hdw, may be somewhat OT

[Daniel P. Stasinski]

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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