Re: [Sheflug] Crashing software

[Alex Hudson <home@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 17:23 +0000, david wrote:
> The whole thing went belly up. As far as I can tell there was a power
> surge which my surge protector didn't protect against. It blew out the
> power supply, motherboard, RAM and possibly processor. I've got some
> lovely new hardware now and no problems at all.

To be honest, that just sounds like the PSU blew up.

I've had capacitors in the PSU pop a number of times, and they seem to
be capable of taking out motherboards etc.

I don't know if the price of the PSU is much to do with it, but
reasonable ones seem to be very expensive. I wanted to get one of the
new efficient quiet ones (80%+ or something), and they're virtually
Â100 :(

Cheers,

Alex.


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