Re: [Hampshire] [OT] All sorts of hardware issues

On Saturday 16 August 2008 12:13:48 Tony Whitmore wrote:
> 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?
>
> A UPS should do the job.
>
> Tony


I agree, a UPS will do the job, at one time our head office had a UPS on every
PC in the building to help maintain a stable power supply to the PC.
Thankfully thing have improved since those days.

Tim