Run memtest a few times? Could be a bad stick. My all time high failed computer components list is
- PSU
- Memory
- Hard drives (but this is the most expected over time)
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I agree RAM fails a lot but the symptom is usually bluescreens rather than sudden power cycles
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fwiw, the only thing thatās failed on my Ivy Bridge machine that has been tortured for a full decade is the PSU, and I think that was only because I was using it with an under-spec UPS
I always blame the PSU first
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wow they really tried to make this process as comical and awful as possible
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yeah, honestly modern phones just arenāt engineered in a way that makes this an at all pleasant idea anymore, and I trust iFixit way more to actually make a commercially viable repair product should it come to that.
when I got my Xās battery replaced like a year ago for something like $80 they actually unseated my phone earpiece the first time they tried and I had to bring it back the next day for them to fix it again
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Steam Deck review:
monkey brain: you mean I can stay in bed and play PSO?
sapient brain: oh no
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yeah I absolutely love mine
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iāve been lucky i think in that it has overwhelmingly been hard drives for me
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15% IPC gain taking into account clock speed seems kind of bad, I wonder if I should get a 5900X after all
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god though Iām still so annoyed that they couldnāt just put a basic iGPU on Zen 3 just so itād function as an additional display out, I canāt do it
canāt believe I forgot the rule that every time they make you buy new memory the first generation that uses it is barely better than the last one and itās the second one after that which is always really good
it would be completely ridiculous for me to hold out upgrading my desktop any longer though I have to admit I kind of want to nowā¦ also kind of unimpressed with RTX 4000 only being 16GB in a double slotā¦
folks Iām looking ahead to 2024, letās go Ivy Bridge
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Possibly dumb question:
I have an old laptop whose main internal HDD SATA connector is just dead. Donāt know how to fix it without getting a new motherboard, but thatās more than the laptop is worth, probably.
I can mount a hard drive in the optical bay. I though I would try to boot from that. However, the BIOS for my laptop doesnāt seem to support booting from the SATA connection designated for the optical drive.
Is there any chance I can force this laptop (itās a Dell Inspiron 3541 from some time around 2015) to boot from a hard drive installed in my optical bay? Is there possibly a boot manager solution?
(Before I got another laptop, I was running Windows off a 128GB thumb drive, but it was miserable slow.)
lol
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My laptop is damn near 9 years old I feel like you can swing it
well, AMD at the very least is pushing out the Steam Deckās APU for OEMs so now they can make a whole category of 4-600 dollar cheapo laptop killers
seeing what the Deck can do in person, I think thatās way more a palatable option for cheap gaming than any of the 6xxx mobile lineup (insomuch that Van Gogh/Aerith (sighā¦) can be made in actual volume owing to Zen 2 and not a modern node)
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btw if this power cycling turns out to be the board, who makes decent ones these days, this msi shit sucks bad
spoiler: MSI makes the good AMD boards
(really itās more āthey all make good boards (not ASRock) and you have to pick the actually good ones out of the lineupā)
oh no Iāve been buying asrock uncritically for a long time albeit intel
i bought the one that was a meme at the time and it defaults to showing a picture of a tank when you boot
though im prob gonna go back to intel next time tbh
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- Shows the amount of problems in your workspace