maybe it's a bad unit

Every PC I've had until now has had mind-numbing little issues that make you wonder how they get sold. Like my Sony Vaio Duo 13 would blue screen trying to connect Bluetooth audio. It was a driver conflict between Broadcom and Windows 10 and both parties pointed the finger at each other until support for the chipset was dropped outright. Otherwise was a great pc. <:thvnk:332928260004642827>

look at this cute little motherboard

how could you be angry at that?!?!

The Lenovo x230T I used before that could technically boot from an mSATA drive...every 20th boot it would fail to detect the drive PERMANENTLY, unless you could boot from the regular full-size hard drive.

I'm sure it's a bad board.

Or HP is faggots and tell me that's how it works 😂 🔫

The first laptop I owned, a tx2z, was known to desolder itself from the absurd heat the GPU and CPU could output. One heatpipe, and a stack of copper>aluminum shim>thermal pad to the GPU. Hilarious.

Find me one laptop that doesn't have some absurd pile of fuck in its feature set, I dare you.

I actually think this is an RMA issue; I have literally never heard of a computer with this issue and I can't find any owners talking about this issue with my PC.

I've had this issue on my laptop

I was the one motherfucker dumb enough to buy an Alienware M11xR3 back in the day and that shit had terrible audio noise floor when the GPU was in use

My lappy reboots randomly

so I had to always use a USB DAC with it otherwise everything sounded like ass

Dell came and replaced the board and everything was good again though

based

Bro, you don't build a desktop PC and skip having a sound card. I mean, I know they aren't in vogue but still. It's like the LCD that mounts on the front of your case and reports core temp. It's just a thing you're supposed to do.

@Postretrofuturism Feels bad, man.

hopefully im not as unlucky for my next laptop

my hp 2570p has been rock fucking solid for the 2 years ive had it

and when I mean rock solid I mean I can't upgrade the BIOS to fix bugs because I get the WiFi whitelist back

<:wholesomethonk:373550351082848267>

Why bother with a different wireless card? There some special feature you wanted?

@sum Go jerk to anime someplace else <:turt:443131018950606878>

Go tech support someplace else

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@Droidbot Why the wireless card change?

I have WiFi AC and do file tfrs over the network, but stock card is N

Aah, and that stupid whitelist shit. <:thonk:288060975775612929>

Doesn't a custom flash of a rom require a pinout connection to the chip where the BIOS is stored?

Can't custom flash

HP BIOS is stored in a container that's AES-256 encrypted (iirc?)

You just said whitelist though, which you couldn't clear without flashing a list-free version <:thinkjojo:333980344044879872>

It's broken in certain firmware releases

Based HP engineers broke it and then fixed it

b a s e d running your PC on a bugged bios for fun 😂 Now you just have to install some meme Linux distro and get caught sharing cheese pizza over your h3LLa-5ycc ac connection

hell yeah

nah i run windows on it

intel wifi works about as well as a chocolate teapot in linux