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In article <1992Nov4.182328.19037@news.clarkson.edu> faruque@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Abdullah Faruque,334CH,3752,2654247) writes:
>From article <1992Nov4.084645.16364@brtph560.bnr.ca>, by kimmyd@bnr.ca (Kimmy Posey P920):
>> In article <1992Nov4.004352.15077@fasttech.com>, zeke@fasttech.com (Bohdan Tashchuk) writes:
>>>In <1992Nov02.215953.23041@kksys.com> gk@kksys.com (Greg Kemnitz) writes:
>>> 
>> 
>> [ highly relevant facts deleted ] 
>> 
>>>>Two -- We have NEVER seen a system fail in service due to a processor chip
>>>>failure.  This is despite having sold many many hundreds of systems.  Our
>>>>customers are in general long term customers, and most of our business is
>>>>repeat business, so we have the opportunity to track the history of the
>>>>systems we have sold.  We also service a large number of systems sold by
>>>>others, many with substandard cooling, and have never seen a failed cpu chip
>>>>in them either.
>> 
>The above statement reminds me the following quotation:
>
>"The difference between a computer salesman and a used car salesman is
>that, the used card salesman knows how to drive a car and when he is
>lying"
Well, I have had 3 486/33 chips fail in a system where the
power supply was located on the bottom of the tower. Finally,
I changed to a different case with the power supply at the
top(normal).

Ralph

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