So my father asked for help on Monday in that his old computer no longer connected to the wired LAN.
The device driver was detected fine and the cabling was good and the lights showed a proper on/off when the cable was disconnected and connected once again but it was resolving to a private IP address of 169.xxx
I was planning on rebuilding his old computer with my older X570 and 5800x CPU anyways.
Now I’m finding a problem with his older Samsung SATA SSD too which actually may have been the root cause, basically a corrupted Windows 10 install.
Looks like I’m going to be upgrading his computer fully now, off to grab an NVMe SSD and a 2TB SATA for his Steam games, ha
Well, my father didn’t tell that for the past year or so he has has some weird, ongoing issues with the PC and having to reboot Windows 10 more and more often.
I’m suspecting it was the old Samsung, 840 SATA SSD boot drive.
I will check it out and see if I can recover any old data.
Luckily however Best Buy had the Samsung 970 EVO, 2TB SSD’s on sale for $80 (USD) each, so I picked up two of them as the mobo supports up to 3 NVMe devices.
No more spinning rust for him nor slower SATA storage
Got a fresh Windows 11 Pro install and updated, now running the Heaven Benchmark for an hour or two to burn it in.
He had an old FX 8350 with 16GB of RAM and an older RX 380 GPU and the aforementioned 256GB SATA SSD for a boot drive and a pair of 4TB Seagate Barracuda’s for his Steam Library.
He didn’t even use close to 1TB as he is not like me and collects games so I think a pair of 2TB NVMe SSD’s will be just fine.
