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Retaning tab for the keyboard ribbon cable had snapped off, so nothing secured the keyboard cable into the socket, which just produces the 2 Beep POST failure - Won't even reach UEFI. ( This error is also "No DRAM Detected", Helpful, Dell, Helpful. )

Tried a couple of different solutions, none of which appeared to work, peeled it apart a bit more to check and see if anything else was loose, and out clatters the missing piece of the connector, popped it in and it booted straight up.

Those 15R2 units have so many ribbon cables in.

Ran it through the diagnostics built into the UEFI and everything that was present; it passed with flying colours, Can't test the HDDs or Charger, though, since it lacks both of those currently.

I'll probably just pop some electrical tape around the socket once I've got it all squared away to make sure the tab doesn't work itself free, but it works currently, so I'm not going to complain!

Edit; Only sticking point; While it is the I7-6820HK unit - It's got an AMD R9 395x in there, not the 980M I originally thought it had, so that's a bit of a disappointment, but it'll still more than do for the things I'd like to run while I'm out and about.

Makes it a bit of a Unicorn though, I don't know of many of the 15R2 or 17R3 (Same PCB) that run that GPU, let alone with the 6820HK.

 

Turkey crown is in the fridge. Ham is getting picked up tomorrow. This piggy is gonna stuff his fat face.

 

I'll be having... *looks in kitchen*... Marmite sandwich probably.

 

Aunt Bessie does good Yorkshires that are frozen batter rather than frozen cooked ones. They're a lot nicer - I always found the frozen cooked ones far too dry. This reminds me that I really need to get my mum to give me her recipe for Yorkshires because there's no comparison between home made and shop bought.

 

Hot glue might work also?

 

Would rather use something easily reversible, just in case I need to pull it apart in future to clean out fans, heatsinks, thermal paste, etc...

Got the M.2 SSD (No NVMe here, sadly) - Boots to desktop within 10 seconds, it's making my desktop look bad.

 

I somehow have to make my stomach into a vacuum devoid of anything whatsoever before Sunday night.

The ham is a massive thing still on the bone, for the meal on Christmas Eve. What with the lass being Finnish and us being in the UK this year we have to do both fully kitted out big ol' Christmas meals with just one small sleep between them. Essentially it's - stuff face, sleep, roll out of bed and stuff face.

I know - i'm sacrificing my waistline for Christmas. Well, to be fair it's been tired of fighting for some time.

 

Dedicated Zoneminder box sitting behind an SSL-only nginx reverse proxy using letsencrypt certificates.

Motion detect zone is set to only the areas on my property - don't want an event/alarm to be triggered every time someone drives past. Next steps: configure SSH to only accept only key-signed logins; and figure out if I can stop motion detection being triggered when it rains at night... Although it did manage to capture a bat zooming past the camera last night - that was pretty cool.

 

I'm currently lying on freshly laid carpet it's so soft and fluffy I think I'm ignore putting furniture back into sleep on the floor tonight.

 

I can smell it just reading about it!

 

More than enough to get the meat sweats !

 

Santa's coming and I've been really good all year!