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From: william (WILLIAMA)
1 Feb 2021 11:42
To: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)
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Yep, tried it with no drives. Booted to the BIOS once then failed to boot when I turned it off and on.
From: william (WILLIAMA)
1 Feb 2021 13:01
To: william (WILLIAMA)
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OK - had another go with a totally rebuilt, minimal, PC. Still no POST. Swapped the PSU into the Plex server again and it works perfectly.
Off to PCpartpicker!
From: william (WILLIAMA)
5 Feb 2021 23:27
To: william (WILLIAMA)
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Just to complete the story, I am now chugging along with a Ryzen 5 3600, MSI B550 Mortar, EVGA 1660 Super, and 16GB of Corsair Vengeance 3600 memory. PSU still holding out.
EDITED: 7 Feb 2021 11:28 by WILLIAMA
From: Dave!!
6 Feb 2021 11:39
To: william (WILLIAMA)
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Very nice!
From: william (WILLIAMA)
6 Feb 2021 12:18
To: Dave!!
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I haven't dared to look at my bank account recently.
I got a discount on the mobo by buying from Amazon "used but as new". Well, it wasn't exactly that, because some dickhead had rammed a front USB plug in, probably backwards, so the pins were pointing all over the place. Probably the reason it was returned. Once that was fixed it was fine.
I do feel like I'm behind the times though, since this is the first fully graphical/UEFI BIOS I've had. My last board had a dual view, but what could be done through the graphical view was limited compared to the trad menu system. All this memory profile malarky is new to me. I'm sure I'll get the hang of it.
From: Dave!!
6 Feb 2021 12:24
To: william (WILLIAMA)
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Had the exact same experience building my current system. Things have moved on a long way since my Core i5 system from 2009! Saying that, I guess one the reasons why it seems a big change is just because of how long systems last for these days.
Rewind a chunk and it was typical to pretty much replace a PC after 3-4 years, nowadays it's not difficult to keep a system going for 8+ years with a couple of minor upgrades here and there. Hence when we do eventually do a full replacement, a lot of things have changed in the meantime.
From: Manthorp
11 Feb 2021 09:47
To: william (WILLIAMA)
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Glad you're up and running now.
From: william (WILLIAMA)
11 Feb 2021 17:08
To: Manthorp
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Thank you kindly.
My heart sank a bit this morning when my Plex box was missing from the Network. It was hanging on the restart from a recent Windows update with a message that the memory had decreased "Press F1 to continue or F2 for setup". Sure enough, only 8 of 16GB showing. I pulled all the sticks out and reseated them, which restored the full amount. Hopefully that's it.
From: william (WILLIAMA)
28 Apr 2023 08:49
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Those of you waiting on the least bit of news from me (which not even I do) will be delighted to know that I got in excess of two more years of service from the PSU mentioned in this thread. It is now totally defunct, failing paper clip and multimeter tests. Seems to have been killed by a very long run of FlowFrames, a video frame interpolation app which uses GPU, CPU, Disk and RAM intensively. It probably lasted for over two hours of this and suffered numerous similar insults in the last couple of weeks. I'll be interested to see whether it actually finished when the new PSU arrives.
From: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)
28 Apr 2023 18:09
To: william (WILLIAMA)
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Had a work NAS fail unexpectedly a few weeks back. Not a drive issue (the 4 RAID drives in it are probably fine); a 'zombie' celeron/chipset (LPC clock) issue we were never notified of. Luckily this was our formerly main file server that had been relegated to backup use several years ago ... I look at these devices differently now.
https://forum.qnap.com/viewtopic.php?f=45&t=157459