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On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 18:43 +0100, Chris Smith wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">andylockran wrote:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Andrew Oakley wrote that he'd only had two motherboards die in the</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> last 20 years.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> I've not been so lucky, putting down around 5 of my PCs failings to</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> the motherboard dying (albeit through some kind of PSU surge in a</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> couple of cases).</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> So how common is it? Have you had a motherboard die on you?</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">I've had 4 in the space of a 2 weeks :) Turns out the PSU was toasted</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">and was blowing each of the newly RMA'd boards up. Lesson learnt pay</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">some money for a decent PSU because I've never lost a board after</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">investing in a decent one.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Chris</FONT>
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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...<BR>
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I'm only 15 :P
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