@flabdablet said in Bizarre hardware failure or 'Is Quwertzuiopp losing his mind right now':
@Quwertzuiopp said in Bizarre hardware failure or 'Is Quwertzuiopp losing his mind right now':
the explanation with the fewest assumptions made is that the 4 or 5 years old mobo is failing
Another possibility: if the USB port experiencing these problems is on the PC's front panel and the PC was built by dickheads, you might find a long and shitty bit of ribbon cable between the front panel USB ports and the USB pins on the mobo instead of proper shielded USB cable. I've seen that cause weird issues before.
Build it myself. I am allways very paranoid about doing everything exactly the right way with computers, I got the biggest best heatsink that could fit in the case, the best cables, a very reliable PSU with lots of watts to spare even after everything is installed... Basically I just made sure to only get the very best I could when I built this machine because I knew back then that hardware would not advance much for at least two and a half years, so I could very well invest in all the good shit because I wouldn't have to upgrade it one and a half years later this time.
And lucky for me, Intel, AMD and Nvidia performed even worse than I thought, fuck all reason to upgrade either my overclocked CPU or my graphics card for all this time. Only now do I start to see real perfomance advantages I could get by upgrading after more than 4 years. But even then, I can still play all new games I want to play on at least high or very high and none of the coding I do at home would really profit from more power. I think the reason I might just have to upgrade soon is because some of the silicon is going to start to give up after all these years of daily heavy use
I still have no second keyboard to try out, but I did check everything in the case and the PSU and the cables to the USB panel look fine, just as the all the other cables. All fans are still turning perfectly well too. The only thing
@flabdablet said in Bizarre hardware failure or 'Is Quwertzuiopp losing his mind right now':
@gordonjcp As I understand it, the mystery issue is occurring with the cheapo replacement keyboard, not the one with soup in it.
correct, its the replacement that is acting up after only about three hours of lite use