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Surya Teja KI had an interesting evening today. I purchased a 2TB NVME SSD for my PC for my Timeshift backups and realised as soon as I plug it in, 2 of my 6 SATA ports stopped working.
It’s the Gigabyte AB350M motherboard. Is it a bandwidth issue perhaps? The rest 4 SATA ports were labelled “Chipset SATA Port” so I don’t know yet.
The kicker is, my boot SSD and HDD were hooked to these ports and as soon as I plugged it in, I couldn’t boot to Linux.
This was an inconvenience as I had to plug my drives’ SATA cables to the chipset ports but the fact that this happened is mildly annoying.
It’s all good in the end. I am cp -rf over the timeshift directory to the NVME drive now.
If someone knows why this happens, let me know.
J. Steven York RESISTSWell, I just ordered more memory for my desktop to deal with some memory-bound slowdowns I've been experiencing lately. I don't have evidence, but I suspect that some of the AI "features" that are being forcefully added by everyone may have something to do it.
Do not like.
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Aaron OSuccessfully replaced the power supply in my PC. Doing this makes me reconsider buying a micro ATX case for the nas build. I'm moderately dexterous, but I am not rolling any nat 20's required for that type of manipulation. #PcUpgrades
nobodyI think I am done with PC upgrades for couple of years atleast now.
Switched my radeon 5700xt with RX6800 ( non-xt version ) and replaced stock wraith cooler with NZXT kraken elite AIO.
so current config is.. ryzen 5900x, 48gb ram, RX6800. Also found out that screen on AIO pump can also show animated GIFs. so this is now my display ...
One issue discovered so far is that AMD's software autodetected and installed AMD pro drivers for the card, but they do not work with davinci resolve. so had to downgrade(?) to Adrenaline drivers.
I know AMD vs Nvidia opinion wars can be brutal, but for my money, 6800 was way cheaper than equivalent nvidia GPU and it works with everything I use and dated gaming needs I have. And most importantly black friday deals and the fact that my coworkers snapped up all parts that came out of my desktop made this upgrade very cost-effective for me.
Wolf Munroe ☎My new #SSD arrived today.
It's a Crucial Technologies T500 2gb Gen4 NVMe m.2 SSD. I have no idea if my computer's PCIe is Gen3 or Gen4. Probably Gen3, but if so it just won't be "as" fast. I'm coming from a hard disk so it's all fast.
I think I've done all the back-ups I'm going to do and it's time to install the solid state drive and attempt to clone my hard disk drive.
I'm shutting down my PC as soon as I post this message.
Wish me luck.
AnomnomnomalyDammit... why the fuck can't anything be simple.
Replacement CPU arrived, and now the system won't post.
I'm assuming it's because I need a BIOS update on this B450 board to make it work with the 5600G CPU.
To do that... I NEED to have a CPU installed.
Which now means I've got to strip down another system, borrow the 3300X CPU from it just to make this one post so I can update the fucking BIOS. Can't strip down my system as that's a 5800X3D, an even newer CPU.
Sometimes... Size Matters
My old Noctua cooler that was purchased almost 10yrs ago for a small form factor HTPC case is being retired in favour of a larger cooler that would keep temps lower and make the system more efficient as I don't need to underclock the CPU anymore.
At least... that was the plan until I dropped the CPU and bent the pins, and had to buy a new one.
New CPU (5600G) has onboard graphics, so larger cooler is even more essential now.