My precious and overpriced rig finally crapped out Friday night. Took all weekend to fix. I ended up in a crash loop that nothing would fix. Fortunately the culprit wasn't something REALLY expensive like my GPU, SSD's, or RAM; just my CPU (what a sign of the times...). Unfortunately all those crashes ended up corrupting my main drive beyond recognition. Fortunately I didn't keep much irreplaceable data on there (mostly redownloadable programs and games) and what data was there I was able to move over to my other drives. Ended up upgrading to a 5800X3D (not worth changing the socket for anything newer). Reinstalling Windows was way more fucking hassle than it had any right to be, though. MS's own Media Creation Tool kept failing. Had to use a third party tool (Rufus) to finally get it done. Even then my system must have restarted a dozen times before I reached the desktop and a dozen more to finish the rest of the updates. I don't remember it being this bad when I 'upgraded' from W10 some years ago. Fuck MS and fuck Windows. Can't wait for Linux to become a fully viable replacement. Whole three day weekend gone but I'm finally back and hopefully better than before with a new CPU and clean install.
*exhales*
