On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 07:37 -0700, Daniel P. Stasinski wrote:
> 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?
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blame asian manufacturing techniques and cheaper parts which do reduce
the consumer's cost while reducing reliability. Among many things, there
has been a capacitor issue that has plagued some of the manufacturers
Luck of the draw seems to require more luck these days than it used to.
Craig
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