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    Question PC suddenly won't boot, solid white CPU light. Urgently need help

    i was going to say that as well. I/O shields normally have little fingers the press against the outside metal case of the ports, make sure none of them have ended up inside the ports and shorting something out. My next thought would be to pull the motherboard out of the case and set it on...
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    Question Will An AMD Ryzen 3 CPU Need A GPU For Older Games?

    For what you would spend on a GPU you can get both games on steam Jade Empire $15 Star Wars KOTOR $10 and play them on a current computer.
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    Question Ongoing System Instability – Z890 GODLIKE + Ultra 9 285K | Seeking Insight or Similar Cases

    So fresh windows install, and the only thing i see you installed was the lan drivers. Do not rely on windows updates to install drivers, most of the time its a windows generic driver or the wrong one. Go to your motherboards webpage and download all the drivers needed for your system, also go...
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    Question most probable culprit preventing cpu from posting

    What PSU do you have, make and model, are you using a 8 pin for the CPU or only a 4 pin? If the PSU is as old as the motherboard i would say replace it.... they dont last for ever.
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    Question Is there a Market for old Motherboards?

    Talk to your local school and see if there is a in need family that could use a computer, being able to do searches for projects\papers and having google docs or open office helps out a lot.
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    Build Advice How's my proposed server build - - I'm stuck on picking a chassis ?

    Yes its nice to have 10GB at home, or a local environment that you control. But he's placing the server into a paid colocation where hes paying for rack space, network, and internet. Maybe the colocation only has 1Gb network or you can pay extra for 10GB network, the same for internet. What...
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    Question Torn Between ThinkPads and Maybe a MacBook Pro

    Would this be another option for you? HP G10 Business laptop $500 AMD Ryzen5 7530U 32GB DDR 4 Integrated AMD Graphics 1TB NVMe M.2 SSD 15.6" Display Windows 11 Pro For what she's doing the Nvidia RTX cards are overkill. I dont fly internationally but i do fly around the states at...
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    Question Sometimes my pc just doesn't boot up windows, and I think its the ram

    Is your BIOS fully up to date? If not i would start there first. You could also try moving your M.2 drive to a different slot. But here was a quick google search for the d4 error On a Gigabyte X870E Aorus Elite motherboard, error code D4 typically indicates a PCI resource allocation error...
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    Question Installing a Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS on a Modern PC – Need Advice

    Is there a reason for the card? Being that it was released in 2003 and is 22 years old, i would say the onboard audio would be better. For what your going to pay for an adapter card you could pick up a Asus Xonar SE sound card and not have to go though all the hassle of getting an old card...
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    Question Is there a way to permanently set an IP address to an USB ethernet adapter?

    Download Simply IP Config https://sourceforge.net/projects/simpleipconfig/ On the left side of the program you can label each machine and setup the IP address to access them. All your tech would have to do is open the program, match the machine he's working on with the one on the list...
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    Build Advice How's my proposed server build - - I'm stuck on picking a chassis ?

    #1 that CPU will not fit that board. the board is socket 1151 and the CPU is socket 1200 #2 the seagate drives will not saturate a 1GB nic, so adding a 10GB nic is kinda pointless To save you a ton of money i would just pick this up, HP DL380 G9 server, i have bought 3 HP servers from them...
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    Question Expanding SATA Ports on Asus Prime B660M-A WiFi D4 for a Mini NAS Build

    Look on Ebay for a LSI 9207-8i they run around $25-40 for IT mode cards. you can then pick up cables cheap off amazon SFF-8087 to sata Other then my lsi megaraid 16i card, ive been able to pick up an LSI- 8i card and cables for under $100
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    could the lithium batteries used in EVs be used in place of lead/acid batteries in regular cars?

    If you have more money then you know what to do with, you could get an Antigracity Battery. From their FAQ's "Our lithium batteries will operate perfectly fine with the stock charging system in most motorcycles, powersports vehicles and automobiles." Battery for my Jeep is $720-$1050 Battery...
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    Question Heatsink cooler for a Core Ultra 9 ?

    If your case has room Thermalright Perrless Assassin
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    Question the problem with 1080 ti fans

    many GTX 1080 Ti models, especially those with "fan stop" or "zero RPM" features, can stop the fans when the GPU is cool enough, typically below a certain temperature threshold