The death of a gaming PC.

[starkind]

Originally Posted by Whale biologist [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

okay, skimmed, if the SSD is bad just reinstall OS on the mechanical drive

That's really hARd [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

*trigger warning*

 

*seriously*

 

*for really real don't read further *

 

Clevergirl died from anorexia organ failure and dehydration on a plastic bed in a VA psyche ward because she was dumb and on a super fucking crazy amount of tic-tacs.

Starkind not super sMaRT or clever [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] brain is too hurted [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Whale biologist]

Originally Posted by starkind [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

That's really hARd [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

*trigger warning*

 

*seriously*

 

*for really real don't read further *

 

Clevergirl died from anorexia organ failure and dehydration on a plastic bed in a VA psyche ward because she was dumb and on a super fucking crazy amount of tic-tacs.

Starkind not super sMaRT or clever [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] brain is too hurted [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

it's not at all hard and tic-tacs give u mentat powers [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

if u get the right one

[Whale biologist]

Originally Posted by starkind [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

No. My PCs are free range. Probably infested with like several botnets. Especially after running the DLLs here lol.



Ok. So if I deleted my browser cache and then reboot and watch some more of Jibartik's really great YouTube videos and it fills up again, it's just going to crash again as soon as I run a game with a big ram profile and the OS just pages its 300mb printersppooler service... (which gets disabled when I run games anyway).

Yes. I understand it may temporarily fix it.

I could also put the page file on the other disk (the standard HD) and probably get away with it for a month or week. Until the SSD corrupts something the OS needs to boot. The Solid State Drive is still likely the culprit and will continue to fail more however.

So.

Yes. And no.

I have already tried that babe.

okay, skimmed, if the SSD is bad format the SSD in the menu and format+reinstall on mechanical

[mcoy]

I've always been a fan of memtest86. Passmark (ew) bought em - but there's an open sourced version:

https://www.memtest.org/

Make sure your sinks/fans are clean and loop this overnight. Also, most shops will plug a tester into your power supply for free. Sometimes weird stuff can happen if the caps wear and voltages aren't exact.

Two simple and (relatively) cheap fixes. Good luck!

-Mcoy

[starkind]

Originally Posted by Whale biologist [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

it's not at all hard and tic-tacs give u mentat powers [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

if u get the right one

See if u didn't skim u'd see thats major surgery 2 me now.

Maybe I'll try it your way after sleeping a few days.

Feels like a lot of work. For Maybe the mobo being a piece of shit rip off anyway

I would have been exited to 4 years ago I would have used it as an excuse to buy a new mechanical and dual boot FreeBSD. Now I'm just (drugs)

Originally Posted by mcoy [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I've always been a fan of memtest86. Passmark (ew) bought em - but there's an open sourced version:

https://www.memtest.org/

Make sure your sinks/fans are clean and loop this overnight. Also, most shops will plug a tester into your power supply for free. Sometimes weird stuff can happen if the caps wear and voltages aren't exact.

Two simple and (relatively) cheap fixes. Good luck!

-Mcoy

Yeah. You're absolutely right. Rly good stuff. I used to do that for a living. Good ol memtest. Boots off USB 2 I've done it before. There's like a system recovery bootable disc with it.

I'm not doing anything fast tho. So we'll see if in a week I do it or not.

[starkind]

Oh BTW. Windows 10 has a built-in memory checker.

P fucking cool.

I'm backing up my data b4 I start doing that.

This pc needs major firmware updates 2 and yeah it could also be the PSU. I have an APC otw so I'll probably do that on the side at some point before I give this PC 2 some poor hacker. Would hate to have someone getting this machine thinking it'll work.

I ran chckdisk and SMART those r fine. And ya my SSD is losing bits, nothing major yet tho.

Crashes when the ram is put under heavy load. Could be vram 2 maybe?

Temps r gr8. Always nice and cold. Even on hot days. I'll really miss that.

[starkind]

Memtest says only the creator can fix his creation.

[Arteker]

hit it few times with a sledgehhammer and end his suffering.

[starkind]

Well just a final update. Memtest crashed the system and couldn't log. The windows memetest does not give real time results. So.

Uhmm..

LOL! RIP

would be funny if it was one of the onboard caches fucking up!!!

[mcoy]

Originally Posted by starkind [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Well just a final update. Memtest crashed the system and couldn't log. The windows memetest does not give real time results. So.

Uhmm..

LOL! RIP

would be funny if it was one of the onboard caches fucking up!!!

Pull out one of your RAM sticks and rerun the test. Do this until you've swapped out and tested them all. Still failing? Get your psu tested for free at almost any shop (we did this when I worked at compusa but then they've been gone for ages so /shrug). Or, you can buy a psu tester on amazon for $15 - or ask a friend if you can borrow their psu for a night while you loop a test. It doesn't take much of a variance to cause a box to crash.

If it still fails after this - repeat after pulling everything out of the case and running the tests on a bench (piece of cardboard works too) to rule out a short to ground in your case. If it still fails after this - then you look at replacing more expensive stuff.

It's usually one of the cheaper things, fortunately. The plus side is when it isn't you end up with a decent upgrade over what you had.

-Mcoy