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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