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From: "Wayne Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, April 08, 2006 10:40 AM
Subject: Re: Infrequent and Irregular Windows Lockups
I find that if a system gets blown out every 6 to 12 mo then the fans
generally last 2 to 3 yrs but what I hate is when the clients let the
machines get so hot that you could fry an egg on the case before they
I sell a simple fifty dollar AGP 128 MB video card for my low end computers
and a simple eighty dollar PCI-e 128 MB video card for my Pentium 4
computers. Currently neither have fans, just heatsinks. Due to the
difficulty in servicing the warranty, I have my customers who want high end
video cards purchase them locally and bring them to me.
I report my findings and often my reports are taken out of context. I feel
that cigarette smoke has stalled the few video card fans I have found messed
up. I find that only about 10% of smokers smoke so regularly or so close to
their computer that it ruins the computer. For the other 90% of computers
where there is evidence of cigarette smoke, there is no obvious damage done.
Simply put, the whole insides are not gunked up and a coating of nicotine on
the outside.
Since there is such an always changing variety of video card fans, I make no
attempts to stock them. I still have a stockpile of CPU fans from the days
Pentium II CPU's were in slots, not sockets. I guess if a high end video
card needed to be sent back while under warranty I could loan my customer a
video card to get by until it came back to them. The video cards I
recommended that the customers throw away appeared to be at least 2 years
old and low end cards and gunked up with smoke residue.
I got impatient and went ahead and installed all new memory in my computer,
all from the same batch. I hope it solves my Windows lockup problems. If
not, at least I know it is not the memory. If it continues or gets worse, I
will eventually replace my motherboard.
Thanks for all the advice,
Chuck
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