AAAARGH DAMMIT!

["Ian Lowe" <ian@xxxxxxx>]

I just had a damn power spike wipe out my "Entertainment" PC,
which I use to
play Mp3 music, DVDs and to surf from the sofa!!!!

After a quick scout through the guts of the box, I have a fragged
Motherboard (a Soyo 6BA+III, one month out of warranty) and an ATI
All-in-Wonder 128, again just over the year old... i suppose I should be
happy that everything else (PIII800EB and 196Mb of ram are the main things
I
am happy about) are okay....

So, what do you folks do about power protection? are these surge resistant
power strips any use at all?

Does X-10 actually cause power spikes? (I ask, because I am sure that I can
hear my applicance modules "tick" on the speakers when they
switch on and
off)

Ian.






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