just when you think you've seen it all.....

[ibbilbo]

Well, I think this may be a first. It's definately a first for me. My daughters PS took a dump last week and took out (so far) the mobo, the CPU, the video card, the HD, and get this........THE KEYBOARD! Never heard of that happenning before. I think I could give Murphy some lessons.
Anyone else have this happen to them?

 

[sohcrates]

I have to give it to you, that's pretty impressive.

Worse thing that ever happened to me was a bad keyboard was preventing a system from booting...yet i had no idea the keyboard was bad....let me tell you, try troubleshooting a problem like THAT!

heheh

 

[|TOAST|]

Get this (although not as intruiging but along the same lines). In September or October of 1998 I built a system for myself (P2 300@450-SL2W8 BH6 CL TNT etc.) with an EN7237 with 300 watt power supply from @xion tech (antec PS) and exactly one week/7days later built the same exact system for a college roommate (same case, PS, place I ordered the parts from with two exceptions: his BH6 was rev1.01 and mine was rev1.00 and his P2 300@504-SL2YK<--retail version same deschutes core). On teh 4th of July 2000 my antec 300 watt PS crapped out and took out with it the AGP slot on my rev1.00BH6. The PCI slots supported video and the system still booted fine and all after some new parts and testing. Exactly one week/7days later his antec powers supply did the same exact thing. Motherboard's AGP slot all done/unusable and the antec PS was shot. Weird that two more or less identical systems can have exactly the same life expectancy. I would think (and I'm no EE guy) that maybe teh power grid at college that week somehow operated at some slightly out of spec frequency or current that wore out a component of the PS's but then wouldn't the 2.2V system take out more 2.2V components like SDRAM? I dunno... kinda weird.