On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 12:49:49PM -0500, Chris Dillon wrote:
> Try a new power supply, too. This won't make you feel any better, but
> I recently fought a system that I never found out what was causing
> the problems. I had gone through many combinations of motherboards,
> CPUs (both Intel and AMD, this was a Socket-7 system), power supplies,
> ethernet cards, video cards, RAM, hard drives, CDROM drives, etc...
> NOTHING was the same when I was done, yet I kept having the same
> problems. It was almost as if the case itself was posessed (or maybe
> I was cursed), as that was the only thing I hadn't changed. I knew
> it was a hardware problem because the weirdness occurred regularly
> in both FreeBSD and NT4 Server, even during initial installations
> of FreeBSD or NT4. I finally gave up and just got an entirely new
> system. I haven't had a single problem with it.
I just had to chime in here. I thought I was the only one who was
cursed. I had essentially the same situation as you described above. I
finally bought a new case & power supply, motherboard & CPU. The
motherboard I got was DOA. I got another one and it ran for about a
month and then died. This was an Asus motherboard and Asus has a very
good reputation. At this point I was even suspecting my UPS as the
culprit. I ordered a different brand of motherboard (Tyan) and the
system has been working for about a year now with zero downtime.
The take home lesson: PC hardware can be flaky.
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