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Thread ID: 43037 2004-03-01 09:22:00 Hard drives still failing. Jim** (4369) Press F1
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219339 2004-03-02 00:43:00 > My computer is in a room
> detached from the house (a sleepout) so I have not
> actually tried using the computer inside the house on
> a house socket. My father is an electrician, so some
> of your replys will mean more to him than to me :)

> Well, for starters, I shall investigate the power.

Get your father to do an earth-loop impedance check on all outlets in your sleepout. There may very well be a power issue there if it was jerry-built by a previous owner and not professionally wired.

Sleepout rings alarm bells for me, but for all that the Samsung episodes sound like motherboard.

Cheers

Billy 8-{)
Billy T (70)
219340 2004-03-02 01:47:00 I have seen drives fail prematurely due to [relatively] high ripple from the computer power supply. Do you still have the problem since changing the supply? wuppo (41)
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