[ale] OT: Diagnosing HW problem

[John Wells]

James P. Kinney III said:
> If the hardware is crap you shouldn't get hit with a restocking fee. It
> should be a warranty return.
>
> If wherever you got it from won't honor the warranty, take it on the
> chin and take your business elsewhere.
>
> At this point, return the entire pile of garbage and get something else.
> The motherboard is bad and there may be other problems as well. If the
> power supply fried it may have surged and trashed the board.
>
> **note** There are big advantages to getting all the parts for a new
> system from one supplier.

I think you might have misunderstood me...the system itself is one I built
over three years ago and has been rock solid the entire time.  I recently
added the additional hard drive (which was a source of my emails last
week), but the rebooting and freeze problems have started occurring the
last week.  So...it's either somehow weirdly being caused by the new hard
drive (which I can remove and still get the problems, so I doubt it) or
it's something else.  My money is on the motherboard.

Thanks!
John