#hardwarefailure — Public Fediverse posts
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Due to a faulty UPS, our services were down this morning. The problem has since been resolved. Everything is back to normal.
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Broadband down today, might be a quiet day!
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Not all system failures stem from cyber threats - many originate from operational blind spots.
This anecdote highlights:
• Environmental risk to hardware
• Lack of cross-domain awareness (IT vs industrial operations)
• High-impact data loss without malicious intentOperational security and resilience include physical handling, environmental controls, and basic technical literacy - not just software defenses.
What non-cyber failure modes have caused the most disruption in your environment?
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#OperationalRisk #ITResilience #HardwareFailure #TechOperations #LessonsLearned #TechNadu
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Not all system failures stem from cyber threats - many originate from operational blind spots.
This anecdote highlights:
• Environmental risk to hardware
• Lack of cross-domain awareness (IT vs industrial operations)
• High-impact data loss without malicious intentOperational security and resilience include physical handling, environmental controls, and basic technical literacy - not just software defenses.
What non-cyber failure modes have caused the most disruption in your environment?
Follow @technadu for practical, experience-driven technology insights.
#OperationalRisk #ITResilience #HardwareFailure #TechOperations #LessonsLearned #TechNadu
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Not all system failures stem from cyber threats - many originate from operational blind spots.
This anecdote highlights:
• Environmental risk to hardware
• Lack of cross-domain awareness (IT vs industrial operations)
• High-impact data loss without malicious intentOperational security and resilience include physical handling, environmental controls, and basic technical literacy - not just software defenses.
What non-cyber failure modes have caused the most disruption in your environment?
Follow @technadu for practical, experience-driven technology insights.
#OperationalRisk #ITResilience #HardwareFailure #TechOperations #LessonsLearned #TechNadu
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Not all system failures stem from cyber threats - many originate from operational blind spots.
This anecdote highlights:
• Environmental risk to hardware
• Lack of cross-domain awareness (IT vs industrial operations)
• High-impact data loss without malicious intentOperational security and resilience include physical handling, environmental controls, and basic technical literacy - not just software defenses.
What non-cyber failure modes have caused the most disruption in your environment?
Follow @technadu for practical, experience-driven technology insights.
#OperationalRisk #ITResilience #HardwareFailure #TechOperations #LessonsLearned #TechNadu
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My computer monitor died yesterday. I've ordered a new one but it won't arrive for a few days. In the meantime, I've got my PC hooked up to another screen in the house.
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I think my #PSU is all outta juice and I need to get a new one, I kept having issues where everything I tried to run on #Linux would crash for a bit before working again, then I'd reboot and it was fine until just recently where I was trying to open a folder and Dolphin started hanging, and trying to navigate to that folder in Firefox (a git repo I cloned) showed me nothing when I tried opening the file I wanted. So I rebooted, and it took longer to start than it...
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CW: My tower broke down again and refuses to start up; CW: long (3,204 characters), mentioning Linux
Seems like the original intestines of my most powerful machine are giving up the ghost by and by. I had already replaced the old Radeon HD 7770 graphics card with a Radeon RX 590 a few months ago.
Now something else must have broken.
All I know that the whole machine froze while running under high load, including playing a video. Not even the mouse cursor moved anymore.
Ever since, I can't boot any operating system anymore. The installed Debian seems to halt around the point when it's supposed to create the RAM disc. A Manjaro live system wouldn't boot. Live Debian doesn't boot either, not from an USB drive and not from DVD. It simply stops with a black screen with backlight on. So the boot process starts, but it always halts at some point.
Memtest86+ works. One run didn't show any issues, but I didn't want to leave it running for hours over night or so until something shows up.
Now I'm wondering what broke this time.
RAM: Will be easy to detect by re-installing the old RAM. I got me some used replacement RAM along with the RX 590, also to increase the amount of RAM in the machine. It didn't come in appropriate packaging, though. Still, it worked. Could be it no longer does.
CPU: An old 3-core Phenom II, older even than the mainboard. Might not have survived the mistreatment over the lasts few years. A lot of load for at least one core over hours continuously, and I've never replaced the cooler or the thermal paste. A damaged CPU would be easy to replace for now by acquiring an AMD FX for cheap and adding a second-hand cooler for both the AM3+ and the AM4 socket which I could keep after eventually upgrading the mainboard.
Mainboard: A 970A-UD3. Newer than the CPU, but has seen over a decade of duty. Mainboards should take a lot of beating, but I think they're more susceptible to aging than CPUs. If the mainboard is broken, a repair would be more costly, and I'm on a budget already. Replacement full-size board, replacement CPU (Ryzen 5 Zen probably), replacement RAM, and I'll need a replacement cooler anyway.
SSD: Well, I'd replaced the original HDD with an SSD that had run in another machine previously, although it's still newer than the mainboard. But I don't think live systems refuse to start due to a faulty SSD.
Graphics card: Nope. The graphics card is the second-newest component in that machine. I've installed it only a few months ago. And believe me, I know what a failing graphics card looks like. That wasn't it.
PSU: Nope. That's the newest component, and I think 500W are sizable for this machine.
Come to think of it, not long after installing the replacement graphics card, I experienced a full shutdown. Like, the machine went out completely at once. That happened when I had two instances of the Firestorm viewer running with both avatars at the same party. I did that because the machine finally had the oomph to handle two Firestorms now with 8GB of VRAM instead of 1GB and 16GB of identical RAM instead of a 12GB hodge-podge partly salvaged from the same machine as the SSD.
I can test the SSD and the RAM tomorrow. As for the rest, no idea.
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Are new #Samsung 870 EVO SSDs still failing even with the newest firmware, or was it just the batches from 2021 and some from 2022? Tried to do research and haven't seen any recent results for certain that weren't two months old or more.
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Well, that's rather unfortunate!
Growing number of Pixel 7 owners seeing camera glass shatter without clear cause https://9to5google.com/2023/01/06/pixel-7-shatter-camera-glass/
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I desperately need a new #mobilePhone as my current one (a #Xiaomi #MiA1) was bought way back in 2018 or so, and is showing its age (slow, apps don't stay in memory, and tomorrow I'll be replacing the charging board for the third or fourth time...).
I'm currently looking at either the Xiaomi #RedmiNote10Pro or the #RedmiNote11S for about 2200 NOK from a European webshop that doesn't take ages on shipping.
Specs-wise they are fairly similar: https://www.kimovil.com/en/compare/xiaomi-redmi-note-10-pro-6gb-128gb,xiaomi-redmi-note-11s-6gb-128gb
with the 10 Pro's pros include having a Snapdragon instead of MediaTek chipset, higher Antutu score, better screen, more durable glass and better macro lens.
Its cons however include being a tad bigger, and perhaps more importantly: being older (March 2021 vs January 2022) than the 11S (and thus likely will have less updates remaining), which could be an issue with how I tend to use my phones beyond their support date...I've also read some disturbing hardware and software, and bloatware issues, and I'm not sure how much of that is due to negative feedback bias, and dodgy early Android releases that should perhaps have stayed beta for longer...
I've yet to do a similar hw/sw issues research for the 11S though, so perhaps that will have similar issues reported.I'm also not sure how much I'll actually like #MiUI, as my previous Xiaomi was an #AndroidOne device, and thus had 3 major updates worth of stock #Android... from what I've heard the Xiaomi of that period can't quite be compared to the current one...
None of the phones I've looked at for the past 1-2 years have really stood out for me, but I also think I'm running out of time on my current one... ugh, I hate being forced to replace hardware due to hardware and software degradation...
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I desperately need a new #mobilePhone as my current one (a #Xiaomi #MiA1) was bought way back in 2018 or so, and is showing its age (slow, apps don't stay in memory, and tomorrow I'll be replacing the charging board for the third or fourth time...).
I'm currently looking at either the Xiaomi #RedmiNote10Pro or the #RedmiNote11S for about 2200 NOK from a European webshop that doesn't take ages on shipping.
Specs-wise they are fairly similar: https://www.kimovil.com/en/compare/xiaomi-redmi-note-10-pro-6gb-128gb,xiaomi-redmi-note-11s-6gb-128gb
with the 10 Pro's pros include having a Snapdragon instead of MediaTek chipset, higher Antutu score, better screen, more durable glass and better macro lens.
Its cons however include being a tad bigger, and perhaps more importantly: being older (March 2021 vs January 2022) than the 11S (and thus likely will have less updates remaining), which could be an issue with how I tend to use my phones beyond their support date...I've also read some disturbing hardware and software, and bloatware issues, and I'm not sure how much of that is due to negative feedback bias, and dodgy early Android releases that should perhaps have stayed beta for longer...
I've yet to do a similar hw/sw issues research for the 11S though, so perhaps that will have similar issues reported.I'm also not sure how much I'll actually like #MiUI, as my previous Xiaomi was an #AndroidOne device, and thus had 3 major updates worth of stock #Android... from what I've heard the Xiaomi of that period can't quite be compared to the current one...
None of the phones I've looked at for the past 1-2 years have really stood out for me, but I also think I'm running out of time on my current one... ugh, I hate being forced to replace hardware due to hardware and software degradation...
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I desperately need a new #mobilePhone as my current one (a #Xiaomi #MiA1) was bought way back in 2018 or so, and is showing its age (slow, apps don't stay in memory, and tomorrow I'll be replacing the charging board for the third or fourth time...).
I'm currently looking at either the Xiaomi #RedmiNote10Pro or the #RedmiNote11S for about 2200 NOK from a European webshop that doesn't take ages on shipping.
Specs-wise they are fairly similar: https://www.kimovil.com/en/compare/xiaomi-redmi-note-10-pro-6gb-128gb,xiaomi-redmi-note-11s-6gb-128gb
with the 10 Pro's pros include having a Snapdragon instead of MediaTek chipset, higher Antutu score, better screen, more durable glass and better macro lens.
Its cons however include being a tad bigger, and perhaps more importantly: being older (March 2021 vs January 2022) than the 11S (and thus likely will have less updates remaining), which could be an issue with how I tend to use my phones beyond their support date...I've also read some disturbing hardware and software, and bloatware issues, and I'm not sure how much of that is due to negative feedback bias, and dodgy early Android releases that should perhaps have stayed beta for longer...
I've yet to do a similar hw/sw issues research for the 11S though, so perhaps that will have similar issues reported.I'm also not sure how much I'll actually like #MiUI, as my previous Xiaomi was an #AndroidOne device, and thus had 3 major updates worth of stock #Android... from what I've heard the Xiaomi of that period can't quite be compared to the current one...
None of the phones I've looked at for the past 1-2 years have really stood out for me, but I also think I'm running out of time on my current one... ugh, I hate being forced to replace hardware due to hardware and software degradation...
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iMac’s Fusion Drive SSD Failure
Just about 5 years ago now, I purchased a 4.2GHz 27-inch iMac with a 3TB Fusion Drive. I opted for the Fusion drive due it being the most amount of storage that I could get at the time and besides that SSD prices were, and still are, a bit much for the same amount of storage.
With a Fusion Drive it is actually two physical drives. In my case a 128GB
https://www.waynedixon.com/2022/07/08/imacs-fusion-drive-ssd-failure/
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The Little Replacement PSU That Could: Kill A Microsoft Surface And Monitor - Recently [Big Clive], everyone’s favorite purveyor of anything electronic that’s d... - https://hackaday.com/2022/02/21/the-little-replacement-psu-that-could-kill-a-microsoft-surface-and-monitor/ #failureanalysis #hardwarefailure #laptopnotebook #hardware #teardown #surface #psu