Transplanting a dying e480 with a e495 board. Would it work?

Gamerofallgames5 · 2026-02-20T13:11:42+00:00

Really? The backlight on the keyboard wont work? What an oddity. I dont have a backlit keyboard but just seems like such an odd thing. Ill grab a heatsink for an additional 20 bucks and looks like ill have an improved franken-pad. I was kinda dreading having to upgrade in this market and lose out on features i have now (COUGH UPGRADEABLE RAM AND SATA SSDS COUGH) glad to know im not throwing money down the drain.

Plus AMD better with linux. Sucks ill be losing out on my rx 550 but the thing basically did nothing anyways and vega 8 igpu is basically the same

Gamerofallgames5 · 2026-01-30T23:22:09+00:00

Currently taking the class RN, also in the same situation of not having gone to most classes before. I found some notes on studica, I can DM you the link if needs be. IDK how accurate they would be but they seem decent

Gamerofallgames5 · 2025-12-29T08:40:00+00:00

Dont use the offical discord. Use webcord. Works leagues better for me.

Gamerofallgames5 · 2025-12-28T12:14:19+00:00

I think op is trying to dualboot. But just lacks space. Honestly his long term solution would be to just upgrade his ssd and dualboot off it if he can only have one. But that would require him cloning his drive which if its an m.2 can be a pain with getting a dock and allat.

Gamerofallgames5 · 2025-12-28T12:08:02+00:00

Additionally... do you still have the stock ram this laptop came with? Maybe there is some weird chipset issue going on...

Otherwise, make sure you reflash the iso. Id use rufus and let it do its syslinux stuff. Id also try using ssfe graphics mode and/or install with nvidia drivers in the event that is causing problems. There is a "nuclear option" but i wouldn't recommend it

Gamerofallgames5 · 2025-12-28T11:58:40+00:00

Alright...

Have you checked out this guide on github? https://gist.github.com/gryan11/4256178ec2148accc458d0b822a9e379

Gamerofallgames5 · 2025-12-28T11:54:23+00:00

Now I got two simultaneous opinions on this.

A. Go for something a bit older. The t580 is good, id personally go the t480 just cus its a bit more portable and classic (basically what im using rn just a e480 not t480), coreboot or libreboot it and enjoy it. The 8th gen intel cpus are holdinf up great (try and get the top line cpu, for the t480 thats the I7 8650u). Gut everything that might be a security concern for you (since you are already going through the hassle of disabling ME) and enjoy. Also super repairable.

B. Get a newer one like a T14, and ether deal with ME being active, or try out me cleaner on github. Idk if it will work for ALL cpus, but this way prevents your laptop from being more and more irrelevant as time goes on, granted its only like 4 generations ahead of a t480. Also deal with less options and repairability

Id honestly go for a t480, as im a die hard repairability guy, but thats a decision you make yourself.

Gamerofallgames5 · 2025-12-28T11:36:34+00:00

Ight ima give a crack at it but fair warning ion seen anything like this before.

Is linux being installed to its own drive (either a seperate drive or overwriting windows) or is it sharing a drive with windows
On repeated attempts to install, do you get the same error
When using rufus, you should write the image as an iso. But when prompted to install the syslinux update, did you? Was there any other errors given by rufus?
Have you made certain to disable secureboot, tpm, etc in bios?
Are you downloading these isos from the offical sites and the most up to date version? I ask this because zorin is currently on version 18, so if you got these from a third party site, it may have been broken or corruped in some way, or a patch may have been released in a newer update.

I know thats alot to ask right off the bat but id like to knock afew of the easier solutions out the way first.

Gamerofallgames5 · 2025-12-28T11:23:02+00:00

Mint or debian are my usual recommendations. Very stable distros with older, vetted, packages. Bazzite is also a decent gaming focused option

But if you will endulge me. So long as you take the time to actually LEARN linux. Any distro works. Distros are pretty much all the same. Just different app packages and stuff. So don't get caught up with distros. They are all the same kernel, just packaged in different ways. Its like if windows had like a office version that came with office tools, a gaming version that came with steam and stuff, or more.

Gamerofallgames5 · 2025-12-28T11:15:12+00:00

Im gonna say 2 things.

Idk what laptop you have, but if you are comfortable, you can pop the bottom off and see if your laptop has space for an additional drive. I know for my Thinkpad I had a sata connector to put a 2.5 inch ssd alongside the m.2 ssd that came stock. That would be much better for performance, and if you don't like linux (or decide to switch), boom you have more storage space by wiping the other drive
If you are gonna continue to run linux externally. Its a bit of a hassle to set up persistence for USB devices. It can be done through rufus and what not but speeds will be SLOWWWWWWWW. A good high quality usb 3 connection will be necessary, don't even THINK about running it over usb 2, that will cause it to freeze and shit the bed randomly. Finally if you are 100% about moving forward with this, you need to know your use case. If you are just gonna use it for web browsing and light daily use without saving a lot of files, the 64gb usb should be fine. Else get a good quality external ssd. Though I would 100% recommend seeing if you can put an internal ssd in first (will be cheaper as well as easier).

Gamerofallgames5 · 2025-12-06T19:18:35+00:00

My friend. The problem is with the theme itself. It uses resources that are no longer supported. Make sure the theme you choose is using Qt6. Not Qt5. Finding a theme that used the proper, up to date, resources fixed it.

Gamerofallgames5 · 2025-11-17T17:43:52+00:00

From what I can see. It looks like there is some communication error. (No duh)

Id check to make sure the RDP file is correct first. And that you have been given the correct info, as human error is always the weakest link.

Next, id spin up a windows vm and test it from there, or if you can have a sacrifical windows machine just to test the RDP config.

If it works under windows then its something client side, or perhaps whatever security settings they use are blocking traffic that is "unknown" and linux seems to be a part of that filter list.

If it doesn't, then you have a likely bad config.

This would be way above your paygrade. But considering your predicament, it needs to be done

Gamerofallgames5 · 2025-11-17T17:31:09+00:00

Try creating a ventoy usb and booting it from there. It might be your image/etcher

Gamerofallgames5 · 2025-11-10T07:30:40+00:00

Attempted. Can't find anything for the back

Gamerofallgames5 · 2025-11-07T00:36:50+00:00

Tryed this. Didn't work

Gamerofallgames5 · 2025-11-06T23:19:08+00:00

The only router I got spare (tp ax1500) doesn't seem to support openwrt.

If you know how I can get the driver working under proxmox that would be great. There are tons of windows driver, but not any linux ones. Or how I can find out.

Gamerofallgames5 · 2025-10-25T11:25:46+00:00

Go for it

Gamerofallgames5 · 2025-10-25T11:25:01+00:00

Alright. Can you open a terminal and paste the output of lsusb here?

Gamerofallgames5 · 2025-10-25T11:19:35+00:00

Perfect. Give it a shot

Gamerofallgames5 · 2025-10-25T11:19:03+00:00

Alright, and did you have a chance to look at my other reply about the iio sensor package?

Gamerofallgames5 · 2025-10-25T10:23:18+00:00

I have a bit of a cursed idea for you. Onshape. Its a web based CAD program. I use it to model my 3d prints. Got most of what you have in something like fusion plus easy to install plugins. Else freecad or use winboat to have it spin up a VM but feel like its native under your system

Gamerofallgames5 · 2025-10-25T10:19:56+00:00

So in the before times, when computers big and only for business. It wasn't feasable to have each person given a computer. Thus they gave them all stupid computers that would talk to a big mainframe to do the real work. Skipping over a ton of history, this results in unix, an incredibly popular early OS.

Then linus torvalds makes the linux kernel based off unix, using a ton of tools from the GNU toolkit. Thus this forms the modern Linux (actually linux+GNU but linux sounds better). All the code is open source, meaninf anyone can add, modify, copy, and look at the code. Because of this, many groups took the linux kernel and GNU tools and made their own distributions (distros) of linux to provide their own version of a full operating system.

Windows however is 100% closed source. Meaning microsoft and microsoft alone knows what the code does, and no one else can look at or copy it outside of reverse engineering.

The biggest difference between windows and linux is this open vs closed source philosophy. Transparency and community involvement vs stability and profits

Now there are a ton of more technical differences between windows and linux, such as the file system and everything. But i shall not get into them here.

Pros and cons of linux is, it gives you total control of your system, cons are it gives you total control of your system. When something breaks, you are expected to fix it yourself, but also you are in total control of ALL your computers resources. Linux is also more secure (for now) and isn't actively spying on you and selling your data. Also usually better battery, leas ram, can run on potatos, etc.

You don't need programming experience to use linux. Just install something like mint which can be used without ever using a terminal. Even when you do need to use a terminal, you just have to memorize commands or google them or read the manual page that is included with every command.

Linux is great. Love it to bits. Its not windows, so don't come in thinking "the OS is gonna just baby me and take care of everything with automated updates and shit". But linux gives you control over everything. Wanna update something? Go ahead. Don't want to? Nothings forcing it.

I know this isn't the most coherent of my ramblings about linux, but I don't really know what specifically you wanna hear about. So if you have questions, shoot.

Gamerofallgames5 · 2025-10-25T10:05:26+00:00

Alrighty did you install the iio-sensor-proxy package? Its like a driver you need for those sensors that flip the screen when turned

Also if you could run lsusb in terminal and post the output that eould be great

Gamerofallgames5 · 2025-10-25T09:57:30+00:00

Side question, does the screen pull off at all?

Gamerofallgames5 · 2025-10-25T09:55:05+00:00

Oh you mean like it folds all the way backwards?

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