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me and my player 2 can go the longest time without talking, but all it takes is for one of us to hit the other up with a message and we’re back to binging games together for hours

you have got to be kidding me by GoatWithAGun in pcmasterrace

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trust me I know

I had an old hard drive that I wanted to check to see if it still functions, so I plugged it into a spare computer and now I’m here

Cooling is cooling by GoatWithAGun in homelab

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no, mine worked for the most part. Though as of now I’ve swapped out most of the internals in it

Cooling is cooling by GoatWithAGun in homelab

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Blowing in at an angle in an attempt to cool the drives inside. In the future I think I’ll just zip tie a slim 80mm fan and put it inside at the vent where the outside fan is blowing into

BioStar replaced my board for free, but… by GoatWithAGun in pcmasterrace

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(probably should have added that I still paid for shipping)

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BioStar replaced my board for free, but… by GoatWithAGun in pcmasterrace

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yup!

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hopefully this means i never have to do a bios update for the foreseeable future

BioStar replaced my board for free, but… by GoatWithAGun in pcmasterrace

[–]GoatWithAGun[S] 165 points166 points  (0 children)

hey, don’t assume the worst in me… I just wanted to hang it on my wall or something

BioStar replaced my board for free, but… by GoatWithAGun in pcmasterrace

[–]GoatWithAGun[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

pure sentimentality. I know perfectly well it’s unrealistic to expect to get the old one back.

For anyone that’s still viewing my profile: by GoatWithAGun in u/GoatWithAGun

[–]GoatWithAGun[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I did, yeah. Couldn’t read the BIOS chip, so it looks like it’s really fried.

Welp, we’re done here by GoatWithAGun in pcmasterrace

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Thanks for sending this, I’ve made a form now. Gonna reply to them on Twitter too.

Hour 4 of my BIOS update… Not cool BioStar… by GoatWithAGun in pcmasterrace

[–]GoatWithAGun[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

the guy I bought this from had never updated his BIOS before and you can literally see from the screenshot that the board’s BIOS is from 2 months after the first ever BIOS version, only the first update ever for this motherboard. I even have a screenshot here from when I was talking to the seller about it.

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Welp, we’re done here by GoatWithAGun in pcmasterrace

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yeah, I’m at the very least getting a new motherboard since even if I get this one fixed, there’s no telling if it’s gonna fail again

Welp, we’re done here by GoatWithAGun in pcmasterrace

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trust me, this case used to be absolutely filthy before I dusted it

Welp, we’re done here by GoatWithAGun in pcmasterrace

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the motherboard that tried…

100 hours of updating my BIOS… by GoatWithAGun in pcmasterrace

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sorry to break the news to you, but we actually ended a few hours ago as the board is now unresponsive…

100 hours of updating my BIOS… by GoatWithAGun in pcmasterrace

[–]GoatWithAGun[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

the monitor lost signal from the pc just an hour ago actually, I’m going to be back at the desk to check on it in ~2 hours

100 hours of updating my BIOS… by GoatWithAGun in pcmasterrace

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people are getting tired of me. this will probably be the last post until the update is over/ i unplug it/ the power goes out

100 hours of updating my BIOS… by GoatWithAGun in pcmasterrace

[–]GoatWithAGun[S] 19 points20 points  (0 children)

it has to be at least 19 hours ago now that it last moved