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>What computer thing?
Fixing up a very problematical computer, at least one that was giving me issues. To summarize: Computer had sat unused for years but what was the newest one around.
Want to check on it and maybe upgrade on it and it worked fine at first but some weird behavior and issues cropped up.
>The computer would randomly refuse to boot, giving a three beeps, which in the case of the dell beepcodes of the time, meant some fault with the motherboard.
>GPU fan broke clean off, this was a middle to lower end AMD Radeon HD (6000 series?), so I found this a little weird as hadn't been used heavily by father or the previous owner he had gotten from those years back.
>I spend hours testing various things, removing and reseating ram sticks, etc.
>Removing and replacing CMOS battery seemed to help, but didn't totally fix it. It went giving that beep code 50% of the time to giving it once in awhile.
>I have a new CPU, that may or may not work with this motherboard (Well, it should, but some insisted that issues can arise).
<Eh, I'll try swapping the CPU and see what happens.
>New CPU
>Everything works and it no longer gives the boot error (I tested a lot).

There might be a detail or two I left out, but that is the basic gist. this computer is a early 2010s Dell XPS 8300, not the higher end i7 that will you usually see people talking about but one but the middle option i5 with a much weaker GPU. Xeon chip I put in, don't have exact model atm but one of those E-3 from right before Intel cut off our ability to do too many fun things with their platforms (far from the hacky things you can do with LGA 775 though)

>I'm interested in computer things.
I as well!