re: Erunt and DriveImage backups suddenly taking 10 times longer!
Friday, May 15, 2009 at 9:26 am
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Posted by raminder singh
(92 messages posted)
Thank you.
The UPS is a locally made one of unknown quality. But I saw no smoke and it has functioned
well since the crash, including coping with a few power failures.
I will not be getting a replacement hard disk since I told them that my system was
working fine with the old disk. Fortunately, enough months of the warranty remain
to protect me if the disk does fail eventually.
On Friday, May 15, 2009 at 6:06 am, Jacob6601 wrote:
>The different capacitors are a result of the board revision I spoke of. The original
>components did not match up with other components reliably. More likely, the vendor
>supplied unreliable components. On boards where the component tolerances vary too
>much, you get slight damage, then more damage ... then failure.
>
>Unless you have a VERY cheap UPS, it did no damage (except, of course, the system
>corruption); Most are designed to kill themselves before overpowering (spiking)
your
>pc. The brownout may have caused a spike through the phone/cable/ethernet, but you
>usually "see smoke" in that situation.
>
>The disk controller on the HDD may have been slightly damaged or it may be more
sensitive.
>We will probably never know for sure. But I think it is okay. If you do not get
an
>RMA with the new disc, keep that one for data.
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