I have never had a PSU fail, but mine are all branded and not on the cheap end.
Disks die often, motherboards occasionally but mostly fatally and are normally pretty obvious. Loose cables are a common enough problem. Anton - Anton Piatek (sent from my phone, please excuse any typos) email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos: http://www.strangeparty.com pgp: [74B1FA37] (http:// www.strangeparty.com/anton.asc) No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message, however, a significant number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. On Feb 6, 2012 7:11 PM, "Isaac Close" <a...@etho.org> wrote: > On 06/02/2012 18:09, Rob Malpass wrote: > > Hi all**** > > ** ** > > As you may remember from my post last week, my Ubuntu machine's HD died. > Despite a brand new HDD I'm having intermittent problems ranging from > install failing to complete with another HDD error to the BIOS not > detecting the drive at all.**** > > ** ** > > I have literally just tried a new SATA data cable and all (so far touch > wood!) seems well. The thing is - if the problem persists - what part > should I look at replacing next? The PSU? The mobo? Could this be some > sort of mains AC problem and would a new surge protector be more the order > of the day? I should add I have several other boxes on the same ring main > that appear to be working fine.**** > > ** ** > > Are these "new" (yada yada I know I'm not exactly Mr Current Affairs) SATA > data cables any better or worse for bad connections than other types of BUS > e.g. usb or even pata ide?**** > > **** > > These days, it is PSU's that seem to go bandy more frequently than > anything else and it is usually intermittent. > > I use a PSU testing tool (a half decent one with an LCD display costs > around 40 GBP), its proved a great investment. And, I have dealt with a few > thousand machines in the past couple of years or so and my findings appear > consistent. > > Hope that helps, > > Isaac. > > -- > Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk > Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire > LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk > -------------------------------------------------------------- >
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