The new "died in the line of duty" thread

Nicolas_orleans said:
One GTX770 down... email sent to customer service, hope EVGA can RMA this card !
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Double-check that it's failed outside of Folding - Stanford made more changes to their assignment servers, and they've been doling out BOATLOADS of bad work units this weekend.
 
By "down", I mean the card cannot even POST nor boot a live usb any more... and num lock/caps lock blink like crazy when the card is plugged. If I replace by another one, everything is normal.
 
My ES L5639 died a death yesterday, got home to find my PC powering on and off continuously. After much tinkering I got the machine to POST and even boot into Windows, but the IMC has **** itself, throws pages of errors on Memtest within a minute or so on known good RAM. Chucked a spare E5504 in the machine for now and everything's fine. It had been badly mistreated (apparently the guy mistook the QPI/DRAM voltage for something else and jacked it to 1.8V or something stupid so I was amazed it even worked at the time) along with its brother (which also stops the PC from POSTing) before I got it and they were free, so I don't feel too bad.
 
Dual L5420 board died, no POST. Debating if I should look for another one to move the CPUs and RAM over to.
 
Just cooked another GPU cooling fan. :eek: This time both fans died on a GTX560ti (MSI card), last time it was only 1 fan on the Gigabyte card (that one was under warranty, so I sent it in for repair).
This 1 is out of warranty, looks like I will be shopping for a card cooler.
 
whelp

was a bit chilly last night, had Sc0tty8's old dual 1366 Tyan crunching BOINC on all 24 threads, noticed the fans spin up to 100%...no video out, no post, code FF, scorched EPS pins

same after reseat EPS connector and clear CMOS

It doesn't look good
 
sc0tty8 said:
Did you use a splitter?:(
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negative

Seasonic platinum 660 I bought just for it...all the connectors

I am going to tear it down and see if I can get it to go again...we'll see

I did run it nearly continuously since you gave it to me...many thousands of hours at full load.
 
Got it dried out after a bath, took a needle file to the EPS pins and crimped the plug sockets a bit with a tweezers.

I wasn't really expecting it to...but it POSTs

I think its 100% load days are behind it though, I just can't see those 2 EPS pins ever carrying the current they need to.

Nice to have the board up though
 
Nonesense. Now the wheels are back on, run until they fall off :p

You need to ask yourself, What would Grandpa_01 do?

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Now let that motherfucker BURRRRRN :)
 
ES L5640 died, it was out of use for a year or so, went to test before selling it on and no post, tried the other L5640 and it booted fine. It was heavily used before I got hold of it and I ran it for nearly 3 years either folding or in my daily driver.

Looks like my last Asus Z8NA is on its last legs, it won't always switch on. Not sure whats going on with that as it still works fine when it does boot
 
MSI GTX970 4G,

You did a lot of work in the one year you folded. You were faithful, and efficient. Rest In Peace good buddy.

I apologize that I cannot give you a fitting viking funeral, I need your carcass for the RMA, may your successor be the same.
 
Few weeks ago my kill-o-watt got killed. At that time two 970 and one 780 folded happy together..
Actually one of the pins of the attached cable melted. I guess that was the "hot" pin.

I never yet really understood why that happen, don't think I pulled 15A though that cable attached. 10A could be though.

http://imageshack.com/i/expCyxEVj
Since then I'm folding half power. :mad:
 
I did the same thing to a kill-o-watt..... though I don't blame it... I had a power supply let go, which took out the kill-o-watt and a power strip. Thank goodness that yours and mine did not burn down the house.
 
Nathan_P said:
ES L5640 died, it was out of use for a year or so, went to test before selling it on and no post, tried the other L5640 and it booted fine. It was heavily used before I got hold of it and I ran it for nearly 3 years either folding or in my daily driver.

Looks like my last Asus Z8NA is on its last legs, it won't always switch on. Not sure whats going on with that as it still works fine when it does boot
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I also have got two of these Z8NA-D6 boards but still going strong, the older one will turn 5 years by December, just one DIMM slot not working and one PSU substituted, I revamped it around one year and a half ago with two cheap X5660s, better coolers and one HD7950. Final destiny after a really long trip, started with E5520s, then E5560s and then ESL5640s as well. The another one is one year younger and "only" knows ES L5640's, flawless so far.

Both 24/7 dedicated crunchers living in the outside below a wooden table and some plastic to protect them from rain :).
 
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Trotador22 said:
I also have got two of these Z8NA-D6 boards but still going strong, the older one will turn 5 years by December, just one DIMM slot not working and one PSU substituted, I revamped it around one year and a half ago with two cheap X5660s, better coolers and one HD7950. Final destiny after a really long trip, started with E5520s, then E5560s and then ESL5640s as well. The another one is one year younger and "only" knows ES L5640's, flawless so far.

Both 24/7 dedicated crunchers living in the outside below a wooden table and some plastic to protect them from rain :).
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Managed to find a replacement board - didn't have the funds for new board,cpu, windows license. will test the old one some day
 
EVGA SuperNOVA NEX750B Bronze Power Supply - 2P is down until RMA goes through.
 
they just don't make them like the original TX750....... you could run that PSU at 750W for years on end.
 
jfb9301 said:
they just don't make them like the original TX750....... you could run that PSU at 750W for years on end.
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And what sucks is that this was an EVGA. They apparently just switched buildings soooo... They can't even do RMA's until this weekend. It took me until yesterday to get ahold of support due to holiday scheduling. Then the rep told me their RMA system is down due to the move and "might" be up Saturday. So, their online RMA request process requires a tech support number that he couldn't even give me to have all set up to submit the form. Grrrr.... Just really bad timing as I like to heat my house when it is cold...lol
 
Great Gilthanis
Replacement AX860 was sent yesterday by Corsair customer service, will get it next week
 
jfb9301 said:
they just don't make them like the original TX750....... you could run that PSU at 750W for years on end.
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Still running one of those..it's doing a surprisingly good job with a 4x Opteron 6176SE (140W CPU) system. Definitely a well-built PSU.
 
I just remember it was like a game of chicken here. People would brag how close to 750 the reading on their kill-o-watt would get. I remember running about 725W 24/7.
 
jfb9301 said:
I just remember it was like a game of chicken here. People would brag how close to 750 the reading on their kill-o-watt would get. I remember running about 725W 24/7.
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Well, I don't have a kill-o-watt so I'm mostly just hoping it'll work out :)
I do, however, have a recently acquired HX850...might be smart to take the system down for half an hour, swap the PSUs, and actually mount the HDD....
 
Fan in my tx 750 was squealing so I took it off line but my 850 one is still running my gamer rig, great units.
 
Heh, the perfect place to post the death of my beloved P105 laptop.

It was crunching SETI, sitting on a bucket in the bathroom for bathroom use. Plenty of ventilation. One day I went into the bathroom picked it up, and it didn't feel right so I looked under it and seen:

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But it was still crunching away just fine, it wasn't hot, no signs of a fire anywhere. It did have an old battery in it and I think that was a factor along with the AC charging circuit. The AC adapter did make an odd buzzing sound but it did that from day one.

RIP: "Laptop" Sept 9, 2011 - Dec 16, 2015. You were a good one.
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/show_host_detail.php?hostid=7500373
 
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MGCJerry said:
Heh, the perfect place to post the death of my beloved P105 laptop.

It was crunching SETI, sitting on a bucket in the bathroom for bathroom use. Plenty of ventilation. One day I went into the bathroom picked it up, and it didn't feel right so I looked under it and seen:

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But it was still crunching away just fine, it wasn't hot, no signs of a fire anywhere. It did have an old battery in it and I think that was a factor along with the AC charging circuit. The AC adapter did make an odd buzzing sound but it did that from day one.

RIP: "Laptop" Sept 9, 2011 - Dec 16, 2015. You were a good one.
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/show_host_detail.php?hostid=7500373
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So, you are saying it blew its load in the bathroom?...:D
 
Cooler Master 600w PSU , H61 Motherboard being put down (all usb dead , network card etc only ps2 works now and network card in pci slot keeps going out) it only ran a 760 that's now being moved, now to find what's killing my points more..
 
Vanilla Heat said:
Cooler Master 600w PSU , H61 Motherboard being put down (all usb dead , network card etc only ps2 works now and network card in pci slot keeps going out) it only ran a 760 that's now being moved, now to find what's killing my points more..
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Condolences with the dead equipment. :dead:
 
Nicolas_orleans said:
+1.
Can you RMA this equipment ?
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Got the power supply second hand and just grabbed a toughpower 750 in its place (not a bad grab for 25 bucks I don't think). Motherboard was actually pulled from a garbage can at work... I have trouble giving up on parts
 
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Enermax Infiniti 720W been powering folding in various rigs since Pentium 4 days before GPU folding arrived. Actually its not totally dead yet. A couple years ago it started to make a little noise. Turned out the fan blades were just grazing the protective grill and with it being moved so many times over the years I thot maybe the grill got bumped and bent or whatever so took it off and problem solved. Until the fan fell out of the thing Tuesday nite while I was streaming from my Server! While investigating I pushed the fan upwards and it started spinning again so it's not completely toast. Turned rig upside down and it'll have to do until I can replace it next month. It's in my living room and looks a little odd but still crunching BOINC and GPU folding by the skin of its teeth. Ooh just noticed from the pic that PCIE power cable is resting awfully close to GPU fan. Time for some cable rearrangement
 
The "haze" in the upper left of the pic led me to believe I would be looking at a much more gruesome picture. That looked like "magic" smoke. Rather than have the boxen flipped 180, could you have flipped the PSU 180?
 
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