My computer broke

[James]

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My computer is broken so now I must fix it.

 

 

[RollinLower]

Dear lord, i didnt watch it yet but does this mean that linus' fold 3 was actually recovered??

[Yaron2334]

Dan the Man fixed the Fold!

[dogwitch]

love to know what was the root cause of psu issue.

like wh it would stop after hitting 100watts

[MerrickD]

I just had a similar experience earlier this month.  Shut down a stand-alone NAS.  Went to turn it back on - NOTHING.  No LEDs, no PSU fan, no nothing.

 

Pulled the PSU.  Old 20-pin + 4-pin ATX for early Pentium boards.  Shorted PS_ON# to ground - fan spun.  Checked PWR_OK - good.  Checked each individual pin - voltages checked.  I had already ordered a replacement (had been intending to for a while - it's a 15 yo NAS - and started trying to debug the rest of the board - but not a whole lot you can do with no power supply (had no replacement 20-pin ATX PSUs around).  

 

New PSU arrived - plug it in - booted like nothing was ever wrong. Huh?

 

Put the old supply in - NOTHING.

 

New supply - booted right up again.

 

There's no arguing it's the old PSU.  Unfortunately, I have no way to test the supply under load here like in the video, but it's really frustrating when the power supply tests out perfectly under no load and only fails under load.  Even more annoying it was working PERFECTLY fine up until the point I powered the system down manually (had been constant on for months before that) and then just nothing.

 

About a year ago, similarly, had an Asus ROG PSU that would refuse to boot an Asus Z690 machine.  Ran PERFECTLY fine as long as I left it up or only did restarts.  But if I shut it down it was totally hit and miss on reboot.  Would "click" and everything would light up for about half a second, kick the fans once, then nothing.  Wait a LONG time and it would boot - then fine again until next shutdown (like when updating BIOS).  Replaced supply and no issues since.

 

It would be nice to have a tester that can put a PSU under load.

 

***Too funny! I just looked!  That Thor 850W was my old power supply!  I replaced it with a Thor 1000W.

[swimtome]

3 hours ago, dogwitch said:

love to know what was the root cause of psu issue.

like wh it would stop after hitting 100watts

Could just be old, wasnt mentioned how long ago they got that PSU.  But if it's running a more recent GPU I doubt its that old.

 

My NAS is using my original 10 year old Corsair HX850 PSU.  Computer boots fine but started getting random Hard Drive disconnects.  New PSU and all was fine since.

But maybe it was a sata extension cable? who knows.  Wish we all had a PSU stress tester handy lol.

 

Point is PSUs can be really finicky...

[Avaviel]

Should have made this one a sponsored video for Seasonic! /s

[kokosnh]

2:49 I would mark that little bigger. Or told the opposite, don't even reuse the old cabling. Only when you check with multimeter if the pinout is the same, you can do it.

Preferably only use the cable, that came with the modular PSU.  Even when it's the same model, you have to double check if they are the same, if you want to use old one. As the ATX doesn't standarize the PSU side of the cables.  
Too many people, fried their HDD / SSD, and the rest of the PC this way, just being lazy, and using old modular cabling, when swapping the new PSU.

[HonzaP]

20:45 - Related to yesterday's video, Linus talks about winter, mentioning dew point, but doesn't explain how is he planning to solve condensation? 

 

[swimtome]

14 minutes ago, HonzaP said:

20:45 - Related to yesterday's video, Linus talks about winter, mentioning dew point, but doesn't explain how is he planning to solve condensation? 

 

Inside and outside are 2 different loops, so I don't think (?) it would be an issue.  

[HonzaP]

@swimtome

The inner loop will still have similar temperature to the outer loop on the cold side, unless they have some way to regulate the heat exchanger to keep the temp around the room temperature 

[Seb_1]

I was also expecting to find out what happened to the switch that blew up in his last video at the end. Im curious to what killed it

[dogwitch]

6 hours ago, swimtome said:

Could just be old, wasnt mentioned how long ago they got that PSU.  But if it's running a more recent GPU I doubt its that old.

 

My NAS is using my original 10 year old Corsair HX850 PSU.  Computer boots fine but started getting random Hard Drive disconnects.  New PSU and all was fine since.

But maybe it was a sata extension cable? who knows.  Wish we all had a PSU stress tester handy lol.

 

Point is PSUs can be really finicky...

Failing internal caps. not leaking.

where it works for a bit. then it gives issues.

i only had 1 psu that was that. 12 years old. 650 watt that did the same thing as you nas psu.

[nether1234]

15 hours ago, Seb_1 said:

I was also expecting to find out what happened to the switch that blew up in his last video at the end. Im curious to what killed it

Alex commented in the other videos forum and he said they still are not sure.

[LEALXP]

Hi Linus and LMG,

 

just to say the audio is very much desynced from the video.

I'm not one of the only ones that noticed maybe a bad edit while uploading the other audio versions that you guys uploaded to the youtube video.

For context i'll send a screenshot from the comments section that verifies my claims.

 

Obviously i dont want to be rewarded or anything. Just being concerned!

Cya in future vids!

[LMGcommunity]

11 hours ago, LEALXP said:

Hi Linus and LMG,

 

just to say the audio is very much desynced from the video.

I'm not one of the only ones that noticed maybe a bad edit while uploading the other audio versions that you guys uploaded to the youtube video.

For context i'll send a screenshot from the comments section that verifies my claims.

 

Obviously i dont want to be rewarded or anything. Just being concerned!

Cya in future vids!

Thanks, we're looking into it!

[DankDoodles]

22 minutes ago, LMGcommunity said:

Thanks, we're looking into it!

For more clarification: It is missing the first 4 seconds of the audio where Linus says "My computer just died".
This results in all audio being cut off at 22:20 to 22:24.

I think this happened while you guys were exporting the audio tracks for different languages on YouTube.

I discovered that the 4 missing seconds for some reason were Linus in the "Spanish (United States)" track and the "Portuguese (Brazil)" track. At the beginning of both tracks, Linus says "My computer just died" in English, and then the translated voice is played. Because of this 4-second delay, it causes the translated audio to be interrupted at the end of the video.

Hope this helps, good luck!

Edited November 8, 2023 by DankDoodles
Better explanation, also describes the issue in the other audio tracks too.

[jfranny84]

I was wondering what connectors did you use for the quick connect for external water cooling source? I was thinking of doing external watter cooling for my servers.