While I like to think I’m being dramatic with the title of this post, it is quite possible my current PC, which I built in the Before Times of April 2019, may, in fact, be dead.
When I went out birding yesterday around 8 a.m. it was working normally. When I returned around 4:30 p.m. I heard a loud fan roaring in the bedroom office. My first thought was the actual Dyson fan, but it was still set to a low speed and barely audible. The noise was coming from the PC. I observed a few things:
- The displays had switched from the PC (on DisplayPort) to the Mac (on HDMI).
- The aforementioned high-pitched fan noise.
- The CTRL keyboard was off–it was still connected to the PC, but the backlight was off, indicating it was getting no power.
- The CPU’s RGB lighting (a rather ominous-looking red ring) was still on.
I tried turning the PC off using the power switch on the front. No response. I tried the reset button, also no response.
I then hit the power switch on the PSU itself, and this did power the PC off.
It has yet to restart since. It appears to be getting no power at all, so my suspicion is either the PSU died (bad) or the motherboard or some component on it went (worse). I’ll be doing some testing today. I’m sure it will be a delight.
For the moment, though, I am a Mac-only guy1Technically I still have my ThinkPad X1 Carbon, but other than the keyboard, which is a decadent luxury for a laptop keyboard, I don’t really enjoy using it much.
