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Serious question, did that $12 USB POST card actually earn a spot in your bench bag?
A guy at the Micro Center in Cambridge kept telling me to grab one every time I walked past the clearance bin, and I finally gave in about 3 months ago just to shut him up. Last Tuesday a customer's build would not post, no beep, no display, and I was about to start yanking parts one by one, which usually eats 2 hours. I plugged in that card, saw a stuck code on memory init, and reseated one stick that fixed it in 10 minutes flat. Now I want to know if the fancier ones are worth it or if the cheap one covers pretty much everything you run into on a bench.
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shah.evan18d ago
Reminds me of the time my kid's game console wouldn't turn on and I fixed it by unplugging the controller.
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