Have you been very lucky over the years?

MaxP779 said:
Meh... not really.

I bought into socket 423... and socket 754... two hardware fails right there :p


Blown antec truepower 430 power supply
DOA samsung SP160 hard drive

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Dead TP 430 here too, 2 in fact and quite embarrasingly on a clients rigs.

Same Spinpoint, DOA

Never bought a PIV and waited for 939 though :p
 
Only three that weren't down to my own stupidity.

One Teac CD drive - failed noisily after two days

One self combusting ASUS motherboard - Grey smokes and burnt out circuits!!!! :eek:

One MS intellimouse stopped doing mousy things

Not bad since 1993.

Once my stupidity enters the list, things get more frequent and expensive. :D
 
Ive been really lucky i think.

Over the years the only thing ive had fail really is a few DVDRW drives. DOA items ive had 2 hard drives and a Corsair PSU.
 
Forgot to mention, had a couple of USB sticks die on me, with all my ICT coursework on them, I had a backup which was a few days old, dam annoying thing was I was in the middle of making a backup when one of them died.
 
sjcf1 said:
Forgot to mention, had a couple of USB sticks die on me, with all my ICT coursework on them, I had a backup which was a few days old, dam annoying thing was I was in the middle of making a backup when one of them died.
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Same happened here. I hate usb sticks so unreliable... thats why I bought a Portable HDD :)
 
I've had an old PSU blow up taking out the whole of the PIII system it was attatched to. A 1GB stick of DDR2 800 go bad on me, as well as a 512MB stick of DDR2 667. A Corsair memory stick that failed a couple of years ago and was replaced, and a free memory stick that the USB part broke off on in the first week.
 
mattjd said:
Same happened here. I hate usb sticks so unreliable... thats why I bought a Portable HDD :)
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Yeah, I bought a portable HDD, but I really didn't want to bring it into my school, probably would have got nicked.
 
Ive had the odd HDD go and odd software errors but nothing a quick google solves. Ive had relativly trouble free computing since i started building computers.

Does help when youve built hundreds and worked in various IT departments/projects.
 
I've had odd crashes here and there but nothing to shout about, they're pretty rare actually. Only problem I had was with an unbranded 600W PSU and I was running FurMark; that said I was really pushing the card (same 8800GS I have now at about the same speeds, up from stock 580!) and it was only running off the 2 molexs that were also running the rest of the system! I still have a not so amazing PSU but I bought it cause I could get it asap. Still this one hasn't gone bang despite the high overclocking and stress testing :P
 
Here goes mine

AMD X2 2.5 = Burnt a few pins (i dont know how)

AMD X2 3.0 = I forgot to pull up the lever on the AMD mobo and just ofrec the cpu in. Broke almost every pin

NVIDIA PCI GPU = In 2004 i jamed it into the AGP slot, it broke

ASUS MOTHERBOARD = Dont know how but it just would boot one day

ASROCK MOBO = After installing windows it would boot

SAMSUNG HDD = Didnt break but i took it out of pc due to cable managemnt and cant remember where i put it.. Still not found to this date

ANNOYING CRASH = I built a PC in 2005 and left one motherboard stand of out. It kept crashing the pc and random times and i found out after 9 months while dusting it

All this in the past 5 years
 
i've been using, building and upgrading pcs since the 486 SX25 days, and i've had very few problems:

DOA Asus Motherboard (socket a)
DOA Corsair Ram
and 2 broken hard drives, one was a 720mb Western Digital, that had about 8 years of use, the other was a Deathstar 75GXP

the 2 DOA were replaced via courier
The Deathstar i had to post myself, but was replaced.

althou i have bought a lot of worthless things in the past, that were outdated or useless very quickly, like the creative encore and iomega buz
 
SAMSUNG HDD = Didnt break but i took it out of pc due to cable managemnt and cant remember where i put it.. Still not found to this date
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Thank you for enlighting my night shift we all in the office found that quite amusing.
 
Ive been messing around with computers for 10years or more and have had a few things go, one being my fault.

First one i was being lazy and testing a mobo with a PSU already plugged into another computer and the mobo touched the case of the computer and shorted out :(

Second was last year (2009) my 1000w Tagan PSU **** itself before christmas so didnt have my pc to watch films and play games on :(

The third isnt really a massive issue as it was my brothers first so good for me bad for him. He had an 8800gtx which started blocking after a few years so he bought a 260 and i put the 8800gtx in the oven and got it working. It has died again a couple of times but i put it back in the oven and worked again. It is now sitting in my new machine with a huge thermalright cooler and 120mm fan attached to it until i can afford/decide which GFX card to get as it is having trouble with some of the newer games :(.
 
Not been too bad all things considered. In the last 11 years......

One stick of RAM gave up on me about a year ago, and had a hdd fail.

I had a bit of an accident removing the cpu backplate from a B grade S754 mobo, which was my own fault.:(
 
Broke'd:

Various HDDs (we need to get rid of them already, seriously) including a Seagate that went bang. Leadtek 6800GT. Powercolor 4870X2. Graphics cards seem to be failing at an alarming rate, all my CPUs still work going back 10+ years but only half my gfx cards are still with me. Probably some other things, although some were definitely my fault.

I once plugged the CPU fan into the wrong header on a brand new Asus mobo and killed it when building a new system. Epic noob fail.
 
had a few old bios / drivers, but once updated, the problem was solved.

i replaced a dead fan in a psu once, i could not be bothered to send it back for replacement.
 
Just remember this: 15 new pcs for a computer room in a school experimenting with non-RM equipment. Got some brand spanking new A8V motherboards with 'latest BIOS for sure m8, if not we'll flash it for you' because i knew it needed an update for Winchester Athlons of which i got 15 of as well since my supply guy claimed to have no Newcastles (how were they gonna flash it then?). First bad sign was, boxes totally sealed still, Winnies were out for about 3 weeks, what're the odds the boards that were likely sitting in a warehouse would support it? Just as i thought, no boot :( I had no Newcastles as well, had to drive about 40 miles and get one from a techie mate as local shops wanted an arm and a leg (like 70 quid more!) and pcs had to be ready in 4 days, no guarantee for shipping times etc. Then flash 15 boards, took all night but managed to get it done!
 
Ace Modder said:
Wait till your PSU blows now tonight and takes your mobo and CPU out.
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I was about to say something like that:p


In answer to the op, in the past 20 years or so from memory i've had
Untold dead hard drives
Large numbers of dead optical drives
Many, many dead Fans
About 5 dead videocards (one due to the fan dying:p)
1 dead motherboard.
1 PSU that went pop (good psu though, it didn't take anything with it).
1 PSU that just died quietly (an old AT one).
about 6-8 dead memory modules/modules that didn't work with the motherboard they were meant to.
Several dead NIC's - one caught fire when it died "I was playing UO and it sort of froze and made a really bad smell" as my dad put it when he told me his (my old) computer had failed.
 
I've been pretty lucky actually. I had a laptop eventually bite the dust (read, "fill up with dust"), one dead fan, a bad stick of RAM, and that's about it. Not bad for about 15yrs of computer use!
 
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