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Started removing components and that somehow got it to boot to UEFI setup in a partially working state. twitter.com/DanielMicay/st It's pretty messed up and it seems like portions of the motherboard are not working anymore including 2 fan headers, USB headers and some other stuff.

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Daniel Micay

@DanielMicay

May 21

One of my two workstations died. Good news is that it was the old Broadwell-E 6950X machine rather than my new Ryzen 9 5950X machine and the worn out NVMe SSD is still going strong so I haven't lost time needing to set everything up again. Still not a good situation right now.

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Think it's possible that it would be capable of booting and working if I move the NVMe SSD back into it from the 2nd M.2 slot in my new workstation. I'm not really sure I want to risk sacrificing this Samsung 960 Pro 2TB even though it's pretty worn out and slow at this point.

Daniel Micay

@DanielMicay

May 21

The new workstation has a dramatically faster Samsung 980 Pro 2TB NVMe drive and I don't really want to reuse this worn out 960 Pro for anything so maybe I should put it back in and see if this thing can boot and function well enough to keep doing 1/3 of the development builds.

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what happened to that PCH?..

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I don't understand the failure mode. It has 5x PWM fan headers with 3/5 supporting smart fan control based on CPU temperature. Only the main CPU fan header which is always in PWM mode still works. CPU2 and CHA no longer work. Those two have opt-in PWM so they're a bit different.

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