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So, it's not the lights of the house that turn off, it's the lights on the motherboard turned off fully, but your response made me think of something. I went to the outlet and checked it, and the live hot came out when I pulled it from the box. I have secured the wire firmly (the terminal was just fully unscrewed) and have secured the outlet in the box more securely. Hopefully that's what was causing it.

I got it tested with the right cables in the end, but it wasn't till the third attempt (second with right cables) that the system booted.

Did that when moving to the new room, still persisted.

Hello all, I have this fixed with my wife's PC, but this keeps coming up from time to time. Basically what will happen, is that the PC will randomly go into a no power no post state. Usually the computer will show signs of life -- lights on the power/reset buttons on the Motherboard, however it will not boot whenever power is pressed on those, or the case power switch. Every time we've troubleshot this, taking it to another outlet will cause those lights to go out, and it will not respond to any power on/power off attempts. At least one time this has happened, we have replaced the PSU, and that fixed it, but what I'm starting to notice is that it might be time. For todays fix we did the following: Unplugged computer (lost all lights) Took to another room to test, no power on, no lights <went to grab breakfast> Attempted to switch to another PSU (backup that was given as RMA), no power on, no lights. Attempted to switch to a known good PSU (mine, in my computer), no power on, no lights Attempted to test by removing GPU Tried PSU in my computer, it acted dead, I think that I just had the wrong cables hooked up for that test (mines an EVGA, hers is a Corsair, I think the 24pin cables are slightly different) Tested all PSUs with the paperclip method, after some fiddling figured out that all worked as long as the right cables were plugged in Attempted CMOS clear button on her PC Tried RMA PSU with her computer, still didn't work Tried original PSU with her computer, worked this time. I believe from noticing it was dead to the end was probably 2.5 hours since we went to breakfast. I will also add, this happened with her old computer occasionally. I don't believe it's the outlet, as it tests fine with an outlet tester and also tests fine with a multimeter. I have the computer on a fairly nice Rocketfish surge protector as well. This has happened with storms, and when the weather's fine, but usually we notice it in the morning when she tries to turn on her computer. Does anyone have any ideas? PC Specs: Corsair RM750e NZXT N7 B650E Corsair Vengeance 16GB x2 AMD R7 7700 EVGA 1080Ti

You probably haven't played anything with Denuvo

so are they putting their fingers on their D-Pad like wasd?

1) depends, but yeah 2) full agree. Linears are sin.

Kinda agree kinda don't. I mostly get physical media to support the artist, and barring that I get it on Bandcamp. I like CD's because I can rip them in case I can't pay for streaming at some point, and I like the FLACs that I can pull of of them. I like vinyl because it's a process. I can't just easily do it, I have to take time to pick what I want to listen, and honestly it makes me feel more productive.

1:1 devices for students in K-12 institutions is a step too far in terms of technology and we need to go back to computer labs only -- in a lot of education IT discussions this will get you strung up by your ankles AI is going to make things much, much worse and it should not be available to the general public because it serves as an abject moral and public health hazard. I'm tired of hearing "you can't put it back in the bottle." Yes you can. Google and OpenAI and Microsoft can only survive so much in terms of fines. It's so difficult to setup locally that people will not try to, so banning it commercially is much better imo.

Lol yeah no it's mostly just file storage. Not going to out what I work in but it's for storing personal and department files. Nothing too mission critical on it

Perfect! I'll look into this. Thanks

I was thinking about moving it up to 10G fiber so there's bandwidth from multiple users using it at once.

I know this is easily done in linux, but if I'm using Windows server would the 4+2 hot spare be something I'd do via the RAID controller?

I'm not 100% sure what the budget is, they told me to just quote it. I'm hoping it's around like 30-40K USD Right now the current server is on 1GB eth, but I'm wanting to swtich it over to fiber for better speed. The file server hosts individual and department drives. Individual drives are for individuals to store stuff on, and the department drives are for departments to share files.

Hello all, I'm working on replacing a server at my work, but I'm somewhat out of date -- I haven't done this since like 2017. I'm needing to setup a new server with at least 30TB of storage for a file storage pool, and then have a VM that runs license managers. I'm needing to do it all via Windows server due to some of the license managers. License managers are pretty lightweight -- they're currently running on a HyperV with 4C, 6GB of RAM and like 90GB storage. What do I need to focus on for the storage server side in terms of specs? All flash these days, or is there a way to still do cache drives in Windows server?