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So I'm trying to find a case that will fit a Supermicro SSI-EEB motherboard (X9DR3-LN4F) but not many cases seem to be able to fit it. It's the same as a normal E-ATX except it's 1.5 inches taller. Now I know that the Supermicro CSE-745 would fit and it would be perfect, but they go for crazy...

Tried installing chipset drivers again, did not work. I made sure to install everything as administrator because it was refusing to install without.

So I ended up reinstalling Windows on my laptop (Server 2019) and I can't find two drivers anywhere, one being the trackpad driver and the other one I do not know. Does anyone know what driver might work for the trackpad? I can't seem to find it on the website at all. Everything works on it...

The issue is that I have no clue where to get this "vega" software and I have no clue what the ip is of the switch. Also, the W model of the switch is different from mine. Just tried running tracert to my router, and a couple times it is able to find a route to it, but most of the time it just...

Hello everyone, I have this old switch that I would like to use on my network for older systems that only need 10/100 running to them. However, when I use this switch I get no internet connection. I have it plugged into a router, and from that router I do get internet connection, however when I...

You would probably be fine with the Core 2 Duo, but if you can go for the Core 2 Quad. The extra cores will definitely help. Both are 45nm and the Core 2 Quad is basically 2 Core 2 Duos on a chip. The clock frequency difference will not make that much of a difference in performance. As for the...

What type of laptop is this? On a Toshiba Satellite L775 with a Pentium similar to that one I upgraded it to an i5-2410m and it worked fine.

At this point, I upgraded a generation to a dual E5 Lenovo machine, leaving me with a spare Z600 to use for stuff. I'm planning on using my spare motherboard for it as a file server (I have the revision 1 board I replaced with the revision 3 one). However, has anyone tried the z420/220 adapters...

I was looking at the xw9400... Can it use DDR2 FBDIMM RAM? I was looking at one of those motherboards possibly for a file server or a second system, and right now I have 4gb of FBDIMMs lying around (2x2gb). And, how do the Opterons stand up against the Xeons? Right now I have two x5650s...

I'm pretty sure for the actual front panel connector that you can find the pinout somewhere, such as this thread. Here: https://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Desktops-Archive-Read-Only/Z800-Mystery-PC-Speaker-Connector/m-p/5043692 You don't really need the official HP front panel power button, as a...

No, not yet. The main power connector is still an issue... I'm not sure how to actually find the pinout.

All I can find for those is replacement parts. Thank you for the recommendation though.

Hello everyone, Basically I am looking for a used 2nd/3rd gen workstation laptop that has a MXM slot that has/ can support a quad core. So far I have looked on Amazon, and the only real brands that make them are Dell and HP, but even then these tend to be out of my pricerange. I really only have...

AFAIK they use the same cooler for the quad/dual models. This laptop shipped with 2nd gen i7 Quad cores as well as dual core i5s (Depending on how the person/company ordered it) but I am looking at a i5 model because the i7 models are about $80-$100 more expensive. As for it being soldered to...

Hello Everyone, I am looking at getting a Elitebook 8560w as my main laptop. The one I am currently looking at has an i5-2540m. I was wondering if it was possible to go to a 2nd/3rd gen quad core i7. As for generations, since 2nd and 3rd aren't much difference, and I will be mainly using a...