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Interesting, too bad the power supplies could not be controlled in their setup, as a wonky power supply can unleash all kinds of gremlins that look like failure
by kristaps 14y ago
Interesting, too bad the power supplies could not be controlled in their setup, as a wonky power supply can unleash all kinds of gremlins that look like failures in components down the line.
- slug 14y agoMost of my desktop/server computer failures or abnormal behavior are due to power supplies not working properly, even when protected by a decent UPS.
- Avitas 14y agoI have been telling my staff for probably 15 or so years that likeliest cause of PC failure is (in the following order): - Power supply - Hard Drive Ranking near these are sleeve bearing fans with ball bearing fans a close second--for CPU and case cooling. In rough order, I would say that the following is my estimation of other common component failure sources: - Removable Drives (floppy, optical, etc.) - Video Card (if separate) - Motherboard - RAM - CPU These are for our corporate PCs which have been Compaq, Dell, IBM, HP, Lenovo and a few other brands. For our brand name and whitebox server hardware, it's pretty much the same... if something is going to fail, it's going to be a power supply or a hard drive. In fact, I don't ever remember a single server motherboard, RAID controller, RAM stick, CPU or other component ever going bad in a server. I wonder why they would leave out statistics relating to power supplies when they are, in my experience, the component with the greatest failure rate.