On Fri, 1 Apr 2005, Tim Blechmann wrote:

hm ... both your suggestion imply hardware failures ... this is possible, but strange, since i have the same problem on 24 new computers, with exactly the same hardware ... and the problems take place on all the machines ...

Ok, then it's almost certainly not a hardware failure, unless it is something big like the Pentium bug, which generated about 999.875 jokes about it a decade ago... (and one more two seconds ago)

All the failures I described are either manufacturing problems or wear-off problems, and not systematic design problems. *some* manufacturing problems happen on a chain of computers, especially if bought all at once from one source, but it's very rare.

Note that if you are installing an OS using a disk mirroring system, then a problem in RAM in the master computer can cause file corruption upon OS installation which is then propagated exactly to all computers. Been there, done that (but on a much smaller scale).

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