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This is a long long story
I moved into this house in Nov 2013
I brought with me an older i3 gaming computer with a gigabyte motherboard. By December the MB failed for no reason I could fathom.
So I bought a brand new dell Inspiron desk top. Under warrenty it had the motherboard replaced three times until dell finally sent me complete new machine. I took it out of the box on Friday and by Saturday the motherboard failed. Thinking that this was just bad components or bad luck I got a refund from dell.
I then bought a custom desktop with an i5 CPU and Asus MB and dedicated AMD GPU
Again I had to return the machine 5 maybe 6 times as either the GPU or the MB or both would fail. Again I got my money back but by now I am in despair at what the problem could be.
In despair I got a full Elecrician report and test on the electric in my house. It passed and no faults were found. By the way my sockets are on a RCD circuit and I would notice this would sometime trip.
So thinking my electricity was fine and again it must be bad luck , bad PSU, or bad MB I Eventually I bought a fantastic clevio i7 laptop with nvidia GPU
No prizes for what happened to the laptop. Yeah MB failures. From May 2016 to Aug2016 the laptop had to be returned 4 times and each time the MB failed on the 5v rail.
On 26th Aug I had a great new desktop delivered . i5 skylake Asus MB nvidia GTX 1050 and Areocool 80 plus 600w PSU
It is exactly 7 days later and the machine has no power. I suspect MB failure again.
While all these machine were back at the store getting fixed I went out and bought secondhand machines including 2 laptops (now failed no power) 2 desktops ( one back at the store for a refund and one under my bed with no power to the ..... Yeah you guessed it ... The motherboard)
I had the Elecrician come and test all my electricity again a few weeks back. No problems found but the guy is gonna come back and add a surge protector to the RCD panel.
All this time I have used various surge protectors and even have a UPS with volt regulation.
This is a total mystery to why so many devices are failing. If it's surges how are they getting past surge protector strips.
All in all I reckon I have had 30 RMAs and that's not including the secondhand stuff I didn't bother to return . I'm at my wits end. I don't know what to do next.
I can't keep returning machines to the store under warrenty.
Does anyone know what the heck is going on and why can't the electrician find anything
Thanks in advance
I moved into this house in Nov 2013
I brought with me an older i3 gaming computer with a gigabyte motherboard. By December the MB failed for no reason I could fathom.
So I bought a brand new dell Inspiron desk top. Under warrenty it had the motherboard replaced three times until dell finally sent me complete new machine. I took it out of the box on Friday and by Saturday the motherboard failed. Thinking that this was just bad components or bad luck I got a refund from dell.
I then bought a custom desktop with an i5 CPU and Asus MB and dedicated AMD GPU
Again I had to return the machine 5 maybe 6 times as either the GPU or the MB or both would fail. Again I got my money back but by now I am in despair at what the problem could be.
In despair I got a full Elecrician report and test on the electric in my house. It passed and no faults were found. By the way my sockets are on a RCD circuit and I would notice this would sometime trip.
So thinking my electricity was fine and again it must be bad luck , bad PSU, or bad MB I Eventually I bought a fantastic clevio i7 laptop with nvidia GPU
No prizes for what happened to the laptop. Yeah MB failures. From May 2016 to Aug2016 the laptop had to be returned 4 times and each time the MB failed on the 5v rail.
On 26th Aug I had a great new desktop delivered . i5 skylake Asus MB nvidia GTX 1050 and Areocool 80 plus 600w PSU
It is exactly 7 days later and the machine has no power. I suspect MB failure again.
While all these machine were back at the store getting fixed I went out and bought secondhand machines including 2 laptops (now failed no power) 2 desktops ( one back at the store for a refund and one under my bed with no power to the ..... Yeah you guessed it ... The motherboard)
I had the Elecrician come and test all my electricity again a few weeks back. No problems found but the guy is gonna come back and add a surge protector to the RCD panel.
All this time I have used various surge protectors and even have a UPS with volt regulation.
This is a total mystery to why so many devices are failing. If it's surges how are they getting past surge protector strips.
All in all I reckon I have had 30 RMAs and that's not including the secondhand stuff I didn't bother to return . I'm at my wits end. I don't know what to do next.
I can't keep returning machines to the store under warrenty.
Does anyone know what the heck is going on and why can't the electrician find anything
Thanks in advance
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