hdw, may be somewhat OT

[Craig White]

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