Chugging along

SoulBot-V, my gaming machine built in 2014, decided to stop booting up today.

Kid was still using it to play game yesterday and didn't noticed anything strange, but today it just stopped working.

I know it is an old computer, the original graphics card has died and has been replaced. Probably some other components as well that had to be replaced but I cannot remember.

To give it credit, it already outlived SoulBot-VI, the NUC I bought in 2017, which the motherboard died.

Anyway, with my rudimentary debug skill, managed to narrow down the problem to memory related, thanks to the labelled LED on the motherboard. Then through trial and error of removing the memory module, clean with eraser, putting it back, still failed, removing it again and putting it in another slot, managed to get the computer working again.

So good old SoulBot-V is still up and chugging along, but I know it's just a matter of time.

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