My (once nice) PC (prematurely) died (motherboard?).

On Sat, 10 Aug 2019 16:22:43 -0700 (Seattle), Jeff-Relf.Me @. wrote:

Scott Doty replied ( to me ):
bought a new Cooler Master HAF Lan case

Why ? are you storing terabytes of videos ?

PETABYTES

On Sat, 10 Aug 2019 21:27:51 -0500, The Right And The Powerful wrote:

On Sat, 10 Aug 2019 16:22:43 -0700 (Seattle), Jeff-Relf.Me @. wrote:

Scott Doty replied ( to me ):
bought a new Cooler Master HAF Lan case

Why ? are you storing terabytes of videos ?

PETABYTES

Here's what the synology looks like:

root@xxx:~# df /volume1/
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/md2 40827094912 11908349268 28918626860 30% /volume1

It's not video though, except for the stuff I record from gaming. Mostly
backups.

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On 11 Aug 2019 04:58:19 GMT, vallor wrote:

On Sat, 10 Aug 2019 21:27:51 -0500, The Right And The Powerful wrote:

On Sat, 10 Aug 2019 16:22:43 -0700 (Seattle), Jeff-Relf.Me @. wrote:

Scott Doty replied ( to me ):
bought a new Cooler Master HAF Lan case

Why ? are you storing terabytes of videos ?

PETABYTES

Here's what the synology looks like:

root@xxx:~# df /volume1/
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/md2 40827094912 11908349268 28918626860 30% /volume1

It's not video though, except for the stuff I record from gaming. Mostly
backups.

I haven't played games on any computer since I broke the escape key on
my boss's computer playing digger in 1986. OMG

In article , @. wrote:


Nowadays, you go into a hospital and every staff member is carrying
a cellphone or a tablet, all connected to the hospital network.

Meanwhile, I'm laying in bed, all relaxed-like,
with my 4k 40" curved monitor swung over me ( via an arm );
-- hands-free, not holding a tablet-keyboard.

good luck carrying that from room to room.

Instead, I use mouse+speech; see:

tablets and phones don't use a mouse and support speech and other
assistive control without anything extra.

On Mon, 12 Aug 2019, Jeff-Relf.Me @. wrote:

Eric Stevens replied:

Nowadays, you go into a hospital and every staff member is carrying
a cellphone or a tablet, all connected to the hospital network.

Meanwhile, I'm laying in bed, all relaxed-like,
with my 4k 40" curved monitor swung over me ( via an arm );
-- hands-free, not holding a tablet-keyboard.

Instead, I use mouse+speech; see:

http://Jeff-Relf.Me/MouseKeyboardLayout.PNG

You'd better get out and about and get some
exercise before you die of a heart attack.

--
Yours Truly, Sir Gregory

Nadegda, kensi, Fran, Pandora » these are easily
ignored misandrists and anti-American, leftist liars.

Since my (once nice) PC (prematurely) died (motherboard?),
it's taken me 6 (sleepless) days to recover; to wit (rounding):

1 day to come to grips, buy an Amazon Fire tablet, and order parts.
2 days to get the parts ( Amazon Prime ).
1 day to piece it together ( no hardware issues ).
3 days to load+modify software.

I had to do a clean install ( shutdown /r /o ) of Win10 v1903;
contrary to MSI support, my original copy of Windows wasn't needed.
To save time, I activated it using a well-known key.

I had to re-install+re-configure all of my apps+fonts too;
_ plenty _ of tangents, of course.

Upgrading to Firefox 69 was a _ Royal _ pain, as expected;
each upgrade destroys my previous settings in a spectacular way.
I used the "Chrome Inspector" ( a.k.a. "Browser Toolbox" ); see:

http://Jeff-Relf.Me/userChrome.CSS.TXT
http://Jeff-Relf.Me/userContent.CSS.TXT

I'm not done modifying my copy of Visual Studio 2019
initially, I had to use Notepad++ instead.

For some _ strange _ reason,
my PC simply got more-n-more stable with time; it's fine now.

My firmware was only 1 month older than the current release;
but I updated it anyways.

( MSI MPG z390 Gaming Edge AC ) Motherboard Drivers:

M-Flash BIOS, April 1, 2019, vA50 -- E7B17IMS.A50
Chipset Driver, May 8, 2019, v10.1.17968.8131
Network Drivers, July 30, 2019, v24.0.0.11
RST ( SSD, M.2 ) Driver, May 8, 2019, v17.2.6.1027
Wi-Fi Driver (unused), July 30, 2019, v21.30.1.0
RealTek Audio (unused), Aug 7, 2019, v6.0.8765.1
iGPU (unused), March 6, 2019, v25.20.100.6471

I used MSI's "Mystic Light" to turn off the motherboard's LEDs.

The CPU fan has an LED controller on its cable; I turned it off.

On the ATX case, I use a front panel button to turn off fan LEDs;
I covered the _ Bright _ blue "On" LED with 4 layers of Gorilla tape;
I left the red "hard disk activity" LED as is ( it's barely noticeable ).

Front panel USBs: 2.0, 2.0, 3.0
Back: 2.0, 2.0, 3.1, 3.1, 3.1 Gen2, 3.1 Gen2 TypeC
( 20 volt, 100 watt {hot}, 8k 60Hz +audio ).

Aug 12, 2019: 130 $, Loctek Monitor Arm, Max: 33 lbs, 34 inch monitor.
Aug 9, 2019: 34 $, Logitechg 600 mouse (cheap!).
Aug 6, 2019: 80 $, ddr4 RAM, 3 GigaHz ( gaming mode ), 16 gigs.
80 $, Amazon Fire Tablet.
296 $, i7-8700, 4.25+ GigaHz ( gaming mode ).
34 $, CPU Fan, 4 copper, water-in-a-vacuum HeatPipes.
178 $, "MSI MPG z390 Gaming Edge AC" motherboard.
80 $, ATX Mid-Tower Chassis.
Jul 26, 2019: 150 $, MSI GeForce GTX 1650 video card, MadVR 4k, 60 fps.
Jul 16, 2019: 64 $, TP-Link AC1750, Archer a7 router.
May 1, 2019: 142 $, Logitech g635 HeadSet, after-tax.
Feb 18, 2018: 114 $, Logitech g910 keyboard.
Jul 12, 2017: 978 $, 4k, 40", 25 lb, Philips bdm4037uw curved monitor.
Nov 21, 2015: 350 $, 1 TeraByte Samsung 850 EVO, SATA III.
Dec 8, 2012: 160 $, Fanless power supply, Rosewill SilentNight.
Jul 27, 2011: 152 $, Brother DCP-7065DN Laser Printer+Scanner.

3'022 $ Total, before Seattle's 10% tax.

Philo replied ( to me ):
Since my PC died, it's taken me 7 (sleepless) days to recover.
I had to do a clean install ( shutdown /r /o ) of Win10 v1903;

I would just have placed the HD in a new machine.

That's what I did, hence the clean install.
The boot–SSD is 4 years old.

The fanless power supply is 7 years old.
The laser printer+scanner is over 8 years old.

The 34 $ g600 mouse lasted nearly 3 years;
I should've replaced it sooner, but it was "good enough".
I wear out mice like nobody's business.

The motherboard died after 5 years.

P.S. I just bought a 130 $, 512 gig, USB 3.1
"Corsair Flash Voyager GTX" Drive; USB 2.0 compatible.
Reads+Writes 440 MegaBytes/Sec.

Also, I bought a 228 $, 1 TeraByte,
PCIe Gen 3.0 x 4 "970 EVO Plus"; Reads/Writes 3.5/3.3 GegaBytes/Sec.

"Samsung Data Migration" will clone my current SSD.
Some say they had to enable NVMe in the UEFI(bios).

And I bought a 80 $ Corsair CX Series 650 Watt power supply.

Win10 is one of the best operating systems
I've seen for surviving a transplant into different H/W.

It booted right away, but it was unstable for some unknown reason;
it got more stable with time, even when I did nothing;
power supply problem ?

I probably would have looked for an identical mobo on ebay first

Newer motherboards are so much better+faster,
I couldn't pass up the opportunity to upgrade.

Win10 would probably need re-activating.

Yes, but I won't bother with that, even though I could.

Big_Al replied ( to me ):
3'022 $ Total, before Seattle's 10% tax.

You forgot something in your price list. I got $2,862.

No, 3'022 $ is right, Google:

130+34+80+80+296+34+178+80+150+64+142+114+978+350+ 160+152

Also, I just dropped another 482 $, after Seattle's 10% tax, for:

130 $, 512 gig, USB 3.1 "Corsair Flash Voyager GTX" Drive.
228 $, 1 TeraByte, "970 EVO Plus"; Reads/Writes 3.5/3.3 GigaBytes/Sec.
80 $, Corsair CX Series 650 Watt power supply.

I think my 7-year-old power supply was failing (initially).
Looking at Windows' event viewer, I noticed that
power supply failures were dropping cores/threads !

But a lot of that is not the PC.
A Wi-Fi Router? Fire Tablet? Printer?

Without peripherals, a PC is just an overpriced tablet.
This is the problem with Apple: scant peripherals.

I couldn't have done it (upgraded) without the Fire Tablet;
it's really nice, in an emergency -- much better than nothing.

My 8-year-old printer is _ vital _ to my business;
it's a real workhorse; ultra-cheap and long-lasting.

But I will say it sounds like a nice rig. Should scream.
I never have had a PC over 3.2 GigaHz.

Were it not for "gaming mode", mine would also be 3.2 GigaHz.
Hence the "copper, water-in-a-vacuum HeatPipes" CPU Fan.

Some rando replied ( to me ):
Without peripherals, a PC is just an overpriced tablet.
This is the problem with Apple: scant peripherals.

nonsense.
Tablets and pcs are designed for very different use cases.

Tablets are for when, sadly, you can't have a PC.

There's no shortage of peripherals for Apple.

Depends on how you define the word "shortage".

Fewer apps and fewer peripherals would be okay,
provided you're not into computers.

Scott Doty replied ( to me ):
bought a new Cooler Master HAF Lan case

Why ? are you storing terabytes of videos ?

28'918'626'860
Mostly backups.

29 gigabytes for backups ?

What are you backing up ?

Eric Stevens replied:
A tablet is better than nothing,
assuming "nothing" is your _ only _ alternative.

Other than that, I've no use for it.
If you're a fashion model, or a rock star, the story is different.

Nowadays, you go into a hospital and every staff member is carrying
a cellphone or a tablet, all connected to the hospital network.

Meanwhile, I'm laying in bed, all relaxed-like,
with my 4k 40" curved monitor swung over me ( via an arm );
-- hands-free, not holding a tablet-keyboard.

Instead, I use mouse+speech; see:

http://Jeff-Relf.Me/MouseKeyboardLayout.PNG

Scott Doty wrote:
# ethtool enp2s0 | grep Speed
Speed: 10000Mb/s
[ that's my battlestation ]

I'm getting 3.5 GigaBytes/Sec Read|Write on my TeraByte NVMe drive.
..4/.31 GigaBytes/Sec Read/Write on my half TeraByte USB 3.1 stick.
CrystalDiskMark, default settings.

It really does make a difference;
my 4.25 GigaHz i7-8700 (gaming mode) system feels extremely fast.
Task Manager says my ddr4 RAM is running at 3 GigaHz (gaming mode).

All the same, I wouldn't have upgraded if by old motherboard hadn't died.
Now I have a loose i7-5775c and a terabyte SATA III SSD
that I don't know what to do with.

My new SSD and USB stick are both clones of my older SSD.

Everything exclusive to me, including most of my apps, are under:
"C:\__"; when things are in a good state,
I mirror them to the USB drive thusly:

ShadowSpawn C:\__ R: RoboCopy R: A:\__ /B /XF __.TXT /XD Tmp Del /NDL /mir /J /NJH /NJS /NP /UNILOG:C:\__\X\__.TXT

Despite spanning 130 gigs and 180,000 files, it's super quick.
Without ShadowSpawn, many files couldn't be backed up
( because, on a live/running system, they're locked ).