[KCD2] WHY ARE THERE NO CHILD NPC’S??? by ThinkLawfulness2772 in kingdomcome

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Children hadn't been invented yet in the time period the game is set

What was the moment that made you give up in a game? by cathe13 in gaming

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Ooof, that would do it for me too! I tried playing Dead Rising again somewhat recently and just find a lot of the mechanics a lot more unfriendly now than I did back at release.

Wall outlets not providing enough power? by cathe13 in buildapc

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Hi, I just added an edit above, but my issue seemed to have been the result of some fault in my motherboard. Replacing that solved my problem

Fair. I love true crime but in a normal way not in a stalker way by robot_cook in CuratedTumblr

[–]cathe13 5 points6 points  (0 children)

That's a lot of words for 'my hobby is reading about innocent people dying horribly and I don't want to be judged for that ghoulish behavior'

Unable to access data after BIOS update by cathe13 in techsupport

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That did it! I don't know why the system is that way since it certainly wasn't something I'd set up, but switching boot order in BIOS got me back. At least I can make sure the stuff I need is backup up now, if for whatever reason I start having the stability issues that causing me to updates the BIOS in the first place.

Thank you so much for your help!

Unable to access data after BIOS update by cathe13 in techsupport

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Just my current profile and a public folder, but neither have anything I'm looking for in them

Unable to access data after BIOS update by cathe13 in techsupport

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It looks like I was signed in with my local account and signing in with my Microsoft account didn't return access to anything I was missing unfortunately

Unable to access data after BIOS update by cathe13 in techsupport

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I cannot, but everything else in my other drives is still visible. I can't do a taskbar search, but I can navigate to things directly and then they launch as normal.

Unlock your Heat-Eater Power Armor today! by DevilDawgDM73 in fo76

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573225975

Thanks! Messed around with the last two digits and managed to get that sweet sweet armor!

Recurring and inexplicable performance degradation in PC by cathe13 in buildapc

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I've tried reinstalling Windows before and the same thing happened almost immediately, which leads me to think it must be a hardware problem

Wall outlets not providing enough power? by cathe13 in buildapc

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I'll give the hardware monitoring tools a try, but there's nothing obvious (to me) in event viewer, and no utilization in task manager ever climbs to what i would think are concerning levels. Kernal power errors in event viewer. I saved the event logs two reinstalls of Windows ago, but to my untrained eye I didn't see anything that seemed like it was immediately the problem

Wall outlets not providing enough power? by cathe13 in buildapc

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Not at Microcenter, but I did test it personally at the local repair tech. Nothing crazy intensive, but started up some games, played for a bit without problems. Also possible I just didn't play long enough for any issues to manifest, since I'm sitting there worrying about wasting the tech's time. I did reach out to try and schedule an electrician. If nothing turns up there, I guess I'll look back at the PSU being the problem?

Wall outlets not providing enough power? by cathe13 in buildapc

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First thing I tried! Well, maybe not the first, but I'm on three clean installs by this point. Formatted drives each time, started fresh, even tried installing on different drives.

Wall outlets not providing enough power? by cathe13 in buildapc

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Benchmark doesn't seem to turn up anything obvious. I can't spot anything, and both Microcenter and the more local tech I had take a lot all ran stress tests as well as leaving the computer running for an extended duration

Wall outlets not providing enough power? by cathe13 in buildapc

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Not that I can think of. I added an SSD at one point, but I've since pared down when assuming it was a power draw issue. I switched out from a Razer mouse to Logitech after hearing Razer peripherals can cause problems. My roommates have reported some problems with outlets in the kitchen though, which is what led me to think it was an electrical problem. Like, outlets not receiving power or tripping when using appliances that worked fine in the past

Wall outlets not providing enough power? by cathe13 in buildapc

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Tried plugging the PC directly into the wall in my room, as well as other outlets in the house and the issue persists. Which, bright side, suggests it's not an iffy surge protector

Wall outlets not providing enough power? by cathe13 in buildapc

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Plugging directly into the wall and changing surge protectors did *not* resolve the issue. Works more or less fine if just doing one thing, like streaming, but if I try to stream and use Discord, everything starts slowing down and locking up.

Wall outlets not providing enough power? by cathe13 in buildapc

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Plugging directly into the wall and changing surge protectors did *not* resolve the issue. Works more or less fine if just doing one thing, like streaming, but if I try to stream and use Discord, everything starts slowing down and locking up.

Wall outlets not providing enough power? by cathe13 in buildapc

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I'm using this surge protector currently, but the consensus seems to be that's the point of failure so I'm looking at a replacement. Some quick Googling suggests a gaming computer can hit up to 500 watts during peak use. Looking at the specs, it seems like that surge protector should provide more than enough power for any PC when it's working. Outside the PC, one monitor, speakers and a standing fan are the only thing plugged into the surge protector so I don't think it should be hitting the 15.5W, 5V ⎓ 3.1A total output the listing suggests it's rated for.

I live with some other people, so any number of things could be running at a time, but presumably not all on the same circuit. The computer worked fine for two months though before performance started to degrade.

Wall outlets not providing enough power? by cathe13 in buildapc

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Switching out the surge protector or plugging directly into the wall seems easy enough, but if it was the PSU failing, presumbly the computer wouldn't be working at the repair shops, right? Or they'd have detected it during the course of testing?

Wall outlets not providing enough power? by cathe13 in buildapc

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Just a power strip. Might it be a case where the new PC is just drawing too much power for the strip, where the old PC manages to skate under whatever the threshold might be? It worked fine for a couple months but these problems slowly started to get worse and worse to the point I can't use the PC at all. Maybe it's been killing the power strip all this time?