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Ah a spinpoint, a man of taste.
That's the drive I formatted accidentally
Damn, it's got my oldest running beat by a huge margin.
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Why is your drive so warm?
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For its birthday it wants a new ML2032 battery for the RTC...
I bought a new motherboard for a ryzen CPU, and three quarters of the way through rebuilding my PC I realise that my DDR3 ram won't work with the MOBO.
Went to every brick & mortar store in my city that I can find and.. fucking hell, they're charging roughly £95 for 8GB of bog standard ram. I knew people were saying RAM prices were high, but fuck me, really by that much?
The system was so ahead of its time that it took into consideration time travelers who want to bring it back to show their great grandparents.
It is pretty expensive, but you can definitely get it cheaper online (unless the UK has extra fucked-up prices for some reason). You might lose a couple days waiting for it to arrive, but how did you not think about this earlier?
It's one of those things where monitor manufacturers could implement a fix, GPU driver programmers could implement a fix, and Microsoft engineers could implement a fix
But everyone pretends it's not their problem and blames everyone else so nothing happens
No clue, genuinely just entirely slipped my mind. Spent so much time researching and deciding what mobo and cpu to go for that whether i had the right version of ram just went way over my head. Speaking of more stupid shit, is there any way to fit an originally intel heatsink onto an AMD chipset? The cooler (looks like a Cooler Master Hyper TX3 Evo ) looks like you can take the mounting brackets off, had a thought whether there's some sort of aftermarket solution.
Check here, you might even be able to get the bracket for free (+ shipping fees):
AMD AM4 Ryzen Compatibility
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OK to be fair, that's the good shit and not standard stuff, but still.
My boss at work did a big OOF that cost the company 1700 Eur.
He basically ordered a regular XPS laptop for a customer, had everything migrated to it from the old laptop, and after it was delivered to the customer, customer said that he wanted a 2in1 and not a regular laptop in his mail. Boss checked the email chain and he was right, and the laptop supplier refuses to give him a refund because it was an XPS that was DoA and had repairs done on it by Dell.
Now it's just rotting in the company's closet because we can't sell it even.
So dell delivers laptop that doesn't work right, does repairs on it, which means they won't return it?
I'd talk to the credit card company.
It was delivered through a third party, and the third party refuses to refund it because it's past the return timeframe (One week) without a given reason, and because it had it's mobo and battery swapped, they won't actually accept it back due of it being opened and parts replaced.
We'll see how my boss handles it tomorrow.
It's fairly within operating spec (0-60°C). Mostly because it's in a secondary HDD cage behind other disks, it's also an older drive.
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"The edit bay and entire newsroom smells like burning hair" battery starter pack.
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Guess how I got them out of the UPS? It wasn't easy because APC products are designed by fucking gibbons who don't know batteries expand. Luckily sheet metal is bendable though.
Also even though I had unplugged the UPS last night when I was called in, turned it off and all, it was still just about too hot to touch to pull it out of the rack this morning. I had to wear gloves to move the batteries outside.
How does a UPS even fuck up like that, some kind of internal short?
also hi guys it's been a long time
Those two batteries are in series in a 4 battery set, what I figure is one battery went bad, probably due to overcharge/maybe a plate inside shorted, idk, battery shit, and the other was close enough to
failing and got fuckered by the one that went first since it was shorting out internally and shit. What surprised me is that not a single fuse in that thing fucking popped. There's a fuse between the batteries in series, nothing tripped.
Thing got fucking hot as all hell though. I've spent today replacing literally every battery in each UPS that was bought around that time frame because I'm not bothering to test each individual battery in every UPS, it's faster and easier to just replace them all at this point. Yeah I might get an extra 2-3 months out of those batteries if they test good, shit they could be good for a few years, but sooner than later they're just going to go and potentially burning down the workplace to save a few hundred bucks is a retarded idea I think.
Warship! Hi buddy!
literally had to do the exact same procedure to our station's APC unit. Required two flathead screwdrivers, a long hour, and a lot of prayers that I wouldn't spray acid all over the server room.
If only it was that easy for me today. What station do you work for?
little college radio station. We used to be FM and are now online only but we still have a decent studio to work out of. First week of being the technical director I did a load test on the UPS which took out the entire rack when the batteries refused to provide any meaningful power.
Instead of buying new batteries I was told to just get rid of the UPS if that gives you an indication of our president's competence.
So I just got ear raped by Premiere, I guess it didn't like this file or something so after I normalized it, it just went ahead and boosted it loud enough so it could be heard from the other side of the fucking planet
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well a quick google gave me an estimated 310db for the Krakatoa eruption.
So that's pretty fucking loud, especially on a logarithmic scale.
Speaking from a trucking standpoint because this is what I do everyday: this is normally the cause of either a bad cell leading to pressure build up and eventual venting/leaking, or overcharging. Had an alternator freak out one day on an International Prostar and it started cranking out 20v (standard is 14)
Blew up all 8 batteries on the damn truck, literally shattered them to bits, flames everywhere... it was crazy... $2000 later we had new batteries, then we had to spend $1300 on the alternator because it's a retarded 320 amp unit. Oh and it burned all the wiring up in the battery boxes so that was another $300 for that and like $500 all told for labor on this ONE REPAIR.
That was a painful PO to issue.
Reminds me when my dad had his alternators regulator blow and he had to drive home with the car home without ruining the batteries (24v system)
High-beams + work lights on + heater at full blast got it to "normal" range. Every time somebody drove by or behind him, he had to let them by, because being blinded by lights at night isn't really safe.
Well just know it doesn't get much better. I work for NBC.
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A sound of 770db would be uh... 46 zeroes larger than the energy produced by Krakatoa
I'm no scientist but I think that's approaching "destroy the observable universe" levels
So, to the tech collectors in here, I was just rummaging through my old PC parts boxes and I found several things that were interesting to me, if anyone wants them just lemme know and I'll send them your way. Always better than the bin for these things.
2x - 3Com Parallel Tasking II Etherlink cards. (3C905B-TX and 3C905B-TXNM, the TXNM is apparently made in Ireland and I can't find any references to it online, so it struck me as an oddity);
1x - 512MB DDR 400 stick ("Middle East Memory Ltd." );
1x - 32MB PC100 stick ("City Desk");
1x - ATi 3D Rage Pro AGP 2x;
1x - AMD-K6 233Mhz.
All of them seem to be in pretty good condition but I can't really test them, if anyone wants anything lemme know.
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