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SirKeldon · Feb 20, 2015

Bad news for the challenge .... one of the crunchers I was preparing died, I was stress-testing the PSU to see if it holded CPU+GPU at 100% ... and after 2 mins PC shuts down, I try to power on, nothing happens, I unplug/plug the power cable, I switch on and boom, shortcircuit at the whole house phase, I tried to power on again but nothing happens ... so I think I fried my PSU fuse in the best scenario and the worst ... I fried the PSU, whole MoBo and GPU as well, I still don't know cause I don't have a spare PSU.

Luckily I didn't see any fire, smoke or didn't smell anything burnt, that's why I guess it's the fuse ... wish me luck to see if I can have it back again before 25th.

:banghead:

twilyth · Feb 20, 2015

You probably know this, but unless you know what you're doing, I wouldn't advise trying to fix the PSU. There are capacitors in there that you need to know how to discharge to work on it safely. I would try another psu. If it works, I would can the old one.

SirKeldon · Feb 21, 2015

twilyth said:
You probably know this, but unless you know what you're doing, I wouldn't advise trying to fix the PSU. There are capacitors in there that you need to know how to discharge to work on it safely. I would try another psu. If it works, I would can the old one.

Yeah I know, and even if it's the fuse i'm not changing it by myself, that's why I wanted a spare PSU, one friend can lend me one but not till this friday and that's past 25th ... and I don't want to buy one till i'm not sure it's the only problem. Kind of nightmare lol

Thanks for the advice anyway, I'm very careful with PSUs and don't like to manipulate them unless it's necessary, unfortunately in this case it is (link to the project) if I want to replicate the same mod style. You can't imagine how nervous I was in that moment, luckily all went well and using just one hand of course ... but I have a bad experience of a zap with an older PSU and since then I'm really really afraid even when i'm cautious.

Still unsure what to do if it's the PSU is done, again, thanks!

twilyth · Feb 21, 2015

Good luck, I hope you're able to isolate the problem. I don't know if you have the space, but it might be a good idea to start a spare parts bin. If you're really into this "hobby" (*cough* addiction), extra parts just seem to appear out of the ether after a while. Holding on to some rather than getting rid of them can come in handy. I know I'm observing the obvious here, but I know a lot of people like to keep things tidy and not hang on to crap they don't need. I'm a horrible pack rat so my whole house is a spare parts bin.

SirKeldon · Feb 21, 2015

I have that "hobby"/"addiction" as well, everything spare (3 boards, 2 cpu's, 3 GFX, DDR2 and DDR3 RAM ...) but a tower and a psu, maybe it will be a good idea to purchase it for just in case, you're true xD

Anyway, as you saw how i had to mount that psu, i really need good luck in case i want to replicate it :toast:

Arjai · Feb 21, 2015

IDK. I have a WIN 7 Bootable disk. I have the drive order DVD ROM/ DVD ROM/ Disabled.

Yet, Linux Mint Always boots. It's as though it sees a Windows Disk and kills it!! Even when The Drive it is on, is disabled in the BIOS boot directory!

I am now, at a stand still. I officially have no idea what to do next, aside from Formatting both drives and hoping for the best! Not really what I want to do.

I may just unplug the Linux drive, and attempt a dvd rom boot....Could work, no?

Here goes nothing, and probably the rest of my night! :laugh:

thebluebumblebee · Feb 21, 2015

Arjai said:
Here goes nothing, and probably the rest of my night!

Keeps you out of trouble.

Arjai · Feb 21, 2015

OK, found the problem with a bit of research.
The Win 7 boot file is not recognized by some older MSI motherboards. Mine is old and doesn't recognize it.

The work around is to boot from a Vista disk and use the CMD module in the repair section of the disk. Switch out the Vista for the Win7 and run the setup file. I tried it with my XP disk but, apparently the XP disk is needed for the files used to override the Win 7 boot.ini. The Vista disk loads that file and can be used w/out the disk.

With my 4G hotspot, this iso is gonna download until the wee hours. Looks like it is gonna be tomorrow before I can fix this!

Oh well, such is my life. I should have taken some software classes in college, as it is now, I am totally winging it! It doesn't hurt that I have been able to pick things up over the years but, nothing like true knowledge.

Anyway, that is the current sitrep. I am determined to get these boxes working, and I will, despite it taking so long and losing lot's of sleep in the process!

:lovetpu:

manofthem · Feb 21, 2015

My internet was out again tonight for several hours. I swear, Comcast is the absolute worst ISP ever :shadedshu:

t_ski · Feb 21, 2015

manofthem said:
My internet was out again tonight for several hours. I swear, Comcast is the absolute worst ISP ever

What did they call you on your bill?

manofthem · Feb 21, 2015

t_ski said:
What did they call you on your bill?

No silly, it was an area wide thing. My buddy in our neighborhood texted me earlier, "Got internet? Mine is out again," Stupid comcast.

And since you mention the bill, they screwed that up majorly and it took forever to get it fixed, several calls and over a week later. :banghead:

We added a home line for $20 more/month, and when we got our bill, it went from like $50 to over $150. :shadedshu:

Thankfully it's been fixed for a while, but still they are always sucking around here.

FireFox · Feb 21, 2015

Is it normal if i have Credit: 90.000 and i leave 2 Machines Crunching from 8:00 am to 8:00 pm and i just get 200/300 credit in 12 hours 90.200/90.300?

mjkmike · Feb 21, 2015

Looks good to me. you must allow time for all the work to go through the hoops and get verified. Also you are not running 24/7

FireFox · Feb 21, 2015

mjkmike said:
Looks good to me. you must allow time for all the work to go through the hoops and get verified. Also you are not running 23/7

Just one Machine is Crunching 24/7 and the other just from 8:00 am to 00:00 am.

twilyth · Feb 21, 2015

We call that crunchus interuptus. I think it's a medical term.

manofthem · Feb 21, 2015

Knoxx29 said:
Is it normal if i have Credit: 90.000 and i leave 2 Machines Crunching from 8:00 am to 8:00 pm and i just get 200/300 credit in 12 hours 90.200/90.300?

I've noticed that you simply cannot look your contribution on a day by day basis, mostly because the wu validation process isn't the most reliable thing in the world in terms of timing. I mean (besides inconsistencies in my own ppd) look at Ion or GoBuuku, even their ppd can jump around; I've seen GoBuuku go from 190k to 133k in 2 consecutive days, and it's going to happen to us too :confused:

Crunching is like a long autumn cross country road trip, not so much a summer race. That's my own inarticulate idea

twilyth · Feb 21, 2015

Tru dat. What you/he can look at though is his RAC. IIRC the WCG RAC is a bit more stable since I think it covers a longer rolling time period. Boincstats and free-dc rac's I think are based on the previous 30 day? I'm too lazy to go check.

FireFox · Feb 21, 2015

Thanks for the answer @manofthem and @twilyth, it was just a curiosity as novice that I am about World Community Grid

BUCK NASTY · Feb 21, 2015

twilyth said:
We call that crunchus interuptus. I think it's a medical term.

Yes, along with the similar medical term "Crunchus Addictus". lol :laugh:

twilyth · Feb 21, 2015

BUCK NASTY said:
Yes, along with the similar medical term "Crunchus Addictus". lol

Shhh, we don't want to scare of the new people until we're sure they're hooked.

Taking my inspiration from @james888, I've created the following PSA

manofthem · Feb 22, 2015

BUCK NASTY said:
Yes, along with the similar medical term "Crunchus Addictus". lol

I have that Crunchus addictus, but I have an even more serious condition called "fundus depletus". It's a very serious conditon that inhibits the addictus with a lack of funds going to the crunchus :cry:

Toothless · Feb 22, 2015

Suddenly, TPU is full of doctors.

HammerON · Feb 22, 2015

I have a degree in Crunchology

krusha03 · Feb 23, 2015

Guys do you know if there is a way in boinc to limit for a certain PC not to download WUs that would take longer to complete than for example 1 hour or not to start a WU if the estimated completion time is past 6:00 am for example

TRWOV · Feb 23, 2015

No but you can set up a profile to only allow certain projects to run on the PC. The fastest WUs are FAAH and next would be UGM and MCM. OET and CEP take >6 hours and use more memory.

Also set the buffer size to 0.

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FireFox

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FireFox

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