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What’s the worst piece of technology you’ve ever owned? (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago by zachimusprime44@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] Vivendi@lemmy.zip 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

2015, desktop computer I built randomly powers off during usage, no errors, not the power supply, unsolved to this day.

Possible capacitor fault or a DOA chip -- try checking the components with a cap checker and a multimeter

[–] jmf@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago

One more possible solution would be a buggy c-state setting on the motherboard. I have an x570 amd board that would do this until I disabled cstates in bios. It would happen any time, sometimes during movies or when I wasn’t moving the mouse and in a meeting. Not sure if it is fixed yet or not, don’t really feel like toggling it back!