ASUS #1 - died while in service
ASUS #2 - died when power supply failed
Abit #1 - died when CPU cooler was replaced. Cause unknown (static,
trace scratch, power surge, who knows).
Abit #2 - still in service
George
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?
>
> Daniel
>
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