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#3502488 12-Jun-2026 18:46

freitasm:

If this is the case, it's passed my birth year already.

Mine's not quite there yet.

Meanwhile, my PC has decided, in the last couple of days, to have random BSoDs of the black variety, after running without any issues for months if not years. I've cleaned out the dust and looked at the temp monitors, and still no sign of overheating. It happens even when it's idling or just running web browsers. Hard resetting doesn't always work, but switching off the PSU at the back does, so I initially suspect the problem is with either the PSU or GPU. As of typing this, I'm running AIDA64 to narrow things down further.

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"Create a society that values material things above all else. Strip it of industry. Raise taxes for the poor and reduce them for the rich and for corporations. Prop up failed financial institutions with public money. Ask for more tax, while vastly reducing public services. Put adverts everywhere, regardless of people's ability to afford the things they advertise. Allow the cost of food and housing to eclipse people's ability to pay for them. Light blue touch paper." — Andrew Maxwell

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#3502491 12-Jun-2026 19:14

deepred:

freitasm:

If this is the case, it's passed my birth year already.

Mine's not quite there yet.

Meanwhile, my PC has decided, in the last couple of days, to have random BSoDs of the black variety, after running without any issues for months if not years. I've cleaned out the dust and looked at the temp monitors, and still no sign of overheating. It happens even when it's idling or just running web browsers. Hard resetting doesn't always work, but switching off the PSU at the back does, so I initially suspect the problem is with either the PSU or GPU. As of typing this, I'm running AIDA64 to narrow things down further.

I haven’t seen a proper BSoD for a really long time. Reading this post made me realise this.

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#3502494 12-Jun-2026 20:38

freitasm:

If this is the case, it's passed my birth year already.

I'll post here just because we're currently on my birth year.

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#3502495 12-Jun-2026 20:41

Reading the page for 1967. Not very exciting.

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#3502497 12-Jun-2026 20:49

Handsomedan:

deepred:

freitasm:

If this is the case, it's passed my birth year already.

Mine's not quite there yet.

Meanwhile, my PC has decided, in the last couple of days, to have random BSoDs of the black variety, after running without any issues for months if not years. I've cleaned out the dust and looked at the temp monitors, and still no sign of overheating. It happens even when it's idling or just running web browsers. Hard resetting doesn't always work, but switching off the PSU at the back does, so I initially suspect the problem is with either the PSU or GPU. As of typing this, I'm running AIDA64 to narrow things down further.

I haven’t seen a proper BSoD for a really long time. Reading this post made me realise this.

Update: I've run the usual AIDA64 Extreme tests - CPU, FPU, Cache, RAM, GPU - for at least 10 minutes each, and the screen didn't black out. Running 3DMark didn't black it out either, so it could be the PSU or the wall outlet, even though I'm already using a surge protector as a precaution. Another possibility is the latest Win11 or Geforce update might be causing it.

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#3502502 12-Jun-2026 21:07

deepred:Meanwhile, my PC has decided, in the last couple of days, to have random BSoDs of the black variety, after running without any issues for months if not years. I've cleaned out the dust and looked at the temp monitors, and still no sign of overheating. It happens even when it's idling or just running web browsers. Hard resetting doesn't always work, but switching off the PSU at the back does, so I initially suspect the problem is with either the PSU or GPU. As of typing this, I'm running AIDA64 to narrow things down further.

You may know this all already, because you know about about AIDA64, but just in case.

Microsoft switched the Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) to black in early Windows 11 to match the new startup and shutdown screens, which were also black.

Some joked black was the "Evolution of despair"

But Microsoft officially changed the Windows 11 BSOD back to blue end of 2021

The black BSOD was only in early preview builds, and the intended color for Windows 11 BSOD is blue.

If the graphics driver crashes before Windows can fully initialize the standard crash renderer, the fallback screen can appear black with white text.

You can see a black Screen of death for these (and more): The GPU is unstable, The PSU is failing to deliver consistent power, The system crashes very early in the boot process, The display driver is corrupted

Note there's a known issue that some GPUs fail more often at idle due to low‑power state transitions. So AIDA64 may hide that.

If the machine sometimes won't recover from a reset and only recovers after power is fully removed, that can point towards PSU problems

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#3502503 12-Jun-2026 21:08

Take the surge protector off as a control. Dodgy power is not good. Surge protectors are sometimes a direct source of that.

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#3502509 12-Jun-2026 22:07

i had random reboots happening on my system. no rhyme or reason behind them, no BSOD could happen logging into windows or it could be days and days later. Could game, watch videos etc no problem, ran stress tests everything. Event viewer wasnt helpful, just logged loss of power and a reboot.

My PSU was only a couple of years old, but the motherboard was about 6 years old so i decided to replace that first. Do you know how hard it is to find a ATX Z570 motherboard these days? so i had to settle for a B550 one, and even then there were only a couple of models.

That's fixed my issues. so try checking event viewer and see if the error code is helpful

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#3502522 12-Jun-2026 23:59

To clarify by Black Screen of Death, I mean the screen abruptly goes into a hard no-POST mode, not displaying any error message. Only a hard reboot or switching the PC off and on again will get it out of that state.

I've just played some heavy-duty Steam games, and it's still holding up so far, so I can rule out any heat-triggered causes. The Event Viewer has no obvious red flags besides "The system has rebooted without cleanly shutting down first. This error could be caused if the system stopped responding, crashed, or lost power unexpectedly."

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#3502577 13-Jun-2026 07:46

deepred:

To clarify by Black Screen of Death, I mean the screen abruptly goes into a hard no-POST mode, not displaying any error message. Only a hard reboot or switching the PC off and on again will get it out of that state.

I've just played some heavy-duty Steam games, and it's still holding up so far, so I can rule out any heat-triggered causes. The Event Viewer has no obvious red flags besides "The system has rebooted without cleanly shutting down first. This error could be caused if the system stopped responding, crashed, or lost power unexpectedly."

That is pretty much exactly what mine was doing, except mine was hard reboots every time.

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#3502578 13-Jun-2026 08:01

... Hard resetting doesn't always work, but switching off the PSU at the back does, so I initially suspect the problem is with either the PSU or GPU.

I suspect you already know the following.

I'm calling "a normal reset" the front-panel reset button, Ctrl+Alt+Del, or even a warm reboot.

It does not fully remove power from the motherboard, PSU rails, VRMs, GPU, and various controllers. Many components remain partially powered or latched in some state.

PSU protection circuits can occasionally latch, or rails may recover only after a full discharge/restart

It shows up as intermittent instability.

Turning off the PSU forces a true cold start of the entire system, including devices downstream.

It's not a guarantee, but PSUs is a common suspects.

Not related the PC problem, regarding why replacement motherboards are hard to get, you can thank AI. DDR5 has been stripped off the market, and either really expensive, or near impossible to get.

So builders are forced to use DDR4 motherboards, and even motherboard manufacturers are offering new hybrid motherboards with DDR5 a and DDR4 slot, so that people can get a PC that boots.

Thanks AI for making the world a better place :(

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#3502590 13-Jun-2026 10:54

A software update to my LG, changed audio settings, and I spent 1.5 hours trying to troubleshoot my headphones. Thanks LG.

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#3502591 13-Jun-2026 10:55

Not really small, but one of the worlds most awful humans is a trillionaire on paper at least. It's frightening to think one person (esp that person) could hold that much power and wealth.

Imagine if all that energy was used for good.

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#3502626 13-Jun-2026 14:09

Tinkerisk:

alexx:

In this case, the device is the Ti NE5532 Op-Amp where the maximum allowed supplied voltage has changed from +/- 22 volts to +/- 18 volts, plus there are a number of other changes such as a reduced slew rate.

Well, when designing the circuit, I wouldn't exactly push Vcc to its absolute limits anyway—probably sticking to just +/-15V. But you’d certainly get a nasty surprise if things suddenly started smoking and smelling burnt. Given the slew rate requirements, I’d just go straight for the even OPA2604 or LM4562 as drop in replacement (beware of the Vcc!). 😉

You're right, there are plenty of op-amp alternatives and arguably better alternatives for new designs.

But there are also lot of high end audio systems from the 1980s and 90s using +/- 18 volts, and a lot of those systems used either the NE5534 (single op-amp version) or the NE5532 which was the one discussed in the video.

The Solid State Logic (SSL) 4000 Series mixing consoles used them to record many classic albums from the 1980s and 90s and those consoles ran +/- 18 volt rails. Judging from the SSL circuit diagrams, I'm guessing they mainly used the NE5534 (you can see the compensation capacitors). Let's hope Ti don't mess around with that one.

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#3502687 13-Jun-2026 18:35

kingdragonfly:
... Hard resetting doesn't always work, but switching off the PSU at the back does, so I initially suspect the problem is with either the PSU or GPU.

I suspect you already know the following.

I'm calling "a normal reset" the front-panel reset button, Ctrl+Alt+Del, or even a warm reboot.

It does not fully remove power from the motherboard, PSU rails, VRMs, GPU, and various controllers. Many components remain partially powered or latched in some state.

PSU protection circuits can occasionally latch, or rails may recover only after a full discharge/restart

It shows up as intermittent instability.

Turning off the PSU forces a true cold start of the entire system, including devices downstream.

It's not a guarantee, but PSUs is a common suspects.

Not related the PC problem, regarding why replacement motherboards are hard to get, you can thank AI. DDR5 has been stripped off the market, and either really expensive, or near impossible to get.

So builders are forced to use DDR4 motherboards, and even motherboard manufacturers are offering new hybrid motherboards with DDR5 a and DDR4 slot, so that people can get a PC that boots.

Thanks AI for making the world a better place :(

I put the PC into sleep mode as normal last night, after some Steam gaming. Woke it up again today and it operated as normal, until several minutes ago when it blacked out again during a light-duty browsing session. This time round, I've swapped the plugs on the multiboard, checked the PSU connectors aren't loose, and changed a couple of BIOS power settings. As it stands, I can safely rule out overheating causing the issues.

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