Grant Fondo
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Ah, no oldest RAM i have is around 10 years old.
I am picking up an pc from my mums next week c. 2006 so will see what is in the box.
PC fettling and repairs thread
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I am picking up an pc from my mums next week c. 2006 so will see what is in the box.
cyberknight
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no worries if i remember rightly it could only take 2 gig ram max so not like i could do much with it apart from passing the timeAh, no oldest RAM i have is around 10 years old.
I am picking up an pc from my mums next week c. 2006 so will see what is in the box.
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DCBassman
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10 days or so ago, right before we were due to leave for a house-sit, an earthenware vase split, dumping flowers and a good deal of water onto my Mac Pro tower. Much frantic action pulling out bits and deploying large quantities of kitchen towel. Put it up against the radiator, along with the A1314 Bluetooth keyboard, to dry out. Left for house sit.
Came back today. The P9X79 big box is still performing well, so dirty slots look like the answer.
Tore the Mac down some more, looking for signs of water damage. None found. Rebuilt. Plugged in. Button. Chime!
All is well.
Phew!
Came back today. The P9X79 big box is still performing well, so dirty slots look like the answer.
Tore the Mac down some more, looking for signs of water damage. None found. Rebuilt. Plugged in. Button. Chime!
All is well.
Phew!
StuAff
Silencing his legs regularly
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Well, they are built like tanks. Water tanks, in this case!
Grant Fondo
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Close one! Same happened to me with a full mug of tea once, open top case with two fans, mobo nuked.
DaveReading
Don't suffer fools gladly (must try harder!)
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Slightly OT, but I bought a second-hand Renault once that had been retrofitted with electronic ignition.
The box of tricks had been mounted under the screenwash reservoir, which one day decided to spring a leak ...
The box of tricks had been mounted under the screenwash reservoir, which one day decided to spring a leak ...
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DCBassman
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This, unfortunately is back to only seeing 24GB of RAM, and it's looking like a slot/mobo fault. I'd had another go with the 3960X, and it's definitely toast. But it has degraded the board trying it. Hopefully, it will recover again.
The P9X79 box (open top, three fans) missed that fate by inches in this incident!
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DCBassman
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After some research, slackened the cooler head and switched off XMP. 32GB registered! I'll let it run for a few weeks and see if I can tgen go back to XMP without losing that bank again.
Bonefish Blues
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More Mac mutterings from me.
You'll likely not recall, but I fettled my old iMac by dropping a WD SSD in and getting the operating system reinstalled. All good, even if I had to use a second screen to avoid the periodic black-screening of the native screen. All was good until last week, when neither screen would fire up. Oh well, time was time, so I bought a Mac Mini, plus a hub with a SSD enclosure so I could pull the SSD out of the iMac and access it from the Mini.
Thing is, I've set it up, connected the hub, including the SSD, but I can't see the SSD on Spotlight or via Disk Utility. I'm now wondering whether it's the SSD that's failed, rather than something terminal affecting the iMac. Any other checks I can do before I get upset with Amazon and send them the drive back for replacement as it's cost me the thick end of 700 squid?
You'll likely not recall, but I fettled my old iMac by dropping a WD SSD in and getting the operating system reinstalled. All good, even if I had to use a second screen to avoid the periodic black-screening of the native screen. All was good until last week, when neither screen would fire up. Oh well, time was time, so I bought a Mac Mini, plus a hub with a SSD enclosure so I could pull the SSD out of the iMac and access it from the Mini.
Thing is, I've set it up, connected the hub, including the SSD, but I can't see the SSD on Spotlight or via Disk Utility. I'm now wondering whether it's the SSD that's failed, rather than something terminal affecting the iMac. Any other checks I can do before I get upset with Amazon and send them the drive back for replacement as it's cost me the thick end of 700 squid?
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DCBassman
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If the enclosure is generic, connect to a Windows machine if you have one. Download WD's free disk checking tools and go over it. You call it a hub, can you clarify?
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DCBassman
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Sandy Bridge-E box: memory all present at 1685MHz, so it appears to be slowly bedding back in. Meanwhile, the i7-3820 is running cool and steady at a shade over 4.5GHz.
Dell XPS 1640M: no display when fired up, just a couple of multi-coloured flashes. Rats. Hooked up a screen to the display port output, no issues. Check battery level - 1%. Powers itself down. Plugged in. Wouldn't play ball properly until over 10%, but at least it's the cheap generic battery, not the oh-so-whizzy FHD display and its RGB-LED backlight. Phew...
Dell XPS 1640M: no display when fired up, just a couple of multi-coloured flashes. Rats. Hooked up a screen to the display port output, no issues. Check battery level - 1%. Powers itself down. Plugged in. Wouldn't play ball properly until over 10%, but at least it's the cheap generic battery, not the oh-so-whizzy FHD display and its RGB-LED backlight. Phew...
Bonefish Blues
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Will do. It's a wee square silver box that the mac mini sits on with hdd enclosure (because cheaper than buying from apple) and lots of ports (because they're stingy with them too)
Amazon product ASIN B096LMGTNGView: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hagibis-Enclosure-MC25-Pro-DP/dp/B096LMGTNG/ref=asc_df_B096LMGTNG/?tag=googshopuk-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=535972420977&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=17133678949020928377&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=1006622&hvtargid=pla-1394530835511&psc=1
Grant Fondo
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Yes, gpu prices better than they were but still too high
... at least there are some in stock now.
Bonefish Blues
Banging donk
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Update time - yes I can see the SSD now, and it has some data on it, but of course (doh!) my chums at the Mac Repairers have formatted it as a Mac HDD, so I guess I'll have to reformat it as a regular external HDD for Mac.
But it does have c17gb of data on it which I'd like to capture - any ideas on how to do this latter step brave comrades?
But it does have c17gb of data on it which I'd like to capture - any ideas on how to do this latter step brave comrades?
