hdw, may be somewhat OT

[George Toft]

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
>