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2024 May Update #01
🕑 Added 2024-05-13 16:19:32 +0000 UTCTECHNOLOGICAL SUICIDE
So I’m going to bed Friday night, doing my normal nightly routine. I put my computer into sleep mode and as I’m walking away, I see all the lights turn off as if I shut it down. Not too worried about this because whenever I put my computer into sleep mode, sometimes it shuts itself down, I’m not sure why. Anyways 15 minutes go by and I can’t sleep, so I decided to get up and start working on this animation I’ve been doing. I go to turn on my computer and boom…nothing happens. I pressed the power button and it doesn’t turn on at all. It was at least 1 in the morning at this point so I was like “I’m not even going to worry about this today, tomorrow when I wake up, I’ll take a look at it”.
SATURDAY
Next morning I woke up and can you guess what happened? Surprise, It didn’t turn on. Then I was like “ok, maybe my ram sticks are loose or some random cable isn’t on right”. I open my case, push down my ramsticks to tighten them and like 1 other random cable. I hit the power button and TADA, my computer turns on. So in my head, I’m like alright cool, since everything’s working I might aswell clean my PC at this point since it’s pretty dusty and I already took the glass piece off.
So after about an hour of dusting, blowing, screwing and wiping, I put everything back together. I plug my PC in and hit the power button. BOOM…nothing happens. At this point I’m like “what the fuck man…”. I start watching random YouTube videos and searching the internet trying to figure out what could cause this and everything i tried didn’t work. So I decided Its best to just get someone professional to look at it before I fuck anything else up.
So I googled some PC repair places near me and found 2 places. The first one I called, they didn’t answer so I left a message. They still haven’t called me back as of writing this message. Then I called another place and this time I got an answer. Long story short the conversation ended up with me driving about 8 minuets away to his location to get my PC looked at.
I arrive at the spot and it’s some random guys house. I’m like “Ah shit, I’m definitely not getting my PC back if I leave it here”. Anyways, I call him and tell him I’m outside to clarify this is the right place. He comes outside and its an older white guy, I’d say in his 50s. Anyways I get out the car, take my PC out the back and give it to him. Then we start walking on the left side of his house towards the back. As we get to the back, I see a house/shed and we walk in. What I saw inside made almost all my worries go away. This guy had like 25 PC’s, 2 Large Printers, A bunch of posters and some more stuff. When I saw this I knew that he at least knew what he was doing. He asks me what’s wrong with it, I tell him it just wouldn’t turn on. He asked “Did you unplug anything?” Instead of just saying yes, I decided to give him a quick rundown of my whole procedure that I did earlier when cleaning it. After my small demonstration, he spends about 15 minutes trying out miscellaneous techniques like unplugging and replugging some wires, shifting a couple things, and testing the power supply. The power supply was working but the computer still wouldn’t turn on. So he he told me that it’s not going to be just a “move a couple things here” kind of fix and said I had to leave it overnight so he can take some time to really check it.
SUNDAY
The next day, I get a text from him and he tells me that my motherboard is basically cooked and that he’ll have to order a new one. I kind of have an idea of why this happened but I’m not too educated on PCs to validate this but basically when I go to bed, I don’t shut my computer off, I only put it to sleep. I’m not sure if that has something to do with it but that’s my best guess.
(After it’s gets fixed I’ll be definitely turning it off every night when I go to bed)
I’m not too stressed about this because I made sure I put away money every month for when a situation like this happens. In life I’ve released that’s isn’t a matter of if it’s going to try to fuck you over, it’s just a matter of when. So you have to be 1 step ahead at all times and make sure you’re prepared for anything.
As you’re reading this I’m slowly losing my mind. These last 48 hours have been the most boring hours of my life. Definitely opened my eyes to how Important Blender is to my life. All I can do is think about animating and moving shit around.
Hopefully it gets fixed by the end of today (Monday, May 13, 2024) because I don’t think I can handle another 24 hours without Blender.
But yea, that’s the story of my PC committing technological suicide. It shouldn’t impact my content upload frequency that much, maybe push some stuff I had planned back a day or 2 but nothing significant.
Thanks for taking the time to read this fam, without the support you show from patreon, to put it frankly, I’d be fucked right now. ❤️
Comments
femshoptop
Thanks fam, I’ll definitely look at this
Shad0w_Hawk
Do you have whole house surge protection? Power surges can lead to hardware failure. A lot of people think that because they use the powerbar style surge protector that plugs into the wall that they're protecting their devices, but an electrical engineer pointed out to me that the only effective way for surge protection is right at the electrical box with one of these: https://www.amazon.ca/EATON-CHSPT2SURGE-Whole-Protector-Single/dp/B01LXRNOEI/ref=sr_1_5?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.LXL2x-UhoBI70iHR2HTNUwYrp5T2EFDDNrSUOtt3X5UQ9FM_kb6Rl51dL4ciewjxY-pXL0yGk_dvQmn5pP-tMpNUIXvXQwUCvfRBaBq3UrfwR64p_eqY2pNy6yMUoQuy4mOdaxZ62JEdFxB70x0sWKMI9v0TUG_fAEeAcpzEGIAefFmCqHfBnkdiOkFgZOAE-VxKYLI3WmGwZCFBPzfCgbuE6pXzuYJVOSMG7bJdDwf82zUZQsXmHIq6-zVLfDaKozGYzgJxBmYWuUloQfuGP-0zdU8AHcn0bYWbyBGno38.hfuIxLQJTUmCnpSVVaT15ETe2epAE2l2x2oyyUyh3lY&dib_tag=se&hvadid=588771267978&hvdev=c&hvlocphy=9001170&hvnetw=g&hvqmt=e&hvrand=14321811697908488463&hvtargid=kwd-332107682543&hydadcr=19962_13393186&keywords=whole-house+surge+protector&qid=1715948626&sr=8-5 That's the one I have installed on my breaker box. A lightning strike will still (probably) kill the protector and need replacement but it has a much higher chance of dispersing the excess electricity right to the grounding rods. Power bars/strips are basically a scam tbh. Anyways, I'll stop bombarding you with unwarranted information now. Just something to consider if you actually want to protect your expensive device that you use to generate income with.
Floke
Thanks for sharing your story. Similar thing happened to me but it was the Power Supply, luckily those have many years of warranty, so I got a completely new one for free. It feels like living in the dark ages without a computer!
Shad0w_Hawk
When I dust my pc I usually use a small handheld vac (like dust buster size; you can buy them pretty cheap) with a small little brush-hose attachment. Oh and also never do any maintenance on your pc if it's still plugged in, youre usually asking for trouble if you do.
Shad0w_Hawk
Generally the big rules of thumb is pay attention to voltage/wattage ratings when installing new components and moisture=death.
femshoptop
Yea it was probably some dumb shit I did. I’m still very new to the whole landscape of computers so I’m still trying to learn the proper way to handle tech.
Shad0w_Hawk
That's rough man, but at least it's like you said, you're careful and had some money in reserve in case of repairs. What might be a good idea too is to have a cheap backup system like a low spec gaming laptop (8core cpu with 1050ti 16gb ram) or something similar that you can still fall back on in case shit goes down. I honestly don't see how suspending your pc every night would cook your motherboard. The only thing I can think of is: When you were cleaning it was the poweroff and was it unplugged from the wall? Also what did you use to clean it with? If you either dont "drain" the residual power from your psu or don't wait long enough for the remaining power in the capacitors to dissipate, and you go in and start spraying canned air duster on your board/system you could cook something potentially. But who knows, sometimes shit just breaks.
femshoptop
Ah ok. I hope it’s the same with mine.
TheRealEffinDeal
Yeah for me it was just a new board. Was a few years back so it was some MSI Z270 board that went bad after a year or so.
femshoptop
I’m not sure of my specs and I can’t verify until I get my rig back. Also, the only problem was the board? Everything else was good?
TheRealEffinDeal
PC issues are the worst. Had a similar issue with a Mobo years back and pulled my hair out for days trying to figure out the issue before I took it to a shop and they almost immediately said it was the board. What kinda Rig you rocking?
