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On my Gigabyte board there are two CPU fan headers, since they know lots of people are using tower coolers with two fans. When I was initially testing the board outside the case I only had one fan on the tower, and noticed the fan was turning off after booting. So I hooked up the 2nd fan and checked...

Ridiculous to put a cool down on something as basic as a health pack, especially when it's done retroactively. I bet they did it in response to those players who are always complaining about every game that "it's too easy!".

I think this case was the most challenging to build in, in all of my 23 years of doing this. It took a while but I finally got past all the obstacles with hidden screws etc. I still have more work to do but it's up and running. This is the cleanest build I've ever done. My mech drive sounds louder b...

The side panels are interchangeable with both sides, so I could put the other side panel on in place of the glass panel until the replacement arrives if I wanted to.

Since I have one of these cases and after seeing a lot of reports about how easily the glass panel shatters when I looked up how to safely remove the panel, I ordered a solid replacement panel from Corsair . Maybe if enough people order the solid panel it'll send a message :) This one may also sligh...

I remember before I had a computer capable of running Windows 95 reading all about it in a computer magazine and how great it would be for DOS games with the way it could boot into "DOS mode" with customized Autoexec.bat and config.sys. Windows95_release_day.jpg Somehow I don't think MS co...

For the mayonnaise fanboys lol!
I've been seeing these on FB lately by someone who always emphasizes that the images were generated by AI and not real.

I've noticed big price changes after buying something on Amazon. They use algorithms that automatically adjust the price of items based on demand. It doesn't hurt having plenty of overhead aside from the extra cost. I have some watt meters I use to measure power consumption, when gaming or compiling...

I missed the sale before it ended. Kind of a pricey game particularly the digital premium edition.

Well... shit. Know what I did? Let's throw more money at the problem. I know the feeling, been there far too many times. I ordered a set of those extensions, because of something else I did in response to not having another case with the airflow these newer processors need, at least none housing ma...

Looks good. The cabling doesn't look bad by my standards, mine are typically much messier.

The standoffs should ground the motherboard from the case, and the power supply should be grounded to the wall socket. I wonder if it could be the power supply. I have experienced static shocks when touching a computer but it never had any impact on it that I can recall.

Yeah I've heard lots of horror stories from people trying to do an RMA with those companies. I got lucky when my Radeon 7 card died, XFX refunded the full price I paid. This was during the video card shortage so that may be why they didn't send me a replacement card.

I enjoy watching his videos, I think it's been 2 years since I first discovered his channel. He lives near my older sister and brother-in-law, and they frequent the same MicroCenter store that he often goes to. They watch his videos too, I'm waiting for the day when they tell me they met him there l...

Yeah I'm going to reuse the DDR4 that's currently on the MSI board (64 GB), and then the MSI board will get the memory from the board that it will replace. I considered going DDR5 (there's a DDR5 variant of this Gigabyte board) until I saw the price of 64 GB of DDR5 lol!

I bet some people have ended up drilling out the rivets holding those enclosures in place

Looks good, hopefully it gets better down the road. On my Ryzen machine it doesn't register the CPU temp (stays at 0 C) but it works on my Intel machine. I haven't played around with it yet.

Well I made an executive decision. I've been planning for a long time to redo the machine I use while working for all my look ups and reference material, my personal email and other stuff I need to keep track of. I'm going to repurpose this MSI board for that, along with the rest of the machine, min...

Yeah you have to hold it in while pulling out on the card. About 10 years ago I ended up breaking off the latch on a motherboard while trying to get a card out. It didn't otherwise do any damage and the slot remained functional.

I've seen those video cards mounted that way, just so that the fan side of the card faces out when viewed through a windowed side panel. That always looks weird to me, and seems like it would be hard to work around when trying to get your hand in there to access sata ports etc. I think they use rise...

Yeah I never would have guessed an SSD could do that, especially when it seemed to be working normally.

Next thing you know you'll be installing magnetic LED light strips lol!

I retried it this morning without the old Samsung drive and now I have screens on cold boots! So it was the Samsung drive all along. I put the two drives back in and I'm back up. Yeah when it wasn't bootlooping on a warm boot I could boot into Slackware on that drive and it worked perfectly fine. We...

One thing that occurred to me, that Samsung drive was common to both my Intel system and my Ryzen system before that. My Ryzen system never bootlooped but it did have no display on cold boots. Seems like a bit of a stretch but something to explore.

Well this isn't going well. I thought I'd go ahead and try flashing the bios, but guess what? Since it basically does a cold boot before going into bios flash mode I have no screen (because of the weird no screen output on cold boots until reaching an OS login manager issue). So there is no way for ...

I've been hearing people rave about Btop so I finally decided to try it.

The CPU temp monitor may be useful.

Probably written by someone who's English skills need some work, just like whoever wrote the descriptions of the bios settings

lol!

I may need to flash the bios on this Z690P board. No matter what I try I can't get a 4th UEFI entry to appear in the motherboard's UEFI menu, or a 4th UEFI OS to even be recognized by the board. It ignored my new Arch install even after carefully re-creating the entry multiple times and updating Gru...

TVs with Roku built-in and connected to the Internet got a big dialog on their screens making them agree to forced arbitration. This was about a week ago, now it comes out that there was a big Roku breach with lots of their users having their data and accounts stolen. So now we know the reason for t...