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@curiouskiwicat a bit of napkin calculus tells me (if I've understood your question correctly): if you want a parabolic reflector in your ceiling to project light straight down, with a light source no lower than the rim of the parabola, then the depth has to be at least 0.2x the width. That is, if y...

@muzammil17   Thank you for your suggestions! After consulting Reddit for this issue too I tried many different things, reseating RAM, trying to find the lid switch, switching outputs using the Fn keys. I eventually harvested an old HDD with Linux Mint installed from a laptop and plugged...

found pretty good deals :

@hiddenvector try to reseat the ram, and clear CMOS.

@civilizayden if the cpu and gpu die isn't the same height you can add a thin piece of copper to the die which is lower to bring them on the same level. is there any recycle center in your place? you might find pretty good deals there.

Hi DIY Perks community,This is my first DIY project working with things this complex. I thought it'd be a good introduction to some more complicated electronics to learn some more. Also, I was looking at getting a steam machine but really didn't want to shell out what valve was asking for. Making a ...

@muzammil17 yeah, you got the model right. It’s actually the full laptop that I’m getting, reason it’s so cheap is cause of the failed vapor chamber. If there are any parts from the original cooling system that could be useful I’ll try to use them since I have them, but don’t know how much good they...