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Blaze Trends<p>RTX 5090 GPU and PSU Damaged by Overheated 12VHPWR Power Cable</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/12VHPWR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>12VHPWR</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/gpu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gpu</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/hardwarefailure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hardwarefailure</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nvidia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nvidia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RTX5090" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RTX5090</span></a> <br><a href="https://blazetrends.com/rtx-5090-gpu-and-psu-damaged-by-overheated-12vhpwr-power-cable/?fsp_sid=8292" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blazetrends.com/rtx-5090-gpu-a</span><span class="invisible">nd-psu-damaged-by-overheated-12vhpwr-power-cable/?fsp_sid=8292</span></a></p>
Drew Naylor<p>I think my <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/PSU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PSU</span></a> is all outta juice and I need to get a new one, I kept having issues where everything I tried to run on <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a> would crash for a bit before working again, then I'd reboot and it was fine until just recently where I was trying to open a folder and Dolphin started hanging, and trying to navigate to that folder in Firefox (a git repo I cloned) showed me nothing when I tried opening the file I wanted. So I rebooted, and it took longer to start than it...<br>1/4</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/HardwareFailure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HardwareFailure</span></a></p>
Jupiter RowlandSeems like the original intestines of my most powerful machine are giving up the ghost by and by. I had already replaced the old Radeon HD 7770 graphics card with a Radeon RX 590 a few months ago.<br><br>Now something else must have broken.<br><br>All I know that the whole machine froze while running under high load, including playing a video. Not even the mouse cursor moved anymore.<br><br>Ever since, I can't boot any operating system anymore. The installed Debian seems to halt around the point when it's supposed to create the RAM disc. A Manjaro live system wouldn't boot. Live Debian doesn't boot either, not from an USB drive and not from DVD. It simply stops with a black screen with backlight on. So the boot process starts, but it always halts at some point.<br><br>Memtest86+ works. One run didn't show any issues, but I didn't want to leave it running for hours over night or so until something shows up.<br><br>Now I'm wondering what broke this time.<br><br><strong>RAM:</strong> Will be easy to detect by re-installing the old RAM. I got me some used replacement RAM along with the RX 590, also to increase the amount of RAM in the machine. It didn't come in appropriate packaging, though. Still, it worked. Could be it no longer does.<br><br><strong>CPU:</strong> An old 3-core Phenom II, older even than the mainboard. Might not have survived the mistreatment over the lasts few years. A lot of load for at least one core over hours continuously, and I've never replaced the cooler or the thermal paste. A damaged CPU would be easy to replace for now by acquiring an AMD FX for cheap and adding a second-hand cooler for both the AM3+ and the AM4 socket which I could keep after eventually upgrading the mainboard.<br><br><strong>Mainboard:</strong> A 970A-UD3. Newer than the CPU, but has seen over a decade of duty. Mainboards should take a lot of beating, but I think they're more susceptible to aging than CPUs. If the mainboard is broken, a repair would be more costly, and I'm on a budget already. Replacement full-size board, replacement CPU (Ryzen 5 Zen probably), replacement RAM, and I'll need a replacement cooler anyway.<br><br><strong>SSD:</strong> Well, I'd replaced the original HDD with an SSD that had run in another machine previously, although it's still newer than the mainboard. But I don't think live systems refuse to start due to a faulty SSD.<br><br><strong>Graphics card:</strong> Nope. The graphics card is the second-newest component in that machine. I've installed it only a few months ago. And believe me, I know what a failing graphics card looks like. That wasn't it.<br><br><strong>PSU:</strong> Nope. That's <em>the</em> newest component, and I think 500W are sizable for this machine.<br><br>Come to think of it, not long after installing the replacement graphics card, I experienced a full shutdown. Like, the machine went out completely at once. That happened when I had two instances of the Firestorm viewer running with both avatars at the same party. I did that because the machine finally had the oomph to handle two Firestorms now with 8GB of VRAM instead of 1GB and 16GB of identical RAM instead of a 12GB hodge-podge partly salvaged from the same machine as the SSD.<br><br>I can test the SSD and the RAM tomorrow. As for the rest, no idea.<br><br>#<a class="" href="https://hub.netzgemeinde.eu/search?tag=ComputerIssues" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ComputerIssues</a> #<a class="" href="https://hub.netzgemeinde.eu/search?tag=HardwareFailure" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">HardwareFailure</a> #<a class="" href="https://hub.netzgemeinde.eu/search?tag=Long" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Long</a> #<a class="" href="https://hub.netzgemeinde.eu/search?tag=LongPost" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">LongPost</a> #<a class="" href="https://hub.netzgemeinde.eu/search?tag=CWLong" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">CWLong</a> #<a class="" href="https://hub.netzgemeinde.eu/search?tag=CWLongPost" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">CWLongPost</a>
Yves L. Jardin-Noam<p>Having an issue with my Nintendo Switch. Replaced the fan, but now the screen is unresponsive and freezes on the logo splash. Got into recovery mode, but touch doesn't work, and it's stuck on initializing the refresh (12+ hrs). Research shows this happens, without solutions. Day one unit. </p><p>Am I bricked? Others seen this? Does Switch have proprietary part scan?</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nintendo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nintendo</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nintendoSwitch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nintendoSwitch</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/techRepair" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>techRepair</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/hardwareFailure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hardwareFailure</span></a></p>
Drew Naylor<p>Are new <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Samsung" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Samsung</span></a> 870 EVO SSDs still failing even with the newest firmware, or was it just the batches from 2021 and some from 2022? Tried to do research and haven't seen any recent results for certain that weren't two months old or more.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/SSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SSD</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/870EVO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>870EVO</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/SSDFailure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SSDFailure</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/hardware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hardware</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/HardwareFailure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HardwareFailure</span></a></p>