The Flying Penguin wrote on Sep 23, 2023, 15:44:
Memory:
Coincidently, I have a friend's PC on my bench. It was prone to BSODing with various errors. It BSOD'd on me a dozen times in the past few days...
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In the end I found several issues, but nothing solved the BSOD problem until I slightly underclocked his RAM.

with friends like that, who needs enemies

Great job on figuring out "all" of the problems.

Ok, reminds me of an outhouse joke (Rodney Dangerfield joke, if I recall):

Two guys enter a two-seat outhouse. One guy finishes first, and as he pulls up his pants, some change falls out of his pocket down the hole. After staring down the hole a long time, he takes out a $50 bill, and throws it down the hole after the change. The other guy, still on his seat, looks at him in amazement and asks him why the hell he did that. First guy answers: "Well, you don't think I'm going down there for just 50 cents, do you?"

{rimshot!}

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F-35 Crash:

In another article I read, a Marine spokesperson said that the F-35 (and presumably other fighters?) have a feature that wipes all radios (channels used and encryption keys) and navigation maps when the pilot ejects, to prevent that information from falling into enemy hands. I would presume that includes the Transponder, which may explain why they couldn't track it. The transponder on a military plane can be turned off during combat, but it would normally be on when flying a training mission like this.

Memory:
Coincidently, I have a friend's PC on my bench. It was prone to BSODing with various errors. It BSOD'd on me a dozen times in the past few days, but never while running and always on boot (although he says it sometimes happened to him while running).

In the end I found several issues, but nothing solved the BSOD problem until I slightly underclocked his RAM. Now it's rock stable. DDR3, four sticks, and the stick pairs aren't matched. Curiously, before I underclocked it, it still consistently passed MEMTEST86, several times. My Spidey sense kept telling me it was RAM, but the failure of MEMTEST86 to find anything was perplexing. But AIDA64 did fail once which made me start thinking about RAM again.

It's an old 8th gen Core i7. It also had intermittent USB issues which I think was a combination of having BIOS configured for Legacy USB, which Win10 doesn't seem to like, and possibly corrupt USB drivers, which I force reinstalled. CPU was also getting hot (but only under an extreme load like AIDA64, and it would throttle properly at 90C) due to a broken HSF mount (those old, crappy Intel coolers with plastic pins - I had a better HSF in the junk bin) and dried up thermal paste. But none of that was causing the BSODs, apparently. I think it's just getting old, and it's hardly worth looking for replacement RAM for it. He's not a gamer.

I have now rebooted it 50 times or so, and run AIDA64 for 24 hours without a problem.

This comment was edited on Sep 23, 2023, 16:15.

I’m keeping my fingers crossed that the parachute functions properly on Nasa's Osiris-Rex capsule.

Rather nice upgrade on your PC, hope you cleared up the crashes. I just upgraded mine to a lesser extent last month, but with a much more limited budget, I could not swap out my Nvidia 960 yet, but it still plays the games I play in 2k. I will probably go the AMD route though when I do replace it.

I was browsing Steam this morning and I noticed the new Mortal Combat was priced at $70? That takes a lot of egotism to price it at that level since its scope is pathetic compared to other games at that price. Heck, there are tons of games priced less that have tons more content. I am amazed that foolish people pay that much for it.

Speaking of hardware failures.

I just discovered that an EVGA 850GQ power supply in one of my whitebox servers has had a bad 5V rail out of the box. Up until today, it was an NVMe based compute box so I never plugged anything in to the SATA power connectors. Today I tried adding six SSDs to it for a new ZFS pool and the system would power on for half a second and turn off. Breadboarded the whole machine and then slowly started adding components back to it to discover the culprit. Swapped cables since the PSU is modular, no dice. Tried a completely different power supply, system booted right up.

Called EVGA and they set up an advanced replacement with zero hassle. It was a pleasant experience outside of having a bad 5V rail.

Watter wrote on Sep 22, 2023, 14:25:

swapped the RAM sticks to reseat them

Does this mean you kept the potentially offending RAM in your machine, but just reseated in another slot? If so, I'd be sure to run a thorough, multi-hour test on them. Bad memory has always been the bane of my builds - to the point that it's the FIRST place I look when I have any oddities going on.

I've been through a couple sets of RAM over the past decade. Some may recall my discussing it here. One set was under warranty so replaced for free. That's basically the only major issue I have had.

Lulz. The end was almost like a comedy skit...

I watched about 10 minutes of this chase LIVE as it was happening yesterday.
Glad to see how it ended. https://youtu.be/IMCO05XCAew?si=faA9lipxBLJrxvO2
warning, turn off volume on the news announcers as listening to them has been proven to lower IQ and cause brain cancer along with ballsheimers - among other things.

Gratz on your upgrades and fixes, Blue!

Completely shocked (not enough caffeine yet?) the new covid vaccine is For Profit (atm), rolling out at $200 usd !
Nothing like a little corpo, sheer psychotic stupidity profit methodology to kill off millions, in the middle of a new global covid variant outbreak.

F-35
Ackchyually no, it does not shed light on anything.

Watter wrote on Sep 22, 2023, 14:25:

swapped the RAM sticks to reseat them

Does this mean you kept the potentially offending RAM in your machine, but just reseated in another slot? If so, I'd be sure to run a thorough, multi-hour test on them. Bad memory has always been the bane of my builds - to the point that it's the FIRST place I look when I have any oddities going on.

I kept the potentially offending RAM, and more or less in the same slots. I swapped them for each other. Maybe because I've never had bad memory plagues, but my first thought is that reseating it could help, and it seems to have. I'll test it further as I go along, but I didn't want to leave a brand-new 4090 stress testing unattended overnight for some reason.

I posted when you first described the symptoms asking to prime95 for 24 hours!!!

swapped the RAM sticks to reseat them

Does this mean you kept the potentially offending RAM in your machine, but just reseated in another slot? If so, I'd be sure to run a thorough, multi-hour test on them. Bad memory has always been the bane of my builds - to the point that it's the FIRST place I look when I have any oddities going on.

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Steele Johnson wrote on Sep 22, 2023, 14:05:

RedEye9 wrote on Sep 22, 2023, 13:14:

Steele Johnson wrote on Sep 22, 2023, 13:09:
"After running some diagnostics a memory hardware error popped up"

That will do it. And it will most likely fix all those other issues you were having too

I'm pretty sure we mentioned memory in prior threads discussing Blue's issues.

Yup. You'd think he was a mac user or something. Just joking around, Stephen! 😁 Look on the bright side, there's nothing wrong with a graphics upgrade in general!

Haha. Well as I say, an upgrade was planned already. Doing it amid this problem was admittedly a lazy way to see if that would fix things, which matches how I had been dealing with this up to now. As I say, I was definitely thrown by how this didn't show up in other games, leading me to underestimate the problem.

RedEye9 wrote on Sep 22, 2023, 13:14:

Steele Johnson wrote on Sep 22, 2023, 13:09:
"After running some diagnostics a memory hardware error popped up"

That will do it. And it will most likely fix all those other issues you were having too

I'm pretty sure we mentioned memory in prior threads discussing Blue's issues.

Yup. You'd think he was a mac user or something. Just joking around, Stephen! 😁 Look on the bright side, there's nothing wrong with a graphics upgrade in general!

Steele Johnson wrote on Sep 22, 2023, 13:09:
"After running some diagnostics a memory hardware error popped up"

That will do it. And it will most likely fix all those other issues you were having too

I'm pretty sure we mentioned memory in prior threads discussing Blue's issues.

"After running some diagnostics a memory hardware error popped up"

That will do it. And it will most likely fix all those other issues you were having too