[c-nsp] Burned up 2790

[Mike]

Hi,

For the second time in 7 months, I had a 2970 go south on me. I get a 
power light, and thats about it and no console no nothing. The thing 
appeared to have some sort of trouble earlier in the day with it 
interrupting routing briefly between some routers but then it settled 
down, dying later all of a sudden. No smoke, opening the box shows 
nothing scorched, and I'm just beside myself trying to figure out what 
can be done. I would love to be able to justify a 6500 for the 
redundancy features and plug in card archetecture, but I'm comfortably 
working within the 24 gige ports and 4 sfp's of the 2970. Is there 
anything between the 6500 and 2970 that gives me the redundancy of the 
6500 with the smaller form factor of the 2970? I an justify spending 
more since I can't deal with the downtime of a critically important 
switch going down, I just need some pointers on what to look for.

Thanks.