u/PantherCityRes

Family member giving me their old Graphite G4, but they don't remember their password since the last time they used it was 2015. I'd like to surprise them by pulling off whatever old photos or memories onto a USB stick before I reimage it.

Anybody know how to reset the password or a workaround?

Mix and match time - need some advice on configuring these components and thoughts on "is it worth it." (See current config below)

I have 2 spare Nvidia 7900GT cards with the SLI bridge. Ideally I'd like to use them both under SLI in a GPU passthrough for either WinXP or a Win7 VM.

What I'm thinking, is swap my Quadro into the old storage server. Then put the GT710 into my Precision for the host GPU in the PCIE2x4 slot.

Target System - Dell Precision - Dual Xeon, 256GB DDR4, 825W PSU

• 2 PCIE3x16 (225W each)
  • Current: Quadro K600 (75W)
• 1 PCIE3x8 (25W)
  • NVME to PCIE card in it
• 1 PCIE2x4 (25W)

Older Storage Server - Old DIY - Core 2 Duo, 8GB DDR2, 500W PSU

• PCIE2x16
  • Currently running Nvidia GT710 (25W)

Thoughts?

Key Questions I got:

• Are the 7900GT running in SLI going to create reliability problems on my Precision from the power draw?
• Will the GT710 ever be under powered by just running either Windows Server 2025 or a full GUI Linux distro?
• Has anyone ever passed through SLI into a VM?
• Is it worth it to try and execute the GPU passthrough with Windows Hyper-V? Or should I just suck it up and throw on Proxmox? (It's a Windows Server machine right now)