School computers seem questionable
At our school, the computers in both the library and one of the computer labs have been really unstable for a while.
They are all PIII Seanix TCO towers and all of them were bought around the same time. When I see the ones in the library odds are that at least one has hung and must be reset. Every so often I hear the "clank" of the hard drive parking and then spinning back up for no reason and sometimes with the clank the monitor flips out but immediately comes back. In the computer lab, the lab where graphics are most commonly done there have been times when you get video corruption and it gets worse and worse until the system must be reset.
Now I have no way to open these system or inquire on the conditions of the boards but from what I am observing this sounds like a bad PSU, right?
The problems also started on all the systems at around the same time (last year) and there has been no changes to the circuits these systems run on for years (1993 when the academic wing was expanded).
They are all PIII Seanix TCO towers and all of them were bought around the same time. When I see the ones in the library odds are that at least one has hung and must be reset. Every so often I hear the "clank" of the hard drive parking and then spinning back up for no reason and sometimes with the clank the monitor flips out but immediately comes back. In the computer lab, the lab where graphics are most commonly done there have been times when you get video corruption and it gets worse and worse until the system must be reset.
Now I have no way to open these system or inquire on the conditions of the boards but from what I am observing this sounds like a bad PSU, right?
The problems also started on all the systems at around the same time (last year) and there has been no changes to the circuits these systems run on for years (1993 when the academic wing was expanded).
<----Computer says I need more beer.
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