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I'm back, sort of

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Nathan_P

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Hi Everyone,

Since its been a while i just thought i'd let you know whats been going on, why i have been absent and the state of my boxen.

So as some of you know I am in the UK, specifically the channel islands which are about 100 miles off the south coast, so theer's always a time difference between when i am on and when most of you guys are on. I also get engrossed in something very easily so if i'm playing a game or watching a series on tv i tend to get about everything else. I also work as a logistics manager for one of the local food retailers so December is extremely busy for us so i've had even less free time than usual.

October was taken up with Holiday and 2 weeks away with work and i always shut my rigs down when i am away, before then i was away in July and never got round to switching the boxen on when i got back.

As to the boxen well I usually run 2, eaxch with 2 gpu's of varying ages, from a 1070 to a 3070 LHR. One rig is my old 1920x daily driver and thats currently working just fine with the 3070 and a 2070 in it. The other box has been a nightmare for months. I was using a Z87WS with a low power xeon in it but a couple of the power stages are now fried and so that mobo is dead. I swapped it with a B450 strix gaming 2 that i had from a abandoned build lying around so i used that successfully for about a 8 months. When i came back from vacation and work travel at the end of october i powered it up but it just kept shutting down, at first i thought it ws teh 1070 dying as just teh 1080 in there worked just fine for a couple of weeks but then it died. Left it off as it was now December and finally got back to it today.

The 1080 works fine but the rig shut down after 10 minutes witrh the check PSU light on. Thinking it was the PSU i have just pulled all the cables, while untying the motherboard 8pin from teh back of teh case i noticed something on the back of the mobo. Closer inspection found some clear gel substance oosing out from under the heatsink for teh power delivery system so i suspect that that mobo is also dead, furtehr isnpection will be made tomorrow as i am at a friend's Birthday bash in just over an hour.

Worst case is that for the challenge i will only have 1 rig as i doubt a new PUS and Mobo will arrive in time. I'm not trusting that PSU anymore, thats 2 mobo's its burnt up in a year.

Thats it for know, a further update tomorrow.
 
Glad to have you back. We are short handed in the upcoming bigadv EOL challenge and any help is most welcome. ;)
 
One system contributing is better than none. We appreciate you working on the systems to get them going.

I'm doing the same today and dealing with similar issues - hardware not cooperating. You are not alone.
 
I've pulled the heatsink off the VRM and while there is no visible damage there is a clear gel substance that has oozed out from somewhere in there and spread itself over the back of the board. Rooting around in the parts pile i have a basically new evga 600w unit for some testing tomorrow to see what is actually going to work, hopefully the 1080 has survived.

And i've just relised how bad my typing was yesterday :confused:
 
Nearly 4 days of running 24/7 and the Mobo, 1080 and what i thought was a dead AX750 from 2022 are all working just fine. I'm not going to mess with it, try the 1070 or 2060 until after the challenge is over. Then i will have a week of testing the various boards, PSU and GPU's that have given the appearance of being fried over the last 18 months.

Once i have confirmed the working GPU's i will be on the hunt for a new PSU, just to be on the safe side, and probably a new board for which i will probably be asking some advice on.
 
A long overdue update.

A power cut just before my vacation in June, A crap ton of work on my return, another vacation in August followed by a crap ton more work has left the farm offline for a lot longer than planned, initially just between the 2 vacations.

Anyhow, everything has been tested over the last few days and the carnage is extensive.

The 1070 that i thought was dead, is dead. Not bad as i bought it in 2016 so its been run mercilessly for most of the last 8 years.
The aforementioned Z87 motherboard is dead, it will not even post any more. Someone that knows a bit about electronics might be able to solder replacement power components to the board but that's beyond my skill level.
The 2070 is dead. A couple of green squares on the screen when its a primary gpu, when its in with the 3070 its not recognised by the driver. Its the newest and least used of my folding hardware so that's the last Palit gpu I buy.
My old cpu folder based on a Z8NA -D6 mobo from way back in the day is dead, no post so i am assuming bad/no power.
A seasonic 400w fanless power supply that has been sitting in the parts cupboard is dead, melted 8 pin PSU power cable so that's in the bin.
Assorted fans either have very noisy bearings or won't spin, plenty of spares for those so they were an easy swap out.

Since i'm currently out of DDR 3 Mobo's i have no idea if all the DDR3 Memory and various CPU's are dead.

For now my B450 rig with the 1080 and 2060 is up and running.

The X399 rig was running with the 3070 and dead 2070 but testing the 2070 has now borked that one so a fresh windows install is in my future.(n)

Currently deciding what to do gpu wise, in the meantime fold on!
 
A quick update,

The AX860i PSU that i thought was now behaving has shut its self down, self test light is an angry red so thats also heading for the bin.
It might also have killed teh 3070, testing on that to begibn shortly.

In teh meantime a 4060ti have been purchased, given its PPD/W i might spring for a few more and get rid of everything else. Will have to see how the 3070 does.

Yes, i know the broken hardware belongs in the died in line of duty thread, i'll update it when i have a full list.

Fold on!
 
is the 4060ti okay? And im curious, do you run a ups? A 1500va pure sine wave ups would help with power surges wich look to be killing your components. I realize they are expensive, but they absolutely are worth it.
 
howmanybacons said:
is the 4060ti okay? And im curious, do you run a ups? A 1500va pure sine wave ups would help with power surges wich look to be killing your components. I realize they are expensive, but they absolutely are worth it.
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If you can catch a deal, a nice 1500va apc UPS with replaceable battery runs around $150-200. I got one at the lower end of that range a few ago and wish I'd bought more. Well worth it for the peace of mind and protection.
 
No UPS, being in the UK i think we generally have clean power and I have no issues with my daily driver and its on around 9 hours a day.

The 4060Ti and 3070 are currently cranking out all of my points.

I think the faulty AX860 PSU fried at least one gpu and the Z87 mobo and potentially the ancient AX750 has fried the 1080 but the mobo in that rig is fine.

A new PSU beckons before any new gpus go into rig 2. I'll ponder a UPS later.
 
Bad news...
On an (hopefully) lighter note, this happens just before Jensen's CES presentation, so maybe a Blackwell GPU after the new PSU is secured ?
 
You'll want at least a 1000W PSU for Blackwell, supposedly 5090@600W, can't imagine PPD on a 5090, 50million+ ???
 
Well the 2060 does work so rig 2 is sort of back up and running, however the final hardware list for this machine is now looking like this:-
Replacement SSD as the HDD is dying,
Replacement PSU around 1000w
a pair of replacement gpu's
 
So, rig 2 was hastily cobbled back together for the challenge, a backup bequiet 600w PSU and a RTX A4500 helped. Currently in the middle of doing the rebuild so the SSD has been installed and a new PSU is hopefully being purchased this weekend. Then its just a case of a 2nd GPU for that machine and she should be good to go.

I've installed the new v8 client and am liking it so far, more testing this weekend on that and then maybe roll it out to Rig 1
 
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