On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, Adam Thornton wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 06:47:25AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
> > My point is you should not confuse the reliability of the software with the
> > reliability of the hardware. PC crashes are rarely caused by hardware.
>
> I beg to differ.  Unless you mean "Crashes of computers running Windows
> are rarely caused by hardware."  My desktop machine *usually* crashes,
> when it crashes, because of the hardware. Sometimes it's a cooling
> problem (luckily my system senses overtemperature and shuts itself
> down), sometimes it's an insufficiently conditioned power supply.
> Before that it was the flaky NVidia video card, which I eventually
> replaced.

Replace your faulty hardware. It's cheap.

Or spend a bit more, and get a case without those cooling problems.

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