Evkob (they/them) to [email protected] • 1 day agoWhat's the dumbest thing you've done to fix a tech issue?message-square105fedilinkarrow-up1110arrow-down12
arrow-up1108arrow-down1message-squareWhat's the dumbest thing you've done to fix a tech issue?Evkob (they/them) to [email protected] • 1 day agomessage-square105fedilink
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink3•7 hours agoEHCI (system config) data was corrupt. Possibly from pulling the GPU while the motherboard board still had power (or residual power in caps). CMOS wipe resets to blank and that data gets rewritten after BIOS runs the “wtf is plugged into me” routines triggered by blank data. That’d be my guess.
minus-squaresilly goose meekahlink1•7 hours agoI wasn’t aware that data could be corrupted by unplugging components, but what you’re saying is making sense. That could definitely have been it.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•6 hours ago“Weird Shit” is always a possibility when there’s any power at all in the system. The PSU will keep low level power supplied for a surprisingly long time after being unplugged from the mains. 💛
minus-squaresilly goose meekahlink1•6 hours agoIs it true that this power gets drained when you press the power button without the power cord plugged in?
EHCI (system config) data was corrupt. Possibly from pulling the GPU while the motherboard board still had power (or residual power in caps).
CMOS wipe resets to blank and that data gets rewritten after BIOS runs the “wtf is plugged into me” routines triggered by blank data.
That’d be my guess.
I wasn’t aware that data could be corrupted by unplugging components, but what you’re saying is making sense. That could definitely have been it.
“Weird Shit” is always a possibility when there’s any power at all in the system. The PSU will keep low level power supplied for a surprisingly long time after being unplugged from the mains. 💛
Is it true that this power gets drained when you press the power button without the power cord plugged in?
Not in my experience.