In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
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UPDATED: Thursday, December 25, 2025 04:27
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Exactly this situation with electronics, for a company, not an individual, was covered in the comics:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
There may still be a chance that the PC is fine if I replace these lower-cost parts, and if I find out that it's still bad they'll all be things I'd need to buy with a new PC anyhow and if I buy the right PSU it should be compatable with a newer mobo if I have to buy a new one.
Once again.... fingers crossed.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
Repair or Replace
Just make sure all your friends and family are out of the car, or that you've made backup friends and family at home.
https://xkcd.com/2033/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
Didn't know you were capable of LOLZ there second.
That was a good one.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I wish hubby could take a look at if for you. But heat ... yeah, now that it's summer if your 'puter has an air circ problem it will definitely show up now!
The first thing hubby would do is look at how your PC was physically put together. Dust is the most common cause of heat buildup, but "bad build" is the #1 root problem. When we put PCs together (dear daughter and I do the assembly, he supervises!) he is EXTREMELY careful to pick cases that breathe, breathe, breathe; total air exchange once per second. So typically, there are at least five fans in each case. He is also EXTREMELY careful how to route all of that internal wiring... ties the wires together well up and out of the way so that internal airflow is not impeded. Not only must the CPU be well-ventilated, but also the northbridge, southbridge, and hard drives."Hot spots" can get up to 200-300 F.
We had two Dells in the lab that "came with" instruments (instrument manufacturer's choice) and when I told him about them he just kind of rolled his eyes and commented that they would probably die in a year because Dell at the time was stuffing everything into teeny-tiny cases, with the hard drive in a corner somewhere with no air circulation. Sure enough, within a year one failed, and the other failed one month later (hard drive failures).
You really need that paste.
Oh, also 14C is not realistic.
EDITED TO ADD Hubby says don't rely on the internal thermometer. They're highly non-linear. Also, what temp was that? The CPU core temp? Or the CPU die temp? 14C is a ridiculous reading, you might get that right after startup but if that's what you're reading when you're running forget it: Your thermosensor is dead. Use your "digital thermometer" (your finger). Touch the heat sink near its base ... if it's uncomfortably hot to leave you finger on, it's too hot.
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It's a great case by Lian Li. It's oversized, all metal with machined screws. Not a single plastic part in it aside from some electronics stuff for your Power/Reset buttons and leds and the like. A platter can be removed to easily do almost the entire install outside the case. I've had this case for 2 builds now, and will be using it again for a 3rd one down the road (hopefully later than sooner).
Truth be told, I didn't do a great job making sure this thing would run cool. I was really cheap about the whole thing and I was working that really bad job at the time. I'm honestly surprised it's given me as little trouble as it has until now.
At this point, I can't even successfully boot into the OS anymore. Every time I've tried it freezes before it makes it to that point. I'm a little concerned now about this since I didn't change anything. All I did was evict the family of wookies that had taken up residence in the case and reseat the GPU and memory.
I'm done messing with it for today. I ordered some thermal paste and a power stripe and a new PSU that'll come sometime this week. Hopefully I can save the thing then. I think at this point I'm only risking further damage by fiddling around with it with a highly suspect PSU involved.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Weather calling for rain up here by next weekend. We shall see.
Still a lot of smoke in the air around here so even though the temps are supposed to be high it is cool.
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I went to the Canadian version of an active fire mapping website and found there were over 1,000 fires burning in BC - though I didn't drill down to size or total acres. I hope you all get a nice deep drink of rain.
THUGGER admits it's not about RUSSIA !!! and is, in fact, a witch hunt. "Trump better be innocent of any wrong doing, anywhere, anytime."
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Finally got off work.
On the agenda this week:
1. Put the final touches on a project I've been working on for my brother on and off in my free time for over a year.
2. Fix my computer (hopefully).
3. Install new brake pads and rotors on the car.
4. Replace fuel line for gas weed wacker my step-dad gave me when they moved. (He said it worked great for one season, but he left gas in it and now it won't start).
Assuming I get that massive to-do list out of the way and I'm feeling super productive, I've also got a backpack-style leaf blower he gave me that isn't working that I'd like to tinker around with. I've already got a good leaf blower though, but my crappy electric weed wacker broke last year, so that's on the bottom of the list.
Would be awesome getting that thing to work again before fall though. Even though mine works great and is super powerful, it still takes me about 3-4 hours to do my yard and I get minor "tennis elbows" from carrying the minor weight the whole time.
Don't imagine I'm going to be saving any more money the rest of the year with taxes and my car insurance coming up along with my teeth and all these other expenses, but I've made my peace with that. After driving to work and back all week with the new tires and windshield that doesn't leak a drop of water inside when it rains and not having to fill the oil anymore I can tell that my stress levels have gone down dramatically.
A few steps closer to living that stress free life I've always dreamed about.
You can't put a price on that.
EDIT: Oh yeah... almost forgot. When I get the weed wacker working I can take care of all of the weeds and my place won't look like hillbilly trash lives here anymore. :)
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"After driving to work and back all week with the new tires and windshield that doesn't leak a drop of water inside when it rains and not having to fill the oil anymore I can tell that my stress levels have gone down dramatically."
FANTASTIC!! Congratulations!
THUGGER admits it's not about RUSSIA !!! and is, in fact, a witch hunt. "Trump better be innocent of any wrong doing, anywhere, anytime."
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Originally posted by 1kiki:
I went to the Canadian version of an active fire mapping website and found there were over 1,000 fires burning in BC - though I didn't drill down to size or total acres. I hope you all get a nice deep drink of rain.
THUGGER admits it's not about RUSSIA !!! and is, in fact, a witch hunt. "Trump better be innocent of any wrong doing, anywhere, anytime."
I do not doubt that at all Kiki. There is still so much smoke in the air that the sun was orange this morning when I first saw it.
The Interior of the province sure can use it.
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Sun was yellow this morning and the sky bluer but now at 1:18pm the sky has more smoke in it and you can't see the sun anymore. 
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Quote:Instead of messing with that weedwhacker I would suggest you throw some SeaFoam in it - but you don't listen to me.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Finally got off work.
On the agenda this week:
1. Put the final touches on a project I've been working on for my brother on and off in my free time for over a year.
2. Fix my computer (hopefully).
3. Install new brake pads and rotors on the car.
4. Replace fuel line for gas weed wacker my step-dad gave me when they moved. (He said it worked great for one season, but he left gas in it and now it won't start).
Assuming I get that massive to-do list out of the way and I'm feeling super productive, I've also got a backpack-style leaf blower he gave me that isn't working that I'd like to tinker around with. I've already got a good leaf blower though, but my crappy electric weed wacker broke last year, so that's on the bottom of the list.
Would be awesome getting that thing to work again before fall though. Even though mine works great and is super powerful, it still takes me about 3-4 hours to do my yard and I get minor "tennis elbows" from carrying the minor weight the whole time.
Don't imagine I'm going to be saving any more money the rest of the year with taxes and my car insurance coming up along with my teeth and all these other expenses, but I've made my peace with that. After driving to work and back all week with the new tires and windshield that doesn't leak a drop of water inside when it rains and not having to fill the oil anymore I can tell that my stress levels have gone down dramatically.
A few steps closer to living that stress free life I've always dreamed about.
You can't put a price on that.
EDIT: Oh yeah... almost forgot. When I get the weed wacker working I can take care of all of the weeds and my place won't look like hillbilly trash lives here anymore. :)
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Quote:Hey, you should come over here, you'd feel better!
EDIT: Oh yeah... almost forgot. When I get the weed wacker working I can take care of all of the weeds and my place won't look like hillbilly trash lives here anymore. :)
Between trying to line up all the health insurance after hubby's retirement, cooking, shopping, taking care of dear daughter and lining up contractors for window replacement and other renovations, walking the dog (and hour a day) and otherwise taking care of her, getting all the broken household shit fixed and minding hubby's and my health and helping him out with his projects ... the yardwork has dropped down into Xth place.
On the bright side, I did learn that there's a natural sequence to these things ... first water, THEN weed. After than, prune, trim, mow, and/or edge. After THAT, rake. And after THAT, sweep. (I have a leaf-blower that I refuse to use.) Not all in one day, of course!!
But then, that's if I have time. Which lately I haven't, so the weeds and grass (the little I have left in the backyard) have been growing and leaves have been piling up, and sooner or later I KNOW I have to get to them.... just not now!
And, the water-heater has kept working so I guess it's just a keypad thing. so YAY! for that fix, anyway!
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Say SIX, which each improvement in your life you set the bar higher for what you consider "acceptable", which is a GOOD thing until it causes stress and becomes a BAD thing. So keep in mind that you may top out on the things you can accomplish; and stay realistic about what's next on the "list of things to do".
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
"The messy American environment, where most people don't agree, is perfect for people like me. I CAN DO AS I PLEASE." - SECOND
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