Subj : about your old hardware not surviving another X years
To   : Wilfred van Velzen
From : August Abolins
Date : Mon Jan 03 2022 14:06:00

Hello Wilfred!

** On Monday 03.01.22 - 18:03, you wrote to me:

 WvV> But regarding "break down" I was thinking more about your
 WvV> old hardware not surviving another X years...

Ah, yes. There's that other niggly thing.

I was well into my first year of ownership of my shop (now 10  
years as of Jan 12, 2012), when the main office pc that was  
operating as a file server to the network wouldn't boot up one  
morning!  It was a Dell. I assumed it was the infamous on/off  
switch issue. Opening the case, and testing the switch contacts  
eliminated that issue. Something on the mobo was most likely  
the issue.  It was a bit of a mad scramble to steer the  
fileserver fuction to another DT pc.  I didn't have time to  
investigate further electronic causes. But I moved the HDD to  
an external USB case and continued to access the files (or at  
least copy the main ones) that way on yet another pc that was  
connected on the network.

About a year later, that latter pc (a small compact/slim DT
model) wouldn't boot up consistently either! (Arghhh! Here we
go again.) I replaced that one with my Lenovo 3000. So far, so  
good.
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  ../|ug

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