u/LVDave

Since I often don't erase nvram before upgrading, I took screenshots of each FT screen to speed up reconfig after upgrading to 2026.3. I have one problem that may/may not be casued by my previous upgrades without mvram clear. I grabbed the .trx, clicked the box that said "erase all data in nvram" and started the upgrade. Everything seemed to go fine, I got thanked for upgrading to the latest version. Then I started trying to connect to the GUI at 192.168.1.1, no joy,, With my workstation IP set to 192.168.1.2, if I pinged 192.168.1.1, there was nobody home...After a bit of banging my head against the wall, just for the HELL of it, I tried going back to my workstation's default config, that being a DHCP address of 192.168.240.2.. And voila!! Freshtomato 2026.3 was STILL configured... In other words, nvram was NOT erased... WTF?? The issue I have with USB printer support NOT seeing my Brother printer, yet doing lsusb shows the printer is detected just fine... One more time WTF??

Anybody got any ideas??? (and yes I KNOW I checked the "erase nvram" checkbox.... Thanks

I recently bought an off-lease Dell Precision 5560 laptop. The system came with one 512mb Nvme drive, but has a second slot for another drive. I purchased another 512mb and proceeded to attempt to remove the bottom cover's 8 T5 torX screws. 7 of the screws were able to be removed via a t5 torx screwdriver, but one of them, in the lower left corner acts like its been lock-tite'ed. I put as much force as I could and all I got was the screwdriver slipped and after several more tries the screw was damaged, and the t5 screwdriver would slip. I'm wondering if the Dell off-lease site I bought it from (www.dellrefurbished.com) is doing this to prevent access to the interior of the laptop with an impromptu "security screw". Anybody got any ideas?

Thanks