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I had (past tense, the mobo got fried somehow) a budget laptop that came with that CPU, which is really an SoC, and the motherboard is extremely compact from the the get, so the only "exploit" here is to add a few peripherals that the SoC does support but aren't supplied by the OEMs due to the...

Addendum: Another oddity is that it takes several minutes for the Mac to accomodate the change in power supply, even after resetting SMC and PRAM; e.g.: If I plug MagSafe in, it takes at least three minutes for the charge indicator in the menu bar to register the change in power supply, and show...

Hi, and thanks for taking the time. The answer to your question is, Yes, it's there, whether the Mac is plugged into the main or running on battery, but as I've just tried to reset SMC and PRAM again, I still can't connect to my modem 50% of the time. If it were a no-go 100% of the time, I'd...

Giving a big up on this thread, in the form of an addendum, because I forgot to mention I have installed ImDisk to create a 1GB RAM disk (FAT32, non-dynamic) on both OSes, and I've noticed one thing: in Process Hacker (run as admin) in Windows 10, the System line shows a few hundred kilobytes of...

Hi everyone, I have this Lenovo laptop (a 2011 Edge 15 with the Pentium P6100 CPU and a brand-new set of 2x4GB of DDR3 running @ 1066MHz) where I installed Windows 10 (2004, fully up-to-date) and Windows Server 2019 in dual-boot a while ago. On both OSes, I run more or less the same...

Hi everyone, I recently exhumed an old MacBook Pro of mine (one of the very first, 2006 models, A1150 with the 1.83GHz CoreDuo CPU) after buying a brand new battery and MagSafe 1, but I'm faced with a strange behavior: my Mac will only connect to my modem WiFi when running on battery; if I plug...

OK, that makes a lot more sense than the other way around, where the guy said that I already had a 1066 MHz RAM stick since it said "533 MHz" on the label, what with DDR and all. Thanks for the heads-up! I just got confirmation from various websites that the chipset (Havendale/Clarkdale Host...

Hi and thanks for taking the time! I'm not sure they've got the right Edge 15, on both websites. There's a more recent version with Core i CPUs that can probably support more than 8 GB of RAM. As for DDR, thanks for the link, but I've already visited the page, and I'm none the wiser for it...

Hi everyone, Posting here (in "CPU") because I think it's a good place to start, but I'll relocate in "Memory" if need be. I have this 2011 Lenovo Edge 15 laptop with a Pentium P6100 whose RAM I'd like to upgrade and which, currently, has 6 GB of RAM under the following form: 1 x 2 GB @ 667...

Hi, I don't know how it happened, just that first reboot after the aborted update went OK, then the second time I was welcomed with a black screen. It's happened before, and I suspect it has to do with poor BIOS integration/protection, but I can't for the life of me know what went on. I...

Quick question for the admins/moderators: Since this question has been viewed almost a hundred times but has received no answer, should I move it to another part of the forum?

Hi everyone, New here, I come in peace, with a question I'm not sure where to post on this forum, so I settled for this part. I have this budget laptop, a Schneider SCL141 CTP, that comes with an Intel Atom X5 z-8350 "Cherry Trail" CPU, 2GB of RAM, a 32GB eMMC storage unit, and an Amercan...