Mike Raiford <"m[raiford]!at"@gmail.com> wrote:
> This is why there is a burn-in period for new hardware...

Bought a new AMD machine as a secondary (to run time-consuming renders on) a few
months ago:

- Hooked it up to the VGA input of my 2-year-old 19" LCD; never used that input
before IIRC, just the DVI; had the computer run overnight, to wake up the next
morning to the smell of fried capacitor: LCD dead, after using the VGA input
for only a couple of hours.

- Only a few days later (using a spare 15" LCD meanwhile), computer fails to
boot up: Cannot find operating system; mainboard still detects that there is
*some* SATA device connected, but fails to make out any details; swapping SATA
ports with the CD/DVD drive (which was detected ok) doesn't change a thing:
Hard disk electronics dead, after only a few days.

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