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Computer issues... but now fixed

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I've had very little writing time so far this year... and then things got much worse when my pc's power supply flaked out and surged/scrambled my boot SSD. That was an omen that I couldn't put off doing some long overdue upgrades. I had a bit of Paypal money from my eBay sideline business and that covered most of the upgrades. (Wife and I are both still otherwise unemployed :(

I upgraded from an i5-2500k to a Ryzen 2700X, perfect for multitasking, and did a clean install of Win10.... bang, Black Screen of Death. Repeat about 300 times over the next two weeks :(

BSD causes can be... well, just about anything :/
Google search shows 100's of 'how to fix' pages at dozens of different tech sites - none fixed the problem.

So I spent two full weeks troubleshooting every new component. Memory? Nope. Bad DirectX/MS C++ Redistr? Nope. Bad Win10 system or swap file partitions? Nope. CPU overheating? Added a water-cooled radiator, no change. Bad GPU? Nope... replaced it too with a new graphics card (ouch... F^%$ you crypto-miners!) and the problem only got worse :(

That left only the new case power supply to diagnose... and it was partially to blame. I replaced the PSU cable to the video card with another brand new cable = problem gone!

My Stultus files were all safe on a different drive (and I had two good sets of current backups) so nothing lost there other than time.

My old writing keyboard (Logitech G105) was flaking out too (space bar didn't work half the time) so it has just now been replaced with a Rosewill. It was nearly impossible to find Cherry MX Blue keys, which are about the hardest to hit keys on the market... but essential, if you learned to type old-school on an IBM Selectric and need to key-bash.

Anyway... poor(er) now, but back in business!

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