On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 18:43 +0100, Chris Smith wrote: > 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 >
slightly off the motherboard branch: just checked my system info, and it now says I have 1.9GB memory instead of 2! Definitely sending it back now... =================================== Farran Lee I'm only 15 :P
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