Dead monitor

[halutzparilla]

i feel you pain... thats why i would suggest using SURGE protector... Buy the Monster Cable Surge Protector (MPHT700HP) and other Video Surge Protectors and UPS at circuitcity.com
i'm using this for 1 year now and never have problem with any dying components on my comp and entertainment center...

[yurimxpxman]

Originally Posted by halutzparilla

i feel you pain... thats why i would suggest using SURGE protector... Buy the Monster Cable Surge Protector (MPHT700HP) and other Video Surge Protectors and UPS at circuitcity.com
i'm using this for 1 year now and never have problem with any dying components on my comp and entertainment center...

We use a surge protector and the computer itself wasn't harmed, so it had to have been something wrong with the monitor itself and not the power. Though I don't doubt that it had something to do with the unsteady power flow we get out here in the boonies. It can't be good for my hardware. I need to get a UPS.

[Carl Martin]

Originally Posted by yurimxpxman

I don't doubt that it had something to do with the unsteady power flow we get out here in the boonies. It can't be good for my hardware.

Dirty power is really hard on electronic devices - especially when you get brown-outs followed by surges. Hard to believe that in this day and age any utility would provide such a poor product.

[polobunny]

Originally Posted by yurimxpxman

MY HARDWARE HATES ME!

Who doesn't?! =P
Suck, hopefully you'll be getting a 60inch HDTV.

[yurimxpxman]

Originally Posted by Carl Martin

Dirty power is really hard on electronic devices - especially when you get brown-outs followed by surges. Hard to believe that in this day and age any utility would provide such a poor product.

We never had this problem when we lived in Ohio. I'm not sure what the difference is, perhaps the local power station's running old machinery. Our lights and TV flicker a lot. I wonder if there's such a thing as a UPS for the power line coming into the house. That'd be nice.

[stinger608]

Originally Posted by yurimxpxman

We never had this problem when we lived in Ohio. I'm not sure what the difference is, perhaps the local power station's running old machinery. Our lights and TV flicker a lot. I wonder if there's such a thing as a UPS for the power line coming into the house. That'd be nice.

I don't know about that Yuri, but if I was you, I would invest in a good UPS for your computer!!!! Man, that could be about 90% of your hardware problems here lately!!!!

[yurimxpxman]

Originally Posted by stinger608

I don't know about that Yuri, but if I was you, I would invest in a good UPS for your computer!!!! Man, that could be about 90% of your hardware problems here lately!!!!

Maybe, but I doubt it though. You'd expect the PSU to go bad if it killed the CPU.

[Cyberlon]

Originally Posted by yurimxpxman

Maybe, but I doubt it though. You'd expect the PSU to go bad if it killed the CPU.

You are right to expect the PSU to go bad if it's killing the CPU, but at work I deal with hundreds of machines, and that isn't always the case. Last year alone we had 5 IBM computers come up with bad mobos that fry the CPU, but work in a test environment before shipping, only to die later from the same cause. Dirty power is a huge problem, and not all PSUs will harm themselves, only pass the dirty power to more "sensitive" components.

[Jafah5150]

Originally Posted by yurimxpxman

I wonder if there's such a thing as a UPS for the power line coming into the house. That'd be nice.

They can put a surge protector on the main electric panel..but, they don't protect against surges/sags created inside the home(a fridge turning on/off for example).