Wall wart quality / stability

[lleachii]

Mysterious reboots - could UPS battery backup solve it?

I had an odd situation that plagued me for years... tl;dr - I had to replace all surge protectors for all electronics (some protectors which were 30+ years old). Over 7 years ago, I realized where I lived did not have "clean power"...mainly because the power flashed all the time (quick brown or even black outs). At one point in time, I replaced a motherboard twice in an x86_64 PC. With this machine on it's third motherboard, I bought a new surge protector (about $20 USD with a $15-20k warranty…