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- Jul 17, 2003
My production has tanked over the last few weeks. I've been noticing that my main rig would lock up after sitting for long periods of time. I'd sit at the machine after work and it would allow me to move the mouse but little else. I'd be forced to do a hard restart. Wake up in the morning, same thing. Sometimes. Not always. It started getting worse and worse so I decieded to look into it.
I saw an error Event ID 11 for a ...\DR5. A quick google search found that this was pointing to a physical drive. After some quick searching on my local machine, it was related to a USB dock installed. It was old and one of the USB header wires was busted but I'd had it for a long time and it seamed fine. I pulled it last night finally. We'll see, over time, if that fixes the issue.
This is one of those 3.5" drive bay memory card readers/USB port things. It's probably over 10 years old and I rarely use it. It's one of those things that I really appreciate having when I need it but I rarely need it. I should have removed or replaced it years ago but I didn't. Having my machine lock up and force a hard restart over this stupid device is not ideal. Hopefully production will go back up.
I also have been slowly working on getting my 1080 back into production in a new rig. I have an HTC Vive that was on my office machine but my office does not give me room to play with the VR headset. Duck and dive right into an office chair and/or cat tree... The cursing would be loud and long. I've taken working parts left from my farm to make one working machine. I finally have all of the hardware installed but I don't have electirc for it yet. I've been working on that slowly. I had cobbled in some wired smoke alarms into a circut that I was going to use for my (eventual) theator room in the basement. I just finished re-running that last night. I then can start to wire up electric for the TV, computer, VR houses, etc. Once I get it up and running, it will mostly fold and then allow for some more serious Space Pirate Training. WOOT!
I saw an error Event ID 11 for a ...\DR5. A quick google search found that this was pointing to a physical drive. After some quick searching on my local machine, it was related to a USB dock installed. It was old and one of the USB header wires was busted but I'd had it for a long time and it seamed fine. I pulled it last night finally. We'll see, over time, if that fixes the issue.
This is one of those 3.5" drive bay memory card readers/USB port things. It's probably over 10 years old and I rarely use it. It's one of those things that I really appreciate having when I need it but I rarely need it. I should have removed or replaced it years ago but I didn't. Having my machine lock up and force a hard restart over this stupid device is not ideal. Hopefully production will go back up.
I also have been slowly working on getting my 1080 back into production in a new rig. I have an HTC Vive that was on my office machine but my office does not give me room to play with the VR headset. Duck and dive right into an office chair and/or cat tree... The cursing would be loud and long. I've taken working parts left from my farm to make one working machine. I finally have all of the hardware installed but I don't have electirc for it yet. I've been working on that slowly. I had cobbled in some wired smoke alarms into a circut that I was going to use for my (eventual) theator room in the basement. I just finished re-running that last night. I then can start to wire up electric for the TV, computer, VR houses, etc. Once I get it up and running, it will mostly fold and then allow for some more serious Space Pirate Training. WOOT!
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