I have had 3 computers die on me whilst working in remote locations with broken motherboards. These machines were housed in $500 19" rack cases in shock mounted shipping boxes!
I recently found some industrial computers which use a PCI bus 'passive backplane' which just have lots of PCI cards, one of them with CPU etc. The passive backplane has no components and therefore theoretically is more robust than a traditional AT or ATX mainboard.
Heres an example of a passive backplane board in a workstation
I would like to know if anyone uses these types of computers at work, if they operate as normal workstations and take 'regular' PCI cards, and if they are infact better at taking a few 'knocks' than you typical PC.
Thanks in advance.
Yoshi.
I recently found some industrial computers which use a PCI bus 'passive backplane' which just have lots of PCI cards, one of them with CPU etc. The passive backplane has no components and therefore theoretically is more robust than a traditional AT or ATX mainboard.
Heres an example of a passive backplane board in a workstation
I would like to know if anyone uses these types of computers at work, if they operate as normal workstations and take 'regular' PCI cards, and if they are infact better at taking a few 'knocks' than you typical PC.
Thanks in advance.
Yoshi.