What happened to quality control?

Dingleberry88 · 15 May 2007 at 15:32

About 6 months ago I bought a HDD, which I had to take back as it got stupidly hot.

My DVDRW (which I've had for a year or 2) now doesn't want to read any DVDs, yet it still burns blank discs.

The other week I got an 8800GTX, which again I took back as it locked up within minutes of starting any game.

Now my motherboard, which has been running fine for the past few months, as of yesterday looks to be dead.

All that's fairly new stuff, yet I have an old P3 system which I've never had any problems with.

Is it just me, or has anyone else had this much stuff failing lately?

bloodiedathame · 15 May 2007 at 15:35

Are you overclocking?

waso_dude · 15 May 2007 at 16:33

sure is isn't something else that is on your system that is killing everything??

PSU?

SiriusB · 15 May 2007 at 16:38

a.hay said:
Are you overclocking?

Will have nothing to do with it at all. Unless of course he has failed to lock his PCI and PCI-E clocks.

Sounds like bad luck to me. Only ever had one component fail and that was a Maxtor HDD.

Jaffa_Cake · 15 May 2007 at 16:39

My hdd's are too hot to touch, thats the temp they are meant to be though.

If the GTX locks up in games it sounds like you didn't plug it into the PSU or the PSU isn't very good.

I once had a DVD drive actually explode whilst inside the case ( don't ask ) count yourself lucky.

semi-pro waster · 15 May 2007 at 16:53

Jaffa_Cake said:
My hdd's are too hot to touch, thats the temp they are meant to be though.

What are your hard drives? Mine (7200.10 at the moment) are barely lukewarm and in general the cooler the better for hard drives.

I don't think that components are any worse now than they used to be although they are now more complex and that will, of itself, potentially lead to more problems due to that fact.

Jaffa_Cake · 15 May 2007 at 17:00

semi-pro waster said:
What are your hard drives? Mine (7200.10 at the moment) are barely lukewarm and in general the cooler the better for hard drives.

Dual 250GB Western Digital Caviar SE16 SATA II 16MBcache in Stripe raid

Wish i had got 7200.10 but I bought this pc when i didn't have a clue what i was doing heh.

Nicos Rex · 15 May 2007 at 17:04

I certainly had endless problems with my Apple II E back in the day, but the Sinclair ZX80 ran with no problems at all.

I think that there is a danger of getting too much of a "rosy glow" about things being better in the past. On the whole as far as technology was concerned they weren't.

Sure, today's kit is hugely more complex that that of even 5 years ago, but 5 years ago the top line stuff was cutting edge and just as prone to falling over.

Nostagia isn't what it used to be!

DAVEM · 15 May 2007 at 17:07

Nicos Rex said:
I certainly had endless problems with my Apple II E back in the day, but the Sinclair ZX80 ran with no problems at all.

I think that there is a danger of getting too much of a "rosy glow" about things being better in the past. On the whole as far as technology was concerned they weren't.

Sure, today's kit is hugely more complex that that of even 5 years ago, but 5 years ago the top line stuff was cutting edge and just as prone to falling over.

Nostagia isn't what it used to be!

Hmm...don't fully agree there, I must admit most of the issues I had in the 486 era where more poor build related, flimsy casing and things like that. Whereas today certainly hard disk reliability is questionable, I wouldn't want to remind everyone how bought IBM Deadstars a while back

keogh · 15 May 2007 at 17:15

SiriusB said:
Only ever had one component fail and that was a Maxtor HDD.

Well there's a surprise... a Maxtor dying :eek:

Incase you cannot tell, I'm being sarcastic, maxtor suck!

bloodiedathame · 15 May 2007 at 17:17

keogh said:
Well there's a surprise... a Maxtor dying

Incase you cannot tell, I'm being sarcastic, maxtor suck!

Haha. Nothing beats explaining your own jokes... :rolleyes:

Dingleberry88 · 15 May 2007 at 17:20

Jaffa_Cake said:
My hdd's are too hot to touch, thats the temp they are meant to be though.

If the GTX locks up in games it sounds like you didn't plug it into the PSU or the PSU isn't very good.

HDD are generally supposed to be around 40 aren't they? Anyway, that was a while ago and I got a new one. Which is nowhere near as hot.

The GTX was faulty, they confirmed it at the shop and gave me a replacement. Which I've not had any problems with.

keogh · 15 May 2007 at 17:25

a.hay said:
Haha. Nothing beats explaining your own jokes...

Yeah I had to do that, otherwise people might have thought I was actually surprised that a maxtor died, so I wanted to make it clear that Maxtor suck

You would have to be mad to buy one of those, the amount of them I've seen die over the past few years is really bad! Seagate of Samsung for me, although WD are cool, never had one though

Dingleberry88 said:
HDD are generally supposed to be around 40 aren't they? Anyway, that was a while ago and I got a new one. Which is nowhere near as hot

Think mine sits around 24c... not looked for a while.

EDIT: Sits around 31c really, I made the above up obviously

Dingleberry88 · 15 May 2007 at 19:00

Dingleberry88 said:
Now my motherboard, which has been running fine for the past few months, as of yesterday looks to be dead.

Scratch that. Fixed.

keogh said:
Yeah I had to do that, otherwise people might have thought I was actually surprised that a maxtor died

It's Maxtor, I don't think anyone would have got the wrong end of the stick.

keogh · 15 May 2007 at 19:11

Dingleberry88 said:
It's Maxtor, I don't think anyone would have got the wrong end of the stick.

You never know!