On 2/19/2010 8:48 AM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >> >>>> Also, what would have caused this all of the sudden? This box has been >>>> running fine for months. >>> >>> Well, do you think that computer hardware lives forever? >>> >> >> They don't? /me stares at 486dx with a working floppy drive and working >> floppies from the eighties and early nineties. > > And I deal with hardware with drives, and memory, and the occasional m/b > failing at less than five years old. Depends on the manufacturer, the q/c > they had at the time it was manufactured, and the day of the week, as the > old line from car buyers goes. I think of mine about the same way as light bulbs. They'll work for years on the average but it's pretty much random when any individual one will go. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com