forgotten_aria

My computer was rebooting randomly, usually when trying to start fusion 360 or Baldur's Gate 3. I was also sometimes having games go framey suddenly, so I decided to get a new desktop gaming computer. So far so good. I still have to get everything reinstalled on the new machine, move my 4T drive with all my videos and photos and buy and install a 8T drive and get anything important copied off the 3 drives I'm not moving to the new machine.

I splurged, so I hope this machine does me well.

If I had had any indication of what was failing on the old machine. I likely would have just replaced a single part (best guess the power supply or the graphics card,) but the reboots were so sudden, there was no error correction. I replaced the motherboard and processor about 5 years ago. The graphics card was a 1060 from 2016 (though might not have been using it since 2016.)

My laptop is having powersupply issues. I'm hoping it's just a break in the wire. I've ordered a 3rd party powersupply from ebay for $8. I'm hoping that's not a mistake, but the on brand is about $60. I love this laptop, but it's hinge is also showing the early signs of seizing.

Ah well. Hopefully it will last until I have budget again. At least these are reasonably minor problems.

So apparently, despite the evil reviews, the tech support at cyberpowerpc doesn't suck as much as I feared. They're going to send out a new motherboard and pay for all the shipping (even for the return of the one I have now.) The guy, though not easy to get a hold of, has been very forthcoming and helpful. He also usually response within 24 hours, so it's not completely impossible to move things along.

So there is hope yet. I'm glad that this is a case where I plan on doing with out if it doesn't work out, since that gives me a lot of patience to work this all out. Sadly the new motherboard will come while I'm in Canada, so I will have to wait to get back to see if that fixes things.