{"id":4423,"date":"2025-07-21T21:13:34","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T20:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/?p=4423"},"modified":"2025-07-21T21:13:34","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T20:13:34","slug":"simple-solutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/simple-solutions\/","title":{"rendered":"Simple solutions"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had a weird IT problem that took me a long time to figure out, because it was so elusive and hard to reproduce. The NUC that used to upload the radiation data was acting up; it would just freeze for some reason. The first thing I did was reinstall Windows 11. Then I installed Windows 10. Then recently it actually got worse; it would stop refreshing data and I would come down to see it stuck at max fan speed and hot, probably 100% CPU for some reason, and not showing image on the screen nor reacting to keyboard. I concluded it\u2019s probably fucked on a hardware level and put a HP mini PC there, with Windows 10. That didn\u2019t fix anything, because it would stop refreshing data and I would come down to find the Radiascan software stuck. It turned out it wasn\u2019t the software; the device itself was disconnected for some reason, and I first suspected some power saving feature, and went through everything in both Windows and UEFI; after each modification I had to leave it running to see whether it would hang, and it invariably did, in intervals from almost immediately to almost a day. As you can imagine, testing that takes a lot of time; a day per tweak, basically. Eventually I guessed the device drew too much power from the USB while charging its batteries, which overheats the USB controller or something and triggers a disconnect, so I tried putting a powered USB hub between the computer and the device, and that didn\u2019t do anything, but I felt I was on to something, and then I remembered seeing that the USB cable connecting the device is frayed to the point where I can see the wires inside, and thought it can\u2019t be, because it connects and reads data, right\u2026? Right? I managed to find another mini USB cable somewhere, changed it, and it solved the problem completely.<\/p>\n

Sometimes the solution to a complex looking problem can be remarkably simple.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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