[ubuntu-uk] Motherboards dying ( was:Re: possible to install ubuntu like gentoo?)
Chris Smith
ubuntu.com at chris.cs278.org
Thu Apr 17 18:43:45 BST 2008
andylockran wrote:
> Andrew Oakley wrote that he'd only had two motherboards die in the
> last 20 years.
>
> I've not been so lucky, putting down around 5 of my PCs failings to
> the motherboard dying (albeit through some kind of PSU surge in a
> couple of cases).
>
> So how common is it? Have you had a motherboard die on you?
I've had 4 in the space of a 2 weeks :) Turns out the PSU was toasted
and was blowing each of the newly RMA'd boards up. Lesson learnt pay
some money for a decent PSU because I've never lost a board after
investing in a decent one.
Chris
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