In 2001 I saw a lot of this with HP Vectra VLI-8 series computers. On a couple of occasions the CPU got toasted but that wasn't very common. It was however, pretty common for the backplane to die along with the motherboard. What's worse, if you put a good motherboard (sorry, don't remember what brand but the problem was fixed in later revisions) into a machine that still had a bad backplane, it would kill the new motherboard. I wasted a lot of time and effort replacing processors and RAM and making 4000 calls to HP tech support before I started to suspect that the lowly backplane might be the problem. Once I knew the trick, fixing them became routine but for a couple of weeks this was an extremely frustrating problem.
I'm really glad I saw this article, I feel like a trauma victim who's finally achieved closure.
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In 2001 I saw a lot of this with HP Vectra VLI-8 series computers. On a couple of occasions the CPU got toasted but that wasn't very common. It was however, pretty common for the backplane to die along with the motherboard. What's worse, if you put a good motherboard (sorry, don't remember what brand but the problem was fixed in later revisions) into a machine that still had a bad backplane, it would kill the new motherboard. I wasted a lot of time and effort replacing processors and RAM and making 4000 calls to HP tech support before I started to suspect that the lowly backplane might be the problem. Once I knew the trick, fixing them became routine but for a couple of weeks this was an extremely frustrating problem. I'm really glad I saw this article, I feel like a trauma victim who's finally achieved closure.