Environmental test labs with snow generation

I'm looking for an environmental test lab in the USA that can simulate snowfall accumulation (as opposed to ice, freezing rain, etc..) on a fixed, outside-deployed electro-mechanical device above the size of a microwave oven. The closer to Utah the better. Any suggestions? Thanks.

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u/3toe — 2 days ago

External devices no longer work with computer after recent Windows update.

I have a pre-built desktop from Cost Plus Gaming:

Essentials Tier - M1 Flow - AMD Ryzen 5 9600X / Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 8GB GDDR7 / 2T NVME PCIe 4.0 | 32GB DDR5-6000 MHz (ARGB)

It was working fine for almost a year until Microsoft pushed an update. I let the computer start the update and went to bed. The next morning I found that it turns on and everything lights up inside the case, all fans are running, but no peripherals function.

  • The USB ports don't provide power (so I can't use mouse, keyboard, etc... wired mouse with LEDs doesn't even light up when plugged into this system)
  • Neither the GPU nor the MoBo's display output will work (monitor detects no signal)
  • I can power the computer down by long pressing the case's power button.
  • The case button that changes the color of the fan's LED still works.
  • The motherboard status LED for BOOT comes on and stays on after 10 seconds, which, according to the manual, means it's not getting to the OS.

I tried the following:

  • Unplugging the power cable for 30 minutes and rebooted
  • Checked the RAM sticks were in the right slots, removed and cleaned each stick of RAM, tried running the system with each stick independently
  • Removed the GPU card and tried displaying from the internal gpu
  • Removed the SSD and tried booting
  • Verified all my peripherals work with my functional laptop

Is there anything else I should try? I'm not super knowledgeable with computers specifically and this sort of feels like a SW/FW thing, but I am an electrical hardware engineer with some relevant tools (multimeter, chiefly), so I can try some troubleshooting tips if you have any. And yes I am working with the customer support people who have been nice, but it's a long weekend so I'm not going to hear back from them until Tuesday. Thank you in advance.

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u/3toe — 3 months ago