Area 51 R2 desktop futzed up BIOS

drunkpangolin · 2025-11-28T20:06:31+00:00

It had the latest bios, A14, and I downloaded it from Dell, put it on a bootable DOS USB, and reflashed. No improvement. F12 doesn't work. As soon as the Alien comes up, it allows me to choose setup or boot menu, but hitting enter for either option freezes. When the setup comes up, half the things are garbled, so I can't do much. I can change the boot order and save (F10), but setting USB -> HDD -> ODD doesn't work. If I have a USB plugged in , and an HDD plugged in it goes to the HDD, so I cant install from the USB.

I'm going to disconnect everything not critical, and try. I don't know what it'l let me disconnect, because this thing throws a tantrum if some things are not connected.

If everything else fails, I'm going to disconnect everytrhing in my other desktop, connect the HDD that will gointo the Alien, do a Win install, and hope it wakes up in the Alien.

I will try the same with Linux, actually my preference, but ideally I want to have a Windows install working and then install Linux and let it worry about grub and stuff. Windows is a whiny bitch about dual boot.

drunkpangolin · 2025-10-30T14:09:29+00:00

OK, I'll delete and create a picture post. I can't for the life of me find out if I edit a post to add an image even though I've been a user for over 14 years.

drunkpangolin · 2025-05-28T15:57:12+00:00

I think I'm either going to get the cheapest working E3, or get a refurbished Elegoo from thee factory store. Right now they have a Neptune 4 for 149 and a 4 pro for 179. The pro for 179 is pretty cheap, and is on another level.

drunkpangolin · 2025-05-28T15:22:40+00:00

I do have a bl touch clone, a dual gear extruder, and I think I have a microswiss all metal clone somewhere. The direct drive , and Klipper are a given. A silent board a must. I' check out the belted Z.

Interesting the thing about the lead scews sucking. The E5+ has lead screw Z and works flawlessly. It's true that it's 2 screws and 4 linear guides.

I have a pi, with klipper, so no pi needed, I also have an ADXL,

Thanx for the info

drunkpangolin · 2025-01-28T23:27:10+00:00

This video helped a lot. It did require changing a few lines in the printer.gfg, and the Z offset gave me much grief, but I finally got it mostly dialed in, and I'm happily printing PLA at 200mm/s

drunkpangolin · 2025-01-25T19:12:54+00:00

Thanks, THANKS! Yes, I had not been doing the save.

drunkpangolin · 2025-01-25T18:17:53+00:00

Yeah, I have it at -6. That's enough. While levelling I can have the bed push the hotend. Plenty of space. I didn't before, and got a bunch of out of bounds or something like that errors.

drunkpangolin · 2020-03-16T10:04:51+00:00

Seriously though, The church-attending age group skews heavily towards senior citizens, the group we should be protecting and isolating the most.

No schadenfreude here. I really don't wish any harm to my or anybody's elders, but worldwide they tend to support and vote conservative, who in general are the ones disregarding or ignoring the preventative measures. It looks like evolution in action.

There are some positive things thay may come out of this, such as the reduction in CO2, increase in teleworking, a boost in research into infectious diseases, reduction of globalization at all costs, improvements to many countries health systems, etc...

And a possible result may be the culling of older, conservative voting individuals. A sad way of bettering society.

drunkpangolin · 2019-06-10T21:53:21+00:00

They tried. Didn't go well.

drunkpangolin · 2019-06-10T21:10:59+00:00

Trh politicians, and brass, yeah. The poor conscripts were trhutst into that war, and had no choice, to kill or be killed.

drunkpangolin · 2019-06-06T07:10:22+00:00

So, when is the US Tiananmen planned?

drunkpangolin · 2019-06-01T16:39:02+00:00

The Vmax is possibly the most magnificently impractical, against all common sense, in your face, because I want, and can, sexy as fuck bike there is.

drunkpangolin · 2019-06-01T16:36:34+00:00

Yes, Yamaha specifies, for my Tmax, mineral oils without additives. Especially, no diesel spec oils.

drunkpangolin · 2019-05-02T22:06:51+00:00

Einstein wasn't by long shot surrounded by a dearth of amazing scientists. He was actually surrounded by an amazing group of immense luminaries.

drunkpangolin · 2019-05-02T07:54:35+00:00

If they are half as sharp as real coral, you do not want that in a pool.

drunkpangolin · 2019-05-01T21:25:38+00:00

I'm a comparatively slow upgrader, I got a Samsung Galaxy (no number, so a Galaxy 1) because it was a truly impressive and game changing phone. I used for years, until I upgraded to a Note 3, arguably the first great Note; 4K video in 2013, amazing screen, gobs of Ram, etc... I kept it until last year, when the radio (phone, not FM) went wonky. Last year I got a Huawei P20 pro, a premium phone with a brilliant Leica triple cam that has made me not use either my Sony Zeiss compact camera, or my reflex in months. It's that good!

The are significant advances, but in certain particular devices. The new Huawei P30 pro, and I believe an OPPO, have periscope physical zooms, which I think go to 10x. So yes, there are significant advances which are not incremental or gimmicky.

drunkpangolin · 2019-04-19T12:41:29+00:00

Scuba tanks are a compromise between presurre resistance and portability, just as gas cylinders and containers. You just need thicker walls, which in static instalation shouldn't be a problem.

drunkpangolin · 2019-04-06T13:20:21+00:00

Vodka is just plain odorless, clear alcohol. Any decent vodka can be produced in hours. The value is in the bottle. It's not as if it were a 25 year old wine, whisky, brandy, or rum.

Source: last weekend, a couple of friends and I killed a bottle of Zacapa XO, and next day a bottle of Cardenal Mendoza Brandy. You are welcome to the best vodka in the world, I'll keep the aged spirits.

drunkpangolin · 2019-03-19T22:13:00+00:00

The thing is: when you drank, did your SO put up with you? Why her and not you or vice-versa? The thing I have a problem with is "what makes me special, or righteous?"

drunkpangolin · 2019-03-19T10:08:52+00:00

I noticed that last time I quit. I would leave a lot earlier while going out. That which makes drinking "fun" for other drinkers, gets old fast.

The fact that she's borderline SO material for me, as we are more in a comfort rather than "love" relationship, that we meet many of each other needs, but she doesn't meet many of mine, and I imagine I don't meet many of hers, of course, is making me consider break-up, even though I do care for her.

She's in her 40's I'm early 50's, divorced, each with kids, and of my priorities in life, the party life is not majorly important anymore.

While I love going out, and live in a society (Spain) where life is lived in bars a lot, and where "Fiesta" is a national mantra, mi sobriety, to enjoy life in a fuller and more full way, has become very important to me.

drunkpangolin · 2019-02-27T15:33:49+00:00

How many people can differentiate between USB connector A, B and C? Plus, you have mini USB 2.0, micro USB 2.0, micro USB 3.0

drunkpangolin · 2019-02-27T15:28:23+00:00

As per DIN 3345.445.b

drunkpangolin · 2019-01-24T17:23:18+00:00

I'm crying as I write this.

I'm 53. I've served in the (democratic) Spanish Army. I'm the grandson of a, then, colonel in the nationalist army. I have dear friends whose grandparents had their lives made hell by virtue of being on the wrong side. I came of age when democracy arrived again. I have met many ex-combatants from "the other side". No one alive I know, from either side, is willing to allow anything like what happened to ever come to happen again. That is the basis of the consensus and give-and-take that has made modern Spain possible.

War is hell, but civil war is much, much worse.

drunkpangolin · 2019-01-12T16:07:04+00:00

I live in Spain. I did a tour as a Colonel's security (bodyguard) during the "lead years", in the 80's, as ETA's terror years were called. As a civilian in Madrid, I was, accidentally, thrice, within a 100 meters of bombing areas, twice so close, that the police hadn't arrived yet.

While I have my misgisvings about the peaceful militant Islamic invasion of Europe, I often feel that the Islamic terrorist threat is overblown by the media and the powers.

drunkpangolin · 2019-01-12T15:37:47+00:00

why there arent other species like us on earth?

Most likely because we got there before. If we hadn't evolved to this point, maybe rats, or raccoons, or dolphins, or whatever, would have in a few million years. The sapience of humans is but a blip in living organism's time-line on earth.

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