@Boris_yo Oh the thin spread method of TIM installation. yes i have used that method before, but not with credit card like item. just any ol' flat piece of plastic. It is indeed preferable to use the line or bead method, where a small line , an X or a drop the size of a BB is put in the center area.
Then squished down on sink install. But that method does not take into account a lot of sloppy movement, and kludgy installing when getting the hardware all assembled for squishing it down.
So the spread method insures distribution in all areas, when its sloppy, and the bead method insures no air gaps during precision installs.
@cc4re I do not know of any magic secrets to there are for dealing with a standard bios other than updating the bios fully properly, instead of slopping a firmware on. For the Firmware side, By defaulting the bios/uefi with cmos clear, then updating it, then defaulting it again, you get a full proper bios update without any registers set, so no registers are or get set wrongly. The usual method can very RAREly have something become incorrect.
@cc4re Then just knowing how to switch all the buttons in the bios to the correct postitions for the hardware, could be concidered a skill :-) Timing memory setting boot items correctly. It does not do a lot of good to have someone do that for you, if everytime you update the bios, or clear the cmos or set to defaults, your right back where you started.
@cc4re Then getting windows booting straight on the OS side, has become a new skillset :-) thanks to secure boot , key stuff, and GUID hard drive recognition methods, there are things that will be correct, or it will not boot into the system. like if the hard drive is changed. Most of that can be "fixed" using windows software methods and a google search.
@cc4re And finnaly Actually "Repairing" the hardware. actual repairs of component items, like bad capacitors. fixing the cooling on components, or even fully replacing a Bios eprom like thing be it socketed or soldered down.
And the new cpu sockets and thier tiny little fragile connection points. If not perfect you can lose memory (on cpu memory controller) Lose connections to hardwares (pci lanes) and general instability. bent a few of those myself already.
I've recently been going dual stack with IPV4 and IPV6 where possible since my isp supports ipv6rd, as does my router - an Asus RT-N56U. Some of my systems arn't picking up an ipv6 address, and the only common thread I can find is they're all using 802.11g to connect. So far, I've tested a Thinkp...
@Bob: I do believe that the protocol being the issue is unlikely but its the best lead I have at the moment, being the only common thread I can think of here
Anyone orders from china ecommerce websites on November and December? I wonder if this is the period of huge pressure on their postal service and destination countries' postal services.
I'll probably use cheap batteries (because it now costs an arm and a leg to ship good ones in, and local prices aren't any better), but at least I'll have a good charger
also, fasttech no longer has an xtar supplier - got the soshine 4-channel charger
