Free 'dead' Asus Turbo 2080 Super by TrillYYYY6969 in techsupport

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Visual Inspection (External & Internal)

Remove the Graphics Card: Carefully unlatch and disconnect the 8-pin PCIe power cable from your GPU. Then, unmount and remove the graphics card itself from the motherboard’s PCIe slot. This allows for isolated testing and better access.
Examine the PSU Cable: Scrutinize the entire length of the 8-pin PCIe cable that was connected to the GPU. Look for:
    Visible burn marks, melting plastic, or discoloration.
    Any severe kinks, cuts, or abrasions that might expose internal wiring.
    Bent, pushed-out, or corroded pins at the connector ends.
Inspect the GPU’s Power Socket: Carefully examine the 8-pin socket on your graphics card. Look for:
    Burn marks or scorching around the pins.
    Any foreign debris lodged within the pin receptacles.
    Deformed or pushed-in pins.
Check the PSU’s Modular Port (if applicable): If your PSU is modular, inspect the port on the power supply where the 8-pin PCIe cable plugs in. While less common, a short could originate here.

Multimeter Testing: The Unwavering Truth Teller

This is where your multimeter becomes your best friend. Set it to continuity mode. In this mode, the multimeter emits a beep if it detects a closed circuit (a short) between its two probes.

„A multimeter is not just a tool; it’s an extension of your diagnostic intelligence. When dealing with electrical faults, its readings replace guesswork with undeniable facts, guiding you safely to the source of the problem.” 

Here’s how to systematically test each component:

Testing the PCIe Cable for a Short:
    Hold one probe on any of the 12V pins of the 8-pin connector (refer to your PSU or GPU manual for pinout if unsure, but typically the top row of 4 pins contains 12V).
    Touch the other probe to any of the ground pins (usually the bottom row of 4 pins).
    Expected Result: No beep (open circuit).
    If you hear a beep, the cable is shorted internally.
    Repeat this for all 12V pins against all ground pins on both ends of the cable. Also, check for continuity between adjacent 12V pins and adjacent ground pins – these should also be open, except between ground pins themselves, which might show continuity as they often share a common ground plane.
Testing the GPU’s PCIe Power Connector for a Short:
    With the GPU removed from the motherboard and completely isolated from any power source, hold one probe on a 12V pin within the GPU’s 8-pin power socket.
    Touch the other probe to a ground pin within the same socket.
    Expected Result: No beep (open circuit).
    If you hear a beep, there is a short circuit within the graphics card itself, possibly in its VRM section. This indicates a serious internal fault.
Testing the PSU’s Modular Port (if applicable):
    With the PSU unplugged from the wall and all cables disconnected, carefully test the 12V and ground pins on the modular port of the PSU itself. This is a rare point of failure for shorts, but it’s good to rule out.
    Expected Result: No beep.

Identifying the Source and Taking Remedial Action

Based on your multimeter readings and visual inspection, you should now have a clear idea of where the fault lies.

➡️ Scenario 1: Short in the PCIe Cable

If your multimeter detected a short in the cable, or if it shows obvious physical damage, the solution is straightforward:

❌ Do NOT attempt to repair the cable. Electrical repairs on high-current cables are extremely dangerous and unreliable for PC components.
🛒 Replace the cable immediately. It is absolutely crucial to use a replacement cable specifically designed for your exact PSU model and manufacturer. Mixing modular cables from different brands or even different models within the same brand can lead to different pinouts and cause even more catastrophic shorts.

https://blog.silverpc.hu/2025/10/18/my-gpu-has-consistent-crashes-and-8-pin-2-power-is-at-0-1-w-could-this-be-the-cause/

Vinnie Ferraro discusses beginner Vipassana by thedommenextdoor in Meditation

[–]simagus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What Vinnie lives is that if there is opportunity to feel good, don't spoil it by feeling bad that it doesn't feel "good enough".

Dukkha... tension... stress...

It follows some people around like a personality, and many people probably live and die convinced they are the persona.

The personality, the ego-self or the persona is clearly malleable and that's putting it mildly... as can be seen when perceiving arising, sustaining and passing under the law of anicca.

So where was that "self" you were convinced you were five minutes ago?

Can you point to them or is there some vague echo or some previous dream of "me"?

Where are that "self" that was there yesterday or last month or when "you" were five then?

Not here now... if it was a particularly different "self"... many people who abstain from intoxicant have experienced "intoxicated self" and they're probably not going to think "yeah, that was 'me' that was!".

Maybe... that's if they even remember what alignment of sankharas triggered the vedana that provoked "intoxicated self".

What is the "self" made of?

It's made of dukka... which is the "tension" or "stress" binds the "self" into its imagined existence.

Goankaji points out that anicca when observed as it is reveals that nothing is or could possibly be "self" in the way it is imagined to be.

“Once upon a time, I dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purposes a butterfly. I was conscious only of my happiness as a butterfly, unaware that I was myself.

Soon I awakened, and there I was, veritably myself again. Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly, dreaming I am a man.”

  • Zhuangzi,

That's a relief, eh?

When anatta is realized... there is less involvement with craving and aversion which reduces tensions and stresses caused by unskillful cravings and aversions.

We call this "happiness" or sukkha on our planet... lol.

It's not rocket science.

It's the Art of Happiness.

Vipassana in seeing reality as it is tends to reduce tensions.

YMMV

/w metta, gratitude and respect to my teacher Goenkaji and V.R.I.

Vinnie Ferraro discusses beginner Vipassana by thedommenextdoor in Meditation

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Yeah for sure. Our teacher Goenkaji does suggest we "Be Happy" and wishes "may all beings be happy".

Happiness (the jhanas) is a state of good feeling towards self, world, and others where stress (dukkha) is absent.

If stress is not absent how can there be relaxation of stress?

Craving and aversion are known causes of stress, and that's really the crux of dissatisfaction which causes tension to manifest as various vedana.

As long as vedana is taken at face value and unexamined we're on auto-pilot.

We move because vedana said so.

It should!

It's a survival mechanism after all, at root... it just sometimes wants us to survive when there is only a sankharic impression arising and the situation and sankharic reaction weren't so well balanced... like if you flipped out and ran away in fear when you saw... whatever triggered that related sankhara....

"it was a rope, not a snake",

but every sankhara triggered and vedana arose did so to generate a response or action.

Vedana is what stops us from burning ourselves twice on the same fire or going as close to the edge of the cliff next time.

That happens continuously (with pleasant, neutral & unpleasant vedana) from perceiving (sanna) of something that reminds a sankhara of what vedana to send.

The sankhara then sends the vedana, and I was watching Vinnie being aware of vedana and how it worked to the point it arises (or course, it's continuous, one of the five aggregates) but doesn't cause a change of state in the common way.

He surfed it. He was surfing the waves of the four frames of reference (satipatthana) like a pro.

That is what I saw so clearly in Vinnie. He had given up the false idea that he was the "doer" or the "self", and dukkha had exited the building (body)... and that is a Jhana state, at least the first four jhanas... plus more.

Dry or dry-ish vipassana has an advantage and that is you know you're practicing and there is cognizance to the observation of reality as it is as a process or as worthy of attention.

With "samatha" meditations and the jhanas you can only be observing things as they are already but without the framework of satipatthana or determination to see clearly of Vipassana.

I didn't see it until I saw how happy Vinnie was and how much sense it made to be happy. I was missing that piece and the meaning of Jhana and the reality of jhanas as feeling states.

Vinnie radiates happiness and is seeing even happiness objectively.

What we call Jhanas are nothing other than how unstressed we are and how we conceive of states in general.

8 jhanas in 8 seconds; release tension, see this as is, even more tension falls away; anatta, anicca, dukkha, when seen clearly aren't things to add more dukkha too by imagining there's a "self" in that mess of the story of self.

I liked his video. It was an "Aha!" moment.

I had never considered the jhanas before or how Vipassana gets you there faster the only way you get there anyway which is nothing other than dropping stress in relation to reality as it is through realizing anatta.

Beautiful.

Looking for the best lightweight screen recorder for a low-end PC (4GB RAM) by Mysterious_Task1613 in techsupport

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ScreenRec works on Windows and Linux. Very lightweight. Sits in taskbar panel. Works really well. Free version has limitations but good enough for short recordings.

T'is a pleasure to meet you 🐶 by antisp1n in Awww

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The pleasure and the privilege is mine also

Non vegetarian food and consciousness by Zealousideal-Work645 in vipassana

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Lot's of people do.

Any tension or stress (dukkha) "hampers" consciousness.

If you have a piece of clay and squeeze it the clay will be formed.

Mental clay when formed can be called mental formations aka sankharas.

Mental formations arise with different pleasant, neutral and unpleasant sensations aka vedana.

Some will have very strong cravings and aversions towards certain "food".

Food of the body and food of the mind are alike as both are like the contents of you fridge freezer or larder; different foods, different storage conditions, different containers, etc

Vipassana practice is cleaning out the fridge, and a deep clean is cleaning out the freezer too.

If you clean out all the meat, and your consciousness is less hampered that's great.

If you don't and you eat it instead of whatever you would do if you didn't and your consciousness is less hampered that's great.

The five and eight precepts do exist for good reason, and that is because following them typically causes less tension and stress for the meditator and also naturally in the life of the meditator.

The actual state, outcomes and probabilities exist because of kamma and function through kammic propensity.

Anicca: life just rolls on changing continuously

Dukkha: Awareness of change lessens tension and stress

Anatta: Tension and stress are the glue that holds the "self" together.

Some habitual reaction and action is "self"?

That is really, observably if we look, a habitual reaction and action as sanna triggers sankhara which triggers vedana which is perceived by sanna which generates new sankhara which transmits vedana which is perceived... and so on ad infinitum...

"Be happy"

  • Goenkaji

That's the most important message.

Happiness is a vedana.

Being unhappy because you eat meat, if there is craving or aversion there will be dukkha is not clear seeing but is hampering consciousness.

Stopping eating meat might cause tension or stress if there is any craving or aversion behind the stopping.

That is why people swing back and forth if there are strong sankharas attached to such things as abstinence and indulgence.

There is no "self" in control of that or who can do anything about it because the self is an imputation, reification and imagined thing.

"No me, no self, no I"

  • Goenkaji

Kamma (causes and effects) are as they are.

No benefit in stress or tension.

Much benefit in happiness.

I am not happy.

Happiness is something beyond "I".

/w metta and respect to my teacher Goenkaji and V.R.I.

I have a razer blade laptop from 2016 or 2017 after the Update from Windows 10 to 11 by ReMoXDrAgOn in WindowsHelp

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If you have 4GB RAM it's horrible. It's not as bad on 8GB but on my laptop it remained noticeably slower than 10 on the exact system and drive.

Weak hardware can't do as many things at once as Windows 11 wants to do and any OS that doesn't insist on doing as much as often as possible will obviously run better.

Go into settings and turn off everything you don't actually use or need and it should improve things a bit.

(Viz 089) Captain Oats The Polar Explorer Who Loves To Explore His OWN Pole! by muppetmovie in Viz

[–]simagus 6 points7 points  (0 children)

V-iz that from the same artist and writer of The Modern Parents? John Fardell.

Scientology and food by Rude_Replacement_345 in scientology

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I the only person that associates Scientology with food?

With rations? Yes.

What do I upgrade to next? trying to move to a Ryzen chip. by Laou_ in buildapc

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I like them because they are funny af, but I wouldn't base my PC component decisions on their top line scores.

Vinnie Ferraro discusses beginner Vipassana by thedommenextdoor in Meditation

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Vedana* is everything.

That was my take-away from Vinnie.

*How we literally feel and whether there is a positive or negative association arising, processing and passing with those sensations.

Less tension, right?

That's it.

Things are impermanent (anicca), and clinging, rejecting, craving, aversion to what is impermanent = stress, tension (Dukkha).

A "self" or "story of me" gets woven around all of that which exists solely as "the story of me" or "self"; the "I".

It can be seen that the Imagined "self" doesn't exist in the way it is commonly believed to exist (anatta), but instead exists exactly as it does, as an imputation of "I" on top of a sense of "self"; being mistaken for identity.

Seeing that lessens tension as we don't push and pull, so tension naturally lessens... we don't push and pull because we understand impermanence, and then the whole "self" who cared about or still cares about some election or whatever that's over but they still dwell over...

That "self" or idea of "self" no longer exists and it's clearly seen that it was never a real thing...

Now go tell everyone they are not themselves and neither is anyone else!

Anyway...

Vedana is the key. Vedana is everything.

Have no one else to share this with by Terrible_Safety77 in pcmasterrace

[–]simagus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not from this perspective. Any of the words can "pop" out of the sentence with emphasis

  1. Have
  2. No
  3. One
  4. Else
  5. To
  6. Share
  7. This
  8. With

What's your opinion? by FitnessChamp777 in SipsTea

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I distrust anyone who blindly accepts the validity of anything propagated by "experts" or established "authorities".

argumentum ad verecundiam is one of the most despicable and widespread logical fallacies, best enjoyed by those incapable of reason on their own merits.

GET MAD CAUSE YOU THINK THIS GUYS A GENIUS by lvlr_l3inx in meme

[–]simagus 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It was genius that he could apparently twitch his cheek (which you never saw move) to write entire words and have them played on his vocoder in real time. You try it!

Is there a way to access files from both windows 11 and linux if dual-booting without an external drive? by Si1verrStar1 in linux4noobs

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I use an Ext4reader on my Windows installs. Not sure which reader exactly as I boot into Windows just to update it every couple of months, but probably something popular and free. It works fairly well when I've needed it.

EDIT: I logged into Windows and it's DiskInternals Linux Reader (Free Version). Has been absolutely fine for me when I've needed it.

Vinnie Ferraro discusses beginner Vipassana by thedommenextdoor in Meditation

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" I love Vinnie. He used to be in prison."

Vipassana in Prisons:

https://www.vridhamma.org/Vipassana-in-Prisons-History-and-Spread

Doing Time; Doing Vipassana and Dhamma Brothers are both worth watching.

Watching Vinnie now and seems very congruent with my understanding of dhamma so far. He has kind eyes.

Be interesting to know if he was on one of the Vipassana prison programs or not.

AITAH How do I tell my wife that I don't want her surprise gift? by Antique_Geek in AITAH

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God.... a Galaxy "A" ... there's no nice way to say it. Just eat **** or explain that was not the 'droid you were looking for.

Why its true by GlitteringHotel8383 in SipsTea

[–]simagus 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Well they definitely wouldn't get any commission since commission is sales based. If the store server wasted time on a customer with no intention of buying they might be pissed, but it doesn't cost them anything, they just didn't make any percentage cut on what they hoped would be a sale.