What If You Pull Your CPU Out While The PC Is On?
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What happens if you remove your CPU, RAM, SSD, hard drive, or graphics card while your computer is still running?
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Wait, a CPU socket is only rated for 10 insertions and an M.2 connector only for 60?! That's the actual thing I learned from this video. That's kinda shocking tbh.
Thats also new for me. Never even thought about that to be honest
No way that is true
Same, now I'm wondering if there's a reason they need to be so fragile, would be another interesting video
I need to see citations. Big wtf moment here.
PCIe and other power connectors are also limited.
USB: "Plug me in 10,000 times".
CPU: "About 10 times is enough. Thank you."
Dating vs Married
No one s speaking about hdmi? The shit broke in about 30/100 insertions.
This isn't true! You can insert it more than ten times.
Funny story about storage removal: in my early computer days I used a laptop with Ubuntu Linux, while not really knowing how to USE Linux. I tried formatting a USB stick, and somehow managed to FORMAT THE BOOT DRIVE. It actually completed the process of erasing itself and ran fine for 10 seconds after. I didn’t realize until I tried to open the usb stick and crashed.
That's like performing brain surgery on yourself and only dying when you see your brain on the table
@@Gigglesnix exactly still baffles me that Linux allows that
@@Gigglesnix 🤣
@@chielvandenberg8190 it's not that it allows that, it just happens to be possible because of how it's built
@@chiefdenis I know that it ran off ram for the last seconds but windows won’t allow you to erase the boot drive WHATEVER YOU DO
"When in doubt: Blue Screen" is actually really acurate to the mindset of a BSOD/Bugcheck.
It basically means that either some Kernel-Mode driver or the kernel itself has no damn clue what the crap is going on, and can't safely continue to function.
Hence why Linux sais "Kernel Panic: Not syncing". It's not syncing to the disk because something has gone catastrophically wrong (e.g. you are dereferencing a NULL Pointer in Kernel-Mode) and it would be unsafe to keep going.
Blue screen was how I learned my laptop ram died... Except the ram wasn't dead, the slot was.
I had a situation about a month ago where one of my RAM sticks was dying and the behaviour you described when "yanking" a RAM stick was very similar to what I was experiencing some times. At first I thought it was the MOBO going kaput but thankfully it was just a single stick. In all due honesty, nobody's going around yanking their components but faulty components can sometimes act like they're disconnected so knowing what it looks like when those things happen is quite useful.
That's how I figured out that my Chromebook's SSD had died.
Behaviour lol
Lol yanking
Relevant everytime I moved my optiplex I have to reseat all my ram and usually my GPU always the ram specifically slot 2 and 4
The most interesting useless tech video in CZcams
In modern PCs, the CPU isn't who commands the system to turn on (at least not when fully off), it's actually a couple of chips on the motherboard that do: the "SuperIO" along with the "chipset".
In my experience, removing the OS drive in Windows doesn't blue screen immediately; instead appears to keep running but simply programs and basic OS UI elements begin to not respond; then the unresponsiveness gets worse over time that the computer becomes unusable. Mouse pointer never freezes, no BSoD, simply becomes so unresponsive that becomes unusable.
It can BSOD, had a boot drive totally die, and it took windows about 10 minutes to fully die. And I did get a BSOD, albeit a blank one
@@kuhljager2429 now that you mention it, only twice I did experienced a BSoD by bad OS drives, but suprisingly never by disconnected drives (or maybe after a while, not immediately).
@@lucario4483I pulled out the HDD on my latitude E6510 while running windows 7 pro and got a BSOD after a few minutes but I have the page file disabled on all my windows computers, I did it because I wanted to see what would happen and I didn't have anything important on the drive.
Since Windows 8, Windows actually attempts to survive a temporary main drive disconnect.
The kernel intentionally hangs practically all processes for a few seconds and sees if the drive comes back online. If the drive comes back, it keeps going as if nothing happened. Only after the drive reconnect window times out do you actually get the BSOD.
Presumably, this safeguard was implemented as part of Windows To Go. Windows To Go is a feature of Enterprise versions of Windows that assists users in installing Windows to external, removable storage. It requires fairly beefy, fast USB drives that can tank Windows' space requirements and constant disk activity. As a result of effectively providing official support for installing Windows to external storage, they had to make it reasonably resilient to the boot drive dropping off the bus.
Of course, this only works on the internal storage if the system BIOS/UEFI handles SATA/NVMe hotplug. Otherwise Windows is not informed that the drive actually disconnected and instead receives corrupt data, which either crashes or hangs, but the system basically can't recover then.
The OS kernels (both Windows and Linux) also support running with less than the total available RAM for debugging purposes. Then, removing a stick of RAM should be safe if it is completely unused by the software and firmware. And whether or not removing the GPU (or any PCIe devices) is safe relies mostly on the hardware and firmware not shitting their pants, and properly reporting to the OS. Assuming the motherboard supports PCIe hotplug, the drivers mostly handle it fine.
After all, eGPU drivers come from the same codebase as their PCIe siblings. Linux even supports securely ejecting PCIe hardware the same way it does for USB devices.
@@3lH4ck3rC0mf0r7 I guess that's why I've experienced some resilience in modern Windows: the drive wasn't actually disconnected, but having a faulty SATA cable/connection; or the drive was just really bad (that hangs loading due to physical bad sectors)
I hadn’t realised the insertion limit for motherboards but it makes sense. How do you get around it for benchmarking?
That's the neat part, you don't!
Carefully.
Ignore it.
Dongles could be used for power connectors. So the end of the dongle is what sees most of the wear. PCIe risers could help also. Then there's the old fashioned way, repair it, but that's just crazy.
It doesn't actually limit you, it's just that the manufacturer (AMD and Intel in this case) have only tested the socket to work for ~10 insertions. It may still work after 100, even 1000, it's just that they never actually cared about making the socket endure this many insertions. At worst, you might not get a warranty replacement if you did it that many times.
"When in doubt, BLUE SCREEN" made me laugh so hard xD
Not exactly the same, but related.
There’s a technique for reading RAM on a PC that is locked by quickly removing power, powering back up, and then booting into special recovery software. It relies on the RAM not completely losing data for something like a second or two (I forget the actual avg timing).
Because of this, there is a chance that you could pull the RAM and very quickly get it into a homebrew device to keep it powered until you get it somewhere safe
I remember the video of Linus doing PCIe hotswapping and the problems it entailed...
The only things I know of that really cannot be hotswapped are things like PS/2 keyboards/mice and M.2 drives. PS/2 hotswapping doesn't cause any problems other than the fact that you have to restart the computer.
In situations where PCIe, CPUs, RAM and SATA need to be swapped, daughter boards are used and are designed to prevent damage.
Even things like power supplies, in servers, can be hot swapped, but you require at least one PSU to be active at all times (which is why redundant PSUs exist).
My experience, mostly with computers that are 20+ years old at this point, is that PS/2 can actually handle being hot swapped and will work just fine after, though this is usually only at the BIOS. It's Windows that can't handle it correctly and requires a restart. On Linux, I've plugged a PS/2 keyboard while it was already booted and it just worked
@@redpheonix1000 I ended up with a system with a blown fuse once!
Only rated for 10 insertions? Must be pretty expensive to test CPUs huh...
Sounds like my ex.
@@garrisonfjordNot mine. They could handle hundreds.
@@TheRealSkeletorlet me guess, needed a rotation of different cpus to function?
Wouldn't it be great if it were standard for PCs without a CPU to boot to the point where you could update the BIOS / UEFI? This way you could, for example, update it to make the board compatible with the CPU you want to install.
Edit: So that even the Brainy Smurfs are getting it.
Some motherboards actually do have functionality to flash the bios/uefi even without a cpu installed.
Well the cpu executes the BIOS to begin with, but perhaps a motherboard with BMC could do it, they're not consumer grade hardware though and I don't think they'd sell enough for the added cost, maybe on those $1000 elite ones
Full boot is asking a bit much with everything a modern board does... but it's absolutely idiotic that anything wouldn't have flashback in this day and age.
Some are but having this kind of features is expensive, since many components (specifically the GPU card) are connected directly to the CPU for best performance.
Adding a way to control them while there is no CPU will require redesigning the traces and adding extra switches and might not be a sensible use of both space, performance and money.
@@urgay1992 I know that some manufacturers offer this as a feature. But that doesn't make it standard.
CPU will burn your finger lol 😂
Or it basically crashes your PC before you even get a chance to get the cooler off
Dawg my GPU fan doesn't work
@@Fitnessdickinmymouth Which GPU is it?
Like bro😂
Or you could just pull it out with the cooler. PGA master race.
MrYeester has has a couple of videos on this. One where he removes a CPU while the PC is running. He also has one where he removes different components while the PC is on
It's a fun channel to watch.
At 0:45 you say a modern socket is rated for only ten insertions?
That stood out to me wildly because I work at a tech shop and have to remove CPUs A LOT.
I looked it up and that claim doesn't seem valid. A lot of sites like tomshardware where that "ten insertion limit" isn't even mentioned when talking about swapping CPUs... Could y'all back that up or expand on that? Did Intel/AMD tell y'all? Idk it stuck out like a sore thumb and now I'm super curios where you got that claim.
I've never seen or heard of this before and did some quick googling. I work at a certain cough cpu maker and never heard of it
I actually did some research because i thought there must be limits specified. Finding specific socket info is kinda hard but i found LGA 775 socket specs and there it says ''socket must withstand 20 insert cycles''. So i don' see it unreasonable that some sockets only are made to withstand 10.
It's a "rating" not a limit. It's like how you need to get your oil changed every howeversomany miles/kilometers. You can certainly drive it a lot further than that and continue to use it but the chances of things going wrong increases.
Look at @SmolPotatowo 's reply; with caution with removing CPUs from sockets, the socket can potentially last significantly longer than its rating. The rating only shows how many times it can be inserted before the likelihood of something wrong occuring increases.
Matter of fact, the channel replied to another comment saying the exact same thing we are. Notice how the three of us also never specified a number - different mobos will have different socket ratings, but even with the scarce amount of research I did (thank you comment/replies :D), the consensus seems that 10 and 20 are the most common values for a given CPU socket rating. It all depends on the mobo. If anything, just another detail to think about when working with PCs :)
@@tmanx2724 Yeah i have never heard socket breaking other than bend pins. That's probably why no one ever talks about those numbers.
Techquickie is officially out of sane topics to cover 😂
Lol
What if you cut your computer in half while it's on?
@@50-50_Grind speedrun strats
next : what happens if you pee on your mobo.
As someone who's accidentally restarted the wrong SAN node: Windows Server will keep running even without any IOPS response for extended periods of time and resume operations once the SAN is back up. That said, this is a case of 'system drive unresponsive' rather than 'system drive disappearing'.
The computer says "I'm sorry Dave, I can't let you do that" 😅
the damage is usually caused by a spark that is created for a short amount of time a high potential difference will be generated to damage FET transistors (which are very sensitive), diodes and possibly capacitors therefore a protective circuit is used in external ports to avoid this spark that can damage those components
In many server system a lot of component including CPU (in multi socket configuration), RAM, PCIe cards, fans, drives etc are hot swap able so can be safely changed while the system is still running.
There's an exception to this "Pulling out the OS drive will BSOD". Namly, if you system has the Windows To Go flag enabled (or if it's an actual Windows To Go workspace), then pulling the system disk will just freeze. If you reinsert the disk to the same port within 60 seconds, then the system will resume working. Otherwise, it will power off the machine.
It doesn't actually just "freeze". You get a nice warning message that asks you to plug in the USB drive back, and warns you "Your Windows To Go workspace might crash".
It'd be cool to see a video about the potential of FPGAs for hardware acceleration
"Jim, his brain is gone."
I'd like an LTT video demonstrating this in action
In Linus Tech Tips channel they had a video where Linus yanked a CPU out of working PC. The GPU just proceeded to display the last frame in its buffer
10 insertions ? So my socket is a legend ? 😂
I know from experience, removing power to the hard drive on my old Windows 7 computer caused the computer to immediately reboot and boot to a "Boot drive not found" screen. The computer was built in 2013 and is a relic nowadays but it didn't hurt anything once I restored power to the hard drive. And no, I didn't just pull the hard drive out, it was a bad connection that dropped out all of a sudden.
I've pulled SATA-DATA from System's (Win10) drive by mistake yesterday, due to poor connection. System wasn't responsive, but was able to start browser and even task scheduler. This data was probably cached in RAM anyway, and a few minutes later completely froze, even tho the cursor was moving. No BSOD appeared.
The system was a haswell-based desktop I believe.
I'm surprised you've mentioned U.2, but not SAS or IDE.
Well, I happened to know that the LGA 1155 socket used for Ivy and Sandy Bridge was rated for 20 insertions, and that there was a lot of talk when LGA 775 came out about processors no longer being user-serviceable because they don't use PGA anymore... LGA was touted as a reason why only technicians should be installing or removing CPUs now, and people were up in arms about it. Did future processors become that much more fragile? I wouldn't expect LGA 1150, 1151, or even 1200 to be a lot more fragile... but maybe with 1700 pins, now it is so fragile that it can't be replaced more than 10 times.
I must of changed my CPU about ten times before the pins started to bend (Intel S1151), had to try and straighten them again and it can be done, but it's not easy. Also blew up a GPU (years ago, maybe a AGP slot) by not plugging it into correctly, the end of the slot, and one of the pins was burnt.
Is Riley starting a new Computer Fetishes series ?
Maybe what happened if you cut down one of the CPU Pin ?
Com'on they have like more than 1K pins
The CPU will work perfectly fine because CPUs usually have duplicate pins
Should there still be a link to LTX 2023 in the description?
Great video! It's something I'm sure many people wonder about but, for good reason, don't even get to try it themselves!
What did Linus do that made everyone hate him in the last month? I haven't been watching them in a while
I had a hard drive fail while the system was working and the system just froze. I think it depends on the age and era of the hardware and windows
thank you for saving me some experimentation time this weekend.
Back in the day, I used to plug 1060 to a laptop using a riser cable to mini pcie. Hotplug worked if plugged in while in bios or in bootmanager os select list (I.e before os boot). The weird thing is that hot unplug sometimes worked with errors but sometimes just went to bsod or just black screen (on laptop screen). Never found out why it sometimes worked and other time didn't.
pci-e supports hot-plug by spec. unfortunattely, mobo manufacturers and os'es rarely bother to implement it in consumer products.
This is the sort of question I expect my non-techie friends to ask me out of sheer boredom.
I'd probably tell them what a dumb question it is, but secretly be like "but what happen though? 🤔"
I really like your videos as I’m not too good with tech things but recently got into learning about them and you explain it very clearly.
I used to unplug hard drives and plug them back in immediately to jump start a dead hd, sometimes it worked but more often than never, freezing the hard drive and then hot plugging it in did the trick.
In the 70s, I programmed on a small main frame, the power went off from lighting, the computer used core memory. When the power came back on, the computer continued processing where it left off with no loss of data.
Once I was wondering why Cities: Skylines was all of a sudden very slow and really bad at drawing light rays like it had to draw them but didn't have any shaders to customise the rending of them. Turned out the HDMI cable was plugged into the CPU rather than the GPU because the monitor was being hot swapped for laptops back them.
The windows + ctrl + shift + b seems like an excellent key combo to troll streamers with.
This video was very well done! 👍
I remember playing Dragon Age 2, off an external drive where the cable had a tendency to... fall off sometimes.
When it did so, the game would run perfectly well... UNTIL it needed to load something new (like a new area) and then i got an infinite loading screen...
IIRC there where some music glitches too, but cant be sure.
Something similar happened to me when a hard drive started failing while I was playing Skyrim. Right in the middle of a tavern, the game suddenly got super laggy as it had trouble reading data in. Might've been as simple as the tavern bard changing songs, or two NPCs starting a conversation.
It was a known failing drive I'd had issues with before, on an old PC I'd already replaced as my main PC -- so not a huge surprise. The only reason I was playing on it at all was that I had Linux on the new PC, and had never gotten Mod Organizer (with its virtual file system for easily loading and unloading my 200+ mods from the game) working properly on Linux.
Bro brought out Filthy Frank
0:43 Only 10 insertions? So does that mean you can only install a CPU 10 times?
yes it does
Yes and no, it means warranty won't protect past 10 insertions but odds are it will be able to handle more
@@FlashDrive356 how they gonna know how many times I inserted 😂
What if a graphics card was pulled out without cutting off power you could solder wires to the ground and VCC pins of the pci-e connector, depending on the program or game it was running it would probably keep going.
I noticed that am5 cpu socket is a thing now. Could you do a "different cpu socket generations" video?
Could you please post your sources regarding how many insertions each interface is rated for?
The craziest thing i ever hotswapped was a bios chip way back in time when it still was a "removable" eeprom on the mainboard.. i use " here because it was not that easy without the pc resetting.. but after a couple of tries i succeeded and could recover my friends corrupted bios flash on his identical mainboard....
bare in mind that to use the on board graphics of your mobo, your cpu has to have support for graphics. Amd processors that do have a G at the end of the model number.
Couldn't some DMA processes hypothetically continue briefly, with the CPU gone, until whatever point the process needs CPU intervention? Like a bit of a bit of video and audio already buffered up for playback continuing to play until the GPU runs out of frames, and sound chip runs out of samples to play? Or something like a file transfer continuing on the data buses, until something needs to ask the CPU to figure out what to do next?
The cpu is the thing making those processes work on the data bus. Without it, there isn't anything to move
one time i was testing a couple different CPUs in a pc, swapping them out-benchmarking then swapping again, I accidently pulled the CPU out before the PC shut off and there was a Loud zzzzZZZZZAP-POP with a nice bright blue lightning bolt between the CPU pins and the socket, right in my hands
Didnt check if that CPU worked and sold it for parts, mobo worked fine surprisingly.
LOL "When in doubt Blue Screen" hahahha
We need a full LTT video with Dennis or someone pulling a bunch of components while they’re on.
new for me was the limited duty cycles of any slots of the mainboards
I did accidentally rip a CPU out of a running machine once. It was a P4, some Dell slimline case, I was trying to pull a fan shroud. The shroud was apparently attached to the heatsink and the CPU was attached to that. All it did was turn off. I put it back together, booted it up, and never had a problem.
My old Pentium 4 PC had it's main DDR2 RAM die while I was using it, the PC just froze and HDD LED stopped blinking, the screen started to changed color like it was slowly dying, I hit the reset button and then the case immediately started beeping at me and that confirmed my suspicion that the RAM had died.
Had sticky thermal paste in my dads prebuilt, never had paste get sticky. I neglected the fact that my pga cpu would be yanked out if I pulled on the cooler. Seemed like nothing happened but I damn near had a heart attack.
Ive pulled the CPU like this before. Computer was off but plugged in. I was in the habit of leaving the power plugged in from when PCs had actual power switches (to ground the case), so the PC was still technically on; waiting for a signal to power on everything.
The system crashed and would not power on until i unplugged it.
back in the Pentium 4 days I actually did pull out a CPU while the system was powered on, the PC died immediately, it booted up normally when put the cpu back in.
Would you one over SLC Cache Mode where they simulate SLC memory in MLC, TLC, or QLC memory?
How about the opposite, plugging them in while the PC is on? I tried to plug in an HDD to a running PC and it stopped working entirely. I still think it could be recovered if anyone's got any ideas for me to try.
these were similar symptoms after my boss knocked his cpu off of the desk while it was powered on lol
Today I learned about the Win + Ctrl + Shift + B shortcut. Neat!
I remember pulling out the HDD on my laptop once when I was a teenager while it was running. You're correct; it's a BSOD. :)
I’m glad I don’t have to listen to my inner child and try this myself anymore 😂 👍 For the next video though, please use some background “noise” that doesn’t sound like a phone is ringing all the time (and No, ofc I did not start looking for the ringing phone in my room while watching this video😅)
I had no idea parts are only rated for a certain number of insertions
The gpu response reminds me of the time my 2090ti from a prebuild that happened to have ass warrenty compared to the rest of the industry decided to shit itself. Constant bluescreens, recovery modes, etc.
I now have a 3070 directly from nvidia, with 5 years of warrenty instead of just 1.
Once, a colleague hot unplugged a SATA hard drive from a Windows 8.1 computer (he was tinkering and mixed up which case under the desk was which) and Windows just froze like when you wait for a hard disk to wake up from standby, but surprisingly did *not* crash. When he plugged it back in, Windows just kept on going as if nothing had happened!
I've done the ram removal stuff... Got a screen with lot of diagonal lines
I was not expecting Papa Franku
This like removing a game from a Gameboy while playing a from it at the same time, but on a whole other level 😂
in practice i find i can do it all the time and there is no problem, aside from the usual handling of chips
Ahh yes the age old question
When it comes to sudden removal of the GPU the ability for the OS to recover is dependent on the PCI Express controller being able to notify the operating system that a card has been removed.
Note it is also particularly dangerous to remove the GPU card on modern computers because the slot designated for the GPU is wired directly to the CPU. The risk depends on how good the protective circuitry around the PCIE lanes is.
I’ve done this before. I pulled my ram stick out while pc was on. Computer froze but remained completely on with out any problems. Shut pc down removed all power and put ram back in. Started up fine. This is why I love micron ram. I was 14 when I did this by the way. I am 36 now :)
The Linux kernel has the theoretical ability to compact memory off a physical stick and then remove it. It also supports hot-adding memory. It's very much not recommended except in rare circumstances since it's easy to screw up and not as well tested as you really _want_ for this sort of thing.
I'v pulled my gpu out while the system was technically was on to clean it then put it back in and did not even reboot, the system was in sleep mode so the gpu did not have power, the os had no idea the gpu was ever removed
What about the memory extra option in Windows where if the ram is full it would use some of the system storage a essentially back up ram
I never realized there was an insertion limit for the CPU ZIF socket. I would think the limit would be different for a PGA type CPU (e.g. AM4) vs LGA (AM5 or Intel) too.
As long as no drop stays in, you're safe.
Having a plan B though, isn't a bad idea...
Yeah .. but there are always "pre-drops" .. it just happens man. I know it's not as thrilling, but it really is better to use some sort of protection on your unit.
Thanks for the video!
This video crashed my smart tv. I thought it was a gag till it went on for too long
How hard would it have been to simply treat two of the cpu pins as a fuse so that when the CPU is removed it automatically shuts off? Use four pins one at each corner for more effect...
Interesting idea, but I'd rather have my PC working for a few seconds in case I'm able to save anything on that one chance that my CPU happens to magically fall out anyway. PC components are easily replaceable. Data, not so much.
I do remove power cable from gpu while running because amd gpu have bug which freeze gpu when running under kvm so removing power is only option
Can you do arbitrary code execution by unplugging components from a computer while it is running?
Whoever edited this video is AWESOME 👏 😊
the FF clip with creditation was a baller move
I just swapped out my hdd some years back (maybe 15 years ). The power was on the motherboard, but the computer was off. Still that operation actually killed my graphics card of all things. It took a while to find that out though since it was not the obvious place to start to search for issues.
Sounds like it's good practice to make sure all power is killed before doing any work.
Crazy how all that turned out though.
@@ArtisChronicles i have not swapped any components later with powered motherboard. It is simply too risky. So I switch off the power supply and wait for all led lamps to go out. Then start working.
There is some misconception in this video, in server grid motherboard is possible to remove ram even if not is in mirror mode without shutting down computer windows server supports this feature but its depends on what data was in the stick, also hot removal of cpu is also supported in windows server and some motherboard vendors for multiprocessor systems on some servers and workstations is possible to remove the extra processor but not the cpu0 because is attached to important resources on motherboard, another misconception is although m.2 connector is not designed to be hot swap it can connect to u2 and edsff bays that support this, if motherboard supports pcie hot swap it will works fine on any operating system. On modern Linux distributions on standard setup if you remove the root drive the system will crash, there are some important disk writes on system, but is possible to manually customize to work entirely on ram, on windows side, server os can work fine after removing boot disk, but if any user program tries to writes to disk can crashes, I didn’t tried on desktop windows versions…, also windows supports graphics card hot swap if it’s not the primary one, if you remove the primary one the system will not freeze but it’s hard to get display again without rebooting
After a recent rebuilding I had to do to my PC it now has a "delightful feature"…
If I happen to bump the front of the case with my mildly bulky chair, Windows inevitably halts with a VIDEO_TDR_FAILURE code, which basically supposed to mean my graphics card stopped responding.
I speculate that the bumps propagate through the case, momentarily dislocating the card from its PCIe slot.
Re-seating the card seemed to have helped but not for long. There's probably more to it…
And it has caused certain database write operation corruption for me several times now… yay…
I accidentally removed a processor from a laptop while it was on. I had closed the lid earlier in the day but didn't shut it off. I pulled the CPU to clean it and put new paste on it, reinstalled it and flipped open the lid and it was sitting at the windows desktop.
And apparently complete unfazed. It didn't lock up or anything. I guess sleep mode powers off the CPU but keeps the ram running. It was a second gen core i7 Dell laptop if that matters to anyone.
I reseated SATA cable (hot plug, yay) and accidentally hit my RAM, PC freezed and there were artifacts all over my screen
I had no idea that the CPU socket and M.2 slot were so incredibly flimsy! A paltry 10/60 insertions and it breaks? Having never suffered a socket/slot breaking obviously means that it is enough but that is still unsettling.
It's a rating not a limit
A minimal computer only requires CPU and memory to operate. On Linux, unplugging boot drives usually won’t affect the OS and the processes that are already running, as those already get loaded into memory. That is, as long as those processes don’t try to read anything from disk, and swap is disabled.
TechQuickie getting their own B roll, that's rare
A friend installed a gpu (3090) while the pc was on, the gpu bios got corrupted so it had to be reflashed.
We need a follow up video where they actually "test" these
Good jokes in this video, great writing
I had this question in my mind 13 years ago and now I get the answer.
Back in the early 2000s we had some Sun Microsystems gear with a failed drive as a low priority webserver. The system worked for over a year without nonvolital storage. Until lightning stick hit our datacenter and caused our UPS to fault off.
Our friend mryeester made this kind of vid quite some time ago this just goes more in depth of what happens