ASUS, what’s wrong with you?
Another dead motherboard from ASUS, this time for AMD processors. It’s a Crosshair V Formula. Problem – absolutely no power. Power_on# signal is present, so the southbridge IC is toast.…
FreeNAS with TrueNAS*
For the last month I’ve been lacking a NAS. It’s not that the previous setup broke, it’s just the fact that the machine that was hosting the TrueNAS service is…
A hydra-like GPU with hydra-like problems
Recently my bench greeted not one, but two old and pretty exotic GPUs – Nvidia 9800GX2. For those unaware these are essentially two underclocked 9800GTXs SLI-ed in one package. Pretty…
Diversification
In spirit of broadening my horizons (as well as lack of interesting PC parts to fix) I bought a W10000 projector, which is fully working. Soon after I saw a…
Dead men tell no tales
Hands up if You think it’s time for another failed repair. I see no hands in the air, good, I also don’t like when I fail to repair my projects.…
Hold up, wait a minute
Both of these repairs I’m going to remember for a long time, I haven’t been this confused in literal ages. What was wrong? You’re going to have to stick around…
Beyond the point of diminishing returns…
Remember when I said that I wouldn’t delid a G80 core? Yeah… Me neither. So, I delided it. Multiple ones to be exact and also I have only one thing…
My first time…
… replacing a south bridge. Or PCH. However You want to call it, they essentially do the same thing. As a bonus I’ve acquired 2 GPUs “not tested”. Mhmm. Besides…
WC loop lost its cool
A friend of mine left me his old and broken AIO liquid cooler, so let’s fix it. This particular unit failed in not so obvious fashion – pupm stopped running.…
Iiyama, 140kHz of pure evil
I got another CRT. This time it’s a bit more used, but not bad at all in terms of wear. Also, this time it really gave me a challenge –…