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I got an old HP office PC and I’ve been trying to configure it into an emulator box with Batocera.Linux. The machine posts and I was able to access the BIOS and boot menu just fine. When I select to boot from USB, it takes me to the Batocera.Linux splash screen and I’ve been sitting here for about 20 minutes without any visible progress. Should I keep waiting or am I doing something wrong System Specs: CPU: Core 2 Duo e8400 RAM: 4GB DDR2 Storage: 32GB USB drive (3.0 drive to 2.0 port) GPU: Pending GT 730 Mobo: mATX Intel DQ45CB

So I have dual GPU system, a 2070 super and GTX 980. My intentions were to use the 2070 super for modern gaming, then the 980, as a capable card for rendering and outputting analogue video for retro-gaming through Batocera But, batocera cannot work with a dual Nvidia GPU setup. Unfortunately, the typical ways of disabling a GPU on linux are not available on Batocera because of how it's distro is setup. I cannot use windows, firstly because Nvidia drivers are bugged and causes a crash when setting super resolutions (needed on windows for GTX 980 video output to CRT) and Retroarch CRTswitchres, which is needed for convenient CRT video display, practically doesn't work on windows. On a previous topic I made, I was recommend virtualization and to only passthrough the 980; which I made decent progress on using virt-manager to successfully run batocera in VM; but my current barrier is GPU pass-through. I'm frankly not sure how to do it. Last time I tried, I think I accidentally bound the SSD with my linux install to the passthrough driver because they were in the same IOMMU group as the 980, breaking my install (Pop-os) Woops. Now I'm unsure what to do before going back at it. I could continue to struggle with linux and virtualization, but it's wearing on me. I think I should get the 980 in a IOMMU group that won't break linux if I have to bind everything in it to the pass through driver; and maybe there's a magic linux command that can help or I could install pop-os or a different distro to another drive and see if that helps me get the group bound so I can access the 980 with virt manager, or I could swap what slots the GPUs are in, or some combination of the above... I'm just hoping to get some more direction and help, or sane alternatives to anything I'm trying. I was also recommended to build another PC (Price concerns, a shell of a pc to put the 980 in at $75 is all I would really be able to afford, and I lose the compute of my 5600x for emulation) or sell either card and pick an AMD alternative (Selling stuff is annoying and I don't want to move to a mixed vendor setup or full AMD, and the 980 is already optimal, I can go on) Which is why I feel like I'm running out of solutions. If virtualization is a flop, for performance reasons or just a plain lack of working, I'm not sure what else to do that doesn't involve spending a bunch of money. My dream product rn would be like a PCIE to PCIE adapter that has an off switch so I could disconnect the 2070 super from the system without wearing out the connectors, so I could just use normal Batocera.

I recently got a very old PC off ebay for 20 bucks. Previous owner says the last time he used it everything worked (that was one year ago). My problem is: The PC turns on, one short beep and then nothing; no graphics output. Here is the Hardware list: Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-K8NS (rev. 2.0), specs here CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3000+ RAM: 2 Sticks Infineon 512MB PC400 GPU: GeForce FX5200 128 M Storage: Maxtor Diamond Max Plu 9 200GB SATA HDD (Probably Windows 7 but not sure) Here is a list of what I tried: tried various VGA/DVI cables but no success. Monitor works with HDMI, so I don't think that the monitor is the problem here. I have no other VGA source to test it with. cleared CMOS removed Disk Drive and Floppy Drive reseated GPU, RAM, CPU, Storage disconnected storage tried to boot from usb stick got another GPU (ATI Radeon 9200SE 128M) tried CTL+F1 to get into BIOS but no luck PLEASE HELP! I am out of ideas at this point. My original plan with this system was to put batocera on it (admit, because of the video) but it turned to troubleshooting maze instead.

Hi everyone, Recently I received an old HP Prodesk 400 G2 barebones; it has no CPU, PSU or RAM. This isn't my main daily driver and just want to transform this into an emulator using Batocera with parts I already have or can find cheap. Purchased an i3-4160 and have 2gb RAM with an old HD Radeon 5450 already on hand. The PSU is the only thing missing and there are two variants, a 200w or 240w PSU since these are OEMs. At the moment, I'm unsure which to purchase as I want to have flexibility if I ever wanted to upgrade the GPU. If I wanted to upgrade to say a GTX 1650 low profile, will the extra 40w make any difference?

Hello, I'm interested in an HTPC solution. Here is the situation: 1080p TV, planning on 4K upgrade within the year I have a media streaming server running Plex Here are the requirements for this HTPC: Video Playback -including 4K ( I do not want to build another one in a year) In-House Streaming (there will be a utp cable there) with Moonlight Retro Emulation (Snes/Mame... etc) I looked into it and if i give up 4K playback support the Raspberry PI 3 with RetroPie&Moonlight&Kodi is great. Diving a bit deeper i found the ODROID-C2. It claims to support up to 4K 60fps and combining it with Batocera Linux & Kodi it should work great. However, looking at Batocera Linux website it is unknown if Moonlight is supported. Has anyone tried the ODROID-C2? Do you guys have any other suggestions on what i should buy,linux distros, or how i could approach this?