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Leigh Jennings <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 17 Jul 2001 22:46:44 +1000
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HI

After about a week my new system just wouldn't boot, after running
perfectly the night before.
It was not even beeping on startup.

I took it back to the shop I bought it from and the ascertained it was a
dead motherboard!

Now the new system has only ever been run through a new ups that I bought
with the system.  With reference to the load on the ups, I was running both
of my systems  through the ups (it has four outlets. ie 2 monitors and 2
computers).The second system is a 450 AMD. with 94 meg RAM, I was gaming on
the old system (starcraft, ;not that heavy on resources) and windows
trouble shooting on the new system.

The shop requested the ups back for testing and have been unable to fault
it, they are currently replacing the mainboard.

I guess the question here is: why did it die? did I just get a dud, what
other causes for a dead mobo except a power spike which the ups would have
stopped?


System specs:
AMD 1.333
ASUS  A7M266 (socket A)
512 meg DDR PC2100ram
30 gig ATA 100 7200rpm HDD (in removable rack)
Gforce 64meg GTS DDR Video card
Hitachi DVD
Sony CDRW
etc etc

Leigh Jennings
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