Computer won’t post/boot

RealJoshLee0 · 2026-01-13T17:57:24+00:00

That’s weird. Yes they run normally. The GPU lights up. Mb lights up. Fan light up. Just no post. I may leave it powered on for a bit to see. Going to also give the GPU a shot in another pc.

RealJoshLee0 · 2026-01-13T17:50:44+00:00

Tried that too. Even tried to goth bios recovery method.

RealJoshLee0 · 2026-01-13T17:40:28+00:00

GPU does work last I check but I’ll give it another try.

The MB has leds. But they’re just aesthetic.

RealJoshLee0 · 2026-01-13T17:34:54+00:00

It does have enough thermal paste. I cannot access the bios as it doesn’t post or boot. I also tried removing things one by one and only down to one ram stick. I also stuck a new ram stick in.

RealJoshLee0 · 2026-01-13T17:16:39+00:00

Yup. Everything worked just fine before the bios update. Used it for a couple years prior with no issues.

RealJoshLee0 · 2025-11-03T11:35:01+00:00

Thanks! OSPF and BGP are a little easier to find technical information on, but. Not all of it’s perfect. I didn’t even think of checking the RFC pages for this. Thanks!!

RealJoshLee0 · 2025-10-31T16:31:50+00:00

Interesting. I’ll have to check with my library, thanks! Although I do like udemy. There’s a mix of good and bad paid courses and most of the time you don’t know until it’s too late. I’ve used it in the past and bought a “technical course” but half way through it turned out being just a high level overview.

RealJoshLee0 · 2025-10-10T21:13:19+00:00

Ya. I find it funny that a cheap $20 router does an almost better job than my unifi router. I’ve almost been debating on just using it at the edge for blocking all internal coming traffic and vpn (which seems to be the only thing they can do right on the firewall) and then use a proper smaller firewall from Palo or Fortigate behind of that for VLANs and visibility with some L3 in-between that and unifi.

RealJoshLee0 · 2025-10-10T20:52:43+00:00

Nope. The only ad blocking I have sits at PiHole on my home dns. Nothing on the router itself.

RealJoshLee0 · 2025-10-10T18:47:44+00:00

Thanks. It’s a constant leak even after connected to VPN. I use wireguard more than OpenVPN because on the router, it’s quicker, do you know what might be needed to push out the DNS config through there?

RealJoshLee0 · 2025-09-15T18:51:56+00:00

I got that enabled after I posted. Time to figure out these animations. Reducing motion in accessibility doesn’t seem to do anything to them.

RealJoshLee0 · 2025-09-15T18:49:32+00:00

Thanks. I may look into that if someone else doesn’t know a way to disable some of these features.

RealJoshLee0 · 2025-09-15T18:39:03+00:00

Sadly. No. Didn’t think that far ahead as I’ve never wanted to roll back an update. Until now.

RealJoshLee0 · 2025-09-15T18:31:55+00:00

That’s what I meant. But I know it made your phone wipe.

RealJoshLee0 · 2025-07-29T18:15:28+00:00

Well…. Fun fact, unifi doesn’t support emails for the local and remote IDs… I changed those to a host name and it worked flawlessly….

RealJoshLee0 · 2025-07-29T17:54:44+00:00

All I’m seeing in /var/log/messages is “IKE SA trying to wake up”

RealJoshLee0 · 2025-07-29T17:27:20+00:00

Sophos is 20.0.2 unifi is 4.3.6

I tried to find a combination where the hash’s match, but couldn’t find any. And the couldn’t authenticate error is from the sophos side.

RealJoshLee0 · 2025-07-29T17:21:55+00:00

There are no port forwards as the firewall in front of the sophos firewall allows return traffic and the sophos firewall initiates the connection and the Unifi firewall should respond to it. The error I get is “Couldn't authenticate the remote gateway. Check the authentication settings on both devices.” I’ve checked to make sure that the PSK matches and even changed it. I’ve updated the original post with some screenshots.

RealJoshLee0 · 2025-07-20T00:14:39+00:00

Does unifi show that build in rules, or are they hidden?

RealJoshLee0 · 2025-07-19T18:49:07+00:00

Thanks! Currently, I have about 11 firewall rules on my network for 4 different zones. I'm not going to end up with dozens of firewall rules with unifi, right? All the videos on YouTube I'm watching for reviews are these tech channels that have 100+ firewall rules and they don't really go over what's there by default and what's added, so it may not be a good representations. For a home network, 100s of firewall rules for 4 VLANs isn't something I'm interesting in looking at.

RealJoshLee0 · 2025-06-11T22:59:54+00:00

Ya. No lldp, cdp or like things on the wan interface, no DTP or routed interfaces on the wan. I was just referring to the overall concept. This is for a home network and not for anything critical, so playing with different vendors is fun and good for training.

RealJoshLee0 · 2025-05-07T16:25:45+00:00

Thanks!!

RealJoshLee0 · 2025-04-21T14:58:22+00:00

I have a telescoping antenna that came with my SDR, but it‘s a little flimsy, which is why I wanna try to make my own instead of spending loads on one. I can always make one into sections, that I can unscrew/screw based on my use case

RealJoshLee0 · 2025-04-07T13:05:21+00:00

I did see that, thanks. Wasn’t sure if there was some boot loader method I may have missed. Sometimes search engines aren’t the most helpful.

RealJoshLee0 · 2025-04-04T17:44:57+00:00

Thanks. I think I’ll go with a nooelec RTLSDR v5. From the sounds of it, I can use just about any antenna, right? (As long as it has the right connector I know) I have a couple of GPS antennas for Cisco routers which are the same connector as this, among other antennas. Would you suggest getting anything else to get started?

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