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hi my friends laptop is having an issue where even tho the dedicated rx 460 used to be treated as the default card after a windows update the integrated r7 graphics are the default now and no matter what we do it automatically uses them or forces them back on i dont have his computer with me so i cant send all the specs or anything but i thought maybe i could still get some help

Hi, I was wondering if anyone knows of more recent cases that have built in motherboard hooks. I quite prefer them to the brass screws, unfortunately my only case that has them is too small, proprietary, and the standoffs can't be removed; I can't move them to another case. Any help would be appreciated, thank you.

Tldr; adrenaline drivers and msi afterburner running at the same time makes screen tearing that looks like scan lines, and amd radeon settings app won't show up (had the problem before, tried reinstalling, still have the problem) So I have an r9 280x and I was running it on older drivers until I started having a problem with a game displaying each frame 3 times once normally and once with a red tint and once with a blue tint before moving on to the next frame. Turns out this problem had nothing to do with my drivers but at the time I didn't know that and so someone on the internet suggested updating to newer drivers because it worked for them of course. When I updated to those same drivers my computer would crash 15 seconds after loading windows and so I reverted to the older drivers. I think I hold the world record for fastest driver revert immediately after getting into the windows desktop. Anyways I figure out the problem wasn't driver related and I fix it but I also find out that during reverting to the old drivers I somehow lost my amd radeon settings app. Cut to now. I'm having a problem with a certain game and so I wanted to mess with my amd settings to see if I can find a workaround and lo and behold I forgot that I don't have that app anymore, which honestly hadn't been a problem up until this point. So I try to download the app again but when it installs it automatically installs the newest drivers (see Tldr). So here's where my problem becomes a 3 parter, I can't find the app still for whatever reason even if I revert to older drivers, however the newer drivers aren't crashing this time so I would like to get them working if possible, however at the bare minimum I'd like to have the app working and the older drivers running. The problem with running the newer drivers is that because I have a 280x I have to run msi afterburner so the card doesn't crash, but the drivers only don't have that strange tearing when afterburner isn't running. Also while I'm at it I could've sworn there's a program that Linus mentioned once that automatically finds a stable clock for your card, but for the life of me I can't find the video where he mentions it. If someone could show me how to find that program that would be great. Thank you.

Iirc the drive bays can be used for battery packs Dell made there are also two so potentially raid ssds my personal preference is more battery life especially since I hate using the adapter lol it also has two pc card slots and a pci mini slot I thought of adding a gpu but the best pci mini gpu I found was actually worse than the on board graphics

Yah I was thinking an ide or an adapter to use a sata one although IDK if that would even provide an improvement

Yah I just wanna do it for fun and I found a few workarounds I already had it running emulators and stuff without upgrades the biggest problem is the hdd slowed down so much over the years and the batteries can't really retain a charge

Well at least I wanna put an ssd in it and up the battery life but it has a lot of expansion ports and I know a few ways to push it further the dream is to get the sticking station for it as well but it's like 300 dollars unfortunately

I own a Dell Latitude c610 and I really want to upgrade it I have some ideas already but I wanted a second opinion

Wow okay so it turns out the problem was that the power connector on this case is so old that they wired it in series so the led had to be plugged in for the button to work so the physical way it's plugged in now is literally upside down and backwards and hanging over the edge so it's only on half the pins it had to be done this way bc one side of the plug had three wires and the other had four and I needed the side with 4 bc I needed the led signal and ground as well as power signal and ground so I had to completely reverse the direction the plug was facing I thought I was stupid but actually this problem just had a ridiculous solution lol

Wow that was quick that's exactly what I need thank you so much!

If I knew what each individual pin and wire was for I could just splice the plug from the original case since it was designed for this motherboard and fits perfectly I know it sounds like a bad idea but the current plug has a hole blocked preventing me from trying every possible configuration simply due to placement

I don't have the model number since Intel decided not to label the motherboard for whatever reason lol but I do have this diagram

Thank you the case I'm using right now has standoffs and I've identified which pins on the motherboard are for power it posts when I bridge it manually but when I try plugging in the power button in different configurations the most I get is the standby light coming on however the button won't work still

I feel like ppl aren't understanding so I'll word it differently I'm using a new case the old case is the one I stripped the standoffs from the new one is fine I'm just trying to get the power button to work

I'm using a new case