power supply

[Kevin Brown]

> Consider yourself lucky.  At my old house, there was something funky 
> with the power, because I went through about 8 power supplies, even good 
> expensive ones.  At the end I was buying cheapo $29 cases from Frys just 
> to get the power supply out of them (and then recycled the case).
> 
> My new house isn't quite as bad, but I've gone through 3 power supplies 
> here so far, including one that literally exploded and shot a cloud of 
> plasma-like fire out of it. Talk about an eye-opener at 3am :)

You would have been better off spending all that money on a line 
conditioner/surge protector.  I have a line conditioner at my place and 
it occasionally indicates a spike or drop in the line voltage and 
corrects for it.  Haven't lost a power supply yet that couldn't be 
anything other than the result of basic age.