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At 06:57 PM 6/4/98 EDT, David A. Abbe wrote:
>Hi yet again gang,
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>I have heard of the necessity of burning in a new system......And I have
>heard this is bogus........ When firing up a computer for the very first
>time, no OS, no nutin, just the components installed, is it or is it not
>necessary, and how do you do it? It's just a stress test, so to speak,
>right???
>
The idea behind a burn-in is to find any weak components up front.
Typically, something over 80% of all hardware failures occur in the
first 30 days of a system. If you run a system hard looking for that
weak component with a burn-in, you can solve the problem up front
while the component can be "easily" replaced under warranty.
Check out our Files area on PCBUILD's web page:
http://nospin.com/pcbuild.html
You will find a nice little application for running a burn-in on your
system.
ß0ß WRIGHT - [log in to unmask] - http://nospin.com
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