Let's talk about my personal computer (Again)

**Update on My PC: Troubleshooting and Planning**

I've been experiencing a frustrating issue with my main PC, which I use to edit videos and do all my work on. It's been crashing frequently, resulting in around seven unexpected restarts a day. The problem started when I was trying to update the BIOS, but for some reason, the motherboard refuses to update to a later version.

I tried downloading the BIOS file via USB stick, but it kept saying that the file is invalid. Then, I attempted to do it over the internet, and it crashed mid-download every time. I've tried three or four new BIOS files, but nothing works. So, I decided to reinstall Windows to see if it would make a difference.

After reinstalling Windows, the reliability has improved significantly. I'm now getting around two to three blue screen of death every week, compared to two to three a day previously. The weird blank screen artifact has also disappeared. However, I still can't update to a new BIOS for some reason, which suggests that there might be something wrong with the motherboard.

I plan to troubleshoot this issue further by testing the CPU and GPU in a different motherboard. To do this, I need to tear down the loop, which has been bleeding air for two months. If I refill it during this process, it will take me ages to bleed air out of it again. Therefore, I'm considering changing the way the loop is set up.

**Considering a Soft Line Build**

I think I have an idea to simplify the loop by using soft line instead of hard line tubing. This would make it easier to service and maintain the system, as I wouldn't need to drain the loop to swap out components like the CPU or motherboard. Soft line builds are generally more convenient than hard line builds, which is why they're often used in mini ITX water-cooled loops.

I'm planning to use matte black tubing for the soft line build, as it would look really cool and be quite a cheap modification compared to the cost of the entire loop. I've seen a similar setup on Optimum Tech's channel, where he used the same kind of tubing for his mini ITX water-cooled loop.

**New Motherboard and Future Plans**

I'm looking forward to receiving a new motherboard from Highlander, which will help me troubleshoot the reliability issues with my current system. When it arrives, I'll tear down the loop and attempt to set up a soft line build using matte black tubing. If you'd like to follow along or share your thoughts on this project, be sure to like, subscribe, and turn on notifications if you haven't already.

You can also find me on Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, and other social media platforms linked in the description below. Until next time, thanks for watching!

WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enso another day another video about my main liquid-cooled PC now I actually wasn't gonna do another video about this but I have been getting questions in various videos about how this pcs doing so I thought I'd update you guys about some plans I have moving forward with this PC now before we get into this video I just want to point out that I am gonna stream again later today for about two hours so you can go check out my twitch channel in the video description now just a quick recap of the previous video where I updated you on the state of my hardline coold 7 nanometer AMD editing rig now after I built this PC which in my opinion looks really awesome I was having really weird temperature issues whenever I was doing any kind of like thermal benchmark on the graphics card or the CPU I was getting really high temperatures just straight off the bat now fast forward a couple of months and the temperatures are actually a lot better a lot of it has to do with the fact that the ambient temperature is about 10 degrees lower because we're well into autumn at the moment but I'm getting fairly reasonable temperatures on the CPU and especially on the GPU and I think the reason for that is the fact that that system has been very slowly bleeding air over the last two months as you can see here the reservoir level just keeps dropping so every maybe two and a half weeks I'll pour a bit more water in to top it up and then it'll drop back to the back down to this level and I top it up so it's been bleeding air for ages and that makes me think that that was the issue all along and that there still is some air in the loop now I don't know why this loop retains air so much I think it may be because of the like angled fittings on on the CPU block I think that may have something to do with it because honestly it's still bleeding air and no matter how much I move the case around I can't get more air to dislodge it just kind of comes out over time but I'm having a different issue and then the other issue is something that's quite irritating because now that the error is bled out and the temperatures have kind of normalized I may have to tear the loop down which means I'll have to go through this process again now the problem that I have is not related to the actual loop it's related to stability there was a point that I was getting about two blue screens of death a day on the system and I was getting this weird artifact where my screen would just go blank for like 10 seconds and then when it came back all of the kind of windows that had video playback on it would be blank so like YouTube videos would go blank oh yeah Nick was playing with the boxes back so it meant that I was at a point where I was getting about seven unexpected restarts a day while trying to edit videos on that system now my first thing that I wanted to do was obviously update the BIOS and see if that fixed anything but for some reason the motherboard refuses to update to a later version of the BIOS I tried first with downloading the BIOS file and updating it through USB stick but for some reason it keeps saying that the the BIOS file is invalid and then I tried doing it over the Internet and it just crashes mid BIOS file download every time and I've tried like three or four new BIOS files and nothing works so then I just reinstalled Windows to see how much of a difference that would make and it's been a lot better actually I get about two maybe three blue screen of death every week now instead of two to three a day and I'm not getting that weird like screen blank artifact anymore so the reliabilities a lot better but I still can't update to a new BIOS for some reason so I think there's something wrong with the motherboard and I really want to RMA it but the problem is for me to test the CPU in a different motherboard and the GPU and everything in a different motherboard I have to tear the loop down which has been bleeding air for the last two months and it means that if I refill it in this process again it's gonna take me ages to bleed air out of it so it means I have to change something about the way that the loop is set up and I kind of think I have an idea I'm thinking of just scratching hard line altogether and going for a soft line loop in that case this PC is my main PC it's what I use to edit all of my videos on it's basically what I use to do all my work on so reliability and ease of serviceability is extremely important on that system and honestly ease of serviceability isn't something that's ever been said in the same sentence as a hard line build so a soft line build would actually make it a lot easier because you don't have to drain the loop to take out and swap the CPU or to swap the motherboard or anything like that soft line is just more convenient now my plan for what kind of tubing to go with is I'm most likely gonna go with like matte black tubing I'll show a picture on the screen now what I want to use I think it would look really cool and it would actually be quite a cheap modification to make you know compared to the cost of the entire loop because the actual tubing is fairly inexpensive and I just have to buy a couple of soft line fittings to be able to convert the loop to a soft liner optimum tech recently did like a a mini ITX water-cooled loop where he used the kind of like a matte black tubing and I think it looks really cool I think it may actually be a really great aesthetic for the build so yeah that's kind of the point that I'm at now I'm gonna tear the loop down when that new motherboard comes that Highlander sent again thank you very much for that it's gonna it's gonna really help me out when it comes to actually troubleshooting the reliability of the system and the weird issues that I've been having and with that it brings me to the end of just another video of me updating everyone on the state of my PC that's been such a nightmare that the name of the PC is actually pain in the butt at the moment because it really is a pain in the butt and with that if you like this video do like and subscribe to the channel if you have already subscribed please turn on the bowel notification next to the subscription thing because I've noticed from my analytics that YouTube isn't sending out notifications to people so you know that that really would help me out a lot follow me on Twitch Twitter Instagram there's a skort server all of that linked in the description below and until the next video byeso another day another video about my main liquid-cooled PC now I actually wasn't gonna do another video about this but I have been getting questions in various videos about how this pcs doing so I thought I'd update you guys about some plans I have moving forward with this PC now before we get into this video I just want to point out that I am gonna stream again later today for about two hours so you can go check out my twitch channel in the video description now just a quick recap of the previous video where I updated you on the state of my hardline coold 7 nanometer AMD editing rig now after I built this PC which in my opinion looks really awesome I was having really weird temperature issues whenever I was doing any kind of like thermal benchmark on the graphics card or the CPU I was getting really high temperatures just straight off the bat now fast forward a couple of months and the temperatures are actually a lot better a lot of it has to do with the fact that the ambient temperature is about 10 degrees lower because we're well into autumn at the moment but I'm getting fairly reasonable temperatures on the CPU and especially on the GPU and I think the reason for that is the fact that that system has been very slowly bleeding air over the last two months as you can see here the reservoir level just keeps dropping so every maybe two and a half weeks I'll pour a bit more water in to top it up and then it'll drop back to the back down to this level and I top it up so it's been bleeding air for ages and that makes me think that that was the issue all along and that there still is some air in the loop now I don't know why this loop retains air so much I think it may be because of the like angled fittings on on the CPU block I think that may have something to do with it because honestly it's still bleeding air and no matter how much I move the case around I can't get more air to dislodge it just kind of comes out over time but I'm having a different issue and then the other issue is something that's quite irritating because now that the error is bled out and the temperatures have kind of normalized I may have to tear the loop down which means I'll have to go through this process again now the problem that I have is not related to the actual loop it's related to stability there was a point that I was getting about two blue screens of death a day on the system and I was getting this weird artifact where my screen would just go blank for like 10 seconds and then when it came back all of the kind of windows that had video playback on it would be blank so like YouTube videos would go blank oh yeah Nick was playing with the boxes back so it meant that I was at a point where I was getting about seven unexpected restarts a day while trying to edit videos on that system now my first thing that I wanted to do was obviously update the BIOS and see if that fixed anything but for some reason the motherboard refuses to update to a later version of the BIOS I tried first with downloading the BIOS file and updating it through USB stick but for some reason it keeps saying that the the BIOS file is invalid and then I tried doing it over the Internet and it just crashes mid BIOS file download every time and I've tried like three or four new BIOS files and nothing works so then I just reinstalled Windows to see how much of a difference that would make and it's been a lot better actually I get about two maybe three blue screen of death every week now instead of two to three a day and I'm not getting that weird like screen blank artifact anymore so the reliabilities a lot better but I still can't update to a new BIOS for some reason so I think there's something wrong with the motherboard and I really want to RMA it but the problem is for me to test the CPU in a different motherboard and the GPU and everything in a different motherboard I have to tear the loop down which has been bleeding air for the last two months and it means that if I refill it in this process again it's gonna take me ages to bleed air out of it so it means I have to change something about the way that the loop is set up and I kind of think I have an idea I'm thinking of just scratching hard line altogether and going for a soft line loop in that case this PC is my main PC it's what I use to edit all of my videos on it's basically what I use to do all my work on so reliability and ease of serviceability is extremely important on that system and honestly ease of serviceability isn't something that's ever been said in the same sentence as a hard line build so a soft line build would actually make it a lot easier because you don't have to drain the loop to take out and swap the CPU or to swap the motherboard or anything like that soft line is just more convenient now my plan for what kind of tubing to go with is I'm most likely gonna go with like matte black tubing I'll show a picture on the screen now what I want to use I think it would look really cool and it would actually be quite a cheap modification to make you know compared to the cost of the entire loop because the actual tubing is fairly inexpensive and I just have to buy a couple of soft line fittings to be able to convert the loop to a soft liner optimum tech recently did like a a mini ITX water-cooled loop where he used the kind of like a matte black tubing and I think it looks really cool I think it may actually be a really great aesthetic for the build so yeah that's kind of the point that I'm at now I'm gonna tear the loop down when that new motherboard comes that Highlander sent again thank you very much for that it's gonna it's gonna really help me out when it comes to actually troubleshooting the reliability of the system and the weird issues that I've been having and with that it brings me to the end of just another video of me updating everyone on the state of my PC that's been such a nightmare that the name of the PC is actually pain in the butt at the moment because it really is a pain in the butt and with that if you like this video do like and subscribe to the channel if you have already subscribed please turn on the bowel notification next to the subscription thing because I've noticed from my analytics that YouTube isn't sending out notifications to people so you know that that really would help me out a lot follow me on Twitch Twitter Instagram there's a skort server all of that linked in the description below and until the next video bye