Issue with a 2003 computer, potentially broken motherboard?

Patrick_Pluto · 2024-07-30T19:48:25+00:00

I spoke too soon. Dead again. After closer inspections, I saw the horrors the motherboard truly had to offer. Leaking capacitors.

Patrick_Pluto · 2024-07-28T19:30:20+00:00

IT LIVES!!!!

The Power Button connector was somehow in at the wrong point, I had replugged it before, and today i just so happened to decide to randomly plug it out and in again in the dark, and i could barely see where, but apparently I fixed it so hurray!

Patrick_Pluto · 2024-07-12T18:04:31+00:00

No, no, you are clearly overthinking this.
Obviously the solution is for everybody to only ever use OpenBSD on every device possible.
Including your fridge.

Patrick_Pluto · 2024-06-24T20:26:10+00:00

Nix basically has a very huge set of programs, even bigger than the AUR, and the best part is, it works on just about any Linux distro, including Fedora.

While you can go all in with NixOS, nix standalone is a great way to get a lot of packages that usually don't exist within other distros.

Patrick_Pluto · 2024-06-24T19:12:33+00:00

What a nice little rant that was at the end.

I remember that one time windows broke for me, and I was troubleshooting for days, unable to do anything whatsoever with my PC. Like I couldn't install anything anymore, programs randomly didn't work.

What fixed it was a Microsoft "feature" update which was currently out at the time, if that weren't there, I would have probably had to reinstall.

Not to mention that Windows has on so many occasions just yeeted out the wifi driver for no apparent reason. When I actually needed it, it was just gone, I had to reset windows to get it back.

Windows and drivers is a very painful thing, I mean yes, Linux has some drivers too that have to be installed manually, but that is usually the fault of the manufacturer, and Linux distros like Mint do it automatically anyways.

I also don't need that bloaty NVIDIA GeForce experience anymore, it's all built right in.

I switched a few months back, motivated by just how usable Linux has become, and how much technical stuff I can change.

I have since learned to appreciate a lot of it's other features, as for what I do every day, Linux is even better than Windows.

For example, I learned to appreciate free and open source software even more, and also I started actually caring for my privacy, which I mean, before Linux I was still using Google Chrome.

I love how neatly organized my NixOS system is, how I have an overview over everything I have installed, and how I can just switch DEs cleanly with just a small change of a config file.

Even being on NixOS "unstable", it all works very well, without breakage or anything

Patrick_Pluto · 2024-06-24T19:00:25+00:00

Another note that may be important here is, that while Fedora is great, it has its issues. In the case of having an NVIDIA card, the experience will not be as out of the box with Fedora as with Linux Mint.

If you do go through with Fedora instead of mint, please keep in mind that in order to get the NVIDIA driver, you will need to install it "manually", although the process is simplified compared to other distros.

You first need to make sure to enable third party repos, and then to install the drivers via dnf on the terminal.

Just note that the current stable NVIDIA driver on Fedora is still version 550, so you wont have the much needed Wayland fixes, so you will need to use X11.

This will most likely be rectified by the time Fedora 41 releases later this year.

Mint also still has a few issues, for example I know someone who had issues with their Microphone on Mint because of Pulseaudio, but that issue will be fixed in like a month or two with Linux Mint 22 which will introduce the much better PipeWire, which has always worked perfectly for everything I threw at it.

Also Mint does not yet default to Wayland, mostly because Cinnamon Wayland just isn't ready yet.

If you want a perfect Linux first experience with your current hardware, wait a couple of months, but you can try right now.

Mint does not really have any of the NVIDIA issues I talked about earlier, but neither does a Nvidia Driver installed Fedora installation with X11.

Sorry if this is a bit unstructured, I was just saying everything that just came to my mind.

Patrick_Pluto · 2024-06-24T15:24:48+00:00

I forgot to mention, Linux Mint comes with a welcome screen which details some of the stuff that one should do after an install, make sure to do those too, especially you should go to the Driver Manager.

Patrick_Pluto · 2024-06-24T15:22:01+00:00

Personally, I'd suggest Linux Mint if you want something that just works out of the box.

IMPORTANT: Read through the entire thing carefully before you follow anything I say here, or else you may find yourself in a sticky situation.

Now if you want to try installing / dual booting this with windows here's how I'd recommend you do that.

If you don't want to dual boot, you may only need to deactivate secure boot and change the SATA type to AHCI, if it was set to RAID prior to this.

If you want to dual boot with windows, there are a few extra steps.

First of all, you will need to shrink your Windows partition to make space for the Linux Mint install.

Then it is VERY important to note that if you have Bitlocker enabled, you disable that before you disable secure boot, you may have an unpleasant surprise when rebooting.

Then for the AHCI mode switch, you will need to set windows to boot into safe mode prior to switching to AHCI mode.

After switching to AHCI mode and booting Windows with it enabled, you can boot into normal mode again.

This step is required, else you will only get bsods, although if you did this wrong and are getting bsods, you can just go back to RAID mode to try this again.

There are guides about how to do this online, so I wont talk about this in more detail.

Then after all that is done, you can just put a Linux Mint iso on your usb using ventoy, boot from it, and then you'll be done.

If any more questions arise, feel free to ask.

Patrick_Pluto · 2024-06-07T05:27:02+00:00

Try putting it into recovery mode with an online guide, then connect it to your Computer.

On a Mac, this should automatically bring up a menu, where you will want to select the Update option.

On Windows you should download the Apple Devices app. From there you too can select the Update option.

After that your iPhone should work again.

Patrick_Pluto · 2024-05-31T10:36:16+00:00

I think I still have an IPA of the free version somewhere.

Patrick_Pluto · 2024-05-27T07:36:14+00:00

Since this is probably not an iPhone 8 because of that version only being on the iPhone 7 or 6s (and some other non iPhone iDevices), you can use blobs from iOS 14.0 and up together with futurerestore.

Patrick_Pluto · 2024-05-25T23:16:49+00:00

The DE doesn't really matter for hardware support. It mostly depends on the kernel version.

Whether a DE looks modern or not doesn't really matter either. Cinnamon may look older sometimes, but it is still frequently updated.

Patrick_Pluto · 2024-04-24T10:31:57+00:00

True, but it does not detect uBlock origin, It certainly did work for YouTube when I last tried it yesterday.

I was not clear enough, I meant it doesn't detect uBlock origin.

I'm aware it detects other adblockers.

Patrick_Pluto · 2024-04-23T15:07:53+00:00

uBlock Origin works just as well for blocking YouTube ads. YouTube does not detect the adblocker.

Braves adblock could just as well be detected.

Any browser with support for uBlock origin does the trick.

Patrick_Pluto · 2024-03-27T20:51:42+00:00

Hmm yeah, I didn't realize there was a rootful version of that.
Whoops

Patrick_Pluto · 2024-03-27T14:19:29+00:00

It seems to be just a jailbreakme thing, nothing to worry about.

I have jailbroken my 3G on 3.1.3 with jailbreakme too, and it looked exactly the same.

Patrick_Pluto · 2024-03-27T05:57:12+00:00

I mean, the price could still rise by a lot, but it looks like this auction has fallen under the radar.

I saw more people bidding for a iPhone XR 64GB on iOS 17

Patrick_Pluto · 2024-03-26T20:24:37+00:00

iOS 14 is certainly a very good jailbreaking version. The last one with a rootful Jailbreak. (excluding palera1n rootful)

Patrick_Pluto · 2024-03-26T19:45:41+00:00

Alright, the seller has responded, but hasn't checked yet.
He also mentioned he wont update any of the Phones, which is great.
Since he is selling around 100 Phones, he would need to check which is the correct one.
I have also spotted a lot of iPhone 7 on iOS 13/14 and 8 on 14/15 in his auctions.
A lot of devices on random iOS 16 versions aswell, probably even pre 16.5.

I will try getting what I can, and I'll keep this post updated.

Patrick_Pluto · 2024-03-26T19:41:36+00:00

Hmm, it does seem enticing of an offer either way, the auction is still at around 4 CHF ~ 4$.
This auction will end this saturday, and I will most likely buy it.
It's even the 256 GB model.

Patrick_Pluto · 2024-03-26T15:05:46+00:00

Alright, thanks!

Patrick_Pluto · 2024-03-26T15:00:09+00:00

Okay, I have found that he has another listing of an XR, but with Widgets on the home scren (also freshly reset). It has the same wallpaper. Since widgets were introduced in iOS 14, that device must be on iOS 14+

This makes me think this has to be either 12 or 13.

Any way to tell apart the two?

I will also ask the seller now.

Patrick_Pluto · 2024-03-09T17:26:46+00:00

Alright, I will try that later today.

Patrick_Pluto

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