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petdave -> Sudden run of electronic failures (rant) (1/23/2008 7:14:58 PM)
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Mostly a rant, but if anybody has an explanation that doesn't involve an angry god, i'm reading...
Check this out:
My wife and i have a pair of desktop computers set up side-by-side on a table in our living room. Both "towers" are plugged into an Uninterruptable Power Supply (battery backup). My monitor is also plugged into this UPS. The peripherals for my PC, as well as the router, are plugged into a surge suppressor, which shares an outlet with the UPS. Her monitor and peripherals are all plugged into another surge suppressor, plugged into another outlet a few feet down the wall (undoubtably on the same circuit).
Three weeks ago, the router stopped responding; i came home from work to find it dead. i power-cycled it, tested cables, etc.- it was toast. Fair enough. i'd had the thing a few years, and couldn't even guess how many times the cats had pulled it off the desk. Bought a new one.
Less than a week later, my desktop shut itself down while i was folding laundry in another room. It would power back up, but with no display. Swapped monitors, video cards, power supplies... nope, the friggin' motherboard died. Well, that sucks. It was about a year and a half old, so it really shouldn't have, but it did act flaky from time to time.
i went away for a week, and started using my wife's computer while she's out of town. So, about three weeks later. And the goddamned monitor on her computer dies overnight!!! THAT was probably only a year old (can't tell for sure, because the receipt is on my computer, which is still dead).
So, three different types of hardware, all "protected" by different power devices, all dying at different times of the day within a three week period!
i don't know if i should start throwing the main breaker when i leave for work, or wrap the whole house in tinfoil [:o]
*grumble*
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