Post your hardware failures and WIN A 4GB Flash Voyager Mini

Mattus said:
This strikes me as a bit unfair. The stuff that has the most reported failures is probably going to be the stuff that's most popular. For example, you'll probably discover more dead Corsair PSUs than Q-Tecs, but that's because everybody buys Corsairs and avoids Q-Tecs like the plague. It's not meaningful unless you know how many are still going as well as how many are dead.
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The head of the Nail has been hit.
 
saitek eclipse II

There is other stuff, but thats been from alooot of use, and careless use at that, so it would be unfair to mention them.
 
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Hmm not sure i see how this can be useful myself to be honest. There have been certain models that in hindsight were a bad buy but as for current stuff no real way to know if it's good or bad and by the time this thread shows a trend most of us will have seen it anyway and not be buying problem kit.
 
Sapphire ATI Radeon 9800 Pro - a capacitor fell off, re-soldered it & worked for a couple of months but no more
HIS ATI Radeon X700 - was not in use for a couple of months, now doesn't work
Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe - worked for about a month then wouldn't boot-up
ASRock 939Dual-SATA2 - boots but just doesn't get into Windows & or hangs
WD RE2 WD5000YS (500GB) - Started clicking = WD Diagnostic reports drive needs replacing. Awaiting RMA
Samsung SH-S182D ODD - Problems burning CDs, fails unless you run in simulation mode first oh & very noisy. Reads CDs, burns & reads DVDs fine :confused:
 
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LCD Panel on the front of my NZXT Guardian 921
Antec PSU
Graphics card on DELL XPS GEN 2 laptop x 5 (no jokes)

EDIT: yesterday the interlink bluetooth remote for mi laptop broke aswell :'(
 
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Maxtor Diamondmax 80gb HDD < a little black thing burst into flames.....
Hiper type R 580watt < fan embedded itself into the casing.
Sapphire Nvidia 6600GT 256MB < fan broke
Sapphire ATI 9800pro < everything went green
 
Maxtor Diamondmax 200gb HDD - just died one day
Gigabyte 8KNXP 478 motherboard - reinstalled windows xp one day & when it came to changing display for optimal viewing in the installation just gave up & never worked again
Globalwin 480w Powersupply - clicked very loudly, Sent it back.
Enermax noisetaker 480w powersupply - just died completely one day
XFX 6800GT - fan stopped working, didn't notice, card overheated.
Dell 17" E773p - screen wobbled
 
Crucial Ballistix DDR2 --> worked fine for a long time, started to get random crashes. Passed memtest but it was kind of random so i sent it back for new one which i sold. They get points for good service though, and maybe their DDR3 will be better.

Hyundai 24Inch PVA Monitor --> Arrived with a ****ty pink vertical line. OCUK made me contact Hyundai directly. Their own service was terrible, i will avoid Hyundai monitors. Really hoped OCUK would have helped me more as it was brand new.

Sasmung F1 Spinpoint 1TB --> Stopped working a few days after i bought it.

Thats about it i think. Hopes it stays this way.
 
IBM Deathstar 75GXP

When I was first looking into building my first pc I wanted nothing to go wrong and wanted reliability and something I could trust.

I thought that was IBM.
 
Maxtor Diamondmax 9 120GB HD, 8mb cache IDE
GeForce 6600GT (AGP)
Corsair 512mb DDR400 CL2 RAM (couple of bad blocks that went unnoticed for well over a year)
Hewlett Packard 7500 CDRW drive (still reads but the write laser is burnt out :D)
DLink DI-604 Router
DLink DI-604 power supply (went long before the router itself)
DLink 5 Port gigabit switch power supply (noticing a trend here)
Unknown Netgear Router (small black metal box with built in switch)
Belinia (sp?) 15" CRT monitor
 
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