I had 3 PCs running 24/7, one of them was on a UPS, and the other 2 had 
surge protectors. They all equally failed.  I think the house just hated 
technology. :-)

Kevin Brown wrote:
>> Consider yourself lucky.  At my old house, there was something funky 
>> with the power, because I went through about 8 power supplies, even good 
>> expensive ones.  At the end I was buying cheapo $29 cases from Frys just 
>> to get the power supply out of them (and then recycled the case).
>>
>> My new house isn't quite as bad, but I've gone through 3 power supplies 
>> here so far, including one that literally exploded and shot a cloud of 
>> plasma-like fire out of it. Talk about an eye-opener at 3am :)
>>     
>
> You would have been better off spending all that money on a line 
> conditioner/surge protector.  I have a line conditioner at my place and 
> it occasionally indicates a spike or drop in the line voltage and 
> corrects for it.  Haven't lost a power supply yet that couldn't be 
> anything other than the result of basic age.
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