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The Help Desk => Computer Related Discussions & Questions => Topic started by: Thor on September 09, 2009, 04:10:56 PM
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That is all........
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If I could afford to do that, I would. I have three that got zapped by brown-outs and two are operating (sort of) and the third is dead, even after a new power supply.
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To date, I have two of my PCs back to running normally and without any BSODs or errors. Turns out that one had two sticks of memory that became defective and the other had a defective video card. The third one is getting a new motherboard this week.
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Thor, invest in a good UPS if you can afford one. It will help with brown outs or power surges frying your PCs.
A good one won't be cheap, but they are less expensive than a new puter.
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Thor, invest in a good UPS if you can afford one. It will help with brown outs or power surges frying your PCs.
A good one won't be cheap, but they are less expensive than a new puter.
I plan on it. Right now, affordability is an issue. I didn't expect brown outs/ power outages/ Power on/off cycling consistent with that of a third world country, but that seems to be what we get here. I need to do some calculations to figure out just how much of a UPS I need.
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If I could afford to do that, I would. I have three that got zapped by brown-outs and two are operating (sort of) and the third is dead, even after a new power supply.
Statistically under-volt conditions (brownout) and create more clutter in the workshop than over-volt.
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That is all........
I just purchased a Toshiba laptop from Fry's. I bought the 2-year warranty, of course. Its list price before warranty was $429. I am not going to spend $1000 on a computer.
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Statistically under-volt conditions (brownout) and create more clutter in the workshop than over-volt.
While I am now shutting things down during electrical storms, there have been many power outages this past summer (and the summer before) that happened on nice, sunny days, very unexpectedly and for no apparent reason. Considering Texas weather, I would hope that they would have considered the power load during the heat. After all, Texas heat is nothing new. Summer before last, outages would happen every other day or night. One time, I ventured out to see why and just happened to run across them changing a transformer. Of course, it took them three or four months to act on an intermittent problem.