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Did I kill my motherboard?

I removed the battery for probably over an hour now, I shorted the jumper, and I used the CMOS clear button like it was going out of style. I tried forcing dual BIOS quite a few different ways. I removed all drives, all but 1 stick of RAM, and tried different pcie ports for the GPU. I also...
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- Post #8
- Dec 25, 2016
- Forum: Motherboards
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Did I kill my motherboard?

Thanks for the reply. I didn't realize what the dual BIOS was. I actually tried to force a dual BIOS recovery using quite a few methods from a quick Google search (and your links) and I still get to code 97 power down with no post. Been building systems for about a decade now and never had a...
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- Post #3
- Dec 25, 2016
- Forum: Motherboards
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Did I kill my motherboard?

My computer has been rock steady for close to a year (Gigabyte Z170X UD5) with a 6700k. I decided to add an SSD and a HDD yesterday (and do a full format). As part of this I also flashed the BIOS to F20. Everything was fine. I secure erased my SSDs, and then randomly was poking around in the...
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- Dec 25, 2016
- Replies: 9
- Forum: Motherboards
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Late 2013 MBP 13 SSD Replacment

I refuse to sell any drive I have ever used for a computer, and I am wanting to sell my A1502 MBP. I know that OWC makes some very expensive SSDs to put in these laptops...
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- Jun 20, 2016
- Replies: 2
- Forum: Apple
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HBO's Game of Thrones season 6 discussion thread- airing 4/24/16 (No book spoilers)

I was waiting for someone to say this. I already did some research. The actresses name is Eline Powell. :D
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- Post #642
- May 22, 2016
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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HBO's Game of Thrones season 6 discussion thread- airing 4/24/16 (No book spoilers)

No...because they live in a port city where ships come and go all the time.
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- Post #408
- May 9, 2016
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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How do you create a smoothy?

Been making these for years and have it down to a science. 4 bananas 5 oz greens (I generally vary the type of green) 12 oz frozen berries Water This makes me 2 pretty large smoothies. I generally make my son a much smaller 1 or 2 from this as well.
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- Post #238
- May 9, 2016
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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HBO's Game of Thrones season 6 discussion thread- airing 4/24/16 (No book spoilers)

I thought it a ruse as well...until he brought out the wolf head. I guess that just leaves Jon's, Bran's, and...Arya's? Clearly she doesn't seem to have her wolf anymore though.
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- Post #383
- May 8, 2016
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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HBO's Game of Thrones season 6 discussion thread- airing 4/24/16 (No book spoilers)

I haven't read the books past the first couple chapters of the first book. All I did was copy and paste the vow that Jon said in season 1. The rest is a guess based on the fact that he died and the oath mentions it is fulfilled with his death.
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- Post #251
- May 2, 2016
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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HBO's Game of Thrones season 6 discussion thread- airing 4/24/16 (No book spoilers)

Nights watch oath Jon said in season 1: "Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold no lands, father no children. I shall wear no crowns and win no glory. I shall live and die at my post. I am the sword in the darkness. I am the watcher on...
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- Post #227
- May 2, 2016
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Personal Domain?

With the new TLDs that came out the last few years I finally grabbed a domain I want with GoDaddy. I then transferred it to Google Domains. I am not an expert in this area...at all. Are there any inherent security risks utilizing something like Google Apps for Business over standard Gmail...
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- Mar 5, 2016
- Replies: 2
- Forum: Security
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First CPU upgrade since SB...I have a few questions.

Not sure how accurate package power is in hwinfo, but with all C states enabled and auto selected, it seemed like I was usually hovering around 15 watts. With a manual voltage of 1.3 and keeping the lower C states enabled (disabled the high latency C states), at idle I typically consume 19...
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- Post #8
- Feb 21, 2016
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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First CPU upgrade since SB...I have a few questions.

Nearly confirmed at this point 4.5 GHz stable at manually setting vcore to 1.3v and LLC to high. Leaving everything on auto it shot my vcore up to 1.392v for the same frequency just running the benchmark in XTU. I am wanting to stay below 1.3v as my chip seems stable at that vcore, but I...
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- Post #6
- Feb 21, 2016
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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First CPU upgrade since SB...I have a few questions.

Thanks for the reply. Apparently voltage has to be done through offsets with a Gigabyte board to get the C states to work. I tried doing this, and while it was hovering around 1.2Xv when at low loads, as soon as it was loaded (this was at the minimum offset that the mobo would post as an...
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- Post #3
- Feb 21, 2016
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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First CPU upgrade since SB...I have a few questions.

I ran a i7 2600k at 4.5 GHz (1.4v) for nearly 4 years. I did have to drop it down to 4.2 recently as my system seemed to be losing stability. I purchased a 6700k with a Gigabyte Z170X-UD5. I did just fail a stress test at 4.5 GHz and 1.25v. My temps peaked around 67C (and were usually below...
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- Feb 21, 2016
- Replies: 8
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking

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