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

willy · 9 Apr 2009 at 19:27

stokecity_m said:
one Durex condom - lad is now aged 8

Best one ever, made rofl at work so hard this morning

chuck990 · 9 Apr 2009 at 19:52

cmon peps i wat that prize!

Mr-White · 9 Apr 2009 at 20:29

stokecity_m said:
one Durex condom - lad is now aged 8

i hope it wasn't RMA'd

MW

Kazz · 9 Apr 2009 at 20:42

Corsair HX 520W ATX PSU: Went to psu heavan just last week, no bang, smoke, not even a 'bink'. Working fine one night, usual shutdown, came home from work the following day and it wouldn't power up. RMA'd, got a replacement.

Asus K8V SE Deluxe: System freshly built a few years back, refused to do anything, RMA'd, got a replacement.

Plec · 10 Apr 2009 at 14:00

Brand new Gigabyte GA-EP43-S3L motherboard on a new build (built 2 systems - mine on a whim as seemed such good value - and mine is the borked one). I've just discovered that all my problems are due to slots 1 and 3 being used in dual channel mode - memtest list 3000 errors in first 6% of testing. Both memory sticks test fine on their own. However, it passes memtest in slots 2 and 4 - so now i've got to decide whether i RMA the board and be without my desktop for however long these things take to sort out...

Bob Wya Jnr · 10 Apr 2009 at 14:36

Greenlizard0 said:
Iiyama Pro 450 CRT 19"
Old Asus motherboard (I can't remember the model number)
Old Gigabyte motherboard (I can't remember the model number)
Another old Gigabyte motherboard (I can't remember the model number)

Right that's it!! My next CRT is not going to be from Ilyama. No more motherboards from Asus or Gigabyte either... Didn't someone say something about DFI as well...

Gee isn't this thread going to be useful to everyone...

Fail (... to the whole thread - except the broken condom :cool:

)

Bob

Psypher5 · 10 Apr 2009 at 15:08

to be fair i think everyone should stay clear from the roccat Kone

PhillyDee · 10 Apr 2009 at 15:42

I left a comment, but it isnt there! Tried to repost and it said it was a duplicate. Am I being thick or do all comments stop at Apr 7th?

siumatfung · 10 Apr 2009 at 17:20

Q-Tech 400W PSU which took my 1 week old ATi 9600XT along with it
ASUS P5N-E SLi motherboard just stopped working after 8months

MagicBoy · 10 Apr 2009 at 17:31

Erm, not much considering how much kit I've had over the years.

Gigabyte GA8-IRXP (old 845DDR board) - caps popped and became unstable. Got a mate who's handy with a soldering iron to replace the caps
ATI Rage Pro 128 card - heatsink fell off, GPU fried
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro - faulty RAM - artifacts everywhere
17" Belinea TFT - backlight fault - kept flickering.
2x IBM Deskstar 120GXP. Both failed after around 4 years.