Light flashes and fans move for a fraction of the second but isn’t that normal? I always do that when I want to quickly discharge caps and swap some components without worrying about shorting something.
Light flashes and fans move for a fraction of the second but isn’t that normal? I always do that when I want to quickly discharge caps and swap some components without worrying about shorting something.
Wow amazing guide. I’ll try testing with a multimeter for now but that PSU tester looks very handy. Maybe I’ll buy one someday.
I always thought that PSU testers were way more expensive but it’s good to know you can buy them relatively cheap. Honestly I’m curious if such a tester would detect anything. Currently the PSU works just fine under heavy load (CPU + GPU stress test). It only happens when I turn off the PC or put it to sleep so low or little to none power draw.
I haven’t seen any bad caps on the GPU or motherboard so I’ll see on the PSU (obviously with caution).
With GPU it’s an easy swap so I once exchanged GPUs with my friend to see if GPU is causing crashes (it was RAM btw) but with PSU I feel it’s a lot of work to unplug everything so I don’t want to bother them too much. I ordered an MSI 800W PSU. I have two weeks to return it if I want but your idea of having a spare is a good one.
True, usually when you work with high voltage you make sure that everything is unplugged and safe. It’s common sense and that’s why even though you should call an electrician to change the light bulb nobody will tell you to not do it yourself. PSU is not that simple though. Capacitors can still hold a charge. Unless you got trained for working with high voltage you definitely shouldn’t tinker with the PSU.
I was more worried about frying the motherboard but I guess it’s not entirely impossible to blow up the PSU…
Honestly that’s wild. In one laptop I have there is a dedicated barrel charging port but there’s also USB-C so I thought maybe I can charge it via USB too but nope, no power is being transferred, literally 0 amps. Meanwhile on PC if you buy an active USB hub it will power your computer lol. I feel like USB on PC should only output power. It wouldn’t be even expensive to make it that way.
Just out of curiosity is your motherboard higher or lower end?
I don’t have any hubs. The only thing I bought recently was 4x SATA to PCI card. But it worked ok for quite a while so this shouldn’t be the culprit?
In that weird can’t power on PC state or it doesn’t matter?
I might try to disassemble PSU at some point to check since I don’t see any on GPU or Motherboard.
(Also I know it can be dangerous but I know my way around high voltage from previous work so I should be fine)
I thought about it but idk if it’d be safe to remove 24 pin while plugged in. I can’t disconnect it though as after unplugging it works just fine.
The question is which one on which component :P
I have some very old no name PSU but it’s like 250W. Now GPU can draw this much power alone so my best bet would be buying new. With the option to return it might be worth a shot. Thanks!
When I finally go to Japan I’ll be on the quest to collect as many “Engrish” signs as possible! I’m sure some are left!
True those words are N4 but some decks on Anki will include those since those are common words.
But even if you use only N5 decks you can guess the meaning. When I was starting I barely understood a thing and yet I was able to guess the meaning. You just get: “please ahead **** **** don’t go ****”. “Yeah it probably means to not go any further.” I mean true, you can’t fully read the message but enough to get the meaning.
Your translation isn’t bad but I’d say it’s too literal. I’d translate it to something like this:
It’s dangerous beyond this point, please don’t go any further.
Though keep in mind I’m no expert and this could probably be translated better :p
Happy to help! I remember getting this video in the recommended tab on YouTube at the right time. If not for this video I’d probably give up on japanese tbh. I felt like I was working really hard with no results. His channel is a gold mine of great learning methods. Depending how serious you are you can do what he’s done or like me, study for just a 15 min a day. It might seem low but still depending on the topic I still can understand 70-99% of what’s being said.
New bad.
Duolingo is good for the first few days to see what the language is about but as a main learning resource I’d say it’s pretty bad.
When I was starting, there was just not enough content and after finishing it all I still couldn’t understand hiragana fully.
Things have gotten better in recent years that’s why I decided to revisit Duolingo a few months ago but I found content to be so inconsistent and impractical. Sometimes they teach you something simple and sometimes you get a word that is usually at the end of any language course.
Many sentences are just dumb and/or have no use in real life.
Once I got to translate: 「私はりんご」which to be fair is a sentence that one could say and it wouldn’t be weird but not only you don’t have a context but the accepted translation was “I’m an apple”. Which is obviously ridiculous. Correct but ridiculous. It feels like they took out of context examples and decided to put it in “translate this sentence category”. If you’re wondering btw how this sentence could be used it’s worth remembering that “私は” means “As for me” not “I am” so for example when someone asks your name you say:「私はトムです」which literally means “As for me Tom”. It sounds weird though so obviously we translate it as “I’m Tom”. Same with apple, “As for me Apple” can be an answer to a question “What fruits do you like?”
If you want to learn quickly I recommend downloading the Anki app. It’s a flashcards system where you can download premade decks of cards or create your own. I started with popular Anime/VN vocabulary deck and then some N5 vocabulary deck. When you want to go to the next level you download 2k/6k deck. If you still struggle with hiragana and katakana then I really recommend tofu guide.. It was so good I learned everything in one day. As for anything other than vocabulary Tim Kae’s “Guide to Japanese” is an absolutely amazing resource.
I also recommend Livakivi on YouTube. He also started with Duolingo and then got into sentence mining in Anki. Now he speaks really good Japanese. I like to watch him for motivation and to see just how much effort is needed for certain level.
Those are rather common words so depending on your learning source you should be able to read most of it (enough to understand meaning) in a month or two.
From this picture definitely worth learning first are those words imo:
Remember to be consistent in your studies, it’s better to learn for 10 minutes every day than an hour every week.
Good luck in your journey!
In VM on FreeBSD ofc, right?