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Message 1822783 - Posted: 8 Oct 2016, 19:48:35 UTC

My Alienware (the original from when Dell purchased Alienware ~ 2006) finally gave up. It was stripped of everything but the OS & Boinc, my MacAir died in August (new in 2009) and I fear my iMac (new in 2009) is not far behind - the disk is partiioned so maybe that is the problem with the random CPU issues. There was a Dell LT that also was a weather underground station that ran BOINC, but it failed over a year ago.
So on to new and hopefully a machine that will outlive me.
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Just frustrating hardware day. "Never give up never surrender," I thought it was a funny movie.
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Message 1823470 - Posted: 11 Oct 2016, 2:16:08 UTC - in response to Message 1822783.  

i don't have a lot of experience with laptops, but were you able to find out which part broke? my pc's stop working either when RAM or PSU go bad. if 3 computers stopped working with hardware issues within a short period of time, were they all in the same power outlet? maybe need a surge protector?
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