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If my experience is worth anything to anyone, Wes' board failure is very
rare. On about 100 systems under contract, we don't on average replace
even one processor per year.
Wes- by chance did you have any power spikes recently? Is the system
behind a power conditioner? Fans all working?
John Lee
Vaske Computer Solutions
At 03:50 PM 6/29/01 -0400, Wesley Setree wrote:
>Today one of our 918 processor boards bit the dust. I know I haven't been
in the
>MPE arena as long as some of you, however, this is the first time I have
seen a
>processor board go bad. Of all the days for this to happen, we are at
month end
>and fiscal year end. The good news is the replacement board was at the HP
office
>that services our facility. The bad news is we are going on over 5 hours
of down
>time. This is the first time in over 18 months that we have had a hardware
>failure (not including our DDS drives and old printers) and that failure
was for
>an old disk drive. Other than the horrible timing, this is yet one more
>testimony to the reliability and performance of this platform. Too bad the
>general public still has no idea what they are... :o(
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