[ubuntu-uk] Motherboards dying ( was:Re: possible to install ubuntu like gentoo?)

Farran Lee fazzy.baboon at ntlworld.com
Thu Apr 17 21:29:38 BST 2008


On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 18:43 +0100, Chris Smith wrote:

> 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
> 


slightly off the motherboard branch: just checked my system info, and it
now says I have 1.9GB memory instead of 2! Definitely sending it back
now...

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Farran Lee
I'm only 15 :P
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