doingthestuff

joined 8 months ago
[–] doingthestuff@lemy.lol 6 points 3 hours ago

I've never heard of it.

[–] doingthestuff@lemy.lol 14 points 5 hours ago

People are generally missing service in their lives. Thanks for the comment, from another old guy.

[–] doingthestuff@lemy.lol -1 points 5 hours ago (4 children)

Honestly the loudest people on the left are a big reason the country went so hard right.

[–] doingthestuff@lemy.lol 3 points 5 hours ago

You can get a small window AC unit for like $200. I moved to a super hot humid area at 21, first thing I did despite working minimum wage was I bought a cheap window AC. Because I wanted to live. It only cooled my bedroom but I basically lived in that room for the next couple of months.

How the hell can that many people in Europe die when life saving cooling is so easily accessible? I know I hear Europeans say, "Not many houses have AC." Okay. But maybe consider it if you're dying? Seriously wtf.

[–] doingthestuff@lemy.lol 0 points 5 hours ago

No one will complain when he is killed in prison. My only hope is that he gets tortured sufficiently before he dies.

[–] doingthestuff@lemy.lol 2 points 5 hours ago

I am not a murderer, but I also don't believe that killing to protect innocents is murder.

[–] doingthestuff@lemy.lol 2 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

I'd like to be paid to hike trails please. Preferably in the western US. What should I study?

[–] doingthestuff@lemy.lol 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

We already don't care for our aging population well at all. Reducing population requires way more planning and resources than you think. Nations that are actually losing population are really struggling with this reality.

[–] doingthestuff@lemy.lol 9 points 6 hours ago

Out of that the US lacks health care for all, and it lacks transit pretty much everywhere outside of the large cities. Even the cities pretty much have nothing that reaches all the way out to the suburbs.

Where I live, you have to have a car to have a decent quality of life. People give up their homes before they give up their cars. So transportation needs to be addressed in order to have the quality of life promised. Most of the places that are food insecure are all about politics and bad people blocking food resources rather than the food not being available.

[–] doingthestuff@lemy.lol 14 points 7 hours ago

They're all the same guy

[–] doingthestuff@lemy.lol 5 points 21 hours ago

Eh, we don't have buses or trains at all.

But fighting traffic pumps up your adrenaline and you're ready to crush it when you walk in the office door! /s

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by doingthestuff@lemy.lol to c/pcmasterrace@lemmy.world
 

My son has my family's oldest gaming PC, it's an i7 4790 with a 1660 TI and 16GB DDR3. It wasn't booting the last couple of days. I had time to look at it so we disconnected everything and threw it on the table with some good light and connected it to power so I could see what it was doing.

It was clear his three case fans were all dying, one was completely dead. One was in poor condition and one was starting to make noise. I already had extra case fans brand new in box sitting in my house, but I assumed old fans weren't what was keeping it from booting.

We removed all three bad fans, and with the case wide open, both sides front and top removed, I blew it out a little bit with canned air. It wasn't that dirty, just a little bit of dust came out. I checked with my fingers to see that the ram seemed seated and that all the connections seemed okay, but I didn't disconnect and reconnect anything, I just touched it.

I turned on the PC with no case fans (only an old CPU cooler connected) and it booted up. So we installed the three new case fans, and tested it again. It booted up again. We put it all back together and connected all the peripherals and it's working absolutely flawlessly.

So I am asking a question, but I want you for context to know that I have repaired hundreds of PCs, maybe close to a thousand. I have never fixed a boot issue by replacing case fans. I have read that some 20+ year-old PCs maybe would have that issue, but from what I understand a 12-year-old PC should not have boot impacted by case fans. So here's my question: was this just a ghost in the system, or is this actually possibly a real thing?

TL:DR We fixed his computer with three new case fans and the tiniest bit of canned air. Help me make it make sense.

 
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