Note the at least 3 literal errors on the pass screen…

Edit: Votes don’t matter to me, but if you missed the three obvious errors on screen, you shouldn’t be a technician. The problem was failed integrated GPU capacitors.

  • Vik@lemmy.worldEnglish
    51·
    6 days ago

    you posted this in a tech support community, it doesn’t sound as if you need support. I’m not sure what you really wanted here?

    the interesting this is that you attributed this anomaly to gfx hardware, in an environment which isn’t composed by gfx hardware.

    • over_clox@lemmy.worldOP
      16·
      6 days ago

      Honestly, I just wanted to test the tech support community.

      I have learned that people couldn’t answer the enigma of why a RAM test would both pass and fail at the same time.

      Answer was bad caps, which I replaced, and worked fine.

      The real question is if people/techs could even notice the errors on screen?..

      This was a test.

      • Vik@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        6 days ago

        except that this blatantly isn’t a test, and that wasn’t the answer? baby what is you doing?

        • over_clox@lemmy.worldOP
          15·
          6 days ago

          This was a test, based on proven evidence and full repair, if anyone in tech support would even think to look at or test the capacitors.

          At this point, more have failed than passed my test.

          NEVER IGNORE THE CAPACITORS!

          • Vik@lemmy.worldEnglish
            41·
            6 days ago

            that’s still not making sense to me. this is an environment composed entirely in sw. I’m not sure even a failing / damaged gfx adapter would behave in this specific way.

            this sounds fucking awful but you’d be surprised how far you can get into percieved ‘regular functionality’ when arbitrarily removing caps from the board.

            show us the after screen and show us the caps replaced on the asic.

            • over_clox@lemmy.worldOP
              12·
              6 days ago

              What is this supposed to mean?

              Someone please actually read the ASCII binary table between Esc vs Ecc…

              What’s the difference between Esc (What was meant to be printed) vs Ecc (what was actually printed)…?

              It’s a one bit ASCII error…

              s = 1110011

              c = 1100011

              It’s a friggin one bit error, which I discovered in 2011, replaced capacitors and fixed.

                • over_clox@lemmy.worldOP
                  12·
                  6 days ago

                  Do you not understand the difference between the years 2011 to 2025? You think I kept those exploded capacitors?

                  If you can’t take my simple advice and just look at the capacitors, or ya know, even test them, then please go away. Shit is usually obvious if you just look at it.

                  • Vik@lemmy.worldEnglish
                    2·
                    6 days ago

                    so you took the time to photograph memtest with a psp but not the damaged hardware you were working on?