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Bob, the CPU doesn’t have onboard graphics, you need to find ones ending in G.
The 2200G is £81.50 https://tinyurl.com/y3w58zel
but I suspect the 200GE @ £40.98 will do just as well for his needs. https://tinyurl.com/y6z2mpm6 I use them in office builds, they are still 2 core / 4 thread – like an i3.
Or of course you can reuse the 4800.
this one doesn’t need screws at all.
That’s what I meant, I wondered if the Lenovo “cage” would grip a 2.5″ to 3.5″ open frame converter properly. If it had been a screw in then that wouldn’t be an issue.
If you have the short cable version then that’s half the battle, I suspect a normal converter will be OK even if you have to use a laccy band or two 😉
As far as drivers are concerned, with older Lenovo’s i.e. out of support (and “Windows 10” isn’t good enough, it must be the correct version like 1903), I just use the hardware OEM’s drivers only using Lenovo ones for anything specific, like say custom F keys. That’s kept my old T420 working fine.
Marc, I was looking to do the same with a Lenovo All In One so I know the caddy you’re on about. The problem is you can’t screw it into anything plus lining up the SATA connectors.
In the end didn’t go ahead, but I’d decided to use a “dummy HDD” caddy rather than a frame. Like this https://tinyurl.com/y2hwtv9d but I did wonder if this would work https://tinyurl.com/y32gnt5n
I have noticed a trend towards “no user serviceable parts inside” from all the major OEMs for even business orientated machines.
I had a 2 year old Lenovo B50-50 playing up a few weeks ago, from Event Viewer it looked like a HDD issue causing Windows to timeout and HDD diagnostics confirmed it was shafted. This is described as a High-Value Business Laptop but I had to remove the whole back case to get at the HDD. This also involved prising the keyboard out as to stop complaints of bounce it’s now been secured with double sided sticky pads.
HDD replaced, same error so I suspect the motherboard but the HDD was a dead duck.
I’ve replaced it with the same laptop I’ve been buying all year, the refurbished HP Elitebook 840 G series. They’ve all looked like new.
This one is a G2 and has 1600 x 900 screen and a next generation i5 (over the G1) (doesn’t seem to make much difference). One clip and the whole back is off.
But in the end there will be a deal. If not now on the transition then later because we cannot possibly thrive on WTO rules.
This is what I just don’t understand from Brexiteers, this transition agreement is being touted as the be all and end all, it isn’t. It’s a smooth transition from exiting from an organistaion we have been entangled with for 40 years.
It cannot be described as a business deal in the way you have because we aren’t touting for new business. If I am dealing with a contract that provides a huge chunk of my income the other side knows that my walking away is an act of gross self harm. Look at how BAE deal with their IT contractors if you want an example of how this sort of business deal works. The threat of walking away in these circumstances is just not the act of a sane person, it is always a bluff. But if I say I want unreasonable (in their eyes) clauses out in the contract or I’m going, what do you think they will say?
So let’s not have any more of this business deal nonsense, it isn’t a business deal and never will be. It’s a political deal and involves far more than just trade. I don’t have reciprocal medical cover with any of my customers nor any dependent supply chains.
When there are negotiations for the final deal, as Trump says everything is on the table. By that time we won’t have a Welsh lamb industry, the Japanese at the most optimistic estimate can only take 3% of the output.
There will be no cheap food from the Commonwealth, they have already said so. When we dumped them they found new local markets and that consumes all their output. As Steve once asked, what do they make that we want to buy that’s better than the current sources?
The propping up of Cornwall and other currently EU funded deprived areas will have to be funded from Westminster or left to wither. All at the time when Government funds will be tight. Of course Westminster will be blamed and rightly so.
I looked at the Vipers, the thing is I’ve really fallen for bottom mounted PSUs.
The best case I’ve used this year is the Phanteks Eclipse P300 but it’s a really bling build only and ATX.
I’m eyeing up the CiT Serenity for the next one.
No password or pin, no login. The only password recovery I ever had that worked is MBR / IDE not GPT / AHCI.
You can boot from a Linux USB to recover data then it’s reinstall Windows time. If their version of W10 is fairly recent there may be an option to reset Windows and retain the data but all the apps will go. If you can interrupt the boot to a Lenovo Recovery there may be factory reset and other options.
Whatever, my first job would be to get the data backed up as I’m sure it won’t be. Pray they logged in with a Microsoft Account and used One Drive 😀
I agree that Labour will be savaged but I think you under estimate what will happen to the Tories too. I see denial in every still die-hard Tory I speak to. I also hear the latest sound bites like “surrender bill” time and time again, you can pretty much predict what will be said in spite of any evidence to the contrary – like anyone is actually negotiating. Turning up in Eire wasn’t negotiating, nor were visits to Berlin, Paris and the G7, but it’s trotted out as such. Just parroting the leave propaganda machine.
I seriously doubt there’s a legal way around the bill short of imploding Parliament with enough time left if they can win a GE. Whatever the strategy is it’s a high risk one, do or die, unless they get a deal they can get through. I’ve even heard the we’ll piss of the EU theory again.
Time will tell, there’s plenty of drama left to come.
Personally I sincerely hope he does get a deal then we can move on and get the future sorted, because when all is said and done this isn’t the end game! It’s the just the end of the beginning. I truly cannot understand what all the hard line Brexiteer shenanigans is about. Get out with little fuss to a transition then get the final deal you want, what’s the problem?
But No Deal? No way and I’ll fight tooth and nail to stop that scenario.
And don’t give me any crap about the backstop. It’s temporary – get the deal done and it’s gone. If it wasn’t there it’d be something else, indeed I believe the ERG / TBP have already said so.
I’ve seen some wonderful conspiracy theories on FB but they’re so badly written I’m amazed anybody could possibly believe a word. I think it’s because some people want them to be true.
He will not a write second letter as that has already been shown to be breaking that law. This is all bluff and bluster to keep the flame alight and stop voter defections to TBP. He knows he will have to do it and has already started the BoJo fights Pariament for the will of the people narrative.
Polls? I thought we’d all learned that lesson by now. Another hung Parliament is probably the result of any election, the question is which block will be bigger, because this is all Leave or Remain not left and right.
My prediction is that there will not be a pact between the Tories and TBP. That will signal that the Tories basically are the TBP and Johnson will have to sell a No Deal Brexit to the public. Not hint at it, actively promote it. Explain how No Deal will be better for the country than any deal and campaign on that basis. Good luck with that.
Goodbye moderate Tory voters (and probably MPs) to the Lib Dems, the West Country will turn Yellow. The cities will turn redder than they are. Scotland will be heavily SNP and we’ll be saying goodbye to them within 5 years. What will happen to the Tory South East? probably some Lib Dem gains. The Leave Labour areas will probably go TBP, I can’t see them voting for the Rees-Mogg party, but it won’t be nearly enough.
If there is no pact the same sort of thing will happen as the Leave vote gets split but not as heavy losses for the Conservatives who can keep up the “we really want a deal, honest” narrative in the South and let TBP take the Labour Leave areas. They can also portray the TBP as No Deal extremists with no plan.
Any Leave pact will happen after the election, not before. BoJo can throw his hands in the air and say, well this is the only way we can deliver the will of the people. Not my fault, we had a deal almost there, blame them when the brown stuff hits the fan.
What may happen is a pact between the Remain sides such as we saw in Brecon, but Labour will have to wake up and smell the coffee. I don’t think Corbyn will.
Perhaps if the winners had made some attempt to bring along the losers it would all be over a long time ago.
Perhaps if the purist winners hadn’t veto’d any chance of leaving on anything but their terms it would all be over long ago.
I said a while ago that the reasonable people would find their voice and the more hard line the crackpot end of the leavers got the more their opposition would dig their heels in. Well that’s exactly what’s happened hasn’t it?
Even now the more irresponsible Johnson gets the more forces combine to stop him. All he can do now is break the law, I don’t think even he dare try that. Compromise is what’s required, always has been, always will be.
I truly think the Tories have now blown it and taken their own party with it by way of the Brexit Party at one end, the Libs at the other and the SNP in Scotland. Labour will see some loses in leave areas but not enough. The hung parliament will swing towards Remain and the only hope Brexiteers will have is a referendum and a vote for a more Norway style deal negotiated by Corbyn.
This was always the Brexiteers to lose. It helps if you have a plan, don’t box yourself in with impossible demands and don’t fight your own side more than your opponents. But of course it will all be someone else’s fault won’t it?
Seems OK, well done.
It sounds like everything is getting power, but it could be anything on the motherboard or the board itself stopping the boot.
First thing is a BIOS reset as sometimes that’s all it is. After that it’s swapping out hardware but it’s highly unlikely to be the CPU.
Have a good day D2.
It’s finished, goes very quickly indeed. Windows installed to a usable desktop in 6 minutes.
Not quite as tidy as usual, the cable management top and bottom of the motherboard on the Antec P5 is non existent. The chassis fan headers are all on the bottom edge, so no choice but to trail the exhaust fan lead across the board.
Apart from that it’s a nice case with heavy sound proofing. For all intents and purposes this is a silent PC but I can imagine a bit of noise if the CPU and GPU are both pushed hard. The Aerocool Integrator has all the connections you could want and long leads.
Add without bottomless pockets to the title!
It’s the daughter of an ex colleague, now retired, who has sufficient mental health issues to preclude her ever working. She is however a fantastic artist and what she produces with her Wacom tablet is amazing. She does do some commissions but it’s pocket money stuff of pets etc.
She has outgrown her All-In-One Lenovo i5 so needs something better which Dad has to fund on his pension. The sort of kit you’re on about would be lovely, but it isn’t happening. They have been out and sourced a monitor already, one of the Dells I think but certainly no more than £200 worth.
So it’s not the best money can buy but the best we can buy with the money.
How much? That’s certainly using up your capital allowance!
They don’t even tell you things like just what spec NVMe drive you’re getting. You would hope it’s at the Samsung 970 EVO end of the range.
As the OldPhart would have put it, this is for willy wavers with deep pockets and no idea exactly what they’re buying ?
I’ll stick to seeking out the clearance sales on last years models – R5 2600 vs R5 3600 – 10% increase for £73 (60%) more? Last year it was a damn good CPU and you wouldn’t pay the premium to upgrade, so it’s still a damn good CPU in my books but even cheaper!
My daughter is very vegetable averse. When I make cottage pie or bolognese I grate in the carrot and celery and it physically disappears when cooked.
My eldest’s GF is vegetarian and we now have a planned meat free day every Wednesday. For me it’s led my into areas of cooking I would never have considered.
Carrot biyrani sounds very much like rabbit food, it’s one of the best meals we’ve cooked because of course it’s all about the spicing and the excuse to have all the various pickles to go with it.
I do like my meat, we’re having some Aldi sizzle steaks on Thursday, but if someone said I couldn’t have it any more I wouldn’t be too disconsolate.
Beer on the other hand…
It’s only what’s been rumoured to happen at every takeaway in Bristol I’ve heard of ?
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