VW Polo 9N 9N3 Cluster Change

2023-08-09 | #car #polo #vw

Background I did this originally because the indicator lights in the old cluster stopped working. Not wanting to risk an MOT failure over something stupid I set about changing the cluster. I decided because they are cheap to try and program a 9N3 cluster instead of go like-for-like with the old one - simply because 9N3 clusters are newer and hopefully will have more life left in them. If you are going to put a 9N3 cluster in your 9N, make sure the 9N3 cluster has the same warning lights as what yours does (for example, ESP).

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Controlling Gigabyte Aorus RGB Hidden BIOS Settings

2020-07-01 | #bios #hardware #linux #rgb

Introduction I recently built a computer with a Gigabyte Aorus X570 PRO (non-WIFI) motherboard. One of the things I noticed is that many custom build computers come with lighting - often referred to as RGB. This board by default has the lighting set to orange. After setting up everything else I decided to see if I could mess around with the RGB and set it more to my own taste. As this board does not have RGB configuration in the BIOS, the only way to change it would be using Gigabyte’s RGB Fusion software.

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