Hardware companies you have "Blacklisted"

Klo said:
I don't quite understand the Creative thing, sure there support for Vista isn't good, but product wise it seems fine. Is it all to do with the 'ethnics' behind the entire driver thing with that guy who's name I've forgotten (David, dave?)
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Those damn ethnics! damn them all!

My XFI Gamer works perfect in Vista I have to say, there were some early issues with crackling/popping but I've not seen a single one since newer drivers and SP1 so meh, all is good!
 
only problems i've had were with an Enermax 1000w PSU, had a faulty one and sent it back for a refund. PSU's that cost that much shouldnt be faulty. :D

also my XFX mobo was claimed as 'faulty' although i still think it was a compatibility issue with the 790i and OCZ RAM. in fact im sure of it. :O other than that everything works perfect. (touch wood)
 
srghost said:
I would have to say anything generic I hate. It has to be a branded piece of hardware.

There is nothing I would blacklist aslong as it is a well known make.

@Ch3m1c4L .... you sig... you say you don't like creative and xfx but you have a creative sound card and also a xfx graphics card....... stop been a hypocrit ;)
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my xfx card is the 4th replacement i had after the first three broke/DOA
and the creative soundcard...tis an audigy 2....from like the month they were first released. I would not buy anything from them anymore.

Edit: although i did speak to a representitive from XFX at a LAN and he had never heard of the issues i was experiencing, so it may have been something in my system (new mobo cpu and psu now). I will still buy them but only for budget parts for other people, myself i will go with evga or something of the like.
 
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I've been lucky with my choices as far as hardware has gone, my only gripe about an ogranisation is related to my first PC which I bought from Evesham. It was my first machine and I had no clue about anything and it was a nightmare, and the "support" was shocking.

Looking back, it was the massive amounts of jazz cigarettes that me and my friends were smoking in my room, and it bascially gumming up the machine till it overheated and died. That said, the "technical support" they sent to my house, the many times they did, managed to completely wipe my hard drive. I was told to back up anything that was important before the goat farmer arrived(which he was, seemingly goats weren't bringing in the cash, so he decided to take a screwdriver into homes for evesham), I know he was a farmer because I seen him so many times and we had to kill time while things installed. I had bought a newer better HDD because I had been lazy and not backed up anything, and just dumped all my stuff on it, I mentioned I would have liked to put my OS on the backup drive, so he just ghosted 98 onto it, swearing to me that all my data would be fine. When I turned to him and said "ok, the OS is on the newer drive, but there is nothing else!" he grabbed his mobile and phoned Evesham "help me".

He chapped my door about 30 minutes later and said sorry, that he didn't know that doing what he done would "erase" my drive. Since then I've really been keen on backing up important files.
 
Another one having given Maxtor the boot a few years ago.

Asus (for the time being anyway), because their Marvell driver (Vista) support was non existent....
 
Must mention though about Creative is that the Creative Vision M I own is brilliant and beats any Ipod although i'd never buy another Creative sound card again just due to drivers and support issues.
 
Asus, until they get over this flakey component/FSBhole/betabios thing.
ATi, still lie awake sweating, thinking about my 9800pro, their cards are just viruses with edge connectors, and their TV outs are so bad they look like NTSC (ie, horrific).
 
Apple, can't stand their overpriced garbage.

Nvidia I try to stay away from with their awful awful driver program, I have had 2 of their cards in my life, both were dead in a week, and their very questionable business ethics.
 
Emlyn_Dewar said:
Yes I had a PII with one in I believe. How long can you hold a grudge though?
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not that long, i bought a 9800 pro a couple of years after, that was a half decent card, like i said.

BUT, other than that, as i've built computers for friends, and work and tried their other offerings, i've found them to be very poor.
 
thegoonden said:
Asus, until they get over this flakey component/FSBhole/betabios thing.
ATi, still lie awake sweating, thinking about my 9800pro, their cards are just viruses with edge connectors, and their TV outs are so bad they look like NTSC (ie, horrific).
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asus have got over the fsb hole with the 790i apperently according to a review i read.
 
creative
q-tec psus
hiper psus
apple
ibm (old deskstars hdds aka death-stars)
microsoft branded items
d-link (crappy drivers for old pci card and pcmcia adaptor)
nvidia cards (crappy drivers for my current card)
 
Thermaltake - Most of their cases are too overpriced, tacky, fugly and far too heavy.
Maxtor - Infact one of these just died on me last week. Not the first.
Acer - Decent customer support from what I've experienced but crap products mostly.
Trust - Cheap tat.
Q-Tec - Cheap tat.
Packard Bell - Customer support non-existant.
HP - Same as Packard Bell.
Raidmax - So tacky I don't know how they sleep at night.
Any no-name RAM / PSU.
Any of those brands you see backstreet computer shops specialising in.
Any cheap monitor make such as Emprex, Cibox, Yuraku etc.
 
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Digimate, we've got a batch of 21 of them at work, and 17 have been RMAed.

I'm also not keen on Linksys Access Points after I plugged one in and smoke started coming out of it.
 
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