On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 07:19 -0700, Shawn Badger wrote: > 6 weeks later ASUS mobo died (replaced for free). 18 months later > ASUS#2 died (replacement was an Abit board, and was free). 2 > months later, Abit died (replaced for free). Perhaps this is a loaded question, but what causes so many failures? Purely anecdotal: I have one local server in our call center that has been sitting quietly on a shelf unattended since early 1998. Never so much as a hiccup until the day I turned it off and it never came back on. 8 years from a cheap system built from crappy parts from a seedy and long since gone Tempe vendor. Is crappy hardware really brand specific or is it just the draw of the short straw? Daniel -- | --------------------------------------------------------------- | Daniel P. Stasinski | http://www.saidsimple.com | mooooooo@avenues.org | http://www.disabilities-r-us.com | Google Talk: mooooooo | http://www.scriptkitties.com | Jabber: mooooooo@jabber.org | http://www.avenues.org --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss