Author: Tony Whitmore Date: To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] [OT] All sorts of hardware issues
Rob Malpass wrote: > Hi all
>
> Does anyone know of a cost effective solution to a "dirty" electricity
> supply? My father-in-law's PC (built by my own fair hand admittedly!) is
> having all sorts of hardware issues and I don't think it's my workmanship -
> I think it's the electricity supply at his house. In 2 years, we've had to
> replace 3 hard drives, 1 power supply, 1 router and now his optical drive is
> only working intermittantly. Admittedly he does faff about installing
> stuff not having a clue what he's doing - but the errors he comes to me with
> are so serious I can't believe he's doing this himself.
>
> I'm thinking that a standard surge protector isn't good enough - it's not
> power outages that are the problem - I suspect it's blowing components
> because (if we were to test the AC at his house on an oscilloscope) we
> wouldn't get a nice sine wave.
> My electronics knowledge is very rusty though. Are we talking another
> surge protector, a UPS - or something more fundamental here?
