[wplug] What do you think? a $99 computer

Zach netrek at gmail.com
Fri Jun 1 21:44:58 EDT 2007


On 6/1/07, Bobbie Lynn Eicher <bobbie.eicher at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Also, keep in mind that some power supplies can damage other
> components when they fail.  I actually had a (cheap) power supply in
> a (fortunately also cheap) computer fail recently and take the
> motherboard out with it.  It had a power supply without any kind of
> safety features to protect against that because it was a cheap
> computer and the company who built it was cutting every corner they
> could.  (I ought to have replaced it at some point but I was never
> terribly attached to that particular computer and didn't want to be
> bothered with it.)

Hi Bobbie,

Thanks for the tips. I'll keep them in mind!

Zach


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