Oh I missed you had screen shotted your own comment. Not sure why someone downvoted you.
Rats are huge compared to mice, I had assumed you meant a mouse.
Also I wouldn’t really consider a mouse bleeding out it’s mouth “exploding”. I had assumed pieces were splattered around. Just a difference in interpreting words.
Air fryers aren’t microwaves heating things in weird ways. It’s just an oven that gets hot faster and blows air around a lot. Why would a mouse explode?
Also, I’m assuming mouse because how could a rat get in an air fryer without you noticing? Hell I’m not-sure how a mouse could but a rat seems far fetched.
Just like the rest of my code.
You are sure that no one has heard of Homestar Runner on a website of technology savvy early adopters whose age averages in the 30s and 40s?
For the record, it was definitely on. I ended up buying a new PSU to check, and it didn’t help. I then bought a new motherboard and that fixed it. So case solved!
The luck didn’t help haha, I never got that light again, except for occasional split second flashes. I edited some info into the original post, but long story short, after lots of fluffing around in the end it was the motherboard. I got a new one and now I’m back up and running!
Yeah they only have the one trackpad option. I tend to use a mouse anyway.
Probably not much point in getting one if you’re going to build your kids a PC anyway.
By the way I managed to get a light on the motherboard, so it might not be dead after all. I’m planning to get some more thermal paste today and keep tinkering, I might save it yet.
I use a laptop most of the time because then I can sit in a recliner with my feet up. I spend the day at a desk I don’t much fancy doing the same in the evening.
I have a Framework laptop from the first ones they made, which are upgradeable and repairable. Unfortunately they don’t ship to NZ, I got mine by freight forwarding and also got parts a bit later the same way. But now they have cracked down hard on freight forwarding as I recently learned, so I can’t get any more upgrades until they start shipping here (no announced plans).
The problem is either my mobo or CPU is dead, so I can’t run the old system haha.
It sounds like my old system could handle transcoding better if I had enabled the right options, so now I have to decide whether to buy a new motherboard and risk it being the CPU, or just upgrade everything.
I don’t do a lot of gaming these days. When I played Baldur’s Gate 3, once I got to Act 3 I switched to streaming from the desktop to the laptop using the Steam function as my laptop couldn’t handle it. I also don’t do upgrades as frequently as you.
If you had an old mobo and CPU, you could downgrade and keep the NAS running until you had a replacement.
Good point, I didn’t think of that.
Ah I got the wrong impression. Good to know it won’t affect me, cheers.
I think your advantage is needing two machines. Then you can swap stuff between them to test as well.
I gave away my previous build in whole and built a new one. No spare parts 🙁. And my SO and I are generally using laptops day to day, no need for more desktop machines and can’t swap pieces between laptop and desktop.
I don’t think having an old mobo/CPU would help anyway, I’m pretty sure one of the two is broken and swapping both out won’t help work out which one.
Oh I didn’t realise I could do that! You first link seems to say there is quite limited codec support though?
I bought a multimeter and tested the PSU, and it all seems fine. So pretty sure it’s the motherboard or CPU.
I’m using it as an excuse to do an upgrade, so will probably get a new mobo/CPU/RAM.
Ah that does look like good bang for buck! Thanks!
Yip. Have tested the PSU with a multimeter and it’s fine. Narrowed it down to the CPU or motherboard. I decided I’ll just do a bit of an upgrade and get a new CPU, motherboard, RAM.
Oh wow that’s awesome. Shame that someone told me about all the issues with recent intel CPUs. I’ll probably go AMD again.
Probably not this one. I was a little disappointed with how little airflow this can gives me. In any case, I don’t think I spun any CPU fans around much at all.
Aw man. So I want quick sync for better hardware transcoding but of course that doesn’t matter if the chip is melting so probably go for a recent AMD CPU instead even though it doesn’t have quick sync it should have hardware transcoding capabilities almost as good. OK, I’ll start looking at AMD again.
I believe the current state is:
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