andylockran wrote: > Andrew Oakley wrote that he'd only had two motherboards die in the > last 20 years. > > I've not been so lucky, putting down around 5 of my PCs failings to > the motherboard dying (albeit through some kind of PSU surge in a > couple of cases). > > So how common is it? Have you had a motherboard die on you?
I've had 4 in the space of a 2 weeks :) Turns out the PSU was toasted and was blowing each of the newly RMA'd boards up. Lesson learnt pay some money for a decent PSU because I've never lost a board after investing in a decent one. Chris -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/