Your 2015 computer disasters

McGraw said:
Lost half a gig of vram from my gpu.
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LOL. :D

Back in January had my girlfriends laptop go off the rails. Would boot fine in safe mode, but wouldn't do anything when booted normally. Spent an entire weekend faffing with it, making sure everything was up to date, making sure it wasn't clogged with dust and hair since its a couple years old now. Tried everything I could think of and had no joy. Left it overnight, rebooted the next morning and suddenly it comes back to life. Good as new. Not sure what it's problem was but hey-ho. Wasted weekend I guess.

Oh, and my motherboard just went up in smoke. Didn't buy from overclockers (foolishly at the time) and now have to wait to get a replacement. Woop. ;)
 
McGraw said:
Lost half a gig of vram from my gpu.
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Haha! Actually did make me laugh out loud :p

Mine was last year, but in a rush trying to remove my gpu after unscrewing it, it just wouldn't budge. Annoyed, I just pulled harder forgetting about the PCIE tab to press down...Needless to say I ripped it out sending the plastic tab flying...oh the shame.
 
Hmm, I suppose the time I spent the time replacing caps on an old 775 motherboard them shorted it out while testing it is about as bad as things have gotten. I lost my punch down tool and had to buy another one over Christmas if that counts? ;)
 
D.Roberts said:
I dont get it?
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Nvidia marketed their 970 gfx cards as having 4gb of vram (which they do) but the subsystem use 3.5gb of the ram and the other .5gb is crippled by some disabled bits on the card, so if a game uses less than 3.5gb of ram it's fine, if you use > 3.5gb there can be stuttering as the last .5gb runs a lot slower. From what I can tell.....
 
ah I see

I did hear about stutter issues must have been this card.
So how are they going to fix it then or cant it be fixed with firmware etc?
 
It's a hardware design issue so from what I can tell it can't be fixed. OCUK are offering refunds to anyone that is really unhappy with their purchase I believe.
 
Tried to remove my motherboard from the case and missed a screw holding it in. By the time I discovered it, I had taken first a drill, the a screwdriver and hammer to it to try and remove a sheared screw - which wasn't the one holding it in still. So after all the abuse the only issue is that one PCI-E slot doesn't work any more. Quite remarkable it works at all considering. The lesson is not to try this when hung over and tired. It's an ASUS Maximus Rampage IV Extreme (Z68) if you want to try it yourself :)
 
Mine is financial.

February of last year i got a new PC, was initially very happy with it then started to upgrade it bit by bit.

£400? and 1 year later i still have essentially the same PC!

Still trying to get my head around that one!

Freddie 1980! Horrible, think i will stay far, far away from watercooling.
 
The thin layer of dust starting to build up on my 3 month old PC is rather depressing.

When you spend so much money on something you want it to stay shiney and new forever!
 
lost a 4tb RAID array in november, luckily I had all my pictures backed up to the cloud but everything else (3.99999999 tb) gone, along with the h97 mobo it was running off. Lost all the missues' Skyrim saves too due to a slight usb formatting error :eek:

My Nexus 7 died yesterday too... no more YouTube on teh crapper :(
 
I'm going to put a faulty slot on a Asus Z97 Pro Gamer motherboard down for me. Either that or the memory controller on the i5 4570, but that's least likely.

Tomorrow will tell when I replace the board with a new one (thanks OcUK).
 
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