Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!sri-unix!anderson@Rand-Unix From: anderson%Rand-Unix@sri-unix.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro.pc Subject: Repair Problems Message-ID: <17388@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Tue, 6-Mar-84 22:08:00 EST Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.17388 Posted: Tue Mar 6 22:08:00 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 13-Mar-84 00:55:33 EST Lines: 23 From: anderson@Rand-Unix (Robert_Anderson) After running my two-year-old IBM PC about 6 hrs. a day, 5 days a week with no problems (except expected ones in the 3rd party Daisywheel printer) I suddenly had some component on my motherboard (don't know which) go, requiring a $400 replacement (it would be $800 without turn in of my old motherboard), followed several weeks later by a short in the flyback transformer in my IBM monochrome display (Computerworld says its unrepairable, because it would have to be sent back to IBM, and would cost as much as a new one). I haven't been hit by lightning lately, or anything else that would have caused this rash of problems. I conclude that some of the components have a lifetime of about 2 years. What I conclude from this is that it might pay to get some sort of service agreement on your PC after a year or so, to handle the big stuff when it hits; what seems rock solid now won't last foever. By the way, does anyone know if the flyback transformer in an IBM monochrome display is a common electronic part that can be procured at an electronics outlet? Bob Anderson