[2024-feb-29] Sad news: Eric Layton aka Nocturnal Slacker aka vtel57 passed away on Feb 26th, shortly after hospitalization. He was one of our Wiki's most prominent admins. He will be missed.
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talk:howtos:hardware:hardware_diagnostics [2012/10/09 17:39 (UTC)] – Added signature and comment. tobisgd | talk:howtos:hardware:hardware_diagnostics [2014/01/09 19:50 (UTC)] – [Technical Jargon] metaschima | ||
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Usually only OEM boards, like the one from Dell or HP, lack these options. On mainboards that the end-user can buy they are sometimes hidden in the over-clocking menus. But you are right, most of the time a BIOS update will fix such problems. | Usually only OEM boards, like the one from Dell or HP, lack these options. On mainboards that the end-user can buy they are sometimes hidden in the over-clocking menus. But you are right, most of the time a BIOS update will fix such problems. | ||
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+ | My PSU has failed and I have added more info to these sections. | ||
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+ | My mobo may have failed, and if I can confirm it, I will add random symptoms + memtest passes = mobo failure. | ||
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+ | ==== Technical Jargon ==== | ||
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+ | I suggest we remove some " | ||
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+ | > Agreed. Eric --- // | ||
+ | >> Replaced all instances of ' | ||
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+ | Sorry about the jargon, I just tend to use it without realizing it. I removed two things I added to the motherboard section, because I cannot confirm that my motherboard is dead, so it was not reliable information. | ||
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+ | I have updated a few things and made a few corrections. | ||
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+ | I removed some possibly incorrect symptoms of PSU failure. I added capacitor high-pitched squealing/ | ||
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+ | I would like to add info about how to reset the CMOS settings in case you have trouble booting a system. Typically instead of booting there is just a black screen without boot codes. See: http:// | ||
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+ | I will be adding a section on mouse problems and potential fixes. See: http:// | ||
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