tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12752134786720711792025-10-05T01:14:19.173-06:00<br> Digital is Bliss * Cheap is Priceless * Perception is A reality (mine at least) DIY Computer RepairUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger229125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1275213478672071179.post-27478548227531157402020-06-27T10:23:00.000-06:002020-07-03T10:59:02.653-06:00

How to Visually Identify Apple Mac Pro 2006 2008 2010-2012 Mac Pro 1,1 and 2,1 (2006-2007) Mac Pro 3,1 (2008) Mac Pro 4,1 and 5,1 (2009 -2012) &nbsp;If there is a doubt in identifying a Mac Pro you have or are looking to buy one thinking you will be getting the deal of the century only to find out its a 1,1 stuck with maxing out at El Cap. Check Out the YouTube Channel and Subscribe

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Installing OpenCore on a Mac Pro 4,1 flashed to ,1 or a 2010 -2012 Mac Pro 5,1 &nbsp; The Easy Install of OpenCore on a Mac Pro 4,1 flashed to 5,1 or a 2010 -2012 Mac Pro 5,1 **** Don’t Do This *** do you research and make sure it is something you want to do.&nbsp; Just a warning!! I may not be able to help if this is your primary machine and something goes south!&nbsp; Make sure you

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Logitech Long Battery Life and Unifying Receiver! &nbsp;Marathon Mouse Performance Plus / M705 &nbsp; &nbsp;It is widely accepted that Apple’s MacBook Pro’s touch pad are one of the best out there, and the touch screen on the surface pro is great. &nbsp; I don’t disagree with any of that but sometimes for better productivity and ease of use sometimes it is just easier to have a mouse

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Mac Pro 3,1 2008 OpenCore full video acceleration with&nbsp; Radeon GPU's in Mojave The Mac Pro 3,1 from 2008 is perfectly capable of running Mojave DosDude1&nbsp;but there are somethings you may want to have that OpenCore will provide. Sometimes OpenCore default config will show odd things with the Processors this is purely cosmetic Like a Boot Picker with out having a Mac flashed

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Installation of an RX 580 in a Mac Pro 3,1 from 2008 is it worth it?? Did it work?? Well yes sort of!! The Mac Pro 3,1 was from the $100 Tech haul https://youtu.be/_h1UGYwTTlg Dual 2.8 Ghz Quad Core Xeon processors had the HD 5770 installed, ended up putting a 250GB SSD in bay 1 and 2 3tb HDD's in bays 3 and 4 in a software raid one for storage. Wanted the RX 580 Metal

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Was having sse4.1 issues .. Thanks to @Dosdude1 the patch is in Mojave. Was not ready to go up to Mojave but was the easiest way to do it. So in looking for upgrades for the Mac Pro 3,1 do your due diligence on finding compatible upgrades.&nbsp; I did not.. there for ID10T errors.. Subscribe to our youtube channel so you don't miss the how it was done SUBSCRIBE HERE

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Tried putting the RX 580 in ... Showed up in system as RX 580 but would not load any graphics acceleration what so ever even with an external power source.. so back to the drawing board.. Back to the HD 5770 for now

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I am an "ID10T" in technical terms!! Keep me off of the Market Place, Offer Up, Craigslist and the like. Well needless to say here is the run down.. Later videos will go through the full installs of OS X cleaning, repairing, and testing the systems to make sure they will be good for the next home they get. **** Who knows I may gift one or two of them here on the channel

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It has been over a week since the last Post on the $20 Mac Pro 1,1 find. &nbsp; $20 Mac Pro saved from the Grave Yard BUT WHY??? In the condition it was purchased it was perfectly usable in 2020 even though it was stuck with El Cap. But can it be better? Upgrading from the dual Woodcrest Xeon 5150 dual core processors running at 2.66 GHz with 4mb L2 Cache.. To a matching set of

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Mac Pro 2006-2007 Firmware Tool Mac Pro 1,1 to 2,1. Check out our YouTube Channel for future Videos of these adventures And the reason to do the Firmware Upgrade is here: Building the Beast Mac Pro 1,1 Dual Quad Core 3GHz Finally after pulling my hair out (What little I have left!) I have successfully upgraded the Mac Pro 1,1 to 2,1.&nbsp; I had been trying unsuccessfully to upgrade the

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Why would any one want to get a Mac Pro Xeon 1,1 in 2020??? I did it!! Check the Upgrade here Building the Beast Mac Pro 1,1 Dual Quad Core 3GHz Check out our YouTube Channel for future Videos of these adventures Also Check This out!! Upgrading the&nbsp; Mac Pro 1,1 to a 2,1 for Dual Quad Xeon support &nbsp;A bit over a week ago I was stumbling through OfferUp looking for storage related

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Unboxing the Tonor BM-700 kit and hopefully that is not $48 bucks wasted.&nbsp; Let me know what you think and don’t forget to hit the subscribe button.&nbsp; Like, Share, Comment… WhatEver!!#Condencer #Tonor #BM-700 #NW-700 #Microphone #Studio #OfficeFree project music: This is Not Jazz by True Cuckoo of youtube’s project audio libraryHow is it going,&nbsp; in an effort to possibly revive this

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So this is an almost completed system.&nbsp; I am thinking about doing videos and guides on the system dependent on requests and time.&nbsp; At the moment I am running the Dell Optiplex 9020 MT with OS X High Sierra 10.13.6 installed Processor is an Intel Core i5-4570 Memory is Corsair DDR3&nbsp; PC3 12800 16GB of ram 2 x SSD's 860 EVO SATA 6Gb/s 250GB drives one for OS X, the other for Windows

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Mac OS X version 10.13.6 (17G4015) is required for this update. Please update your OS version and try again This has been an ongoing work in progress for the past 2 weeks solid.&nbsp; I picked up an inexpensive Dell Optiplex 9020 MT to try out some content creation and video work.&nbsp; After trying several options of using Windows 10, then trying Manjaro Linux with pass through (fail) due to

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Wordpress Malware Livestatsnet.services help removing One of our sites was infected with LIVESTATSNET.SERVICES when anything was clicked on the site it would open another browser tab going to http://iyfsearch.com/?dn=livestatsnet.services&amp;pid=9PO755G95 I am still tiring to get rid of all of it but this may help. 1. Verify your ftp credentials and download an ftp client. I recommend filezilla

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So I have picked up a great little Winbook TW700 with Windows 8.1 More on that later. But after installing FireFox (my most used browser) I was faced with this issue installing Adobe Flash player.&nbsp;&nbsp; Adobe Flash Player will not install on my Winbook tw700!!! &nbsp; The problem is the blank install screen for Adobe Flash Player for FireFox.&nbsp; Now Internet Explorer already

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Toshiba M700 PCI Simple Communication Controller Still working on the clean install of Windows Vista on the Toshiba M700 Tablet convertible laptop/notebook So this was a unit that was purchased with no hard drive "previous owner had a drive crash and removed it" and no recovery disks... I know .. stupid me thinking this would be easy.. So with the COA I know I am legal in loading Vista Business

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Doing a clean install of Windows Vista (Not a recover" on the Toshiba M700 Convertable Tablet style notebook comes with some problems.. As usual so after navigating through Toshiba's web site for downloads and thinking I had gotten everything .. device manager of Windows Vista showed no device driver for "PCI Memory Controller" after reinstalling driver after driver from the wonderful Toshiba

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Canon's newest Full Frame Camera Specifications leaked So I am not just a Geek if you follow me and look at some of the links around this blog you know I am an aspiring photographer as well. :) I guess you could say I am a professional seeing as though I have been contracted for paid shoots as well as the charity and non-paid stuff. But when the Specs for the Canon 6D came out I am having to

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How to recover photos, music, video, and media files deleted or lost from almost all digital Memory cards! Easy To Use CardRecoveryPro CardRecoveryPro Recover your files off of your SD Card, Compact Flash Camera Memory or Phone Memory cards from these issues Accidental Deleting deleting with out backup Delete All when deleting not so good photos Accidental pushing of the delete button when

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From So I got the Android Vizio VTab1008 running Gingerbread 2.3.2 for a couple of reasons. First cause it was cheap Second is because the Vizio 8" Tablet has GPS and bluetooth. GPS is some what important seeing that I would like to get rid of my dedicated GPS for the truck and minimize some toys. :) and For Skype and Google+... First off the Vizio Vtab1008 is really a good running tablet

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From tablet So there is not much information on this little Unbranded MID tablet so I will try and fill in some of the blanks. First off there is nothing on the box or in the manual as far as what brand this is or even the manufacturer. How they got a Google certification for Android Market I have no clue. Especialy when the Pandigital Tablets are 100 times better and work great. System info

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(Image Cnet) As I mentioned before that CES would be filled with UltrBooks from different manufacturers trying to capture the same market place that Apple has had for the last couple of years with the MacBook Air. HP not to be left behind came out with the Envy 14 Spectre. Basically a thin and light notebook targeted at the small business market. Almost fully clad in Gorilla Glass.. "Glass

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Asus 7 inch Tegra 3 Quad-Core ICS Tablet Asus Announces a 7" tablet and if I understood correctly it will have the Nvidia Tegra 3 "Quad-Core Processor" which is actualy 5 cores.. at a stunning price of 249.00 USD??? really ... :) this is right up my ally With Android Ice Cream Sandwich operating system While the previous version ran on Honeycomb and utilized a dual-core Qualcomm 8260-1.2Ghz

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