Your 2015 computer disasters

D.Roberts

D.Roberts

D.Roberts

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Hey all thought I would try to make my self feel a bit better hearing about all your computer disasters you have had this year :P.

Mine is:

A very kind friend gave me his old PC :O

Intel i5 760
Asus p7p55-d Motherboard (I think its that one)
8 Gb of ram
and a 480 GPU

I really thought chrimbo and me B day had came at once :O

I don't get to upgrade really so this was awesome for me.

Any way was using it one day about two weeks after getting it and boom GPU died :(

So I stuck a really old card in it I thought it was a 512mb card but turns out its just a 256mb card LOL :O.

Any way my same friend purchased a second hand GPU for me and I was gob smacked he would do this for me any way I fitted this to find it did not work :( so went back to my real crappy 256mb card.

Any way I sold my PS3 after 3 weeks of advertising in the hope to get funds for new GPU and managed to sell it for £100 :(.

I thought ok I can get a second hand card for this.

Then was sat there thinking hmmmm I also need to purchase a Bday present for my daughter so will be using PS3 funds for that instead as she wants a bike this year :).

So long story short so far 2015 is going terrible.

There is one thing that really is terrible that has happened this year much much worse than my PC but I don't think its the place to talk about that :(.

Any way tell me what has gone wrong this year for you to make me feel better (PC related only) LOL :P
 
LOL

Yeah I cant beleive he gave me all that stuff to :O I told him sell it mate get some moneys for it but he was very kind and said to have it :O I am very lucky in that respect LOL :).

I was finnaly able to play ARMA3 at some what good FPS but yeah this card wont run any thing now :P
 
He's either a very good friend or you're being groomed :p

Woke up to a dead hard drive the other day. Last year the only thing that died on me was an SSD so hopefully the HDD is my lot for this year.
 
LOL he is a very good friend I actually have a few bits to give him he knows about one of them the other he will love as he wants to get one but he wont need to now :) so looking forward to giving him them :)

P.S

Nexusk yeah HDD are a pain when they die even more so when they do with out warning as they leave you no room to back up unless your the type who backs up any way every week/month etc
 
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I recently couldn't get my GPU out of my X79 motherboard so I pulled harder, forgetting there is a tab to depress. It ripped the PCIE connector out of the board. Luckily it has several other full speed connectors to use instead.
 
My long serving Asus P8Z68-V Gen 3 motherboard gave up the ghost, predictably just as the 3 year warranty ended.

On the bright side I figured I may as well move to a newer socket anyway :D
 
Mynight: yeah thats a lot of data to restore :P

Hades: holy cow that is bad :O

zola25: ive had that a few times it dies right when warrenty does :(
 
So far this year had one blue screen last night after closing a game and typing something in skype. Nvidia Windows Kernel related. Installed some Windows updates night before which may have something to do with it.

After restart (very slow) some things wouldn't work correctly, for example moving files to the recycle bin. Just refused to do it. Managed to update Nvidia driver, but symptoms persisted. Hard shutdown seems to have fixed the issue. Boot was faster again, and no more issues so far.
 
Bought a h97 board last month for my HTPC, used a test CPU until I found a proper one. Found one a week later, swapped the CPU and the computer wouldn't boot. Turns out I bent the pins on the board. Never done that out of the years I've built PC's. Still don't know how till this day.

Good thing the retailer has a good returns policy:)
 
maddness said:
Why are you 'mooching' stuff of your friend

...that should make you feel better :D
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I tend to give a fair bit away to friends, I don't like getting rid of hardware especially to strangers - its a bit silly but when I've had a something for months or years I feel a bit bad "casually" disposing of it - and don't like taking money from friends/family as a generalisation so tend to give it away rather than sell to people I know.
 
BIOS battery failed on my pc, nothing too major :)

Mum's pc is driving me insane, would not boot and finally got it working & managed to update the BIOS which has helped :), 2nd issue something is hammering the SSD so it is at 100% usage all the time (Windows 8.1) trying to update which is taking ages!
 
Bought a new gfx card and an ssd off the these here members market, put it all together and after an hour it would crash. Spent a few days messing about almost sure it was the gfx card as the machine would just hard lock, I then went and bought a new motherboard as well as new memory hoping to fix the problem but it persisted.

After a while I worked it out, the ssd was simply dying after exactly an hour of use. The disk usage would shoot up to 100% then everything would systematically crash, Some googling later and I find this:

http://blog.caustik.com/2012/08/23/crucial-ssd-firmware-bug-crashesbsod/

Turns out the cheap SSD needed some new firmware, put that on and I was back to a perfect working machine but from just needing to replace my gfx card I had basically replaced my entire system.

I now have an am3 motherboard, 8gb of ddr3, a power supply and a gfx card to put on the MM rather than just the gfx card.
 
My laptop slid out of its Targus bag the other day, fell a couple of feet (sofa height) and landed on its keyboard/mouse dongle which bent the corresponding USB port. Luckily no cracked screen, but value of laptop is now probably halved due to 1 less USB port than before.
 
Lost a 3TB hard drive a couple weeks ago, nothing super important but was about half full with a bunch of films and music I'd spent ages collecting. Bit of a bummer. But it gave me the motivation to sort out my storage server again... So that's better than nothing I guess!
 
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