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Mika Dec 30, 2024

I'm wondering right now what to do - I'm outside rn and so fucking eager (and extremely worried) to inspect and see just what caused it, when I'm home. I did notice the power plug (attached to the wall/extension cord) wasn't seated tight.. could that have been the cause?

It's a #B550 ITX board with a 500W Flex PSU - it doesn't have any GPU, just an #AMD Ryzen 5 5600G APU. Besides that, just 2 sticks of DDR4 RAM (64GB) and 2x 1TB NVME SSDs. It all depends on what I'll find later when I inspect it tho, but I'm wondering if I should continue having the node in my #homelab with replaced PSU (found a 600W 80 Platinum rated Flex PSU by FSP), or ditch it completely and replace it with an MATX build instead - #AsRock B550M Pro4 mATX board, same APU (or prolly, replace with my spare Ryzen 7 3700X), and brand new #CoolerMaster or #Corsair ATX PSU (80 Gold rated prolly, cos ATX PSUs are somehow more expensive than Flex ones?).

The latter route is def more expensive, but idk if running a #Proxmox node with an #RKE2 #Kubernetes cluster 24/7 in a mini ITX setup is the most brilliant idea... though that node was running perfectly fine for a pretty long time now (~1 year or so probably).

Suran Jul 9, 2024

So this time my #B550 motherboard didn't loose ALL USB devices but "just" all Bluetooth devices.
Still very inconvenient with Bluetooth keyboard and mouse.

Mika May 16, 2024

I think it's impressive that my #homelab server is still alive and well after 3 years and building it using cheap/used consumer (non-server) parts.

The CPU especially is like SUPER solid - I bought a used #AMD Ryzen 7 1700 back in 2021 for 589.99 MYR (~126 USD) - it had 1 year warranty but meh, the seller def did not entertain my request to have it replaced when I received it with bent pins. I was ready to just give up on it but decided wth I'll just try to bend the pins right back and it's worked perfectly since then.

I still have a Ryzen 7 3700X + an #MSI #B450 MATX board lying around after I had upgraded to a Ryzen 7 5700X + #ASUS #B550 ITX combo, thinking maybe I could upgrade the server with them, but idk if it's even needed. The only bottleneck on my server really is just the 4 DIMM slots on the mobo that have been maxed out to 64GB DDR4 RAM (which I also had bought for cheap) and so that CPU/Mobo upgrade won't help with that.

I'm really glad I went this route cos having that homelab server has been a gamechanger to my lifestyle since I essentially have a perfect playground I could waste my precious time on. Now really I just need to devise a way to move from #VMware #ESXi to #Proxmox but I'm too lazy to figure out how I could do so without losing all of my VMs/#Kubernetes cluster.

Frederik Hahne Aug 1, 2023

Frage in die IT Runde. Nachdem ein BIOS Update mein gutes altes #Mainboard unbrauchbar gemacht hat kam heute das neue an. Es hängt beim Grafikkarte initialisieren (laut debug led und beep code). Ich habe zwei verschiedene Grafikkarten ausprobiert. Liegt es am Mainboard oder kann auch aus irgendeinem Grund die #Ryzen CPU schuld sein? #asus #amd #b550

DPoi Nov 28, 2022

PC gekillt!

https://friendica.opensocial.space/display/8ffdf77c-1063-8471-af8e-dda082650017

PC gekillt!

Ahhhhh… so ein Mist! Mein #PC startet nicht mehr. Nach dem #Flashen des #BIOS via Windows will das #Mainboard nicht mehr starten. #Bildschirm bleibt schwar...

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