Not too long ago I had a computer failure and it never occurred to me until today that it's possible it may have been my cheap Chines Media Dashboard that caused the MoBo failure.
(I have no evidence yet, just speculating)
Long story short, I had a nice system with a Ryzen 7 processor and ROG Strix MoBo, Crucial SSD drive and a $450 GPU.
It ran Flight Simulator maxxed out just fine.
Anyway about a year or so into use one day I hear this rather loud --POP- through the connected speakers that was very abnormal.
The computer immediately went into BSOD and froze up.
I had never heard such a loud noise and it startled me and instantly I thought "That can't be good"
So I was able to get the unit restarted but from that day on it was never reliable and I got BSOD's or screen freezes randomly but never more than a few days apart.
The systems reliability was gone. I need to get another FLIR camera because I'll bet I could find the suspect component with it.
Today it occurred to me that the Medi8a Dashboard was one commonly seen on ebay and Amazon for about $25
That was without a doubt the weakest ad cheapest link in my otherwise decent system.
I'm going to pull the device from that computer now that I've installed a new Mobo (B550F) and have already disconnected it from the MoBo to be safe.
Since I'm significantly more capable with electronics now, I'm just going to examine the components and design overview just to see if there anything in there
that gives me red flags. I'll look for any weak links and probably test a few components.
But my gut feeling is that whatever happened to my Asus ROG Strix MoBo likely came from that Media Dashboard.
I'll come back here after I've had a chance to go inside it and examine the layout and quality (or lack of) and post what I found.
This is the exact one I used. It's very convenient and I wish they had them but better made (higher quality)
I wouldn't mind paying more than double that if I knew it was well designed and made with quality componets.
(I have no evidence yet, just speculating)
Long story short, I had a nice system with a Ryzen 7 processor and ROG Strix MoBo, Crucial SSD drive and a $450 GPU.
It ran Flight Simulator maxxed out just fine.
Anyway about a year or so into use one day I hear this rather loud --POP- through the connected speakers that was very abnormal.
The computer immediately went into BSOD and froze up.
I had never heard such a loud noise and it startled me and instantly I thought "That can't be good"
So I was able to get the unit restarted but from that day on it was never reliable and I got BSOD's or screen freezes randomly but never more than a few days apart.
The systems reliability was gone. I need to get another FLIR camera because I'll bet I could find the suspect component with it.
Today it occurred to me that the Medi8a Dashboard was one commonly seen on ebay and Amazon for about $25
That was without a doubt the weakest ad cheapest link in my otherwise decent system.
I'm going to pull the device from that computer now that I've installed a new Mobo (B550F) and have already disconnected it from the MoBo to be safe.
Since I'm significantly more capable with electronics now, I'm just going to examine the components and design overview just to see if there anything in there
that gives me red flags. I'll look for any weak links and probably test a few components.
But my gut feeling is that whatever happened to my Asus ROG Strix MoBo likely came from that Media Dashboard.
I'll come back here after I've had a chance to go inside it and examine the layout and quality (or lack of) and post what I found.
This is the exact one I used. It's very convenient and I wish they had them but better made (higher quality)
I wouldn't mind paying more than double that if I knew it was well designed and made with quality componets.