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From what I am guessing from the original post, although the screen was malfunctioning, the "minor dent" on the phone's hinge apparently 'superseded' everything and voided the warranty. It sounds very ridiculous.

I agree! I'm not sure how is it like in the West, but in many Asian countries, these big corporations get to run away with lousy customer service. Sometimes it may not even be intentional. The customer facing staff sometimes are oddly, not customer service trained.

Summary Someone sent their less than a year old Samsung Galaxy Fold 4 for repair after the "screen protector" in the middle of the phone began to "lift" and a tiny black spot appeared on the folded portion of the screen. The Samsung service centre in Singapore noticed a "minor dent" on the phone's hinge and declared the warranty void and quoted a repair cost of ~SGD$800. The customer was notified that a technician would call them to confirm the charges of repair and to confirm if the customer wanted a repair. Fast forward 2 days, the customer was sent a SMS notifying their phone was repaired and ready for collection. When the customer went to collect the phone, and said that he did not approve the repair because he was not contacted by the technician and that SGD$800 was too expensive and he would not have authorised it. The service centre insisted that the customer signs a form consenting the repair. When the customer refused, the staff snatched the phone from the customer and refused to give it back until the customer signs the form. After a series of back and forth email and calls with Samsung customer service, Samsung re-installed the faulty parts of the phone and delivered back to the customer. The customer noticed that the phone came back with more damages than before and the stylus digitizer stopped working in certain areas of the phone. Quotes My thoughts I've had a similar bad experience with Samsung service centre in Singapore when my Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra's screen suddenly turned blank a few months ago. The phone was still working fine when i called it and guessed the answer button's location and swiped it. I could still speak on the phone and it responded to touches via vibration. I remember being quoted a ridiculous price for the repair with the service centre staff being rude. They gave off an impression that they wanted to shun away as many customers as possible by being highly negative about the customer's phone condition like saying it was out of warranty or the warranty was voided and that repairs are going to cost an exorbitant amount. Moreover, similar to the OP, I also had to wait an hour beyond my booked appointment slot to see the service centre staff. Sources

Update: I tried to run Memtest86 with each of my 4 ram sticks individually in the first slot of the motherboard. Only 1 of my newer ram stick (Corsair CMK16GX4M2D3600C18, Ver 5.32) ran into an error. The other sticks all passed. Running the older 2 sticks (Ver 3.31) at 2933Mhz and 3200Mhz also passed Memtest86. Previously I was running all 4 sticks with XMP on at 3600Mhz. However after googling Ryzen 5 3600, it seems it officially only supports up to 3200Mhz. Hence this might have been why I ran into some problems. The fact that one of the sticks was faulty also didn't help with the issue.

Okay just looked up the compatible ram list, and turns out my specific ram kit is not supported. Its a wonder that it has lasted me this long. I have ordered CMK16GX4M2B3000C15 a 3000Mhz ram now. Hope that works. Will update this thread in the future. I am just hoping the ram I get passes Memtest86.

Ahh I see. For this, should I check on the Mobo website or AMD website?

Whats qvl?

Okay I have managed to set the DRAM frequency to 3000, and not used the "Memory Try It!" feature. Currently using the newer 2 sticks of ram, and no crashes so far. Usually I would crash as soon as I enter into a game of Apex legends. But now I am in game but still no crashes whatsoever. When i run memtest under this setup, the status states "failed" as soon as test #2. So I'm still not entirely sure if the problem is with the clock speed or that I just received a faulty ram from corsair. Despite this "fail" status, my pc didn't crash as mentioned earlier. Edit: oops nevermind, my PC crashed again after a restart, with the message: "Memory Management". It crashed again with the message "kernal security check failure".

My Bios version is E7C02AMS.3C3 . Bios build date: 27 September 2021 I tried this memory try it! setting on my bios (attached image) and set it to 3200. The bsod appears right after the Mobo logo with a few different phrases: system thread exception not handled kmode exception not handled

Thank you for your replies! I will clock the ram speed down to 3200 and give it a shot. Should I be concerned that my ram itself has spoilt? considering the memtest results? Or does having my ram run too fast for my mobo and cpu can also result in such a result on memtest?

I've been getting BSODs today. The phrase that appears are: MEMORY_MANAGEMENT (1a), IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL (a), CRITICAL_PROCESS_DIED (ef). Its a different phrase for different BSOD incidents. System: CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 GPU: Zotac Nvidia rtx 3060ti PSU: Corsair RM650x [using this since 2017] *Ram: Corsair Vengeance 4x 8GB 3600MHz DDR4 [CMK16GX4M2D3600C18] Mobo: Corsair B450 Tomahawk Max *Okay the ram is something i want to elaborate on. I have had 2x8GB of the ram sticks for 2+ years now. I recently bought aanother set of 2x8GB of ram and have been using them for about a month. Both sets are exactly the same, but upon closer inspection, the older stick has ver 3.31 on it while the newer one is version 5.32. What I have done so far: I have ran the rams through memtest86. When I ran the test with all 4 sticks, the status becomes "fail" very quickly. As soon as the third or so test. When I run memtest with just the 2 newer sticks, the "fail" status comes about as early as before. When I run the test with my older sticks, the "fail" status comes somewhere around the 10th test mark. I am typing this out in Windows safe mode with networking and there has been 0 crashes so far [about 25 minutes has passed]. However, when i windows normally, it crashes before the 10 minute mark with a bsod and one of the above-mentioned reasons. I have located the dump files and dropped them into WinDbg and copy pasted what it says onto a txt file. However, i don't know if it is because of the safe mode, I am unable to upload them. I will somehow try to get those files onto my mac and upload it here. Apologies for skipping on the pleasantaries. I am trying to be to the point and as concise as possible. Thank you for taking your time to read this and any assistance is greatly appreciated. crash dump 1.txt Crash dump 2.txt crash dump 3.txt Crash dump 4.txt

Ah I see. So I guess just having dangling hdmi cables is the way for me.

To add more clarity, I'm basically looking for a hdmi hub of sorts with the same number of ins and out. So 3 in to 3 out. with the 3 out connected to my tv's 3 different HDMI ports.

I am doing carpentry work in my house's TV console. The TV is going to be mounted on the wall and its cables will be going through the wall and coming out of a cable port hole below the tv. I would like to have a device, something like a HDMI switch so that in future, If I have a new device to connect to my tv, I do not have to route the cable through the wall again. So basically, I want to run about 3 hdmi cables from my tv's 3 ports to this one device and I want to connect my devices to this device instead of my tv. But the catch is that when I want to change the source input of my tv, I want to do so with the tv's remote instead of a remote for this dedicated item. So this device should have 6 hdmi ports, 3 connected to the tv's 3 ports, and another 3, each of it connected to my 3 devices like cable tv and what not. Is there such a device for this use case?

I see. Thank you both for your advise thus far.