----- Original Message -----
From: "Thane Sherrington" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "The Hardware List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2007 11:29 AM
Subject: Re: [H] another dead MB/psu ?
They apparently draw more power than the motherboard can handle. I'm
willing to believe just about anything that has to do with poor
engineering and the P4. :)
Motherboards are tough, at least the Asus ones I use are. How do I know? I
will not embarrass myself or bore you with listing all of the stupid moves I
have made and the motherboard survived. Sometimes it survived outright.
Other times it played possum for awhile after my goof to scare me. I assume
thermal sensors had tripped and they reset themselves several minutes later,
after I had came close to calling it dead.
What caliber of goofs with motherboards am I unwilling to mention? Well at
http://www.leoslyrics.com/listlyrics.php?hid=jA2tsrQIqwQ%3D you will find
these words, "Coy! What? Well, how'd you get that big motorcycle up there on
the high dive, Coy?" My goofs are in this category, yet those Asus boards
survive!
There are two kinds of computer technicians. 1. The pure goofballs who do
not have enough sense to admit they make mistakes. They think they are too
good to make a mistake that would fry a board. 2. Those of us who make
crazy mistakes and admit them, even if we are too embarrassed to give
details.
Examples: What is worse than the case you intend to mount a motherboard into
falling off the bench? The motherboard falling off the bench also. What is
even worse than that? The motherboard is already hooked to the case via all
of the power supply wires. Asus, just like Timex, takes a licking and keeps
on ticking!
Never have I had an Intel CPU die.
Chuck
