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A coworker of mine bought an Alienware M16 R1 in the beginning of 2024, and back in February he had an issue with a BIOS update, thinking he either Bricked it or broke the screen, he tried to open the LCD to find out what a replacement panel would be. He ended up apparently damaging the LCD in the process.

He couldn't get it to come on, and assumed it was bricked. he gave it to me for free, as he thought it was useless, and since he opened it and broke it, voided any warranty chances.

so now, the LED is giving a 2,7 flashing light error (Display failure - SBIOS message), but it does boot and display on an external monitor. Now I find myself debating on whether or not to try to find a New

So, i was tinkering with my 2009 17" Macbook Pro the other day. and while i was using it, dimming the screen, it just shut off. I have tried resetting the SMC, the PRam, booting holding shift, etc. it still shows as charging on the magsafe charger, and the power light still comes on sometimes when i'm trying things. the Caps Lock light doesnt come, on, but it still puts out power on both the USb and firewire.

admittedly, it did have 1% battery when it stopped running (which is why i was dimming the screen when it died) i've left it on the charger for hours at a time and it still shows nothing, even backlight activity when i try to boot it.

interestingly, sometimes when booting holdin

So, I have a Late 2005 Powermac G5 Dual Core, 11,2. I wanted to add Wifi to this model, as it featured a pretty prominent External Antenna on the rear of the case.

A little digging on everymac showed it used an airport extreme card. so i take to Ebay and buy an airport extreme with G5 in the listing, i had previously bought the same for my G4 iMac. I go to install the card, and it plugs in fine, however the Antenna cables (of whichh there are two) don't fit into the Airport card. I do a little digging, and it turns out the very last models of Powermac used a different airport card.

this is the card I bought, and MacOS Tiger sees it just fine, but

So, i have a Digital Venturis 466 running DOS 6.22/WFW3.11 that i'd had for ages, never really done anything with it. i recently picked up an SD to IDE adapter for it. I'm able to format the SD on the machine using FDisk

I am able to xcopy all the files on the C: to the D: (SD) drive, read the disk and verify the files are on the disk inside DOS, and then I put the SD into a newer computer to have a backup of all the files. Whenever i go to put the SD back into the 486 machine, it doesnt recognize it as a formatted drive anymore.

Am i missing something dumb? is Windows 10 doing something to my formatting job? It's only a 2Gb SD card.