The Blue Cryptid

The switch is a 2540 48g HP Aruba. Yeah I'm hoping that's not the case, but I'll probably end up redoing both ends just to bring it to standard anyways. The last IT guy here had nothing standardized so we've been scrambling to figure out how things work.

Thanks , I'm thinking I'll try terminating it again as my switch is reporting shorting on a few pairs. I'm just hoping it was terminated in correct order on the outside camera's end because it's a pain to get to and it's negative degrees F where I'm at right now.

I'm thinking your right. I just checked my switch with cable-diagnostics and it just looks like my new termination is shorting on a few pairs. Gonna try to re-terminate to a different port on the patch panel and see where that goes. Hoping its not shorting on the cameras end because I really don't wanna terminate an ethernet at -10*F on a ladder.

I was wondering if anyone knew what this was, I've looked all over the internet but I can't find anything leading to an answer. I had a camera in the system go down and found that it wasn't solidly terminated into the patch panel. I went to re-terminate it but found it didn't use a standard ethernet cable. It's an 8-pair but the pairs are orange, off-green, brown, and purple. Was wondering if anyone knows what type of cable this is.

Thanks. I did this on my new install and it did end up finding something to fix, but I tested my RAM sticks in another computer to confirm that it is the sticks that broke. Perfect opportunity to upgradew to an overkill of 3600 c16 32 gb

I think I kinda found the problem now. RAM went bad one way or another and registry got corrupted. Got new RAM sticks on the way while using a pair of loaners, and I reset my PC. Only problem now is that O365 won't install and I think it's a registry issue. I'm thinking that the registry continues to be corrupt because I reinstalled Windows locally, but I'm not 100% sure

I flashed my BIOS before resetting and that cleared the xmp file back to factory.

Long story short my custom pc started getting BSOD's about memory management, kernel power, cache stuff, etc.. Also ended up losing all network connectivity capabilities. I reset the PC and it fixed the connectivity, but BSODs keep happening whenever I do something like moving big files. Pretty sure its a hardware problem now, but how do I narrow down if its the psu, mobo, ram, or cpu?

Yeah always was on my to do list, but I guess I waited until it was too late

To make a long story short my area has been having power outages and through these outages my computers registry files became corrupt so I updated BIOS on my mobo and reset Windows in the troubleshhoting process. Now Windows has lost its activation key, Microsoft support says they dont help with OEM keys, and MS servers dont see my computer as the old one so no getting the key that way. Am I just royally screwed?

While I'm not a pro, I did just get my internship done last Summer by asking a local school if I could intern with their IT department. The one thing you should ask before taking an internship is what they plan to have you do, which was my mistake when I did mine. I ended up getting just gopher tasks, and learned nothing, resulting in the internship just being credits for me. No matter where you get your internship, just make sure they aren't using you for the busywork.

Agreed. Almost all launchers that aren't Steam mainly just provide their own games rather than acting as a "marketplace" like Steam and EGS. The way I see things going it's gonna end up being Steam and Epic holding the status quo while things like GreenManGaming, Humble, and Fanatical become more popular for alternate purchasing avenues.

Summary Bethesda will be shutting down Bethesda.net servers and allowing users to migrate their games and data to Steam starting in April. Quote (From an E-Mail sent out by Bethesda) My thoughts While I don't like the market narrowing for gaming platforms, I have to admit that Steam is my preferred service and it'll be nice to not have to launch a different program just to play my Bethesda games I got on sale that ended up being for that launcher. I just feel, like Blizzard, that the Bethesda.net Launcher wasn't very useful as its catalog was just a few Bethesda games. I'm wondering if this is part of Microsoft's acquisition, eventually moving some of the titles to Game Pass. Sources https://bethesda.net/en/article/2RXxG1y000NWupPalzLblG/sunsetting-the-bethesda-net-launcher-and-migrating-to-steam

I've got a digitizer coming now so hopefully it goes well. I've just heard that aftermarket digitizers can be janky.

Yeah I got someone on reddit that said that, also that generic digitizers tend to be janky for ds lite.