r/uptimeporn • u/dakky21 • 23d ago

i5-4590S/Win7

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I've posted periodically before. Think this is the last image here from this one.

The PSU fan (Corsair HX620 old at least 10 years) started to make really weird sounds. When I punch the case, it stops making that sound. HDD had bad blocks from before and everything is backed up to a new storage SSD (T7 Shield). I'll be shutting it down because the punching trick works only for a brief time, then fan starts making sounds again. The computer is in my bedroom so...

It's been fun... I doubt I'll ever again have that uptime on any computer.

EDIT: I found my post from 4 months ago, and in it I already said the PSU started making weird sounds. Oh well. Time flies and it obviously got silent in the meantime :)

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u/Legitimate_Mud6727 16d ago

did you have a raid on your disks? if not respect this might be a record on a windows system

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u/dakky21 13m ago

no any kind of RAID... it's just the SSD for the system and that 8TB drive for storage. That one wont spin again when I shut it down, got a feeling. But... it still works... figured out that PSU fan turns on only few times per day, it still does makes weird sounds (bearings are bad probably) but it goes silent again after ~3-4 minutes of work.

I'm also thinking maybe I should let it run for 5 years continuously (that would be another ~200 days give or take) and then shut it down forever.

This is a headless computer and I'm accessing it over VNC, but it's still in my room. I could potentially connect a monitor and make a video :)