Root Access

Journeyman Geek

12:07 AM

hah

@allquixotic EA is the oracle of game publishers anyway...

where good products go to be milked to death.

bwDraco

12:45 AM

So... currently running a Ryzen 7 1800X at 3.95 GHz, 1.344V (was thoroughly validated for 1.338V but a bit of extra voltage is perfectly safe at these levels and only helps with stability). Idle power is about 83W, which is rather high but not unreasonably so for an overclocked system.

Journeyman Geek

1:27 AM

Review of the ION Bottleless Water Cooler

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Michael Frank

If you know a PSU is good, how do you test if the CPU or the Motherboard is the cause of a dead system?

Journeyman Geek

modern motherboards should tell you

also CPUs have few parts that can fail

Michael Frank

What about a not-so-modern motherboard?

Short of replacing either component and seeing if I guessed correctly, I can't see of many ways to do this. :|

Journeyman Geek

by modern, I mean within the last ... 5 years?

Bob

@MichaelFrank Swap in a known good one. It's the only way to be sure.

If you want to guess, look for bad caps on the motherboard.

Journeyman Geek

1:37 AM

also, how do you know the PSU is good?

Bob

Also, how exactly is it "dead"?

Michael Frank

Because I tried it in another machine here, along with trying a new PSU in this dead machine.

Dead as a doornail.

Journeyman Geek

"VTC, unclear what you're asking" ;p

ah, that works

Bob

Then it's the mobo.

Or the power switch.

Or the wire from the power switch.

Journeyman Geek

power switch is an easy check

(just short the pins)

bwDraco

1:38 AM

@JourneymanGeek It depends - higher-end motherboards have a POST code seven-segment display on the board.

Michael Frank

No pins to short on this thing...

Journeyman Geek

@bwDraco lower end ones have a simple LCD

Bob

Most motherboards with a dead CPU will still beep at you, IIRC. Or at least try to power on the PSU (fans spin up)

Michael Frank

It's a POS controller... Not really a standard computer. ;)

Journeyman Geek

@MichaelFrank what is "this thing"?

ph, industrial PC type thing?

bwDraco

1:39 AM

@MichaelFrank Short the green wire to any black wire on the ATX12V cable, if one is present. The power supply should turn on.

Michael Frank

fujitsu.com/downloads/SOL/fai/retailing/support/…

@bwDraco PSU turns on fine, that was the first check.

Journeyman Geek

no diagnostic lights?

Michael Frank

Nope. Which is why it's basically a 50/50 Mobo/CPU fault. :)

Journeyman Geek

@MichaelFrank CPU failures are super rare

motherboard failures are pretty common

Michael Frank

Alrighty... I'll try it that way first.

Bob

1:43 AM

@bwDraco protip: look at the wire position, not the colour

the colours can sometimes be ... different

Journeyman Geek

@Bob as can positions

and that's assuming its a standard PSU or even has wires

Bob

@JourneymanGeek not unless you have a 15 year old Dell machine

Journeyman Geek

assuming, in general is bad? ;p

also, looking at the specs its possible these things are laptop or soldered in sandy bridge

Michael Frank

It's not a soldered in model.

Annnyway, luckily I have a spare motherboard is stock. I'll try that one first.

Journeyman Geek

I half suspect that'll work

Journeyman Geek

2:01 AM

looks like the decedents of larabee are dead/dying techreport.com/news/32829/…

I have a list of 20K+ account IDs from the SU spam wave

and

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A: De-linkify links in network profile if a network-wide suspension is applied

Update: As of November 13th 2017, all Website fields and links in the "About Me" profile sections are unlinked on stackexchange.com. We can thank the increasing spam activity on the network (a.k.a. The Great Super User Spam Invasion of 2017). So, in other words... this feature request is status-c...

is one of the things that happened cause of it. Looks like TPTB's probably going to clean them up server side too

Bob

2:25 AM

> Ferry McFerryface to be name of new Sydney ferry after public vote

Michael Frank

Okay, so I've replaced the motherboard, it turns on for a couple seconds before restarting and doing it all over again.

Journeyman Geek

everything is broken? ;p

Michael Frank

Yea lol

These things are a piece of crap tbh

But it's doing more than before, so... progress?

Michael Frank

2:42 AM

Success!

So it was both. D:

Oh, I replaced the CPU as well.

Journeyman Geek

0_0

I will show you what is inside

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Ramhound

4:10 AM

I must admit, I am shocked, at how humorous I can be at times

You do realize that means nothing to me right? I appreciate the kind words, and wish you a merry Christmas and a happy New Years also! — Ramhound 6 mins ago

User pings me with a non-English response and I wish them a happy New Years! Didn’t know how else to reply :-$

Michael Frank

4:46 AM

@Ramhound Did you see what a translation said?

> sorry for all, i'm stupid about the code, sorry a lot i would like to ask that any command can move the top filter (png) like in the video, thank you very much

Journeyman Geek

@Ramhound I need to go down that sockpuppet rabbithole later

Bob

5:13 AM

why is it so hard to figure out a mac's cpu model

bloody apple

Journeyman Geek

@Bob 0_0

Psycogeek

Well Apple wouldn't want to complicate things with facts

Journeyman Geek

tekrevue.com/tip/find-mac-cpu-model

@Bob ^ ehhhh

typical apple? ;p

Bob

5:27 AM

@JourneymanGeek yea it's a pain

Psycogeek

5:47 AM

The Coalition for self-driving cars is running a campaign to get the cars on the road.
They're saying that even if they're not ready now if they put them on the road it would pressure them into making it work right. Lol, as they are still decades away from replacing humans
So if an automated vehicle kills you you thank these self-driving car coalition

Just the lawsuits alone from mindless etana Bots killing small children would cripple the thing if they want to push this on the public quickly

Psycogeek

6:03 AM

Yay pictures

Psycogeek

6:18 AM

Stormtrooper transportation

Psycogeek

6:32 AM

With no backyard or doggie door the dogs have to be walked and walked and again. That mini Segway hoverboard thing can be world's laziest dog walker.

The bigger younger dog runs out in front of it at 10 miles an hour. as a team we're pretty good at keeping from running into each other. This way I can tack on more miles for the young dog who can easily walk or run 10 miles a day.

After miles of walking and running the dog will turn to you and yawn as if he's barely begun, "show me the squirrels"

Boris_yo

6:47 AM

@JourneymanGeek He's stoned...

@Psycogeek Nice lair you got there...

@Psycogeek Nice stormtrooper's scooter you got there...

Psycogeek

Truthfully even a small apartment that isn't in very good shape would be better than these RV things in price comfort, and if you want to go somewhere use a motel or a hotel this most certainly isn't always fun or a good way to live

Psycogeek

7:15 AM

But then not a lot of apartments are advertising for two mutts and a nut.
Yeah just try and get into the Hyatt with two dogs I would have to disguise them as children

Damn ugly children😎

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