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It's usually a quality power supply unit, that made it 6 years. |
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However, what I find totally strange, at the same time. That |
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applications die during my work. |
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Totally strange, like "clock" dies, and restarts. Eclipse dies, firefox |
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dies..... |
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I have the feeling that memory and power supply are making me headache. |
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windows died yesterday during installation of .NET SP 4.5 fixes..... |
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The machine drives me nuts.... However, I am getting myself a new machine. |
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Tamer |
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Am 28.05.2013 23:34, schrieb Stroller: |
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> On 28 May 2013, at 06:38, Mick wrote: |
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>> If it is not a memory issue, then it may well be a power supply issue. My old |
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>> PC started playing up lately (e.g. a couple of kernel panics when shutting |
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>> down, or freezing at random) and I discovered some domed capacitors in the |
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>> PSU. I will similarly be buying a new machine soon, although I may bother |
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>> myself with replacing the capacitors at some point. |
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> When fixing PCs as a fulltime occupation, I found the PSU to be the most common cause of random and "inexplicable" crashes - slightly more often, I would say, than bad or overheating RAM, but with symptoms generally indistinguishable. |
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> Many computer enthusiasts will look down on £20 or £30 PSUs, but I don't think that spending 2 or 3 times as much would have had any benefit for the users I serviced. |
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> Stroller. |
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