{"id":6857,"date":"2022-01-13T13:23:37","date_gmt":"2022-01-13T11:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/?p=6857"},"modified":"2022-01-13T13:25:56","modified_gmt":"2022-01-13T11:25:56","slug":"i-assume-youve-tried-basic-elimination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/2022\/01\/13\/i-assume-youve-tried-basic-elimination\/","title":{"rendered":"I assume you&#8217;ve tried basic elimination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I assume you&#8217;ve tried basic elimination, by testing with different parts &amp; peripherals removed?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a hassle of course, especially after you&#8217;ve already settled in to using the system, not to mention how tedious it is to run memtest for days on end just to achieve sufficient confidence that you&#8217;ve proved a negative.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not as <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.codinghorror.com\/is-your-computer-stable\/\">hardcore about this as Jeff Atwood<\/a>, but I&#8217;ve learned not to discount anything as potentially being the cause or at least a trigger for all kinds of issues. Besides obvious things like RAM modules, OTOH I&#8217;ve had at least one internal memory card reader, one USB bluetooth dongle and one (SATA) SSD turn out to be the troublemaker; usually something much easier to replace than motherboard+almost everything. (And unfortunately it&#8217;s usually been easier to just replace or just get rid of the triggering component rather than hope for a software fix, even if the issue ultimately was with software.)<\/p>\n<p>The cold lockups or the case being touch-sensitive don&#8217;t sound like one of those easily solvable ones, but since there&#8217;s a plethora of symptoms, perhaps some still might be, and are just hard to see from the mix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a hassle of course, but I&#8217;ve learned not to discount anything as potentially being the cause or at least a trigger for all kinds of issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[22913],"class_list":["post-6857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogit","tag-jeff-atwood","sijainti-wandering-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6857"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6859,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6857\/revisions\/6859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}