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  • I know this post was from a few weeks ago. The PC is still working perfectly with its old PSU. My guess was the one case fan that was completely seized was drawing too much power or causing a short. I may still replace his PSU since I already have a good replacement, but I might wait until I have a GPU upgrade for him and just build a new rig for him. I pass my video cards down to my kids as I upgrade.

    People in the comments had mentioned I didn’t really explain what it was doing. It would spin up the fans for about two seconds and then shut down, it wasn’t posting. That motherboard doesn’t have a code display, it will give beep codes for some errors but it wasn’t beeping, it just powered down. Whatever, it’s working well again, and as old as it is, it runs the games he plays very well at 1080p/60fps which is all his monitor supports so I’m not in a hurry to build him a new rig just yet.











  • doingthestuff@lemy.loltoMemes@lemmy.mlTrying to quit Reddit
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    25 days ago

    Me too. It’s been over a year since I did it so I don’t recall bthe name of the extension but it had two steps - first, overwriting everything with a gibberish comment, then delete. From what I understand even that isn’t very complete but it makes it more difficult for Reddit or other parties to simply restore your stuff.