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The new "died in the line of duty" thread

Those would be the SMART values reported by the SSD's firmware, so one might assume that they're somewhat close to being truthful. Though we all know how reliable SMART is in general, especially when it comes to reporting imminent disaster :)
 
The power supply in my 2P E5-2698V4 died. I think it was an Antec Earthwatts or something like that. Replaced it with a Seasonic Platinum from a rig I just decomissioned and now it is back up and running smoothly again! The system still boots slowly, so I am suspicious that the failing PSU may have caused some corruption in my SSD, but we'll see.
 
Old age has finally claimed a 640 gig WD AAKS 7200RPM drive. I bought this years ago as a boot drive for my first Q6600 system and stayed as my system drive until a couple of years ago when it was replaced with an NVME and relegated to storage duty/game installs for my main system. After doing some upgrades on my server a year ago I replaced the 640 with an almost as old Hitachi 1TB in my main system and decided to use the WD as boot drive in my server replacing an even more ancient WD 500GB drive which was slow and really loud. When I put it in the server it still showed it was in perfectly good health.

However, it died without warning earlier today after more than a decade of constant use. The BIOS can see it but can't identify anything about it. Booted a live Linux distro and it read the drive as having 13 gig free out of 17 gig and even showed some of the directories in /root.

This is going to leave my poor server out of commission for a while until I get a cheap replacement drive as I don't want to put the even older OS drive back in because it's slow and noisy assuming it would even work anymore. Nor do I feel like testing any of the other ancient hard drives I still have around. I know some are bad and some should still be good but I'm not sure which is which anymore.
 
I had a T5810 MB die in the Pent. It was running an E5-2698V4 and 4 RTX 3070Ti's on it. Pulled the Xeon and put it into service in an x99 board and repurposed an old x58 w/ an i7 920 for the GPU's.
 
Oh, the Pentathlon claimed my Samsung Galaxy S6. Sure, it didn't put out shit for points but it didn't cost much to run and it was sitting there doing nothing anyway. The second to last day of the Pentathlon the battery expanded quite a bit and pushed the back panel of the phone out. The phone still works but the days of it DCing are definitely over.
 
SmokeRngs said:
Oh, the Pentathlon claimed my Samsung Galaxy S6. Sure, it didn't put out shit for points but it didn't cost much to run and it was sitting there doing nothing anyway. The second to last day of the Pentathlon the battery expanded quite a bit and pushed the back panel of the phone out. The phone still works but the days of it DCing are definitely over.
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I've had many phones do that over time. I've been abusing the Visible Swap deal to replace some of them cheaply though.
 
Not exactly Died in the Line, but my trusty 1080Ti Duke (Won from Tom's) just got replaced on my main system. Loop is bled and folding has commenced. Fake internet points galore!!!1!
 
Its been an expensive morning. While retiring my dually rig its HDD died.

While firing the second rig back up the PSU started making funny noises and it also looks like the 2060 in it has died. Not sure if teh 2060 was taken out by the PSU or not

So thats a WD 320GB HDD, a corsair AX 750 gold PSU and a 2060 all gone in the space of a couple of hours. :(:(:(

edit:- its the 2070, not the 2060
 
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Nathan_P said:
Its been an expensive morning. While retiring my dually rig its HDD died.

While firing the second rig back up the PSU started making funny noises and it also looks like the 2060 in it has died. Not sure if teh 2060 was taken out by the PSU or not

So thats a WD 320GB HDD, a corsair AX 750 gold PSU and a 2060 all gone in the space of a couple of hours. :(:(:(
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Oh man, sorry to hear it. I've had similar things happen. Makes me wonder if dirty power from the mains or if one of the components (like the PSU) decided to go down in flames and take as many other parts as possible with it.
 
Oh its worse than i thought, turns out its the 2070 thats dead, not the 2060.

I suspect more the PSU than dirty power, my daily driver runs off the same double socket and its fine
 
My 3930k took a shit a few weeks back. The motherboard I believe is the issue. Now I am just waiting on somebody to send me some more parts to rebuild. That also doubled as my Plex server.
 
Nathan_P said:
Its been an expensive morning. While retiring my dually rig its HDD died.

While firing the second rig back up the PSU started making funny noises and it also looks like the 2060 in it has died. Not sure if teh 2060 was taken out by the PSU or not

So thats a WD 320GB HDD, a corsair AX 750 gold PSU and a 2060 all gone in the space of a couple of hours. :(:(:(

edit:- its the 2070, not the 2060
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RIP. Do you always run at stock power or undervolt/underclock on cpu and gpu? So far all of my PC components are not failing other than SSDs. Fingers crossed.

Some projects are brutal when it comes to how much data they write on SSD.
 
pututu said:
RIP. Do you always run at stock power or undervolt/underclock on cpu and gpu? So far all of my PC components are not failing other than SSDs. Fingers crossed.

Some projects are brutal when it comes to how much data they write on SSD.
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Stock on everything as until recently i was running Linux and did not have the inclination to figure out how. switching back to windows 10 so its now an option
 
RIP - stupid little jizbrain.

And the RTX 2070 it looks to have taken with it.

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Testing the Z390 and other stuff attached to it.

SWM/F RTX 2070. Prefer OEM blower style but open to others. Will provide housing and free utilities. PM for details.
 
Ok, A full list of dead hardware now that i am back up and running. This is since the end of October so its not pretty!

GTX 1070 - will not power on. Had it for 8 years so it did more than its duty
RTX 2070 - will not power on. A more recent purchase so not even 4 years on it,
GTX 1080 - Was working when i fired back up in October, now dead, will not even power on
RTX 2060 - Will fold but does not give a display output over HDMI, going to see if that can be resurrected somehow
AX 860i PSU - Angry red test light and keeps shutting off. Pretty sure its taken out at least the 2070
Seasonic 400w fanless, Melted power eps power connector
Z87 WS mobo - Fried power mosfets, will not power on. Probaly fixable by someone who can solder
Z8NA-D6 mobo - Will not power on
2 old HDD - These are anceint and for folding only rigs so no great loss.
assorted fans. All cheap ones so no more of those for me
 
DWolvin said:
Fair enough, I've just never seen one like that!
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Very common part of mining rig setups. Mining and some DC GPU workloads don't need much pcie bandwidth. So, a 1x slot is fine and that lets us add more cards to a standard MB.

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Very common part of mining rig setups. Mining and some DC GPU workloads don't need much pcie bandwidth. So, a 1x slot is fine and that lets us add more cards to a standard MB.

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They're a bit fiddly to get working exactly right, and if you bump them at all they can act up, but otherwise do the job well. I'm using several that lets me fit 3 triple-slot cards on a standard ATX board, and with plenty of clearance for airflow between the cards.
 
Might have had just a little too much on a single 15a circuit. Was watching TV and smelled something funny then found this outlet smoking. The breaker never tripped. Scary part was that I was supposed to be out of town this week for work but the job got cancelled. Glad I was here to catch it. Will be at greatly reduced folding capacity while I shuffle some machines around to spread the load around better.

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Pretty sure It's part of the tamper resistant plastic that bubbled while melting after I pulled the plug out.

It does look like I broke one of the tines off a fork while trying to electrocute myself. But If I were going that route, I'd just bring my toaster in the bathtub.

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Fluxmaven said:
Might have had just a little too much on a single 15a circuit. Was watching TV and smelled something funny then found this outlet smoking. The breaker never tripped. Scary part was that I was supposed to be out of town this week for work but the job got cancelled. Glad I was here to catch it. Will be at greatly reduced folding capacity while I shuffle some machines around to spread the load around better.

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Holy sh*t! That was a close one.
 
I had a power strip do that when I had 2x GTX570s and a GTX260 in the same box all folding. I never thought to take a picture though.

Close call. Good save.
 
My fastest Dell box (Inspiron 3880, i5-10400, 12gb ram) died last night. Looks to be either the power supply or motherboard. No green light. No flashing power button. Pulled the memory, drives and replaced the CMOS battery. It still won't fire up.
 
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