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
    41·
    2 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·
      2 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·
          2 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·
            2 days ago

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

            • over_clox@lemmy.worldOP
              13·
              2 days ago

              You think everyone had a camera up their ass back in 2011?

              That’s what I had, paid a good $200 for that and a 4GB memory card at the time.

              • Vik@lemmy.worldEnglish
                21·
                2 days ago

                phones with cameras were everywhere as far back as the mid 2000s

                • over_clox@lemmy.worldOP
                  13·
                  2 days ago

                  I guess you have no clue what the irony is…

                  Esc = Escape Key

                  Ecc = Error Correcting Code RAM

                  I happen to have ECC RAM, ChipKill compliant.

                  Ecc ≠ Esc

                  • Vik@lemmy.worldEnglish
                    31·
                    2 days ago

                    I’m familiar with ECC, don’t worry.

                    You may be unaware that this is used in even consumer grade gfx hardware (depending on the IHV)