How often do receive dead components when upgrading?

jim5000 · 5 Apr 2007 at 18:31

Out of interest, how many times have you had to send a piece of hardware back because it was faulty?

I've sent 1 cdr/dvd combo, 2 motherboards (in a row) and now 1 graphics card back. I've been building\upgrading PCs for about 8 years now, and so its not such a bad return, but it makes me cry that my new 8800 doesn't work

WoZZeR · 5 Apr 2007 at 18:33

Very infrequently for me.

Although I find that my components either fail very quickly or go on for years.

marc2003 · 5 Apr 2007 at 18:35

never *touches wood*

Killa_ken · 5 Apr 2007 at 18:35

only once, was a Mega 180, OcUK gladly swapped it mind

jim5000 · 5 Apr 2007 at 18:42

Mega 180?

Azagoth · 5 Apr 2007 at 18:45

Nothing yet, touch wood.

jim5000 said:
Mega 180?

One of these I believe!

^TANK^ · 5 Apr 2007 at 18:46

Not yet thank god.

jim5000 · 5 Apr 2007 at 18:47

Hmm, I was beginning to think it was quite common, but apparently not!

jim5000 · 5 Apr 2007 at 18:48

Azagoth said:
Nothing yet, touch wood.

One of these I believe!

Looks like a mini hifi!

trojan698 · 5 Apr 2007 at 18:53

Very very rarely. Haven't received a dead component yet.

|Ric| · 5 Apr 2007 at 19:13

A competitor used to ship me hard drives that always seemed to be broken on first attempt. Think it happened at least 3 times.
Had some dodgy ram once (it died after about 2 days)

Thinks that's all, did send my zboard back eventually because it had a fault from day one (seemingly all zboards had this fault though)

stigggeh · 5 Apr 2007 at 19:14

non have been DOA... i have had one go bad within a week though.

.:MBK:. · 5 Apr 2007 at 19:21

never had any new comps go **** up at arrival, couple of HDDs over MM have arrived no functioning courtesy of the royal mail, as such ive avoided buying hdds in MM now, its a lot of hastle claiming against RM or RMAing the product (atleast for someone as lazy as me)

jamoor · 5 Apr 2007 at 19:26

WoZZeR said:
Very infrequently for me.

Although I find that my components either fail very quickly or go on for years.

they will fail quickly probbably because there is something wrong with them.

Has anyone actually ever had a computer die due to age or simply getting old?

I never have.

tem07 · 5 Apr 2007 at 19:34

2 are faulty, and one hasn't been returned and is lying in a box...
Samsung 226BW scratch in middle of screen, RMA.
Pioneeer DVD RW faulty, RMA, not yet returned.

Moredhel · 5 Apr 2007 at 19:45

jamoor said:
they will fail quickly probbably because there is something wrong with them.

Has anyone actually ever had a computer die due to age or simply getting old?

I never have.

Never a whole computer, but I've had hard drives fail after several years of 24/7 use.

Never had a component arrive dead though. *touch wood*

iCraig · 5 Apr 2007 at 19:46

Not that often. I'm pretty good at selecting good quality components so my computer is very stable and

Jonny69 · 5 Apr 2007 at 20:15

Used to buy a lot of stock from OcUK's orange-branded competitor when I was in business. Took me a while to realise their own branded stuff was utter utter trash. About 50% of their own branded ram was faulty and the ECS motherboards they did I sent about 5 in 8 back. Only had one dead hard disk and a couple of DOA network cards. That's in about £15-20K's worth of stock per year over the last 4 years so I reckon I must have sent back a few grand's worth!

The secret is to find a reliable brand and stick with it.

28ten · 5 Apr 2007 at 20:17

none, but a few have failed in the first week

Westyfield2 · 5 Apr 2007 at 20:20

Never recieved a DOA, never had anything fail during warranty either.