't even run that! Beyond that its finding a motherboard that recognises it! My suspicion however is that its a fake heat spreader as it has no FPO on it, go buy one, let us know!
  11. Sad thing is I've seen this and fixed something like this before. If you yank your graphics card out hard enough without opening the retainer catch on the slot, I would say easy done, but only if you're the hulk. There are 3 ways to fix it. 1. Make sure none of the pins are touching. Bend them, cover them individually in tape or something, whatever is easiest for you 2. Cut them off. Just be careful not to damage surrounding components, and make sure that the stumps aren't touching. 3. De-solder them. The hardest and most time consuming, but the best possibly outcome. I went for option 2 because well, its the easiest. Make sure you catch all of the metal offcuts so they don't damage anything. Just pray that shorting the board hasn't damaged anything further.
  12. Fairly certain in the BIOS, under Advanced, I think its onboard devices. There should be the option to set the bandwidth on the PCIe x16_2 slot to x4 mode, this will then disable both the USB3_E65 and the PCIe x1_1 slot
  13. What CPU do you have, and which slots are the devices in? As is changes slightly how things work. The key thing is that the PCIe x16 at the edge of the motherboard only runs at 4x maximum plus it shares bandwidth with the M.2 Also the PCIe x16_2 (the one next to the thunderbolt header) shares bandwidth with with one of the x1 slots as well as the USB3_E65 connector The key thing from the info is that PCIe x16_2 by default runs at x1 for resource optimization Hope that helps!
  14. Basically this. But in more detail, in the server environment you only have a set space to work in (19inches to fit a standard rack) So to fit 8 CPU's on a single motherboard the CPU and RAM are put onto daughter boards, so the "motherboard" just has chipsets and IO, and the CPU's/Memory are run from these expansion boards. If you want a good example to look at the Sun X4600 has some good pictures to see how it all ties together. The one you picked out is a slight deviation from the norm in that it runs the CPU from a PCI slot, I believe that's just for power which limits the maximum size CPU you can use. The real thing to be aware of is that the QPI link (the black block on the back) would have a special slot on the motherboard to connect to. The QPI is how the CPU's intercommunicate, which is why you can't run a CPU from a PCI slot.
  15. Do you have any examples? Basically its a small form factor machine and it has 2 PCIe x16 slots, its very small, one slot is occupied by a 10Gb dual Nic the other has the USB 3 adapter in it. It does have onboard USB 3, but they all share a single controller which gets overwhelmed quickly. The cost of replacing them with something larger to accommodate more cards is a lot, so a few hundred extra $ is worth it in comparison.
  16. Really not sure where this belongs, so sorry if its in the wrong place. I'm looking for a USB 3.0 PCIe card with dedicated bus controllers We have instruments sending a ton of data and cards with a shared Bus controller don't seem to keep up. I've found these https://www.amazon.co.uk/Express-SuperSpeed-Adapter-Dedicated-Channels/dp/B00HJZEA2S Which is a 4 port, Quad Bus adapter, but wondering if anyone knows of one with more ports/bus controllers, ideally a 6 or 8 port? Being clear, a 6 or 8 port with ideally dedicated bus controllers per port. Just trying to shrink the footprint of a system down to a single PCI slot to save space!
  17. Power cord is possible that its expanding in the heat causing a short, but usually this would be a more catastrophic failure as you would be shorting out the main supply, which would hopefully trip your breaker/rcd/whatever. Or its expanding disconnecting it from a terminal. I find it unlikely, as in both cases it wouldn't normally just turn straight back on after. I would more likely say power supply, but if you have already replaced it then it seems unlikely
  18. It depends what paste you use, some are, some aren't. Dirt/dust can be also conductive as dust round the house is mostly human skin and hair which can conduct electricity. If you have dirt down there definitely give it a blast of air. If you have paste down there its more difficult to clean, LGA sockets are a total nightmare to clean without damaging them. Outside of that when it reboots what actually happens, does the PC fully power off/back on? Or does it stay on, but just resets?
  19. So the Green/Yellow LED means it hasn't detected a storage device, or that it has an error. Check the cabling to your SSD to make sure it's working ok.
  20. That's specifically designed for supermicro's own blade system, you cab basically squeeze 2 or 4 servers into the space of a single server. Bad news is that not only will you have difficulty with a case for it, but its a proprietary power connector also.
  21. Both OS's should be totally fine, I would be aware of if there are any caveat's of running newer operating systems as they often change the underlying software slightly. If you're moving from Server 2013 for example up to 16 or 19 then some .net apps will have different requirements. Microsoft apps will be fine (exchange, SQL, etc) but others may need some extra steps. CentOS 6 to 7 is a similar thing, some of the packages will be different versions and such. For VMWare, just install ESXi on the new host, add it to your vSphere cluster. Shut down the server on the old host, move (or if you want to be extra safe, clone) it to the new host and start it. It should start perfectly fine, although it may take some extra time to boot with new hardware.
  22. Any laptop will have heat issues, and if it doesn't its a "desktop replacement" and not really portable. If you're gaming you're generating a lot of heat. Without added cooling from an external laptop cooler or similar it will overheat and throttle the performance. So whichever one you go for, you need to think about additional cooling for it, a decent laptop cooler to aid it and it will be noisy. For the actual choice, I looked at the Blade Stealth myself for a laptop, and actually ended up with a laptop with an MX150 in. Its awful for gaming, it *can* but don't expect it to be amazing. If gaming if your primary concern the Blade 15 is better, if portability then the Blade Stealth
  23. Most ants are actually attracted to electrical equipment. Just find out where they're entering you're house, DIY the hole, evict any stragglers, and job done.
  24. Did you leave your modem or something else plugged in? Or if there was enough dirt inside the case it finally settled and is shorting something. Either way, best way to start is to unplug things til it works. Or just unplug everything, and work your way up, your choice. Get down to the bare essentials, CPU, Motherboard and PSU, and does it power on then
  25. To be certain the CPU is defective and not the socket you can easily swap the CPU's over. It wouldn't be the first motherboard I've seen where a socket has failed. Glad to hear you got it at least partly working though
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