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Sat, 10 Jun 2023, 10:02
steve_ancell
My motherboard crapped itself and died yesterday and not I'm running a really crap temporary system with one core, that's a big letdown from the 8 that I'm used to.
Sat, 10 Jun 2023, 10:02
Jayenkai
You'll have to go bargain laptop hunting some time!

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Sat, 10 Jun 2023, 11:01
steve_ancell
I've got a laptop that my mate Stuart's mum gave me just after he died, problem is all my projects stuff is on a secondary drive. Even if I put my SSD in the laptop I would still have a skettifest of wires for powering up the other drive.
Sat, 10 Jun 2023, 11:29
Jayenkai
Maybe time to look at getting an NAS enclosure? That way you can stick the old secondary drive into that, instead, and then access it from your network.
Haven't ever bought "just an enclosure" before, though, so... Wouldn't know what are good/bad choices in that department.

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Sat, 10 Jun 2023, 12:27
Kuron
RIP Steve's Dead System. As puki would say *sniffage*

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Sun, 11 Jun 2023, 01:44
steve_ancell
As I would say *Put it on a clay launcher and shout "PULL!"*
Sun, 11 Jun 2023, 04:40
steve_ancell
@Jay
Yeah mate you're right, I think it's about time I got a NAS.
Sun, 11 Jun 2023, 04:45
cyangames
Is it possible to replace the motherboard like for like or similar? I know Windows 10 is pretty crazy good when it comes to replacing parts on a system.

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Sun, 11 Jun 2023, 05:37
steve_ancell
Just found this on ebay, the seller offered it to me for £59.99 so I grabbed it. Similar specs to the ROG board that went tits up.


Sun, 11 Jun 2023, 06:39
Jayenkai
\o/yeay\o/
Good luck getting it all up and running again.

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Sun, 11 Jun 2023, 08:10
steve_ancell
Thanks mate
Sun, 11 Jun 2023, 14:18
Kuron
Very glad you could find a compatible MB at a decent price. Often hard to find one that is not current. Although I am lappy only now, I always had good luck with Gigabyte MBs.
Sun, 11 Jun 2023, 19:46
steve_ancell
I'm hoping it doesn't get busted in the post.
Sun, 11 Jun 2023, 19:51
Kuron
Back when I had to get a replacement keyboard for my deceased wife's laptop, it took five tries to get one that was in one piece. No matter where you ordered from, they were sticking a new laptop keyboard in a large envelope and sending it on its way.
Mon, 12 Jun 2023, 02:05
cyangames
Hoping the replacement will work well.

My main puter died last week also, although I think it's just from overheating again so I'll give it a clean out one evening this week, hooked up the ol Lenovo 2nd gen intel i5 up to two monitors, 16gb of DDR3 RAM and it does the job just as well. I might just stick with that as it uses way lesss power than the main stack and I'm not doing anything that requires a beefy graphics card currently.

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Mon, 12 Jun 2023, 03:17
steve_ancell
Those specs look similar to min except mine was AMD FX8350
Mon, 12 Jun 2023, 04:05
cyangames
Noice, similar processor also, ha! I think mine had 3 cores though but 6 threads, so, possibly a bit older than yours, best of luck on the re-fit

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Tue, 13 Jun 2023, 07:01
steve_ancell
Time to fit this fucker!


Tue, 13 Jun 2023, 07:18
Jayenkai
Gosh, it's been SOO long since I did that sort of thing!

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Tue, 13 Jun 2023, 08:10
steve_ancell
Fuck it, the board don't fit my casing.
Tue, 13 Jun 2023, 08:13
steve_ancell


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Looks like I'm gonna need a bigger case.
Tue, 13 Jun 2023, 08:18
steve_ancell
This step is the problem.


Tue, 13 Jun 2023, 08:18
Jayenkai
Bugger.
Tue, 13 Jun 2023, 09:33
steve_ancell
Looks a bit like Frankenstein's monster but at least I know the board boots.


Tue, 13 Jun 2023, 09:35
steve_ancell
I could just screw it to the wall I suppose!
Tue, 13 Jun 2023, 10:18
steve_ancell
That's it sorted, until I get a suitable case it'll just have to sit in the nude.


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