Another data point - my main machine has *not* gone down even once since I started using a UPS. I used to blame the occasional crashes on Windows but since reliability has improved (perfect so far) with the UPS, I think the problem may well have been power.
Not conclusive - but maybe we have a common theme here :). This is a 1.2Ghz Athlon on an Abit KT7A-RAID motherboard. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ronald G Minnich > Sent: Sunday, March 24, 2002 9:32 AM > To: Justin Cormack > Cc: Steven James; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: bummer! (fwd) > > > On Sun, 24 Mar 2002, Justin Cormack wrote: > > > What are the symptoms you get? I have a problematic machine at the > > moment, just seems to reboot itself sometimes in heavy usage. But I > > have another that is fine so far (48 CPU days on one process at 100% > > CPU). > > kernel oops. random segv. random lockup. > > I did just fix one board almost by switching power supplies. But I also > had an oops recently. > > moral of the story for me: buy K7 systems from Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ron
