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1. Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Nov-2023 08:03:31 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

   I crashed my desktop so hard the reset button didn't work. That's probably not a good sign

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Nov-2023 08:59:45 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     It crashed again, I rebooted, it got to the login screen, and I typed nearly 6 letters of my password before it crashed again. Uh oh

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Nov-2023 11:44:58 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Elton Carvalho

     @eltonfc this motherboard is like 2 years old! The caps can't go bad THAT fast

   • Elton Carvalho (eltonfc@bertha.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Nov-2023 11:44:59 JST Elton Carvalho

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     @foone I blame the electrolytic capacitors

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Nov-2023 11:46:56 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     So I have reason to suspect the case is fucky (grounding problems with the USB), and this feels like either a motherboard or cpu problem.
     The cpu is like 5 years old, the motherboard only 2.
     Could also, in theory, be ram?

     So I'll need to memtest it, and also try watching the temperatures while it runs. I've never had cooling problems before, but the way it kept getting worse when I rebooted it smells like cooling.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Nov-2023 12:35:35 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Stephanie Loves to Make

     @stephlahs certainly possible! I haven't changed the PSU in a while, so if it's glitching and crashing my motherboard, it'd explain a lot

   • Stephanie Loves to Make (stephlahs@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Nov-2023 12:35:36 JST Stephanie Loves to Make

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     @foone
     The most common failures are power supply and ram, followed by CPU, and finally motherboard. Motherboard failures are typically damaged components.
     A damaged power supply would have a similar signature to what you're seeing. Damaged motherboard typically results in the board not booting at all (you'd never make it to a login screen). Same with CPU.
     (I spent years repairing motherboard engineering samples)

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 09-Nov-2023 02:18:45 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Mia

     @mia this is a water cooled system but the temperatures didn't look that bad when I checked them. I'll have to look more into that

   • Mia (mia@girlcock.club)'s status on Thursday, 09-Nov-2023 02:18:46 JST Mia

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     @foone I had literally this exact problem and it was a failing cooling system. Once I replaced the water cooler unit, everything worked again