💰 Grifter "Mad at the Internet" - a/k/a My Psychotherapy Sessions

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Null said:
Yeah I bought new RAM and it's still doing it.

In case anyone is wondering it's a Gigabyte Aero Z790 G and I am never buying another Gigabyte product. I've read through the entire manual and it literally does not even mention a single time that it does memory initializion. In the section about the debug lights it just says: light that it's stuck on = malfunctioning part. So it's literally telling me that 8 sticks of memory have all gone bad when it's simply undergoing some secret process it doesn't tell you about.

The motherboard was insanely expensive at the time I bought it and it came with a fucking Wi-Fi antenna but it doesn't come with a small diagnostic display or a speaker, and the instructions it comes with flat out omits its own features and diagnoses faulty parts incorrectly.
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From what I have heard from Gamers Nexus and other reputable reviewers over the years, Gigabyte is a trash brand. Go with ASUS. They have the best hardware. (You will always have to disable the retarded motherboard bloatware it tries to inject from UEFI to the OS these days, no matter the manufacturer. It's utter trash made by indians.) If ASUS doesn't have anything that fits, MSI is okay too.

Debug code displays used to be standard. They now only put them on the very most expensive boards. Gamers Nexus has a rant video about it:

Edit: These days it's almost mandatory to buy RAM that has been cleared to work by the motherboard manufacturer. They have lists of the exact RAM + from what UEFI/BIOS they started supporting it in the motherboard's support area. It's not how it used to be, where everything just worked if the main values were correct.
 
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Null said:
After this I got two sticks in at the wrong place and the mobo booted to os while complaining. I then shut everything off and started screwing in the PCIe cards for GPU and networking and now it's totally dead. No lights, no signs of life, no PSU spin. Everything I've been doing has been meticulously grounded and I even have the fucking wristband.
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How old is your power supply? Usually a PSU going bad is obvious, but if only 1-2 connectors are going bad it might be harder to diagnose. Bad hardware configuration shouldn't kill PSU fan spin, unless there's some fancy feature that requires you plug in a separate header for the mobo to control.

(I assume you already did the spec work to make sure it's powerful enough for the card you're using.)
 
JoshPlz said:
Gigabyte is a trash brand. Go with ASUS. They have the best hardware. (You will always have to disable the retarded motherboard bloatware it tries to inject from UEFI to the OS these days, no matter the manufacturer. It's utter trash made by indians.) If ASUS doesn't have anything that fits, MSI is okay too.
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i've heard lots of shit about gigabyte mobos, i've always stayed clear. i usually go with msi, never had issues with any msi product to date
 
Harvey Danger said:
How old is your power supply? Usually a PSU going bad is obvious, but if only 1-2 connectors are going bad it might be harder to diagnose. Bad hardware configuration shouldn't kill PSU fan spin, unless there's some fancy feature that requires you plug in a separate header for the mobo to control.

(I assume you already did the spec work to make sure it's powerful enough for the card you're using.)
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It's important to not cheap out on the PSU. It's the most important part of the whole system, because dirty power delivery can cause extremely annoying intermittent and hard to trace instability. (And kill components ofc.)
These guys do the most thorough testing: https://hwbusters.com/best_picks/best-atxv3-pcie5-ready-psus-picks-hardware-busters/
 
I hope Null sees a cool bird tomorrow. It's peak fall migration right now, so there might be something interesting coming down the Mississippi/Atlantic Flyway.
 
crunk suggested redoing the standings and I discovered that certain screws had different lengths and some did not have washers and some did. I redid the entire thing for the 5th time and paid specific attention to the contact points. It then lit up. The two memory slots are still bad. I believe those are genuinely worn out traces. I will need to replace the motherboard eventually.
 
Null said:
crunk suggested redoing the standings and I discovered that certain screws had different lengths and some did not have washers and some did. I redid the entire thing for the 5th time and paid specific attention to the contact points. It then lit up. The two memory slots are still bad. I believe those are genuinely worn out traces. I will need to replace the motherboard eventually.
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Total CrunkLord Victory
 
Null said:
crunk suggested redoing the standings and I discovered that certain screws had different lengths and some did not have washers and some did. I redid the entire thing for the 5th time and paid specific attention to the contact points. It then lit up. The two memory slots are still bad. I believe those are genuinely worn out traces. I will need to replace the motherboard eventually.
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Whenever my tower's open, the things I hate the most are screws. Like the one time I actually find my magnitized screw driver and it's so shitty that it just drops the screw with enough height to ping pong the fuckin thing behind the motherboard or between the motherboard and the GPU or some fucking crevice that I have to unseat everything to reach.
 
Is the stream tomorrow and/or the (hopeful) weekend gaming streams back on?
 
Paul-Denton said:
Let's be honest here it'd be 30
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I hope so.
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Gamin4Hope is taking a break from streaming following a precipitous spate of drama and embarrassing lolcow moments. Particularly his narcissistic need to film himself and his routine in trying to be a professional competitive Overwatch 2 player at 28 years old with a wife and child while living with his in-laws with no irl job. He does streaming and videos for income while trying to escape Platinum tier in ranked Overwatch 2 which is the domain of smurfs and shitters. He's just not very good at the game. This has led to trolls alogging him on stream since he's an openly Christian and small C conservative in a tranny infested realm like Overwatch competitive. He's recently a few months ago had to make a vid where addresses the ALLEGATIONS trolls make up to upset him lol.
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https://archive.ph/OkQfA
https://nitter.poast.org/Gamin4Hope
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https://nitter.poast.org/Coach_Spilo/status/1934630324195012927#m / https://archive.ph/ku74b
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