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 From:  CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)  
 To:  milko      
41538.36 In reply to 41538.35 
I can't believe you BYO and don't have an old, undead PSU squirreled away.

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 From:  milko   
 To:  CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)     
41538.37 In reply to 41538.36 
Like I say, small flat, big clear out when the baby arrived. I gave the near-complete remains of my PCs previous incarnation to my brother in law.
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 From:  koswix  
 To:  milko      
41538.38 In reply to 41538.37 
Plenty of room for bikes, though.

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 From:  milko   
 To:  koswix     
41538.39 In reply to 41538.38 
I have a small shed exclusively reserved for my two plus all their kit, yup. There is actually still a box of PC gubbins around somewhere, but no PSU in there, it's more obscure bits of cabling and whatnot.
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 From:  CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)  
 To:  milko      
41538.40 In reply to 41538.39 
Fess up. The super-annuated PSU is buried in a nearby vacant lot with all kinds of valuable shit your wife can't know about/in your bff's broom closet /with the spare tire in your car. STOP FUCKING LYING.

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 From:  koswix  
 To:  milko      
41538.41 In reply to 41538.39 
Wow, you keep your bikes in a shed in London and they stay there?

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 From:  milko   
 To:  koswix     
41538.42 In reply to 41538.41 
Well, I don't want to jinx it. But yeah, sure. I sank a u-lock into a bucket of cement underneath it and cut a hole in the floor when I built the shed, so they lock to that. But so far as I know, nobody's so much as tried yet.

Many of the bad things people say about London ain't really so!
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 From:  koswix  
 To:  milko      
41538.43 In reply to 41538.42 
>>Many of the bad things people say about London ain't really so!

But then again, much of it is! I'll never forget walking to the bus stop and wondering what all the flowers piled up outside a pub was all about. Turns out a 14 year old kid was stabbed to death when he refused to hand over his mobile :|

As for bikes, I've given up trying to own one in Edinburgh until I have somewhere properly secure to keep it. The best one was when I got home one day to notice my bike had been nicked from the stairwell (D-locked to a sturdy railing, they'd chipped the concrete step away to get the railing out. D'oh). The next morning, after the thieves realised how shit the bike was, it was returned to the stair. Managed to keep hold of it another 3 weeks before it was nicked again, this time for good :(

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 From:  milko   
 To:  koswix     
41538.44 In reply to 41538.43 
Well yes, unfortunately people get stabbed here sometimes. I don't think that's a particularly London thing though? Seem to be plenty of cities in the UK with a bit of a gang problem. I dunno, maybe there is more of it proportionally to anywhere else, that's some big sums to do. I do live in relatively leafy 'n quiet Ealing though (albeit a bit of the riot happened here the other year too). I was more meaning things like people saying "and nobody ever helps anyone on the Tube!" which I see a lot, but actually I also see a lot of people helping other people on the tube as well. I didn't realise Edinburgh was so positively Liverpudlian with its need for bike security!
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 From:  koswix  
 To:  milko      
41538.45 In reply to 41538.44 
It was more of the age of those involved that shocked me.

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 From:  milko   
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41538.46 
Absolutely nothing happening. I've got the motherboard out of the case, no ram no graphics, literally just the CPU and cooler (corsair h80i so it's using a few plugs to supposedly power that). The motherboard lights come on as so as I turn on the PSU, but I can't get it to go any further.

Is it possible for the CPU to cause this, or am I pretty much able to blame the motherboard at this point?
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 From:  koswix  
 To:  milko      
41538.47 In reply to 41538.46 
Any dodgy looking capacitors on the motherboard? I'd suspect motherboard over cpu tbh.

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 From:  milko   
 To:  koswix     
41538.48 In reply to 41538.47 
I can't see anything, but much of it is covered by this armour stuff which I have liked for durability but maybe not so much now.
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 From:  CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)  
 To:  milko      
41538.49 In reply to 41538.48 
Heat-spreading armour stuff or hardened against nuclear blast armour stuff?

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 From:  99% of gargoyles look like (MR_BASTARD)  
 To:  milko      
41538.50 In reply to 41538.49 
And, perhaps more importantly, would the armour be sufficient in the event of a shark attack? I read that Sharknado 4 is in the offing.

truffy.gifbastard by name
bastard by nature

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 From:  Drew (X3N0PH0N)  
 To:  milko      
41538.51 In reply to 41538.35 
Quote: 
the motherboard's current version costs £275 fucking pounds, there is no way that's getting matched. I wonder what level of downgrade I can get without missing something noticeable.

Motherboards that cost that much are just laden with 'features' that literally no one will ever make use of. And, I suspect, just create more potential points of failure.

If you can't get it sorted under warranty (via your friend) then just get a decent normal-person motherboard and it'll be fine.

I got this one when I built a new PC in January and it's serving me well. Even when I accidentally ripped one of the PCI slots off the motherboard because I didn't notice they had clips.

 

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 From:  milko   
 To:  Drew (X3N0PH0N)     
41538.52 In reply to 41538.51 
Agreed. I was looking at that one as a replacement! Or a Gigabyte of approximate equivalence seeing as it's ASUS that just messed up on me.
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 From:  Drew (X3N0PH0N)  
 To:  milko      
41538.53 In reply to 41538.52 
Anything at about that level should be fine. Expensive enough not to have cut-corners but cheap enough not to be loaded down with nonsense.
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 From:  ANT_THOMAS  
 To:  Drew (X3N0PH0N)     milko      
41538.54 In reply to 41538.51 
I've got a Gigabyte GA-Z97P-D3 in my server that came as part of a bundle from Scan. Looks like it's a more basic version of all the Z97 based boards.
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 From:  william (WILLIAMA)  
 To:  milko      
41538.55 In reply to 41538.1 
So, is it fixed yet?
never trust a man in a blue trench coat, never drive a car when you're dead
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