Recent content by Quigly

Bizzare! Do you have to plug in hdmi for the igpu or are you talking about your added graphics card? I'd be cautious here. If that's the case, sounds to me like there's might be some kind problem with this board. Maybe make sure the bios is up to date but i'd be cautious with that board (i've...

I *think* those boards should be able to boot without a graphics card (i've done headless on other asrock boards of older generation) though I can't say with certainty as I don't own that particular board and haven't worked with it. Consier checking the manual for this, but either way worth...

Them there's a lot of threads :) woo woo!

Got a trickle of new tasks on a couple of machines about an hour ago from the looks of it. Hopefully they ramp that up. This is MCM1

I use a Lenovo Ideapad 17" notebook with an 11th gen i3 myself so they were a thing at least until 2021...

I wonder what causes the difference?

Ok - here's something i definitely didn't expect. I have a little old Dell Wyse thin client that has a AMD GX-415GA quad core 1.5ghz cpu. Exotic hardware but fun to tinker with. So this thing took about 8 hours to crunch a task in linux (vanilla install of ubuntu 23) but only takes 7 hours in...

I've not had a new laptop show up with dead pixels in many generations - check into Lenovo's RMA policy on this before you do anything. Either way this is probably a question you should answer for yourself based on your own comfort level. I personally find insurance to be an unnecessary added...

I think it probably more so depends on your preference of the kind of build each company provides given similar specs. In terms of build quality I generally prefer Thinkpads to the kinds of Dell machines that have come through my hands but it's not clear cut and I don't know and haven't used...

If you're looking for 'officially supported' hardware (i.e. no exotic hardware right out of the box) but don't want to pay a premium for something like a System76, you might consider perusing ubuntu's certified laptops page: https://ubuntu.com/certified/laptops /...

Wireless doorbell broke (Speaker lines snapped off when the thing took a tumble and split open.) An old HP PC speaker is now replacement. Suddenly not feeling like such a sucker for keeping that thing for as long as I did after disposing of the remainder of the machine.

I can understand trying to avoid RMA due to the cost, that is hefty. The reason I suggested linux was specifically to try avoid using nvidia drivers to see if generic drivers also reproduce this problem. AFAIK artifacts often mean bad memory, why it would happen on single vs dual head - not...

my recommendation, for what it's worth, would be to get a live / portable usb build of Ubuntu and test it out there to make sure it's not windows. If issue occurs in linux, try putting the GPU in another system. If it occurs under linux and replicates on another system it's likely hardware and I...

Good luck on your first day!

Very infrequently online, for everything non-ssd and non-critical (90% of installs) I'm strictly second hand now. Yup, I said it - second hand. For uses that don't have critical storage, getting 500gb - 1tb drives as data storage on a spare computer or for replacement for other people (again...