Alt title: It may not be Windows making your machine slow!
Unfortunately since the HDD i replaced the one in my laptop with has failed as well (used shitsung, don't be surprised) and took all the pictures of this project with it, this thread will be devoid of content....
This is a final update to my main rig, which is years overdue as well as an update to my PSU fixing shenanigans.
it starts years ago when i lived in Colorado.
My main rig had developed some issues with randomly segfaulting. I couldn't trace it to anything! This, of course started right before i began a 3 year "Journey" that made it to where i've lived in the majority of Colorado, ending with me settling down in Wyoming. That's a whole 'nother story in itself, but the reason it took so long... Anyway, on with the post!
So i finally get everything set up to sorta be a desk, and my main rig boots, then freezes. Hmm odd. Reset, now we are taking 2 hours to post. What the hell? I go through the usuals of replacing the HS compound, swapping ram, booting bare metal, still takes years to post. I give up until i came across my o-scope. After hooking it up and finding insane amounts of ripple, 3.3v is good. 5v has .3v of ripple, not so good. I get to the 12v rails and they have .5v of ripple.... HALF A VOLT! I proceed to tare into the thing and find this: https://www.badcaps.net/forum/showpo...postcount=1276
Well, after being convinced to fix it by momaka, and 8 months time, its fixed. It was a real PITA as well, since the caps didn't have datasheets..... I ended up using these caps http://www.mouser.com/ProjectManager...sID=837b826aea and low and behold, the damn thing works like new! I have yet to plug up my o'scope, but the system is no longer segfaulting, the PSU no longer has a slight whine that it did before, it boots a little faster than normal, and i am posting from the machine now!
It would seem that computer systems no longer run till self destruction, but just give up completely and quit booting. I will be posting pictures soon! Thanks for the help all!
Unfortunately since the HDD i replaced the one in my laptop with has failed as well (used shitsung, don't be surprised) and took all the pictures of this project with it, this thread will be devoid of content....
This is a final update to my main rig, which is years overdue as well as an update to my PSU fixing shenanigans.
it starts years ago when i lived in Colorado.
My main rig had developed some issues with randomly segfaulting. I couldn't trace it to anything! This, of course started right before i began a 3 year "Journey" that made it to where i've lived in the majority of Colorado, ending with me settling down in Wyoming. That's a whole 'nother story in itself, but the reason it took so long... Anyway, on with the post!
So i finally get everything set up to sorta be a desk, and my main rig boots, then freezes. Hmm odd. Reset, now we are taking 2 hours to post. What the hell? I go through the usuals of replacing the HS compound, swapping ram, booting bare metal, still takes years to post. I give up until i came across my o-scope. After hooking it up and finding insane amounts of ripple, 3.3v is good. 5v has .3v of ripple, not so good. I get to the 12v rails and they have .5v of ripple.... HALF A VOLT! I proceed to tare into the thing and find this: https://www.badcaps.net/forum/showpo...postcount=1276
Well, after being convinced to fix it by momaka, and 8 months time, its fixed. It was a real PITA as well, since the caps didn't have datasheets..... I ended up using these caps http://www.mouser.com/ProjectManager...sID=837b826aea and low and behold, the damn thing works like new! I have yet to plug up my o'scope, but the system is no longer segfaulting, the PSU no longer has a slight whine that it did before, it boots a little faster than normal, and i am posting from the machine now!
It would seem that computer systems no longer run till self destruction, but just give up completely and quit booting. I will be posting pictures soon! Thanks for the help all!
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