Monthly Archives: May 2024

CDKeys.com is legit!

I always think that any deal that is too good to be true is a scam or something. I didnt know this CDKeys.com is selling legit keys and redeemable from Steam. Oh man, time to buy a few more games. ๐Ÿ˜‚

MiniPC back to life!

My mini pc has been crashing whenever Im gaming on it or running some heavy apps like VMWare since the day I received it.

At first, I thought it was due to the heat that caused the system to freeze since the mini pc doesnโ€™t have a as good air flow. But the crash is happening more and more often, so I decided to debug a bit and see what is actually going on.

Im using Arch Linux as my main OS. I suspected it could be some bleeding edge softwares that causing the system to crash, especially the latest Mesa. Since the system only crash when Im gaming on it, I thought it might be due to GPU driver instability or something. So I restored my Windows 11 from backup and see whether Im still having the system crash issue.

And it does! The issue still happens again! Only then I started to think it could be HW issue. I then started running some system stability stress test using OCCT as Im on Windows. I tried SSD test, GPU test, both were running fine for an hour without crashing. Only when I stress test the RAMs, the system crashes only after few mins of testing. Didnt expect RAM was the issue.. after replacing it, my system finally not crashing anymore.

What an interesting debug. ๐Ÿ˜‚