Hey everybody. Hope you are all having a good day. This week I’ve been playing some Minecraft and also continuing my playthrough of Elden Ring seamless co-op. I hope you all have had a good week!
My computer died so I’m playing troubleshooting motherboard error lights simulator
What hardware, what lights?
wall of text about pc issues
My mobo has error lights and my cpu light was on and it wouldn’t boot. When i reset the bios it worked and things were fine for a few days. The problem happened again yesterday so i popped the cmos battery out thinking it would work again. Now it cycles to the BOOT light or hangs on CPU. I figured my ancient power supply was the issue, oldest part on the machine, but i just replaced it and the same issues exist.
I got it to boot to windows exactly one time since this recent issue. When i had it running it was incredibly sluggish, like 5 full seconds to open the start menu
While it was running, i ran a cpu benchmark and was looking at the resource monitor but i don’t really know enough to know what to look for. The resource monitor showed nothing was overloaded or close to 100% usage
Now i can’t get anything to display on my monitor so I can’t boot into the bios settings or anything
It feels like it has to be the cpu. Removing either stick of ram doesn’t help and i ran a memtest recently, the gpu hasn’t shown any signs of trouble, and the new power supply has 100w higher capacity. If the mobo had a short i figure it wouldn’t be so responsive nor would the fans be operating normally
My first order assumption, not knowing what CPU or motherboard we’re talking about here, is “CPUs don’t go bad, motherboards go bad.”
Are you hooking up your monitor to a video card, or to onboard graphics? Does your CPU even have onboard graphics?
Whenever i had a mobo go bad it just ceased function… could it really be just a short?
Thing is, there are just so many more things that can go wrong on a motherboard. Short, weakened solder joint opened by thermal cycling, bad cap, any number of things to let the magic smoke out, all of which can cause different weird behavior. A CPU is just one (or two in your case) little bits of silicon, if it passes factory inspection and binning, it’s generally just good.
That hardware is fairly new to be failing at all, though. I can’t find any such thing as a gigabyte b550 gen 3 motherboard, the only Gigabyte B550 board I can find with a 3 in the name is the B550 AORUS ELITE AX V3, is that what you’re talking about?
Okay, totally different brand. Upshot, MSI’s manual seems more helpful than Gigabyte’s was anyway.
The BOOT light indicates something wrong with the drive your OS is on. That also fits with Windows being really sluggish. What happens if you try to boot it without that drive attached?
No onboard graphics. The cpu is amd ryzen 5 5600 the mobo is gigabyte b550 gen 3 am4
If I was cool I’d keep playing Mega Man 4 or XCOM but I keep struggling against FF Tactics. My greatest foe.
Im back into Galactic Civilizations 4. It’s a space 4X game, and I have about 20h in it. I have mixed feelings about it. On the one hand, it really nails that “one more turn” vibe. It also has nice music and the production values are generally pretty high. On the other hand, there is a lot of AI art in this game, which I think is a bit ridiculous for a larger production. (I can forgive it with smaller indie type games.)
Overall, fun game, though I feel like games tend to really start to drag in the later phases. But that’s similar in many Civ style games…I guess.
Edit: Also one of those games that REALLY makes use of your RAM if you have it and can support massive galaxies if you happen to have 64GB of RAM. If, for some reason, you wanna play games that last months.
I myself am good with mid-sized or huge maps at most, though, since games already take quite a while. As a cool sidenote, the base game without DLC does come with like 20+ playable alien races, which is much more than most games of this type, so that’s pretty cool. They are also a bit more asymmetrical, though not as much as something like Endless Space 2, at least on the level of the leaders in Civ 6.
I think GC4 has been adding a bunch of ai slop lately, so i’ve been staying away from them. I loved gc3 though.
JUST GOT DIAMOND 1 WITH MARISA ON SF6
Played the travelling at night demo.
Did you like cultist simulator? Did you like Book of Hours? Did you like the lore? Too bad, they rewrote all of it. I know the fact that the setting is inconsistent is the point, but man.
Also everything is a reference. They’re trying to do marvel style “omg I recognise that guy” shit but for character who appear in one line in a game that had limited success 10 years ago.
Wow this woman is named J.N Sinnombre the same name that means without a name that the mysterious patient was called in cultist simulator wow and now they’re a patient here wowiezowie.
Wow this guy has the same name as the cop from cultist simulator. But they had a mysterious run in with THE WORMS!!! (You care about THE WORMS, RIGHT? The nebulous threat the entire point of which is that they’re a nebulous thing at the periphery of the setting) OMG!!!
Wow this lady has the same name as the woman from book of hours.I mean, the games take place in different histories, as far as I understand. And in some histories, the lore plays out really differently than the ones in Cult Sim and Book of Hours, which I think were relatively similar. In some the entire history has been consumed by the Worms. But yeah, I can see it being disappointing for them to rewrite a lot of the lore that’s been mostly established thus far. Maybe the full game will improve on this? Hopefully?
And I do care about the Worms, I thought they were neat…
I’d actually be fine with this not being the sixth history, but they don’t commit, but they also ruin the vibe.
In cultist simulator the world was mostly the same, but stuff was weird on the periphery. The mystic stuff was on top of a world we understand. So a normal person works a normal job and suddenly his world falls apart and he discovers a new secret world hidden within the one he knows. You keep finding lore like what if elagabalus was a follower lf the grail and their odd behaviour was cult stuff and ooh and ahh. And you get stuff like the veneration of Saint Agnes “inadvertently” carrying on secret lore of the knock aspect and the mother of ants and oooooooo
In Travelling at Night people talk about the Sun in Splendor in the open, there’s a picture of the Witch and Sister in the stained glass window of a church just labelled that. You talk to the actual Worms.
But also. Everything is still the same stuff. Just with no subtlety. You’re playing a guy from game 1 referenced in game 2 and the events that happened in the background of book of hours are canon even though it was retconned. All the people you meet are the same people Oh you go to a mysterious mental health institute with a very understanding head physician and find j.n. sinnombre. The quest to find the mysterious lady is called The Lady Afterwards and she’s name the thing from the game.
Oh, that is weird. My guess is you happen to be in a cult-heavy area, but even then in CS they usually still try to be subtle about it. They’re more open in BoH, but you’re also in a specifically occult library. BoH is probably my favorite, but I got good at CS before BoH was even announced.
No. See. They retconned it (Or it’s the seventh history or whatever). Christianity is gone. Well, it’s an American cult called Crucianism. The global church is the church of the Sun in Splendor.
People just talk about doing cult magic in the open. It’s in newspapers and you get hired in a park to cast spells.Oh wow. That’s a big deviation! I guess it could be a different history, but that’s still a weird shift from the usual atmosphere. So I guess there’s no suppression bureau in this world? I’m still interested in this game, but it sounds very weird compared to the others.
No there still is, and your player character who was a suppression bureau agent in cultist simulator was still that.
They just suppress uhhh. Some of the deeper lore? It isn’t clear to me. Can’t be doing much though because
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you walk up to and talk to a long. You just meet a lantern long in the flesh. Which they now have to be because the Mansus exploded. A thing people know happened. And like people just know about the Carapace Cross. That’s a thing people read about and talk about and just see walking around.
Wild. Like if the secret world just completely collided with the mundane one to the point the esoteric is almost mundane itself?
Still trying to get every achievement in sekiro, although I got distracted with Doloc Town. A game very much in the shadow of stardew valley but with better combat (a drone kills stuff for you while you gather) and exploration plus IMMACULATE vibes.
The art is absolutely gorgeous. Look at this:
How do you manage to make rebuilding in the wreckage of the world look so cozy!
I’ve been playing Valkyria Chronicles 3’s English fan translation recently. A shame it never made it into the West as most people would probably have preferred it over the high school anime antics of Valkyria Chronicles 2. Of course, most people would have preferred the series not move over to the PSP which was probably the real reason the second game sold like shit. I mostly like the angle the story takes but hate the romance subplot where you have to choose between two designated waifus. One is underage and the other is every annoying anime heroine trope rolled into one
VC3 draws my interest because of the Darcsen guy collaborating with the Imperials. What’s that all about, huh?
Potential spoiler alert
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I’m only partway through but I assume there’s a deal to give the Darcsens their own homeland if he succeeds
Eyebrows raised when I heard that one…
I played the Travelling at Night demo, and it is the first Disco-like that doesn’t feel like a worse version of Elysium that uses or discards its elements without understanding them. Now, I’m not saying it will be better than those games, necessarily, but at least it’s doing enough of its own thing that it doesn’t feel like a fan game.
Oh damn, that’s by the team that made Cultist Simulator and Book of Hours, I am excited for this
Played Sandustry. It’s pretty good, I could see it becoming a larger and better game over the course of early access. Its pretty short right now though, and I stopped after completing the last unlock as like half my map is just useless gold I don’t know what to do with
Played some Aether & Iron, a visual novel with light RPG and tactical combat mechanics. It takes place in an alt-history 1930s New York where a technological breakthrough allowed for floating cities and floating cars; the tactical combat takes place between cars driving around.
You play as a grizzled smuggler (who’s a woman, so it’s actually good) tasked with smuggling a bright young scientist to safety. I haven’t gotten that far yet, but the job the player character takes is one that’s supposed to be easy, but ends up being much more complicated and dangerous than it seems. I’ve never watched or read a yuri, but the smuggler and scientist together give off big yuri vibes.
I’ve been trying out emulating Bloodborne through shadPS4. My computer isn’t strong enough to do 60 fps or any upscaling, but regardless it works pretty well! There’s been occasional visual glitches and a few crashes, and I have to restart the emulator once in a while if I’m playing for a long time or I run into memory issues, but that’s stuff I can deal with. There’s even a WIP online server. Summoning/PvP doesn’t work yet, but you can see/leave messages, blood stains, and ghosts.
more FTL, trying to get a Mantis A win on easy. Phase 3 always mind floods me and i die
I just reached Platinum 5 yesterday with Marisa on SF6. I was stuck between Platinum 3/4 but got a 10-win streak that boosted me to Plat5, if I had won the 11th match against a Rashid I would be Diamond 1, but hey it’s a lot of progress still. With Akuma I actually went down to Platinum 2 unfortunately, I need to learn more to properly use him I guess.
I continued been playing more Hades, finally finished a heat 8 run with the Rail.
Finished two successful runs of Balatro, one with Black Deck and one with Blue Deck iirc. Plasma on Orange Stake is still kicking my ass.
I also tested the demo of Vampire Crawlers, and I liked it a lot! Really addicting, which is no surprise since it’s from the same folks behind Vampire Survivors. From the looks of it, its not really that popular, and the main complaints are a lack of variety, but I enjoyed the little I played.
Im playing fire emblem awakening for the first time, im at chapter 17sh we are basically invading the continent of Valm to stop the evil conqueror from naval landing into Ylisse, so since Valm outnumber our troops the plan is to fuck up their supply and communication lines so the armies fall in chaos, also we meet tiki and she told me i was like her so i guess robin is a vessels for Grima (could also be like his son/daughter) so do that mean im a dragon too?? probably not since i cant use the dragonstone, sad i will have to wait until i play FE Fates
I love FE: Awakening. That was around the time the gameplay started to drive me insane though (but it was my first Fire Emblem so take that with a grain of salt).
FE Fates is my favorite FE game. People really take a shit on dragon!Corrin, but it’s actually my preferred option (I play on Hard and not Lunatic, so keep that in mind). Keep in mind (if you don’t know), Corrin’s guaranteed kid if you don’t have mods and you S support with opposite gender (Kana) and their other kid (from S support) can also turn into dragons. I did this purposefully one time to have a dragon!Soleil. Fates provides a lot of weird combinations like that. Basically, you can choose any specific 2nd gen kid to be a dragon.
dragon corrin is good on lunatic from what i have read, mostly because its naturally very tanky, so you can tank the enemies while your other units kill them, i didnt know about the kids thing i will keep it in mind.
I’ve had people cuss me out for even hinting they were good with a dragonstone. I wouldn’t be surprised if different FE communities felt different ways, but I’m glad people have come around to it. That’s primarily what I use dragon Corrin for (tbh I usually just use them as pair up fodder these days).
Balatro has me
