Brown out.

Last week on Saturday July 9th at about 1pm here in Nashua we had a power
outage and at first it was just a "Brown out" where half of the power was still there
this gave you lights to some of the rooms in the house but it also dimmed the lights.
20 min after that we had a total shut down for at least 1 hour.  since that day we
have had 3 computers come in because of power supply deaths...  and one of our
own computers died here in the house ...




one of my customers had a power supply go out and that was pretty much that, another
had the power supply fan fail but during the brown out the power supply tried to compensate
and melted some parts on the motherboard. after that it just overheated and shut down. this
last computer just reboots randomly and we found it to be another power supply issue.


If you know anyone who is having issues with their computer please let them know that we
can look at it for them.

found some information on Brown outs on Wikipedia that explain some of the issues that can
be caused by a power loss like this


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownout_%28electricity%29


Chris Long
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