10000 forum users celebration - special event

some pictures when we were young

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I remember them

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This as well, (for those of you who donā€™t know, I was ahstudio.)

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Iconic profile pictures.

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My only source of profile images was this topic, and seeing some old images was only possible if someone quoted someone,
because such Q posts 1.5+ years ago kept old images even though the user changed his avatar,
later discourse corrected a bug in newer versions of the forum, and then in that ā€œnew timeā€ you started writing here,
so unfortunately I couldnā€™t find your old one, as well as images from many others.

So it was not intended to leave out or favor only certain members.


https://www.kyivpost.com/russias-war/russians-against-putin-nra-claims-massive-hack-of-russian-government-contractors-computers.html

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Back at the farm for a week again.

For harvest

Man I never thought Iā€™d say that.

Startin up the combine soon!!

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

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Good luck with your work and pet those cats :heart_eyes_cat: :cat2: :cat:

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Uhhā€¦

(Fun fact I actually entered that address into my browser and webroot blocked it thank the Lord)

Fun.

(This is from replit sites I made that I donā€™t maintain anymore, but I feel like the login system might be a bit vulnerable, but probably not enough for them to do it without having an actual person try to break in)


Also, sometimes when holding my computer with one hand (the right side, where the gpu is located) the screen will go black, or just recently I got the green squares or bars and after readjusting my hand it froze. Both times I have to restart and the PC says it was shut down unexpectedly. What is happening? Am I squeezing the gpu in some way? But wouldnā€™t it just break for good?

Also, why green and why bars? Does the GPU process data in large cubic chunks?

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Probably the LCD cable loses contact when you squeeze a certain place

Does it happen if you move the lid too?

It is also possible that the GPU contacts (that whole area around) are no longer ideal due to overheating.

because it is probably only one of the wires that carry certain information for the horizontal ones

depending on the model, the cable looks like this
and often loses contact in these places
or the pins have no good contact or a bad ā€œcrazyā€ contact (2 pins connected to each other instead of isolated)

Is your laptop under warranty? repair service?
until some more valuable component was burned due to wild contacts.
Of course, remove the SSD before you give it to them so they donā€™t dig into your files :slight_smile:

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@Steve2854 WB :hugs:

Are you alive ? How are you ?

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I am fine @Oxy thank you for asking :grin: I just came by to check on the BETA SSL certificate installation, Iā€™m renewing my certificate and when I saw that message I had to check into it. Appears that is for Cloudflare users, Iā€™m just fine doing the manual install and keeping things how they are.

And yes, Iā€™m still alive :joy: I have been shooting a lot of pool recently, itā€™s become my new hobby, Iā€™ve had a table since 2002 and didnā€™t play on it very much, but since retiring last year I play on it every day. You would be surprised to hear that once a person retires they just donā€™t have the time to do things, lol. I will try and come around a bit more often, it wonā€™t be long and the weather will be getting cold so there wonā€™t be much outside activity.

Nice chatting with you, and again thank you for noticing I was on the site and sending a message, you are very considerate :hugs:

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Of course we havenā€™t forgotten you
Iā€™m glad youā€™re having fun :slightly_smiling_face:

I think auto (beta) installation is for all certificate types
we just didnā€™t edit the other FAQ/KB articles, but I only edited the one about CF(full)
with new images that include AUTO

Because Iā€™m actually waiting for us to get out of beta and then make screenshots without beta texts in them

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Yeah, I should probably check how the thing has been behaving. There having been astonishingly little posts about it (I expected it to be quite fragile). So Iā€™ll make some time soon to go through the logs and see if there is anything Iā€™ve missed. But based on what weā€™ve seen so far I think itā€™s safe to remove the label.

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I was wondering if it was the LCD, but I donā€™t think so. Moving the screen does nothing.

It was under 1 year warranty which expired now, so uhā€¦ yeh not fun.

My GPU heats up quite a bit, but I donā€™t think that it would be that it melted (the NVIDIA 3060ā€™s I have heard can easily take 85 C, which is what Iā€™ve maxed it out on). If I take it in for ā€œrepairā€ it will either a) melt again (if that is the case) or b) cost a lot of money for something that will probably go wrong again (Alienware laptops, as I have seen, at least mine, are not really for carrying around).

I assume maybe that by applying pressure I am somehow either shorting the contacts or, possibly like you said losing that touch for some of them causing a system hang and reset.

I do squeeze it in a backpack with other stuff, but it should be able to handle it.

The SSD that contains the OS will be fine if I remove it (after having it shut down, of course), right? I do think that it would be that wayā€¦

Most likely is the display cable which @Oxy had said.
Just order the replacement part and follow Youtube tutorial to carry out the repair

Ahā€¦the beauty of warranty. Laptop manufacturers really know how to time it so that they can make $$$$ā€¦

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Nice new profile icon, @anon46092769 !

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Just about to say that myself! I love it!

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When I first saw it, I thought that someone new had come into the forum.

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Same here! Much better.

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LOL meant that, sorry.

Yeh, it actually might be that (the GPU is on the other side, but I got it mixed up because my POV switches when I turn it upside down).

I mean, it happens if I hold it with one hand (so Iā€™m basically squeezing hard). I donā€™t think a 5 pound laptop is meant to take that, so it could just be my bad (works fine otherwise, and only occasionally happens).

If it starts to happen a lot, then maybe Iā€™ll think about it (Iā€™m just fretting that because it even happens, I think it should have been broken by now, but maybe it was just a squeezing or something that prevented the signal from going through, IDK).

Plus, I canā€™t find the part on their website and I donā€™t dare replace it because itā€™s so darn packed (I have to take literally everything off just to clean out the fans, which I will have to do sometime).

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