Re: Things I Don't Need Today

On Fri, 8 Mar 2024 13:46:50 -0800, Dimensional Traveler
<dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:

On 3/8/2024 8:20 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

PC's broke.

Congratulations on the impressive detective work.

Thanks... although I'm not sure it's deserved, given how long it took
me to figure it all out. ;-)
The primary PC is (mostly) back together now; all that's left is to
fasten the chassis covers and plug in the external peripherals. I'm
benchmarking and stress-testing it as I type this. It looks like my
computer is now 5-10% slower than it should compared to synthetic
benchmarks for its processor due to the underclocking. I may be able
to up the clock a bit, but at the moment I'm hesitant to experiment.
The difference reall isn't at all noticable anyway, except in
benchmarks. I doubt I'd notice it at all in games, especially as most
games are limited by their GPUs far more than their CPUs.
I probably could have solved this problem faster, except     a) since I had a functional backup PC, there was no essential need
       for a fast solve,     b) I only had a limited amount of time every day to play        with the computers (made even shorter by how little        light gets into the study during winter months). At        most, I fiddled with the busted PC an hour a day tops,        and a lot of that time was spent just rebooting (usually
       from a slow external CD-ROM drive),
and
    c) the whole incident just annoyed me so much that I didn't
       want to bother with it. Especially after I figured out        the it was the default settings of the motherboard that
       had triggered the whole thing. I have to (grudgingly) give kudos to Microsoft's operating system.
Despite the many, many, MANY BSODs and hard shutdowns the OS suffered
through - most of them at boot-up -  when I finally did solve the
issue and reinstalled the HDD, Windows ran as if nothing had gone
awry. This despite the fact that - attempting to troubleshoot the
problem - I had instructed Windows to reset (and later do a clean
reinstall) in hopes that would solve the problem. But since the
hardware kept crashed the OS, it never got very far in that process.
Still, I fully expected I'd have to reinstall the OS. But nope,
Windows came through it all very cleanly.
So, current plan is more stress-testing, then finally button it all
up, copy all the files I worked on using the backup PC to the
hopefully-repaired primary, stress test some more and then finally
decide it's 'safe' to use it as my primary again. After which I can
hopefully put this whole nonsense episode behind me.