I yanked my GPU to see if I could get it to crash without it, and it hasn't crashed yet but I've had some weird functionality. like, hashcat is refusing to run? and my game crashed twice
@foone Which CPU do you have, and do you have the latest Intel GPU driver from intel.com (though even then, it's not unexpected that many games simply don't work, or worse – they mostly work, but completely random things don't, and you can't proceed past a certain point even though the game doesn't crash or lock up)?
okay got some money to get a new motherboard, CPU, and CPU fan. It's finally all put together: There was some issues with the RAM, it didn't want to boot with all 64gb of my RAM installed, but I think I've fixed that. I think it was trying to overclock it a bit too much and failing the training.
start the timer until this shit starts crashing again. I'm gonna launch like 4 3D games, hashcat, prime95, and encode some videos. plus a VM or eight
the new motherboard has fewer internal USB headers so I wasn't able to directly connect my floppy drives.
but I got an adapter, so now my floppy drives will be connected over usb-c
@foone The main problem with interfacing an 8272/uPD765 style floppy controller to anything newer than ISA is that normal drivers for those require that they be wired to the legacy 8237 DMA controller. Even if modern x86 boxes have an equivalent to the 8237, e.g. in the "south bridge", the appropriate DMA signals don't exist on PCIe, or even PCI.
@brouhaha yeah. I was thinking of putting a DMA controller (or a microcontroller pretending to be one) on the thunderbolt itself, but it wouldn't give me full legacy compatibility, because of the damn DMA
@foone speaking of USB floppy drives, I happen to have a yd-8u14 and wanted to know if there's a meaningful way to gather data on transfer speeds to add to what you did a couple years ago?
@foone Is there anything insightful in the windows event viewer? (i think that's what it's called, I dont use windows). IIRC it logs shutdown and BSOD events, so there might be something of use in there.
@foone hmm, power supply maybe? unhappy power supply at a bad moment could make windows unbootable (doing one of it's random background thingsTM)
also, how much not booting, does it POST? can you boot a linux USB?
@foone I feel like this might be a power issue. If it happens more often when a power-sucking component is present, and less often but still happens when that component is removed, then power is a likely suspect. And power supplies are frequent culprits (my biased opinion). And good ones can just go bad.
My Dolch is having a similar issue when the screen is attached.
@foone holy shit i would have expected the system to absolutely crash if you just yank the GPU but i guess windows has that "your video driver crashed so we restarted it" feature nowadays? actually, i would have expected the gpu to take damage from that but maybe i don't give pci enough credit
@foone honestly the board is a really common culprit for this kind of random crash, and it sounds like you've already eliminated everything else. I know it's annoying to RMA but right now it's by far the most likely culprit.
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