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Have an old phone that's served me well for many years, and earlier this year 3G got cut for good. What can I sensibly do with this to prevent it from being e-waste? It doesn't use a SIM card since the ID is built in (proprietary device for Sprint CDMA only) and it pre-dates the adoption of WiFi in phones, so the only useful signal it works with is Bluetooth (I'm not even sure which version) Storage space is limited but it does have a MicroSD slot for expansion... and the software is extremely basic, something called "BrewMP" (NO, it's NOT android) I can't even figure out if it has an admin mode to flash custom firmware or not. But DO NOT say things like "use it for the camera" or "voice recorder" or anything to do with the internet. The video quality is horrible, it doesn't have the software to make a decent audio recorder, and the built-in web browser (surprisingly it does have one) won't work with ANY modern websites.

Not sure if this helps, but double check the power connections to the GPU and the motherboard. - And have you tried any other screens, or do you only have the one? - Try switching input modes on the monitor. - If you have different RAM modules, particularly of a lower frequency, try using that instead. (I literally just solved this same problem on a friend's system and it was bad RAM)

Close, but not quite it. After an exhaustive search, it seems you have the size right, but mine is closer to the Philmore-255... not 100% sure, but then I found their 48-420 part, which looks a lot more like my cable. Either way, I think my plug is an EIAJ-04 type. What you found is close, but the barrel length (from the image you attached) looks a little too long to fit in just right.

If the install itself was disrupted, then reinstalling to the nvme is the only real way to go.

The outer, as I stated in my initial post, is 5mm. The inner diameter is about 3mm. That's as accurately as I can measure with nothing but a typical slim ruler. I found something on a foreign website that looks close, but specifies the size is 7.9mm length by 5.5mm OD. It has the center pin, so I'll be looking into that as a possibility.

Oh dude, ConnectX-2 is obsolete. The V3 is already getting old, but V2... That thing has serious issues from the inside out. I've seen and heard errors and complaints on the V2 series for years now. UEFI compatibility with newer boards is questionable at best, and I would be amazed if any OS newer than Win8.1 would even boot much less recognize and use the V2 series. You could try doing a firmware update, but I have no idea if firmware for V2 cards is available anymore...

That doesn't help at all. I tried looking for plugs in both known sizes and what I measured, and all I ever find is generic junk! This sort of thing happens so often, it's like the entire world is completely pathologically backwards and everyone only ever has the exact opposite of what I need!

I'm doing a minor upgrade to integrate 12v power to my desk in a semi-industrial way, and with a new power brick comes the need for connections-- but I can't power my speakers due to the odd style of plug it takes... I have a very old pair of Yamaha speakers, and this just happens to be the one thing that uses a reverse DC barrel plug, and I can't find it anywhere! I have the original power adapter, a PA-M7, but I don't want to cut the cord off and lose the ability to use it again. The plug measures at 5mm outer diameter and 8mm length (at least that's as accurately as I can measure) and I need an open-ended cable with this exact plug. The problem is that I can't find this style of DC barrel plug anywhere no matter hard hard I look or what I search for. Can anyone find this?

I guess that makes sense, especially knowing Lenovo. Anyhow I found a partial solution; the CRA4448 from Gigabyte has an identical board design and all the standard features-- except it's not a common part and is twice the overall cost of the M5210 including the CV addon.

That's exactly what I'm starting to think. Lenovo mentions that you can add adapters later and they will be given the new feature even after it's been added to the IMM, but the feature will not exist on the adapter if it's moved to another server... So we're basically on the same page in guessing that the mainboard acts as a hardware feature key of it's own to the adapter... I just haven't seen anything like this before. What really gets me is why this would work if RAID-6 is supposed to be hardware default in SAS3108 chips. Maybe it has something to do with the firmware from IBM/Lenovo being several Meagbytes larger than the one from LSI, and might contain code that makes this "floating default" possible.

I thought of that. And so have dozens of other people. In light of a recent disaster (which I recovered from surprisingly easily), I now know of many ways to flash firmware, so that's not a problem. What becomes a problem, however, is the data in NVRAM, which can't be touched. As evidence (and experience) suggests, hardware feature keys are like separate NVRAM augmentations that can be used to add (or transfer) feature options, whereas features stored in NVRAM are permanent and can't be removed or changed no matter what firmware is flashed. In fact, I accidentally used their firmware to update my own proprietary SAS3108 adapter from a different OEM, and it works just fine without affecting the available features. What I don't understand is the structure of Lenovo's FoD, which is what a user in the forum I referenced was grappling with, to determine whether or not there is an underlying code (or variation) of the activation key that would result from the authorization code Lenovo asks for to generate such a key that could possibly be used in LSI's MSM interface. I can believe that hardware activation keys enable more than one feature, as the one in the eBay link suggests, but where is the PROOF? I need someone who owns such a key to explain if this is a thing or not-- but that's gonna be even harder seeing as RAID-6 is standard on most LSI 9361-8i variants and few people have this issue... I find it interesting that, in some cases, adding a CacheVault module may enable the MegaRaid SafeStore option (which is surprising as there is a hardware key for that feature as well).

Okay, I have a kind of loaded question about the M5210 SAS card, which is the IBM/Lenovo equivalent of the LSI 9361-8i... *but first, a little explanation; I'm researching this model both for technical reasons and because I need something modern and extremely compact that can do RAID-6 and has vertical ports like this one does.* My question is; regarding RAID-6, I see it has to be activated as a separate feature, and while the software activation code is available, if I can't use it in the LSI MSM interface, then is it true what so many people are suggesting-- that the hardware CacheCade 2.0 key (found here: https://www.ebay.com/itm/132592996052 ) can actually activate RAID-6 functionality? Does anyone else know about this? I know it's been an issue before but very little detail was given. I last saw a reference at servethehome: https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/lsi-9361-8i-no-raid-5-6-licence-where-to-get-lsi-advanced-software-option.17548/ And to answer to the readers of this post who are wondering, I intend to use the M5210 with a CacheVault module in my Tyan GN70 server due to the mechanical layout. ---------- Additional details: RAID-6 for the M5210 is referred to by Lenovo as a "Feature on Demand" (FoD) that must be entered in the Integrated Management Module which ONLY exists in Lenovo servers! Controller Datasheet: https://lenovopress.com/tips1069.pdf (See page 2) FoD Documentation: https://lenovopress.com/redp4895.pdf (Look at pages 38-41 and 163-165 for a quick read) Activation website: https://fod2.lenovo.com/lkms/angular/app/pages/index.htm#/welcome

I get what you meant, but tolerances are already maxed out by my calculations, and I'm kinda OCD about mechanical uniformity. Big CFM may sound good, but 40-100CFM from the average fan means nothing without pressure. The San Ace fan I'm looking into combines airflow, pressure, and a far more predictable flow pattern in a dense area where the high air volume must be focused. In other words, it's not what I had planned, but San Ace's C133 series shows a great deal of respect for common 2U equipment layouts (by a great deal of coincidence in it's design) although requiring a 3U enclosure. Funny how the fan itself looks like it was intended to be mounted in a position slightly above the surface of a motherboard, and hang just under a chassis roof so as to fully cover multiple 2U CPU heatsinks with the most effective use of space! Finding a screen model with a decent image quality and reasonable pixel size that would actually fit onto the front of a 3U chassis was a nightmare! The only good Full-HD model known to be available requires a proprietary adapter to use the full display area, and most other models are too basic.

First of all, YUCK. Second, the last thing I need is bezel-shock in which an extra part needlessly extends the front of the chassis beyond the uniform borders of what is currently present and intended to be installed. And third... well... after a cascade of conflicting ideas on how to use the top 3U of space efficiently, (the only space to be fully available in the end) I decided to try putting them all together and see what happened. At first it wasn't going to work because of mechanical conflicts between available hardware, but then I found a few things that happened to fall in line with most of my ideas extremely narrowly and pushing the boundaries of what can be assembled without a major issue. And you won't believe the motherboard I chose to use in the event I'm able to design a full chassis and have it manufactured. One other thing-- the fans I found are surprisingly efficient, and I'm interested to see what kind of cooling capacity they have to offer on a tremendously powerful system (or maybe I'll be lazy in testing and do something with watercooling stuff... meh.)