Hardware

Hi, hopefully this isn't breaking any rules. I just wanted to show my experience with APC RMA process as UPS tends to be quite niche topic and this is also my first UPS so I had no prior experience with any other companies.

I've bought APC Back-UPS Pro 1500 in 10th of July 2022 and recently (early this July) it stopped switching to battery, it showed F02 error instead and immediately shut off the moment a power cut off.

1.) Getting hold of support, very difficult. Most of the links on the website were broken with error "under maintenance" took me around 1 week of trying to be able to contact anybody (I finally managed to get a phone number).

2.) Contacting support - the guy on phone told me where to e-mail my issue.

3.) E-mail - responded within 3 days. Told me the battery is likely bad and sent me a new battery free of charge which arrived another 3 or 4 days later. Also provided link with guide on how to properly reset the UPS (link was broken).

Unfortunately, battery wasn't the issue. I've e-mailed back ASAP after I've tried the new battery. They responded within a day and sent me a whole new UPS replacement (with battery) which just arrived (works).

They will come to pickup the new battery and old broken UPS in the next 2 days. (Free of charge shipping both ways).

I am building an AMD Ryzen PC, and want eGPUs. Thunderbolt is extremely limited, but I've recently seen OCuLink. For example, AOOSTAR AG02 supports USB4 and OCuLink.

The AOOSTAR AG02 is more expensive than some Thunderbolt options, so I'm looking around. What options do I have for non-Thunderbolt eGPU?

Hi, currently have a spare GeForce 1060 lying around collecting dust.

Planning to use it with Ollama for self-hosting my own AI model or maybe even for AI training.

Problem is, none of my home lab devices have a compatible connection to the GPU’s GPIO. My current setup includes:

• Beelink MINI S12 Intel Alder Lake N100
• Raspberry Pi 5
• Le Potato AML-S905X-CC
• Pi Picos

Would like to hear about recommendations or experiences with external GPU docks that I can use to connect my GPU to my home lab setup, thanks.

I use a M910Q with an engenering sample i9 cpu as my home server

After some seconds or minutes after the boot the screen blanks and the machine doesn't seem to have anything running inside

So, if I'm loading something with graphical interface it can show the desktop, sometimes I can use it, but some time after the issue appears

i tried changing the drives, the ram, booting from USB, the problem persists

i noticed that if I change some CPU parameters in the bios the behavior changes. Something like power profiles, and turning off "turbo" which shouldn't work with an es-i9

So my guess right now is that it blanks the screen when it hits some load, but I didn't check it properly. And it doesn't look like I ever encountered anything before.

Any ideas how can I track the problem without just buying everything new?

Thank you

Hi! 👋 Can you recommend me some videocard for my PC?

Here's the details:

  >>>>>>>>>> ЦП <<<<<<<<<<

	***** Процессор *****
Производитель: Intel
Кодовое название: Alder Lake-S (Core i5)
      Сокет: LGA 1700
Технология: 7 nm
Напряжение: 
Спецификация: 12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-12400
Семейство: 0x6
Отобр. семейство: 0x6
    Модель: 0x7
Отобр. модель: 0x97
       Темп.: 52,00°C
Степпинг: 5
Инструкции: HT, MMX, SSE(1, 2, 3, 3S, 4.1, 4.2), AVX(1, 2), FMA(3), AES, CLMUL, RdRand, SHA, VT-x, x86-64

  >>>>>>>>>> Мат. плата <<<<<<<<<<

	***** Мат. плата *****
Производитель: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
    Модель: H610M S2H V3 DDR4
  Ревизия: x.x

	***** BIOS *****
      Марка: American Megatrends International, LLC.
    Версия: F3
        Дата: 12/14/2023
Размер ROM: 

	***** Чипсет *****
Производитель: Intel Corporation
    Модель: Device 7a87

	***** Операционная система *****
        Ядро: Linux 6.1.0-37-amd64
Дистрибутив: Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)
Имя хоста: mx
Время работы: 0 дней, 7 часов, 12 минут, 34 секунд
Компилятор: cc (Debian 12.2.0-14+deb12u1) 12.2.0

  >>>>>>>>>> Графика <<<<<<<<<<

	***** Карта 0 *****
Производитель: Intel
  Драйвер: i915
Версия UMD: Mesa 22.3.6
    Модель: Alder Lake-S GT1 [UHD Graphics 730]
Вычислительный узел: 
ИД устройства: 0x4692:0x0C
Версия VBIOS: 
Интерфейс: 
Температура: 
Использование: 
Напряжение ядра: 
Сред. напряжение: 
Частота ГП: 700 MHz
Частота памяти: 
Используемая память: 
   Resizable BAR: 
       Vulkan RT: Отключено
Версия OpenGL: 4.60
Версия Vulkan: 1.3.230
Версия OpenCL: 

Thanks in advance! 😉