>ITT: Embarassing things about your setup you dont want others to know about
For some reason whenever I hit the power button my Arch machine only has a 40ish% of actually booting. Sometimes when I get unlucky I have to turn it on and off like 5 times before it eventually works.
I just leave it on 24/7 when I can now.
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>he fell for the arch meme
I have on off used Linux for 4 years and love it. Learned basics of through the troubleshooting that comes with ricing window managers. Love it.
But damn it, I have never figured out how to rebind my power button on my laptop so it does not immediately shut down my pc in awesome-wm.
i once almost filled my 1tb harddrive with cute anime girl pics. deleting them was the most painful thing i have done to myself. i can still probably recover them back though, i partitioned my hdd and now around 700gb are unused, one day i will photorec them back to existence.
There's a short somewhere in my computer, so that when I plug in a USB anything, there's like a 30% chance it will cut power. I always have to ground myself to something metal first. I should look into the matter, but instead I just rely on network storage, and pretend I don't have any USB ports available
>buy a couple 970s to replace my 770
>nothing but issues, screens going black at random, poor performance compared to single 970
>take one 970 out, everything is fine and performance exceeds 770
>leave 2nd 970 in box for eternity, too lazy to solve problem, probably power issue or some shit
I still have a first gen i7 in my build.
I dropped a pencil into my pc case like 6 months ago and i couldnt find it no matter how hard i looked so i just left it there.
Sometimes I can hear rattling when I move my case, but the ghost pencil is still nowhere to be seen.
>he fell for poorfag meme
>implying 1366x768 isn't the comfiest resolution
pleb
It's a mini-ITX build in a CM Elite 130 case.
Thing is absolutely fucking stuffed with cords. It's ridiculous. There's almost no open space, it's all just cords.
I'm using stock coolers.
maybe if you are a neet
stay jealous wagecuck ;^)
My best PC is a core 2 quad
I got the mainboard for free, it's an Acer business one
Also my whole room is a mess so i can't brag about my setup in the guts/desk threads
I bought a PCI sound card because I snapped off a resistor on the motherboard while installing my GPU
SLI is a meme anyway.
PSU is outside the case, literally hanging there. I have a bigger case that is a better fit but I didn't buy a 2.5 inch slot thingy for it, so the system drive just hangs there and I don't like it. I also once tried to hot-plug my 1TB HDD while it was disabled and fucking fucked the file system. I recovered some but I still regret it.
When I put my computer to sleep there's a 50% chance the monitor will not turn on again when I wake it.
When I shut my computer down there is a 5% chance there is no picture when I start it again and I need to cut power.
I never managed to connect the front USB3.0 to my motherboard.
I bought an 100$+ Asus Essence STX soundcard for 250Ohm headphones which even my Macbook has no problems with it.
I once clicked "cancel" during a Bios update, bricked my motherboard and had to pay 30$ to MSI for them to replace the chip.
The past 4 gigabyte motherboards I have bought are unstable and will not reboot or boot, uptime of >24 hours is rare, and windows update restarts are garuanteed to put me into a reboot lockout of my PC until I cycle the power and save the bios for whatever reason, even though it keeps settings. What's more is my closed loop GPU cooler, requires many taps before it's pump will function, thanks evga
Every time Windows updates, I lose a new component off of the Corsair Link fan control program. I used to have two entire columns of fans, now I'm down to a single column which is just my CPU, my GPU and my water cooling.
>this is supposed to be a tech board
>half the users can't even build a PC properly
hmmm... really entices one to ponder...
I have to disconnect from my wifi and reconnect every time I bring my computer from sleep.
Also sometimes when I boot it from sleep it fails and just restarts.
I have a Seagate drive.
I had it for over 2 years now, still no sings of death so I guess I got lucky, but you fags will laugh at me in speccy threads.
>system drive just hangs there
user pls
all you need is one screw and one hole anywhere in the case
>when I plug in a USB anything, there's like a 30% chance it will cut power
>I dropped a pencil into my pc case like 6 months ago
>I also once tried to hot-plug my 1TB HDD while it was disabled
>I once clicked "cancel" during a Bios update
I always kinda knew how this board was filled with top tier retards
My cable management is complete shit and a fan keeps hitting something and I have no idea what it is.
when i turn my computer off, windows shuts down fine but my external fans keep spinning, only way to get it to stop is by turning it off at the wall
>>I once clicked "cancel" during a Bios update
To be fair why would that button be there in the first place
retard bait
It's a six year old laptop, and it wasn't a very good one even then
The B key is broken (remapped to context menu key)
lol this is amazing
When i shut down my computer it always takes ninety seconds before it actually terminates all running processes so i try not to do that. Also my X settings don't seem to stick, so i have to use xmodmap a lot
I use an old Keytronic PS2 membrane board, it's not too bad for membranes. I have a board with the scratchy as fuck MX blacks but I prefer these.
The computer on a first cold boot doesn't recognize the keyboard, and I need to press the power button and start it back up another time. Reset button won't work, as the keyboard will only reset after another quick cold boot.
Any clues?
The S key on my keyboard is broken and it produces anywhere between 0 and 5 "S"es when I press it
install windows
if you're on linux you can edit /etc/systemd/system.conf and set DefaultTimeout{Start,Stop}Sec so it'll shut down faster. I had the same issue but recently fixed it. shits a pain.
its a pentium 4 that didnt even come with wifi capabilities so I had to buy a shitty USB wifi dongle that barely detects a signal. It has windows XP and I tried to install a lightweight linux distribution to try to breathe some life into the computer but for some reason ubuntu wont work with the wifi dongle thing and cant connect online. Fuck I hate being poor.
Can't you just relocate your speakers and set restrictive permissions on the xorg conf?
I started dualbooting Ubuntu Gnome for Sup Forums credibility, and got to like it enough to not even bother booting Win8 for months.
i would'nt touch Arch, Gentoo or the other Snowflake distros with a 10 foot pole thought.
>I use GNOME 3 and really like it
>I use a mechanical keyboard from an old imac
>I use 32 bit debian even though I use the core 2 quad CPU
>I have multiple stickers of RMS on my desktop and an ibad sticker.
>I found my monitor in a dumpster
>I bought my desktop for 60 bucks cash at a yard sale.
>I use a Radeon HD 2400 PRO
>I bought my desktop for 60 bucks cash at a yard sale
lol I've been looking for the past few days for unwanted PCs on offerup and craigslist. I just want a basic facebook machine that wont get bogged down by youtube/internet. All the decent ones are over 200 and theyre all DELLs
I've had this machine 4 years and I've never figured out how to get the UEFI to boot GRUB off an internal hard drive. The process for adding the Debian entry to the UEFI boot menu worked once, a couple years ago, and kept working for months. Then I upgraded GRUB and it broke again. Every other attempt to add that boot entry before and since has resulted in the boot entry being erased at the next reboot.
I've been booting this machine off a GRUB installation on a flash drive or my phone for almost its entire lifespan.
That Seagate is God-tier.
I sold my 4k monitor to go back to a pair of monitors (pic related) because of the shiite 4k support in non-gtk things under linux.
They line up perfectly (only 25px difference) and it's a great setup and I love it ;_; I know I'm a scrub
I gutted a dell dimension and used it as my case
>aesthetically_pleasing.png
my ass!
pic related again, its a nice workspace
>numale-mix
>military time
>ugly fonts
4/10
>>military time
no, retard
My motherboard has been going full retard for a month now. Sometimes it turns back on after I turn it off (???) or suddenly shutdown and (sometimes) restart during early boot. What is kind off odd is that once windows is ready after like the 5th try or so I see 0 instability issues or BSOD you would expect from faulty hardware.
damn what theme is that?
>nitpicking my terminology because you got btfo
keep crying you numale baby
Are you American? "Military time", you can't make this shit up
>use winblows on my machine because I was stupid and didnt get a wifi dongle thingy that is compatible with linux
>boot drive is on one hard drive and the other hard drive actually houses the rest of the system
i dont know how to fix this without reinstalling windows
EasyBCD?
>not being american
just stop right now, you're embarassing yourself.
Sure little guy :^)
I bet you're still at store, waiting for your shitty credit card to process.
Everything in the US if fucking outdated compared to glorious northern Europe and you import it all like the non-creative fags you are.
My cpu cooler is too large for me to close my case
Hehehehe.
>not exclusively using cash
I couldn't be bothered to set up dual boot so I just pick the drive in the BIOS boot menu
I basically do the same thing with an ultrawide
The retarded amount of money that I spent on my build. about $5000 total for i7-6700K, GTX 1080 Ti, Acer Predator X34, Node 202, 1TB 960 Pro M.2 NVMe, 2TB 850 EVO, peripherals, accessories.
>1366x768
My laptop has fimware-enabled lights above the keyboard and cant turn em off for shit, looks like some alienware kid laptop
>tfw get flat paid for and £1200 a month without doing anything
stay mad wagie
where and how?
He's a big heatsink.
...
>£
where do you think retard
I use an old Alienware laptop from 2014. It has heating issues and the keyboard has several missing keys.
I don't use it as a laptop, I plug in all the peripherals and just pretend it's a desktop.
Despite its age I keep upgrading the components. SSD. Removed optical drive for a HDD. Ram. Anew LCD display with a higher resolution. CPU repasted. Might just upgrade the CPU.
I've been wanting to build a legit desktop but I just haven't gotten around to it.
I customize the lit keyboard that I don't use.
The phone I use is a galaxy core prime™ that takes a good 10 seconds to load the default messaging app.
Mein gott man.
>implying britain is the only county using pound/sterling
no wonder you never were able to get a job
Parabola on a librebooted x200
>Until yesterday, the swap partition was 8MiB instead of 8GiB because of going full potato using parted. It's been like this for 4 months. This is why the hibernate button didn't work.
>If you put the laptop to sleep, it may or may not wake up. It sits with a black unlighted screen forever, and you have to hard power it down and wait for a minute for RAM data to decay, until you can power it again. The BIOS's grub doesn't even show up.
>Until last Thursday, bluetooth speaker connection was a fucking lottery, it may work only after 30 min of restarting the service, the laptop, and everything. I learned about "rfkill unlock all" after 20 minutes trying to connect the damn thing to show a song to a friend. When I finally succeeded, he said "IMAGINE BEING AT COMPUTERS"
>The mute button doesn't work. I did the os_acpi=Linux thing and everything. When the x200 wasn't librebooted it used to work.
This is a big one. I don't keep backups.
> using Windows 10 with all the latest updates on both laptop and pc
> using a selfmade anti-vibration case for hdd made from a floppy drive
> had external drive fall and break because I forgot to unplug it after I masturbated
> having a good mitsumi keyboard, but using a shitty logitech cuz it's wireless
> pc sometimes starts, restarts after 5sec and then starts again
> when pc turns off coolers still run
Me neither.
A friend at my student dorm had a room with so much static, that he had to touch something metallic and receive a shock before touching the computer.
He reports touching the mouse, shocking it (even showing a little flash), and the USB stops working until reboot because it powers off for safety.
Is this a Gigabyte Z68 mainboard?
I have a similar problem, when turning it on it randomly shuts down a few times before finally booting.
After this happened for a few days it will show pic related. I then have to select the boot option in the BIOS manually. Everytime I change BIOS settings this cycle will start again.
's x200 libreboot again. I just remembered:
>there is some piece of plastic, or bolt, or whatever inside the laptop. It rattles when I pitch the thing. I try my best not to make that movement when I pick it up.
tape or felt marker
it's your property anyway, customize it
I agree. At least the program should revert the flash to it's old state, verifying and everything. It's not that complicated actually.
I'll pound you into sterlings you fucking weakling. Where are you? Let's meet.
Ubuntu gnome is so fine.
I mean, it's still ubuntu and there is a lot I don't like, but I find gnome a very pleasant environment.
Ubuntu will just work most of the times so It's a good Linux first contact.
(I do recommend ubuntu gnome to people curious with linux)
>pound me
only if you have a feminine penis
I bought a 2TiB hard drive to make backups, made a script with rsync. Made a back up, and never did it again. It was almost a year ago.
uk and be severely schizophrenic and autistic
Took me 3 weeks to figure out that the issue with my laptop was the Nvidia drivers.
>Not exclusively trading gold for goods
My PC shuts down when I try to run games off integrated graphics unless I underclock the igpu from 1.1Ghz to 600Mhz. I am not sure if it's the motherboard or the cpu, but it doesn't affect me with a dedicated card.
thanks, broadcom!
My computer crashes when I overclock my graphics card for even 1 single MHz and I have a feeling it shouldn't be like that but I never investigated further
Never learned how to overclock properly, OC'ed my CPU with a preset BIOS profile instead of manually and set it to auto voltage adjustment. Couldn't be fucked to test it for long-term stability but it has run fine for 2yrs+ without crashing so I assume its ok. Temps are well within normal ranges.
Also I couldn't verify if i got the power management settings right so i turned them all off and it just runs at full OC frequency continuously.
On completely random occasions when my machine boots it runs for about 5 seconds with no display output, then shuts off and starts up again a few seconds later but runs as normal this time. I have no idea why it does this, but it did it since the first day I built it and long before I OC'ed the CPU, so not sure if its related to what I described above.
My SSD is secured inside my T420 with glue and a piece of foam. I also fucked up partitioning it in Arch three years ago and never bothered to fix it, so it has weird errors time to time.
I've done countless HDD/SSD and PSU mounting jobs for myself and friends involving zip ties instead of modding the case, I see no problem with this sort of resourcefulness where it is necessary..
I lazily did no wire management, so wires are everywhere touching everything, and I'm too lazy to go back and fix it.
my Sup Forumsodprocessor runs from 50 to close to 80 degrees Celsius and I'm too jewish to change that
sometimes when I'm bored and at my computer, I look at porn and masturbate but don't tell anyone