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Hi all, So I've recently upgraded to a PC. I changed the CPU, motherboard, RAM, boot SSD, GPU and HDD. This means the case, PSU and fans are all that are the same as the previous PC. The issue is that despite the PSU giving power (connected keyboard and LED light do light up plus can charge a phone just fine) the PC only turns on occasionally. Most of the time the power button does nothing. The first thing I assumed was a faulty power button or connector. So I removed the PWR cable and tried manually bridging the pins. Exact same scenario. After I noticed that the time would often be incorrect I decided to switch out the CMOS battery, unfortunately, that didn't seem to help. Tried setting BIOS settings to default and nothing (btw with stock settings the CPU severely underperforms.) When it is on, its fine. Also in prolonged gaming use so I'd assume the PSU is fine. Specs: Ryzen 5600x with stock cooler Gigabyte B550m Aorus Elite 16GB Corsair Vengeance 3200Mhz (XMP enabled) RTX 3060 Corsair HX1200 980 Pro 256GB boot SSD MX500 Extra storage HGST 2TB drive Extra storage #2

I got a new D-Link router (DIR-855L) and replaced my rather old Linksys WRT54G with it, thinking that the old router was the reason I haven't been able to take advantage of an internet connection advertised as capable of 100 Mb/s down - not the cable modem, which is quite new and rated for 343 Mb/s. I also replaced a short Cat 5 (not e) cable between the modem and router with one rated as Cat 6. However I did not experience any improvement in internet speeds, but actually the opposite: instead of 30 Mb/s down and 6 Mb/s up, speedtest.net revealed I now only had 2 Mb/s up. To see if the issue was WAN or LAN, I watched the WAN show (yes, bad pun). got a huge file on my PC (approx 15 GB in size) and stuck it in a directory accessible by my web server, and tried downloading it from my domain (resolving to my public IP) - http://glassblade-games.com/video.mp4 - and then from a local IP within my router's subnet - http://192.168.0.100/video.mp4 - and as would be expected, the video streamed way better off of connection to the LAN address than off of the connection to the public address. By the way, that file was only temporary - if you try to download it, you're just going to get a 404 Error Not Found. Don't worry, the content isn't important. It was just a file I could find that was big enough to max out my bandwidth for a sustained period of time. In this screenshot you can see that the local-address download is quite quick. I upgraded to this router partially because it supported Gigabit ethernet whereas my previous router only supported Fast ethernet. The local-address download is already going faster than what would be possible over a 100 Mb/s connection, and would probably be even faster but my mechanical hard disk can't really keep up, I don't own an SSD, and creating a RAM disk would be unnecessary for this test, not to mention that it could only be maybe two GB in size before it would start to compete with my billion open Chrome tabs. Then I went and tried speedtest.net from a WiFi-connected laptop, and got more favorable upload speeds that looked more like what I remembered having gotten with my previous router. And then I did the LAN vs WAN test, and the local-address download seemed to go at a speed limited by the WiFi signal strength, while the public-address download was stuck at 2 Mb/s as I thought it would be. I then read some scary things on tech support forums where people said the DIR-855L was garbage, blamed it on the fact the device was made by D-Link, and either they talked about having fixed the issue by upgrading to a newer model such as the DIR-860L, or they just abandoned the threads entirely. So at this point I was concerned that I'd bought a piece of junk with some kind of crippling problem that made it worse than the device I bought it to replace, which would be quite sad. I then decided to return to my desktop to try again investigating my router settings (I did plenty of poking by this point) but started by doing a few speed tests to get a baseline before I changed anything. But I noticed that between the first and second speed test I did, the upload speed went up slightly, though it was still quite anemic. Then I started doing more speed tests to see if that trend would continue, and though I initially expected it not to, I was starting to form a new hypothesis as my reported upload speed climbed consistently, test after test, until it was over 6 Mb/s (back where I started). Was my upload speed just really bad at first because of a break-in period? Was the router just trying to slowly raise its congestion control throttle so it wouldn't overwhelm my cable modem, or maybe the cable network it was connected to? A sort of long-term equivalent of the Transmission Control Protocol's congestion control (wherein TCP sockets will start out sending data at a low bandwidth and gradually upgrade the bandwidth until the connection between the endpoints is saturated)? As I was writing this I decided to do the test again to get a screenshot to show the difference in download speeds. But I just noticed that as I've left the downloads going, my network manager (cfosSpeed - great program!) is now showing outbound traffic of 1.4 MB/s (Bytes) - OK now it's crept up to 1.6 MB/s and just continues increasing - but the crazy thing is that I've never seen my network manager show any higher than about 800 KB/s up, which makes me wonder, not just whether my new router is "learning" and trying to adapt to its connection environment, but also whether my old router was artificially set to operate at whatever speed the engineers thought was reasonable and wouldn't overwhelm people's modems. However, I suppose it's also possible that the older device also had gone through a "learning" period when it was new - that was a long time ago. But still, why would the router need to do any kind of learning for the wired LAN outbound traffic speed, yet already provide my connection's full speed to WiFi-connected devices? And then there's this: While I was doing the many speed tests that seemed to be training my router to send a bit more down the line at a time instead of holding it back so much, I encountered an occasional *massively faster* download speed result that was much closer to the 100 Mb/s advertised than the 30 Mb/s I've been used to for so long, which was reported by the vast majority of the speed tests I ran. There were about 50 of them in total, so to put it as a percentage, the 30 Mb/s figure was reported, very consistently, for about 95-98% of the time. Weird, though, that this would happen seemingly randomly and then my router would just retreat back down to the slower speed again. That doesn't seem like the way a router should be designed to "learn" if that is indeed what is going on, because if that's what's happening then the intervals are way too far apart - if I can get 85 Mb/s down but not, say, 100, then I'd much rather have 80 Mb/s reliably than 30 just because the router is afraid of stressing out the cable connection. Which makes me doubt this is part of the "learning" thing. I didn't write this up and post it here because I want or expect help with the issue, but rather because I found it interesting, so don't feel obligated to attempt to solve it, though if you have had a similar experience in the past I'd be happy to hear about it.

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a while back, i spilled ale on my motherboard. i cleaned the hell out of it, and it all works perfectly. the thing is, one of my motherboard sensors registers as -280ish celsius. anyone have any idea what the hell is going on?

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Closing the lid naturally makes the computer go to sleep but when I open the lid the laptop doesn't wake up properly. The laptop starts running but the problem is the screen doesn't turn on. Well, it technically it does if I move the mouse but only to show the password screen(I wish I could disable this, I told it to auto login yet it still ask for passwords). After I enter the password the screen goes black and stays black. Bizarre solution I found for this is if I close the lid an open it back again quickly without letting the PC go back to sleep, the screen turns on again. But this time the mouse pointer disappears, it goes invisible. If I repeat the procedure of closing the lid and opening back again couple of times the pointer sometimes returns but most of the time it doesn't and it requires a restart. Now get this. All of this only happens if the computer goes to sleep by closing of the lid. If click "Suspend" nothing wrong happens when I wake it up. I should also note that this only happens on Xubuntu. I tried Elementary OS, Lubuntu, Ubuntu and Windows Vista, none had this issue.