Haha found th issue, buddy wasn’t saving and confirming the bios setting changes. Made sure he did this time and it’s running as expected with the gen 4 option.

Yeah im thinking a similar thought. Ill see if he can locate one to test with. If not I’ll send him to a local shop so they can test it. Unfortunately lives 1000km, otherwise id beable to do some better testing for him haha!

Thanks bud!

Yep k series has igpu, igpu works fine.

Output works fine from the 2080 if in the 4x slot, detects in windows and all is good with the driver installation.

It just straight up doesn’t detect the GPU in device manager at all, and the driver installer didnt detect it only while in the top pcei 5x slot.

Sorry for the rushed response, at work atm.

Yea sadly most people already do via an M365 subscription, if MS decides to tack an OS in with that, doubt many would care enough to make a swap.

1: there is, but at this point its pretty niche and scattered. Lots of its hush-hush due to like you said potential security/insurance concerns. Mostly used for cracking and getting system/diagnostics readouts and error codes, Fob cloning, etc. without forking out cash to do so through the so called “proper channels”.

2: not that I’ve seen, and from they software they do use it seems mainly in house additions.

Though im not super into the scene, and i see it growing rapidly over the next few years seeing manufacturers keep doing some scummy shit to lock down their products.

Edit: fat fingered post before i finished typing it out oops.

Think thats a great start, id do much the same. Would definitely do dual hotswappable psu’s. Have a reduntant mirror of the system as well. (Guess a raid setup on boot covers this to an extent)

Get a solid UPS to avoid sudden power down problems/ gives you time to properly shutdown your system.

Personally id try and mount this all in a 2U chasis with some high airflow fans as well.

Id say they are most likely in good health. But anything could happen. Always reccomend having a backup option in place.

Agreed, i mainly mention Crystaldisk because its a quick free tool. Definitely reccomend using multiple avenues of info gathering to determine hardware health.

You can track the health status of most smart enabled ssds. Can use a tool like crystal disk info

Personally i have 2 7 year old ssds going strong without issue. Mainly used for storage and games, so the r/w rates been pretty lower on them.

Ssds do have a total maximum write cycles to nand. Really depends on the use cases over the 5 years.

Right around the time the the former EA CEO moved to being the Unity CEO.

Same dude that thought they should charge players money for ammo in micro-transaction format.

Dudes a shit lord.